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  1. Several of the captions is me to a “T” except I crochet However, I discovered this awesomeness yarn winder from Lykke, sturdy made from solid wood and winds the yarn into cakes!! Now you know what I’ll be doing this weekend – winding all that half-used/scrap yarn into stack-able cakes.

  2. Tag yourself, I’m “Leftovers” 😀

    My mother knitted me a “leftovers” sweater when I was about 4 years old, with horizontal stripes of different colours and textures of yarn she had left. It blew my tiny mind so hard and was the most awesome thing I had ever seen. To this day I love sweaters in horizontal stripes (even if they do not love me or my body shape back hehe)

    • Ohh… If my stash could fill a limited number of boxes… I DO love the labeling though, and a really recognizable thing which I really loved to read through 😉

    • My mum had a knitting machine!
      When I was young I got a matching jumper and skirt knitted “suit” that wore almost constantly until I outgrew it.
      Later I used to steal my dad’s sweaters, so she decided to knit me my own. Unfortunately, she didn’t understand that half the appeal was the oversized snugglyness so knitted it in my size. It was still lovely and saw a lot of use, but it wasn’t the same 😞

    • This. Although it’s missing the random bags of beads, because I wanted to knit a scarf with shiny.. and then throw the knitting machine in the pile I have and can’t figure out what needs fixing

  3. Yep, sounds about right! You keep it with the best of intentions, but let’s be real, it will never be used!

  4. I like the yarn barf box. It’s the box you toss all the yarn in, and not look back. I can relate to all the other yarn boxes. I had to toss a lot of yarn before I moved so I didn’t have all of that to look at after I settled into my new place.

    I also make crochet scrap blanket so long the yarn is the same fiber (like acrylic or wool or something else). 🙂

    • The yarn barf spoke to me. It said something like “Shouldn’t you clean out all of the various boxes of craft crap you have down here?”
      I’m going to ignore it for now.

  5. I am in the midst of a crocheting a massive granny square blanket made up of all my left over acrylic yarn that kind of goes together. It will be F-ugly, and I will love it…

    • Good luck with the granny square! I get too bored after a while even if it is one giant square.

    • I LOVE the look of granny squares! I keep thinking maybe I’ll try to make some and make an afghan, but…. 🤷‍♀️

      My attention span is too short for a regular afghan, I’ve only successfully crocheted (incredibly waaay too long) scarves. I thought maybe the squares would keep my interest better. Does that sound like a reasonable thought or do you find it the same level of repetitive-ness as regular? (Full disclosure, my skills are rather basic.)

    • I have one of those. I use it for yoga. Only this morning my instructor suggested I invest in a ‘proper’ yoga blanket. I think she was taken aback by my barked “No!”. I explained that my almost blind grandmother started it before she died, my mother worked on it before she died (less than a year between the two events) and I am finishing it. I take it camping and work on more rows. I don’t know why I take it to yoga but it makes me happy that I do and they can just stuck it up.

  6. I absolutely love knitted jumpers! My grandma was a knitter (I’m from Latvia) and my childhood was characterised by loads of jumpers, vests, trousers, skirts all sorts of knitting products. She passed away 5years ago and I still miss her and her knitting. I only have a few pieces of her work left and I treasure them like crazy. And this year is a first one I really need a new jumper, proper bulky one that will keep me warm. I so miss her and her crazy room full of yarn. Wish I knew how to knit…the only thing I ever tried was sock..worst thing to start with!

    • There is something so relaxing and cozy about watching someone knit, especially as a child, isn’t it? The click-clack of the needles, the twirling finger yarn. Especially on cold winter nights, it’s almost hypnotic :).
      I hope you get your sweater or learn how to make one in your grandmother’s honour.

    • My mom taught me how to knit. First thing she told me was which way do I want the bumps. Did I want them in the front (which purling) or do I want them all in the back (which is knitting), or did I want to do a combination of bumps in the front or back?

      Then she taught me her way of casting on to circular needles. Basically, you are “knitting” on the loops to the needle.

      Then she asked me which hand did I want to use for the yarn tossing. I knit left handed. Most people knit with their right hand. My mom knitted with her left hand. Told me it was more comfortable than her right hand. Come to find out in one of her knitting books, Scottish women knit with their left hand too. 🙂

      There are possibly a lot of how to knit videos online. I learned by reading one of my mom’s basic knitting books (back when there was no internet).

      I totally understand, Inese, about wanting to keep the knitted things your grandmother did for you. I am trying to keep all of my mom’s knitted things too.

      • I’m American but taught myself how to knit from watching YouTube videos. People are always startled watching me knit apparently I knit like someone from the UK lol

  8. Yup, that’s my stash, right down to the “I’m totally going to learn how to spin” roving. I crochet and knit, but lately, due to carpal tunnel, I just buy yarn and fondle. Love, love, love fiber festivals.

    • I think I have some mohair roving from 30+ years ago somewhere. I stored it with a sock of cedar shavings. I did make some yarn with a hand spindle and crocheted a couple of mufflers. Now I wonder what black hole in my home it fell into! Thank-you for reminding me of it! My stash is quilting fabric but the concept is the same, especially the yarn barf, grandma and too nice to use!

  9. I know how to spin, but there is not enough time. I can spin or I can knit. So all the roving is in a bag with the spindle and is in the works in progress category.

  10. As always, we should accept that *buying craft supplies* is a hobby, complete and distinct from any other. It’s like a proto-hobby.

    I belong to several craft groups that host “swaps” which is a great way of getting rid of a lot of stuff you know you’ll never use, but someone should.

    Then…for the yarn barf…orgs that work with small children are often on the lookout for supplies the kids can destroy (glue bits of string onto a piece of craft paper.) so that gets rid of a few other boxes.

    All that to say: my stash is 100% primo love, sorted by weight. Or it will be. Someday. After I clean it out. 😆

    • Yes ! Buying craft supplies IS a hobby – and the dreams of someday I’m going to do make something with all this wonderful stuff. I keep up with current DMC floss even though I haven’t cross stitched since the 80’s. lol

  11. Why you gotta attack me like that?? I just got stripped down like a naked chicken right outta the blue! Lol

  18. The only thing missing is the bin with the little bits of roving for all those felting projects I really am going to attempt…someday soon…

  19. Yeah, I’m gonna organize my stash – but not today and not tomorrow…

    It needs to be soon or the bins I have won’t hold it.
    (Getting more bins from Target or Walmart is a pain. I like the really big ones so there’s room for my Maine Coon to sprawl out on the top.)

    But, really, I’ll get to it.
    Sure I will.

    • Mine too before I had to organize stuff to move. 😀

      Now, I have everything in storage boxes I can see into.

  22. In my case the Regrettable Novelty Yarn would be replaced with Tools, Notions, and Accessories Graveyard. I just Love all tools and toys…needles, gauges,storage cases, stitch markers, etc and have duplicates of many (sigh) many things. I try really hard to keep my yarn stash confined to one very oversized steamer trunk that is currently packed to its limit. The deal I made with my inner Yarn Freak is that if I knit and actually complete a project from the stash I can buy an equal amount if new Yarn. However, I don’t think that person is to be trusted because new yarn occassionally leaks out of the trunk into a couple of adjacent baskets and must be tucked back into any available trunk space. Negotiations are ongoing.

  25. I recognize all of those from various friends and family who knit. Mine would have various pieces of tack: random bits and bridle pieces, stirrups in search of pads and vice versa, blanket leg and tail straps, orphan snaps, mismatched stirrup leathers, girths that no longer fit any nearby equine, piles of clean and dirty Tshirt rags, a spray bottle of olive oil, and buckets of sponges and part-full leather cleaners and conditioners.

  27. I resemble that remark…

    Except I actually do know how to spin, so I ALSO have a full fiber stash in addition to my yarn stash.

    • I am so with you.
      I’ve tried to tame either the yarn or the fiber in the plastic bags that you suck all the air out of. Not so successful, as yarn in a big see-through bag is still as heavy as yarn in a see-through plastic container and there’s all only so many you can stack.

      Spinning-fibers are a little easier to corral, but then there are the two spinning wheels and a table top spinning wheel. (I just got the table top plastic one at the last Wool and Fleece festival in NY.) It’s made on a 3-D printer and really does a great job if you want to spin while sitting in bed.

      😄 just in case you don’t have enough stuff already.

  28. I resemble this stash. Except add more regrettable sale yarn and many more sweater quantities for that wonderful future “someday” when I will be a sweater knitter. Also, sock yarn (mostly Regia 4-ply) for about forty pairs of socks for me—I have small feet—bought before I realized that I don’t love anyone—even myself—enough to knit them fingering/light fingering weight socks. Oh, and those skeins that are totally not my color but [enter name of loved one] would love! Because I have a robust fantasy knitting life.

    Yeah.

    Oh, and those surprise skeins I find here and there (that aren’t entered into Ravelry) that I ordered as pick-me-ups during and after the pandemic and I have no earthly idea what my plans were because my memory, it’s not what it used to be… Uhhuh.

    But the good news is that I’ve started a cardigan for myself (Joji Locatelli’s Aimée Cardigan) and once I finish it (someday) and wear it, I will know stuff about sizing and fit and whether I like the yarn I used or if I should stop buying sweater quantities of it on sale and maybe use it to make a blanket or three instead…

    • We won’t mention the box of embroidery supplies I haven’t touched since that one year in the aughts when a family friend taught me five embroidery stitches…

      Or the growing stash of project bag fabrics (and other supplies such as zippers), for when I dig out the sewing machine I inherited from my parents and start sewing, because that’s totally in my future plans.

  29. Substitute fabric for yarn and that’s all mine.
    P.S. IMHO the point of buying yarn(or fabric) is not to make something out of it. It’s to have it. Period.

    • Absolutely! I have literally acres of fabric and an going to a large shops annual sale on Friday. I think of it as therapy.

      I will have to organize it properly for a move in the new year but, as Scarlet O’Hara said, I’ll think about it tomorrow.😉

  30. That is at least somewhat contained I play with clay try leftover bags of clay clay tools, glazes, molds, stamps,foam and various odd pieces of junk that I plan to either press in clay to make a design or attach my finished clay to to make a sculpture the list goes on and on that doesn’t include a wheel kiln or slab roller I should have learned to know

  31. I can’t say enough as a crochet addict that this is so much my life. My Husband just rolls his eyes when I unpack more yarn from a box I ordered online. I may need a new room for the yarn alone.

  32. This is so me. Except we have to add the trunk of my car where I hide new acquisitions until DH is out, so I can sneak them into the appropriate bins 😁🧶

  34. I see your yarn stash and will raise you both a bead stash and a fabric stash. 😆
    Need to snag one of those prints! 🧶

  35. Ahahahaha!! This is me, except it’s paper and art supplies.

    And plants.

    And books ….

    I have many tiny containers and drawers for what my Dad used to call “hoogies” for stamps, stickers, stamp pads in various colours, pretty buttons, scrapbooking decorative orphans, embossing tools, glass sea shells, actual sea shells, loupes, calligraphy inks, etc.

  37. I’m ill at the moment, in between projects, with very little brain power to find a new one – so I’m finishing up my 2022 temperature blanket.
    But really – I’m the Too Nice to Use boc

  38. I learned knitting in the 1960’s in Girl Scouts. The “scarf” became a headband for our shepherd/collie mix to wear on longer walks in the winter. He liked it, kept his ears warm, so there’s that….

  39. The artist/author left off the totes marked Yarn from dead friends/family along with their unfinished projects.
    Sigh.

  40. I have a variation of these boxes with fabric! Especially the “really nice fabric I am afraid to use ” 🙂

  42. My yarn stash grows by garage sale. Once I got a whole garbage bag for $20. That happened right before a son asked for an afghan. All variegated yarn with one color carrying to the next yarn. It’s his third afghan, he outgrew two previous ones. Justified the garbage bag of yarn (family run estate sale and none of the family crafted). Their disinterest was my gain. My son loved the afghan.

  46. Hahaha, that is me and more but no labelling. I only knit garments so I buy the yarn and the pattern and put into a clear ziplock bag with the best intentions but then something new comes along either yarn or pattern and every thing goes into the WIP corner. But I am being very good just finished a cardigan just have get the buttons, another jacket all sewn up and just have to do the shawl collar, the yarn is bought just have to wind it into cakes, pattern bought and I will not be deviated off this path as along time in love, Norwegian color work sweater (until there is a new book release (one lurking in the corner for 5th December and another due 21st November)

  47. I have a stash too….but mine is felt and sequins. Back in the late ‘80’s, I found a pattern for a felt Advent calendar where each sequin is sewn on individually with a tiny rocaille bead. It’s finicky and time consuming to make but I love doing it. Lucky for me the felt doesn’t take up much room to store and the sequins are stored by colour in old glass spice jars, so I don’t have to label anything. I’ve made 8 calendars to date, and still have the first one I made some 30 years ago.

  50. My sister has been crocheting baskets and wine cozies to use up some of her excessive amount of yarn, but it is getting out of hand since she now has a display in her living room of 10-15 baskets of various sizes and 8-10 cozies all in a rainbow of colors. And she now offers them to anyone who stops by. This is not counting the baskets she has already given away or made to order (toy basket for grandchildren, please)

    OTOH one of my cats has totally co-opted the basket I took to corral some of my loose office items so I may need another one.

  51. This is me with books and to an extent DVDs. If the internet dies I am set. I just need power for lights and devices. The fact that I have 732 mostly DVDs cataloged in Libib still blows my mind a bit and that does not include those acquired in the last 5 years. I do share the link with friends and loan them out tho. Books number in the 4 digit category and are not yet cataloged. Maybe when I retire someday. heh.

  52. a lot of that speaks to me too except for the “learn to spin” – thankfully!

    I’ve bought sample yarns as well as for projects that I can’t now remember what they were. Love a bargain good tarn too – currently found a new favourite which h is non-itchy Alpaca & going to check out patterns & colours before ordering. Love circular knitting: reduces the assembly which I find tedious

  53. This is me, but with craft supplies. And death to anyone (my husband) who thinks about throwing any one box out. Yes I WILL use that crumpled tissue paper from that gift we got 3 years ago thank you very much. I can iron it and make it into paper flowers for our empty vase that is also sitting right next to it inside the closet for the past 3 years.

  54. I don’t knit …maybe someday… but I sew and I have a room full of fabric just waiting to become something…when it tells me what it wants to be. I have stuff from the 60s (patterns too) that I inherited from grandma. Stuff I bought 30 years ago for x project I haven’t gotten around to. Tons of remnants a quarter yard and up. And 6-7 large boxes of mending because it’s not nearly as fun as starting from scratch and there’s never time.
    I only wish I had Tardis storage, but that room is still my happy place.

  59. When we were cleaning out my mom’s yarn drawers(yes, she had multiple dresser drawers of yarn) after she passed, we took the whole mass to the local senior center and gave it to the knitting club. She had acrylic yarn from the 70’s and 80’s in those drawers. I know this because some of the yarn had labels from a store that went out of business in 1982.

  64. Haha – this is my stash exactly. I had a giant crochet afghan from the 1990s (although I completed it a few years ago), my mom keeps trying to give me her “not great” giant bags of yarn. I have a spinning wheel and bags of fiber, I have boxes of kit knitting (Alice Starmore), so much! My son wants to reclaim the storage space, but I don’t really want to give it all up!! I’ll do it eventually.

  65. So relatable! I’m at SABLE (stash acquired beyond life expectancy) and (mostly) accept that owning beautiful yarn is my real hobby.

  66. You must have peeked at my place…there’s the yarn, the fabric, the cross stitching, and then there are the jigsaw puzzles, DVDs, CDs, and books.

  67. My yarn stash along with ‘craft’ stash is indeed a black hole. I would rather keep making whatever is my current project, organizing can wait!
    Saying that, I just rec’d my newest purchase, a sock machine! As soon as I can I am unboxing and assembling. Merry Christmas to me!

  68. I perform at renfairs and manage a wish tree, and we use unwanted or scrap yarn to create the threads (we hack it up into roughly 8-12″ lengths) people wish on. If we don’t get enough donated I buy the cheapest yarn I can find. At the end of a faire run, we release the wishes through fire.

    My point is, when you need to get rid of yarn and can’t bring yourself to throw it away or find a craft person who will use it, there are always witches and children that absolutely *will* find a use for unwanted yarn.

  69. Okay, this looks almost exactly like my yarn bins, except for the roving. That’s in my (separate) felting stash. Then we have the temari stash/supplies, and the beading, and the embroidery, and a tiny quilting stash.
    It comforts me!
    Jane

  70. My grandmother had the yarn barf box with all of the leftover bits and unwanted balls of yarn. When the box was full, she would make a ‘throw’. She would pull yarn at random and knit until that ball ran out, then pull another ball and continue. Completely random for yarn type, color, weight, etc. When she was done, she would gift the throw to someone in the family; no one dared to complain. We all have these wild blankets that have become beloved due to the crazy colors and patterns. My blanket has at least 15 different yarn colors and types, some only a row wide. It is incredibly ugly, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

  71. love this! it applies to my yarn, and also my fabric, and cross stitch and beading supplies.

    i am proud to say that i convinced myself to give up my spindle and roving a few years ago. i realized it was neat to learn, but in the end i have no skill with it, and no desire to practice enough until i gain the skill. they’re in someone else’s hands/stash now.

  72. I’m like everything in the top four rows, then from yarn barf til the end… except… I do spin, I also am learning to weave, and it’s layered in fine geological fashion with 30 years of re-enacting sewing and rudimentary leather working detritus.

    Thankfully the hubby does calligraphy, and woodworking, plus has enough electronic repair oddments that we both have stashes!

  73. Regrettable novelty yarn is a real thing! I would need some different tubs for handspun, handspun where I don’t know what wool I made the yarn from, but other than that…I have some of all of the ones listed.

  75. There is a charity called Warm-up America that accepts donations of 7 by 9 inch “squares” of washable hypo-allergenic yarn. They can be knit or crochet and are great for cleaning up the pile of ends-too-big-to-toss.

  77. LOL!

    You know, collecting yarn and USING yarn may be two different fun hobbies—- like buying craft supplies and doing crafts are two different fun hobbies. Really. They are.

    P.S.
    She who dies with the most fabric wins.

  78. I just spent six months supporting my daughter through chemotherapy. so I knitted a stash busting blanket in blocks, as it was easier to carry a small amount of yarn.
    Most of my yarn stash was given to me by my nieces when my sister passed. So I started a craft group through my local church.

  79. I have been attempting to order from arcane society but I keep experiencing developer errors. anyone else experiencing this issue?

  80. I had a very large batch of leftover yarns, enough to fill two 30 gal bags. My daughter took photos and posted it on Facebook Marketplace. I wanted to just give it away, no charge. The lady who picked up the yarn was so happy and excited to get, it made me happy just talking to her.

  81. I spin, so in addition to yarn I have fibers – yak, silk, camel, assorted wool, rabbit, dog, cat, bamboo, cashmere, vicuna and mixtures

  82. I do not knit or crochet. However I will occasionally post a request for yarn leftovers for my friend. She makes hats /scarves for our women’s club charitable organizations. Keep knitting all !!

  84. I had a very brief knitting period that ended because my cats opened the boxes where i kept my yarn and current knitting. It was a free bar for them.

  87. After several VERY large yarn donations every time we moved, I decided to limit my yarn to a certain area. Then I had to have Elfa installed to make better use of the area, then I discovered new Indy dyers, then fiber festivals. I have no help to offer. I even bought a knitting machine to try to go faster, I hate the machine. Knitting is my meditation time. So I occasionally still make yarn donations to try not to overwhelm my studio [calling it a “studio “ is pretentious, but it allows me to justify the cost to my husband]. Did I mention that I also spin my own yarn?!? It’s a vortex I can’t escape. I’m also not really sure that I want to.

  88. Don’t knit, but this is me with embroidery and quilting supplies, many acquired while traveling.

    And the “I will finish this” projects! I made a crazy quilt that’s been pieced and the layers basted together, awaiting the final quilting. I had put off finishing it, because my dogs and then my growing family would destroy the embroidery on the squares, many contributed by family elders, so it stayed safe on the shelf. For 45 years.

    Then there’s the cross-stitched unicorn that lacks only its golden horn, which I put down to birth my premature baby and didn’t resume because she was colicky and I got no sleep for the next 6 months. Said baby is now 43 years old.

    But I WILL finish them!

    • The “baby” (my Kid 1) spins, knits, makes art with found objects, and more. She has a whole crafting room full of supplies, which she’s too busy to use, with endless old house renovations, work, preteen kid, etc. Apple, tree.

    • My dear departed Mama had a job where there wasn’t much to do, on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings were a mad rush. The firm were happy for the team to bring in sewing or knitting to do, when things were quiet. Before she married in 1954, she was embroidering a table cloth, with a lovely pattern of apple blossom, it was all done except one corner. She put it down when she married, had four children, followed her RAF officer husband, moving often – 31 houses in 27 years of marriage. My father died, the children left home, and the table cloth was a UFO for about 45 years. One day she was at a sewing bee for a local charity and someone gave her a rag dolly and asked her if she could embroider a face on it. She fished about in the drawer THINGS, fished out the embroidery thread and embroidered the dolly. She had to pull out the table cloth, and for some reason she kept it out and finished it! She was very proud of the fact that despite the gap, you couldn’t tell which was the final corner – it is so tidy, I have occasionally put the cloth on the table back to front. Nil desperandum!

  90. Same here! Totes filled with yarns I used to love , yarns I can’t understand why I bought them, bags of “so pretty, I can make….” and of course, the WIP where I can’t find the directions to finish it or just completely lost interest or grand baby is now 21.
    Cringe worthy stash and I’m not getting any younger and will probably be busied in a yarn lined casket lol

  91. Unfortunately I do know how to spin, so the “learn to spin’ box is actually and entire other cupboard of ‘Oh crap, when am I going to use this? Oh well, let’s buy some more.” And inevitably, it all ends up in the yarn stash anyway

  92. Google image search suggests that this art is by J. Mills, who sells a poster on Etsy (jmillspaints)–hope that I’m giving the correct person credit! FWIW, not only does this describe my knitting stash, I actually DO spin (another huge stash–and roving is fluffier, so it takes up more volume than yarn per unit of mass. ;-D )

  93. I finish baby blankets. I work on other projects, but I finish baby blankets. I hold onto the leftovers from those because they make really good baby hat yarn for procreation coworkers. I finish the baby hats too. because deadlines.

  94. lol, my daughters has a stock pile of beads, yarn and Cri-cut items and different styles of ropes piled in her room which. is from various things she started to learn not to mention the metal ring that she made jewelry and chain mail that she would do for her brother and son.

  95. One easy, partial, remedy. Donate whatever you’re not going to use. That way you won’t have to waste any more energy wondering what to do with them. Tax deductions are always nice.

  99. Oh my goodness! My stash is clearly the long lost identical twin of your stash. As soon as they make a knitting soapy they will clearly meet up and marry the same person who won’t realise either!

  100. My current large box of yarn is at the point where I want to donate it and start over lol. Half the fun is in buying new yarn!

  101. I still have a couple of jumpers my mother knitted for me when I was in my early twenties – I’m 65 now and never wear them, but I can’t bring myself to throw them out ….

  102. I am a retired school librarian and I had a great relationship with my school ART teacher. Now, I bring her yarn, fabric, wire, etc from people in my knitting group (I don’t knit, I sew but I am trying crochet again. Crazy, I know! but hey, I’m retired!!) If your stash gets too large, try the local schools and see if anyone needs some yarn!

  103. This is fun! We have containers all over the house for mom’s knitting projects. At the moment, she’s making lots of hats for donation, so helpful at using up those random skeins.

    Also, she loves the wooden knitting bowl that Ilona posted on a few years back. Holds a ball and has a snazzy little cut out on the side for the yarn to pass through. Lightweight too!

  108. My stash is in several rooms in my house. I given garbage bags full of yarn to friends who donated the yarn on. I’ve also mailed yarn to my cousin’s grandchild. I still buy yarn to make fingerless glove, amigurumi, and doll clothes. I knit and crochet (self taught). I use you tube videos for new techniques and for reminders on old ones.

  109. I had so much yarn that I wasn’t going to use so I made scrap yarn baskets and put them in bedrooms for dirty clothes and one in my craft room for balls of yarn😂. It ate up a lot of yarn but I still have so much!

  111. Oh this was so fun! I’m over here looking for info on a series and am smiling to find another yarnie. I was a goner when I discovered natural fibers and hand dyed yarn. Sigh. Alpaca/Silk, Camel/Silk, Merino/Silk, Merino/Cashmire/Silk. I love to just look and feel and dream about all the things I’m going to make! And fiber – yup, bought fiber before I bought an espinner. This year has been the year of learning to spin. Love it! But now, back to finding a book to listen to while I knit!

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