Clare-Dragonfly

I was going to be good. I was all "yay me, I'm going to knit up my stash. See me buy needles so I can knit things. See me knit stash!" And I have been knitting up my stash to some extent. I started to make a hat with yarn I had (though I need some smaller DPNs for that). I made socks. I'm making a mesh bag with the cheap cotton/acrylic that I really just want to use up.

But I have been done in by deals. I ordered two skeins of way discounted Rowan Calmer from eBay. I ordered a skein of Handmaiden Sea Silk from Little Knits. I just now ordered five skeins of an anniversary sale yarn (I don't even remember what it's called...) from WEBS.

However! I am still being relatively good. The first skein of Calmer is dedicated to swatching--ordinary "see what gauge I get" swatch is going now, then I'll do a swatch-in-the-round, then a cabled Morrigan (sweater I will make someday) swatch. The second skein? Finally, Knucks. The Sea Silk goes toward the Hanami stole--and since I already have the first skein for that, it is technically helping knit up my stash! And the other yarn will be for the Ballet Camisole from MagKnits, which I will totally wear. So, yay. And it's not like my stash is that huge, really... it's just a little inconvenient to transfer around with me between school and home. I guess that will be moot soon anyway. Ah well. I still want to shrink it.

(Also, we just got a huge raise at the Writing Center, so I can totally afford all this!)