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Knittervention

March 2nd, 2006 by Wen

The first step in the 12 step program is admitting you are powerless over your addiction…

So for the next 40 days (ok, 39 days) of lent I am not buying any yarn.

For those of you who know me from my other diaries this may come as a head-scratcher for you. I never really talk about my knitting or the fact that I am a total yarn whore. But I am, and I really do have a problem managing my stash. I buy more yarn than clothes or shoes. Seriously. If given a choice to buy $100 worth of yarn or $100 worth of shoes I’ll be beating a path to my local yarn store (known as LYS in knit-blog land) in a hot second. Add to the mix that there are several LYS’s that carry amazing wool…

This probably wouldn’t be such a big problem if I wasn’t working on the most boring show in the world. The first two hours of my day are chaos, then after that it’s all maintenance. And working on set really is like watching paint dry.

So I knit. As do five or six other girls. The cool thing is that my knitting skills have improved dramatically (I am currently working on my first pair of socks)

The bad thing is that I also have the means and the ability to purchase way more yarn than I’ll ever need.

So for the next 39 days, no more yarn purchases.

This is going to be harder than it sounds.

4 Responses to “Knittervention”

  1. on 02 Mar 2006 at 6:54 am   warcrygirl

    AHA! A fellow yarn hoar! I too have more yarn than I can shake a stick at (my friend even brought me a huge box of yarn) except I haven’t learned to knit yet. Instead I crochet.

    Oh how I’d love to learn to knit…

  2. on 02 Mar 2006 at 10:21 am   sarkasmo

    *raising a tiny fist in solidarity*

    Yeah, except I’m not strong enough to swear off yarn purchases for a month and a half. I promise, though - if I do buy any during Lent, I won’t rub your nose in its cashmerey softness.

    And welcome to blogger! I like it here, I really do.

  3. on 02 Mar 2006 at 11:00 am   lap

    Seriously, that’d be pretty hard. Buying yarn is like buying crayons to me- luckily I can just completely avoid going to the yarn store and not be tempted.

    I’m jealous that you’re actually becoming more skilled, because I really just like to knit to do it- I never get upset when I unravel or anything, which is so not me.

  4. on 04 Mar 2006 at 8:06 pm   sarkasmo

    I’m really interested to hear about your sock progress!

    Oh, and Lap? Whatever, with the staying out of the yarn store. What. Ev. Errr. Because try staying outta this one.

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