Stash diving

Sometimes you just have to investigate the stash. Not because you're starting a new project, but because you've forgotten what you have. Or maybe because you've got company coming in a month and the stash has metastasized from the bedroom closet to the living room and things are looking grim. All is well and good, but you realize halfway in that maybe this was a project for earlier in the day, as spirits lag and all hope fades:

Now this is obviously a horribly unflattering photo of me, but I'm posting it anyway, to empathize the magnitude of what I had gotten myself into with the stash reorganization, which started at about 9:00 last night. See that notebook and calculator? That was me making the wise decision to document just what it is I have in the stash (well, the stuff I have large enough quantities of to make such a task worthwhile). And that huge pile above my head? That is sock yarn. I have no idea how I have amassed so much. It's true what they say though, that sock yarn creeps into the stash because you don't need a lot at a time and it's relatively cheap, and thus doesn't count as stash. Right? The pile by my hind end is lace-ish weight yarn. The sweater yarn is by my feet. By my reckoning I have enough yarn for about 7-8 sweaters, and ALL of it is tweed. What's up with that? I guess I like tweeds. I mean, I knew that of course, but seeing it all laid out there was a bit of a shock. All of that yarn has a pattern to go with it, which is good, although when I will get around to knitting any of those sweaters is another issue that we shall not go into this afternoon. Suffice to say, eventually. Oliver spent a bit of time investigating the stash as well (note tweeds!), although for the most part he laid on the couch with Dave, both of them looking a bit shocked and awed by the mass of fiber taking over the living room. I managed to get most of the stash back into the closet, but I'm going shopping for some new containers for the rest. Deciding between giant clear tupperware bins or nice big wicker baskets with lids...

This morning we had a nice surprise, right in time for Project Spectrum July: This is Suki the African Violet, which Rachel gave us as a housewarming gift back in February. This is her first bloom and we're so proud :) Not to worry, she doesn't usually live on the carpet...