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Knitting Stash.
Sat 8-Jun-13
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Toffeeapple
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Does anyone have one?  Some confessions here on loveknitting.

I'll try that again!

Sat 8-Jun-13
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Does anyone have one? doh

Have you not heard of "S E B L E" - Stash Enhancement Beyond Life Expectancy.?

Ask Seth!!!wave

Sat 8-Jun-13
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I knew that you would be the first one in the confessional!  I don't really have one anymore but back in the 70s and 80s I used to work part-time in in my local wool shop and would buy it by the kilo…

I'll try that again!

Sat 8-Jun-13
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You know me so well! Was there anything you wanted - I might well have some!wave

Sat 8-Jun-13
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No, not really Jean but thank you.  I am still trying to sort out my home to set up the sewing/knitting machines, once I have the small room back in shape.  The new (to me) desk was delivered the other day and now I have to find all the things I removed from the room and hid away elsewhere and put it back; or send it to the recycling...

I am not yet at the heel on the sock I started in Argyll, the yarn is not to my liking at all and any excuse to put it down suits me fine. yell

I'll try that again!

Sat 8-Jun-13
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You know you are old enough to allow yourself to throw it in the "someday" bin - I have started to say "Life's too short to read a boring book" - you can adapt that for knitting.wave

Sat 8-Jun-13
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I love my stash and am keeping it. I have requested I am buried with my wool and fabrics. You never know they might be useful!

Trying to enjoy life as it is

http://www.letertregites.com

Sat 8-Jun-13
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Well.

Stash.

I don't think I dare show.

I have one cupboard with enough yarn that is piled higher than my height - and in another there are knitted teddies and more yarn. One ottoman, stuffed full. Now I have bought 4 IKEA see-through boxes to put in some more yarn.

 

Jean, I seriously believe that I qualify for your S E B L E .......

 

Now, what about the fabric stash?

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Sat 8-Jun-13
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Mine is building nicely..........mind you I did have a very ancient collection of yarn from my previous interest in crochet but now temptation is beckoning via the internet......I already have a pile of lovely yarns awaiting projects. 

 

"The beautiful is as useful as the useful...perhaps more so."

from Les Miserables

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Yup fabrics too. And patterns and craft books and cross stitch kits and a half made rug. Guess S E B L E applies to me too!

Trying to enjoy life as it is

http://www.letertregites.com

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My stash is not as large as it used to be, only 1 bag of yarn and some cross stitch and some patchwork. I only have one small storage cupboard for the whole apartment so my crafts have to share. But it may build again when I move back to Somerset.

Never give up Tomorrow is another day.

Thu 13-Jun-13
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30 years ago I did a lot of dressmaking for people, I saved all the fabric scraps thinking 'one day I'll put all these together and make a patchwork quilt.' Hmm, maybe one day, also still have oddments of mohair from a striped jumper I made for a boyfriend when I was 17. I did dispose of lots of stuff a few years ago when I moved in with mike, but as if by magic it seems to have grown again...

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I think things breed, whilst we are not looking, in our cupboards.

I'll try that again!

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I'm sure they do breed - certainly books do. Mind you, if you were to get a soil tester on our bookshelves, you would find that they were high fertility! wave

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