Digitaldiina's Blog

The stash-down quest continues through the last month of the year. If you missed the first post in this quest series, you can read about how it all started in the January post. 

My current rules and goals are:

• Knit up as much as possible from Deep Stash (2010 or earlier)
• Knit up the 3 sweaters worth of yarn bought in the fall, 2012 (all 3 finished!)
• Buy no wool yarn from Sandnes Garn or Per Tyrving (I hate working with it!)
• 1:1 ratio for fingering sock yarn – Knit one pair of adult socks or a shawl, may buy 100g of new sock yarn
• 1:5 ratio for all other yarns, based on yardage
• It is OK to buy yarn for specific projects for the kids, especially daycare sweaters, but the project must be started within 2 months of purchase
• Yardage from my pre-2012 sweater UFOs do not count (mostly knit, need finishing), but the two scarves do count
• Vacation yarns do not count (but may only buy yarns not available at local-to-me yarn stores (LYSes))
• Gifts and prizes do not count

So, how did I do for December?

OUT:

• I knit 2 pairs of socks out of 465 yards of fingering weight yarn.
• I gifted 7 balls / 450g / 1819 yards of fingering weight yarn from my stash for Christmas.
• I culled eight partial skeins to be donated to the kids´daycare. In total 568 yards.

IN:

• Nothing!

STATUS:

At the beginning of the month, my unspent allowance was 8.5 balls of sock yarn and 121 yards of any yarn.

I used 1 ball of sock yarn and 2387 yards of yarn found other homes. This brings my December numbers up to 1 ball of sock yarn and 477 yards of any yarn.

My accumulated unspent allowance at the end of the year is 9.5 balls of sock yarn and 598 yards of any yarn.