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.
Graziesays
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
Sjiksays
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.
April Korbelsays
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.
BrendaJsays
Wow. It’s like you know me and have been to my apartment. 😳 😂 🤣
Theta Brentnallsays
That looks just like my quilting stash!
Judy Gibsonsays
Yes that covers my stash
CJ Smithsays
Oh, that yarn cartoon is so true!
Kelticatsays
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.
Alisonsays
lol I love this!
Reneesays
I represent that and I don’t even really knit.
Marysays
Who told you about my stash????!!!!!!😲😬
Rexysays
Oof. But at least you’re self aware, instead of a loved one staging an intervention 👀
Ninasays
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.
Lexsays
So relatable! I’m at SABLE (stash acquired beyond life expectancy) and (mostly) accept that owning beautiful yarn is my real hobby.
Pamsays
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.
Disays
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!
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.
Jane Compeausays
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
Rebeccasays
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.
laurasays
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.
Melisandesays
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!
Rorie Solbergsays
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.
Debsays
Hmmm, this looks familiar to me…
I made the mistake of loading my stash in Ravelry. Very Scary!
Bethsays
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.
Linda Trainorsays
I bet I have more wool than you
Rebeccasays
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.
Cezannesays
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.
Elizabeth Peacheysays
I have been attempting to order from arcane society but I keep experiencing developer errors. anyone else experiencing this issue?
Barbarasays
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.
Mary Bartonsays
I spin, so in addition to yarn I have fibers – yak, silk, camel, assorted wool, rabbit, dog, cat, bamboo, cashmere, vicuna and mixtures
Soniasays
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 !!
njbsays
Funny! Thx!
Elizabethsays
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.
Marsha Parrissays
Truth, my stash is fabric.
Cecsays
Actual blackhole !!!
Yes totally ! Thanks a lot
Kaseysays
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.
Virginiasays
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!
Virginiasays
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.
Seraphinawitchsays
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!
LillyLiveredsays
Currently re-reading/listening to Magic Tides while I go through the yarn stash again 😅
Carol Msays
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
R Cootssays
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
Elisasays
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 )
Moderator Rsays
Hey Elisa,
The image is attributed and the Etsy shop linked, check the picture caption 🙂
Staceysays
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.
Marcia Sundquistsays
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.
Jansays
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.
Tia Jahsays
This is me, only with fabric instead of yarn (though I have some boxes of various yarns, too).
Mosays
If only it was that few boxes ….
HollyCsays
OMG, now I have to go thru all my yarn and properly catagorize it.
Marrydsays
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!
Carina Paredessays
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
Wow. It’s like you know me and have been to my apartment. 😳 😂 🤣
That looks just like my quilting stash!
Yes that covers my stash
Oh, that yarn cartoon is so true!
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.
lol I love this!
I represent that and I don’t even really knit.
Who told you about my stash????!!!!!!😲😬
Oof.
But at least you’re self aware, instead of a loved one staging an intervention 👀
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.
So relatable! I’m at SABLE (stash acquired beyond life expectancy) and (mostly) accept that owning beautiful yarn is my real hobby.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
Hmmm, this looks familiar to me…
I made the mistake of loading my stash in Ravelry. Very Scary!
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.
I bet I have more wool than you
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.
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.
I have been attempting to order from arcane society but I keep experiencing developer errors. anyone else experiencing this issue?
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.
I spin, so in addition to yarn I have fibers – yak, silk, camel, assorted wool, rabbit, dog, cat, bamboo, cashmere, vicuna and mixtures
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 !!
Funny! Thx!
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.
Truth, my stash is fabric.
Actual blackhole !!!
Yes totally ! Thanks a lot
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.
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!
Currently re-reading/listening to Magic Tides while I go through the yarn stash again 😅
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
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
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 )
Hey Elisa,
The image is attributed and the Etsy shop linked, check the picture caption 🙂
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.
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.
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.
This is me, only with fabric instead of yarn (though I have some boxes of various yarns, too).
If only it was that few boxes ….
OMG, now I have to go thru all my yarn and properly catagorize it.
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!
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!