RSSTaking Yarnventory
January 15th, 2007 | View Comments
Alternate post title 1: Yarn by the Numbers
Alternate post title 2: Forget Being Coy, We’re Talking About a Half-Marathon of Yarn
Alternate post title 3: Can’t Sleep…Yarn Will Eat Me…
Alternate post title 4: This is all KathyMarie’s Fault
To clarify, it’s not KathyMarie’s fault that my yarn stash will eat me tonight after I go to sleep. But it is her fault that I know exactly how much yarn will be invading my bedroom and swallowing my head. She, after all, posted about her yarn inventory and her yarn spreadsheet and I was overcome.
Spreadsheets are quite possibly the next best thing to yarn. I love spreadsheets, I love yarn…of course I had to drop everything and make a yarn spreadsheet! A yarn spreadsheet with a pivot table. I am such a nerd.
In short, I have 12.9 miles of yarn. This includes oddballs. This does not include the grandma stash, anything in the tub o’ swatches, or yarn for any of the projects currently on the needles, so I’m probably under-counting by at least a mile of yarn.
I have:
- 0.6 miles of bulky yarn
- 1.4 miles of worsted/aran
- 0.8 miles of DK weight
- 1.5 miles of sport weight
- 4.4 miles of sock/fingering weight
- 4.2 miles of lace weight
Although I didn’t do an analysis by color, it seems that I am especially fond of:
- Reds and purples, particularly wine red/burgundy red shades
- Green-blues and blue-greens
- Dusty and denim blues
And all of that fits in this corner:
Not too bad, I don’t think, especially since most of that is already earmarked for a project. I do need to knit a lot of socks and shawls soon, though!
Yvonne posted this on January 15th, 2007 @ 11:38pm in Life as a Knitter, Yarn | Permalink to "Taking Yarnventory"
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2. get stitchy! » January 16th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Congratulations! You’re on get stitchy!
Thanks so much for submitting your blog.
3. KathyMarie » January 17th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
It’s nice to see that my lunacy is spreading.
Isn’t it the weirdest thing ever to know exactly how much yarn you have? I’m still inputting (is that the right word?) yarn yardage, and it’s starting to freak me out.
By the way, your yarn corner is enviably clean and clutter-free. Well done!
4. Yvonne » January 17th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Why thank you! I straightened and organized while I was doing inventory. It’ll be back to being an utter mess next week.
5. Peterq » January 18th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Yay for the half-marathon shoutout!
6. I am Starting to Understand Why People Stash Yarn » CogKnition » April 11th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
[…] for good, happy reasons) and I just can’t justify buying yarn when I had, at last count, almost thirteen miles of it. Except for the ball of green Plymouth Encore being used for the amigurumi frog ($5.75), I cannot […]
1. craftycarole » January 16th, 2007 at 2:04 am
It’s incredible that all of it fits in such a small space! On my to do list is a yarnventory after the ILs leave… I don’t want them to know how much is there… it’s obscene!
most of mine is WW though!