#stash dive

[dangerphd]

moving house means DEEP stash toss and shopping for first projects in new spot. 🤩😍

I forgot I even HAD cotton bolls! my brother and SIL travel the eastern hemisphere almost constantly, and he grabs me whatever fiber related things catch his eye...he is not a fiber person and sometimes this results in unusable stuff with a good story...and a lot of the time it's something specialized I put into stash until I pick up the special skill or other related/required gear.

the raw cotton came with a boat shuttle and a sack of pirns...at a time when I was not yet weaving like I meant it. I have now taken a minute to get into the pile and it seems like only three of the pirns actually fit this shuttle 😂

[koniknits]

Stash organising time!

I basically keep two boxes: new yarns and leftovers.

Leftovers get bagged individually, but I've amassed a lot of tiny balls of fingering, so I've put those together. I also have a bunch of sport weight acrylic. Now, you'd think that maybe this would be the perfect opportunity for a stash busting project. But.

(fingering on the left, sport on the right)

I cannot imagine any project where I'd use any of those colours together 😅

[koniknits]

Bart & Francis haul time! They had special sales today.

I can always use some black fingering yarn. I sadly forgot to take a pic of the tag, but it's "pure merino" and I found it on Ravelry.

These little buddies were 2.5 euros today actually. They're tests for the Merinosock yarn, and they are offered in matching batches. For fun time with colourwork!

Glow in the dark yarn on the left, touchscreen yarn on the right. I already have touchscreen thread but it's very slippery and a bit hard. This is softer and I hope it is more pleasant to insert into gloves and mittens.

I never dared buy braids before because they're usually almost 20 euros and the colours weren't quite worth that to me. But today I got three for 5 euros.

I quite love these. They're merino, but dyed with natural dyes. Not sure what these specifically have been dyed with. I do kind of feel bad that it mentions lichen, because ... dying with lichen on an industrial scale... no likey

This one was a bit of an impulse buy... 5 euros and green so... into a shawl you'll go