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The stash-down quest dives into its third year focusing on stash curation.

For the background  story, take a look at my plan for 2015.

My current rules and goals are:

• In general, knit up as much as possible from Deep Stash (older than two years)
• Vanish all pre 2015 Dale Baby Ull and Nostebarn / Askeladen Merino-lammeuld (2 ply)
• Vanish all pre 2015 yarn of sport weight or thicker
• 1:1 ratio for fingering sock yarn – Knit one pair of adult socks or a shawl, may buy 100g of new sock yarn
• 1:3 ratio for all other yarns, based on yardage
• Yardage in is when the yarn enters the house. Yardage out is when a WIP becomes an FO or yarn is gifted/donated/traded
• 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 the first quarter of 2015?

OUT:

• I knit three hats out of 774 yards Nostebarn held double (deep stash)
• I knit a shawl out of 1230 yards of fingering weight left overs (deep stash)
• I knit 7 pairs of socks and 1 shawl out of fingering weight yarn (2 FOs deep stash, 5 skeins bought for these specific socks)
• I knit 2 pairs of mini socks and an egg cozy out of 55 yards of fingering weight left overs (deep stash)

IN:

• I bought six skeins of Cascade Heritage sock yarn for specific patterns. Already used five of them.
• I won a skein of sock yarn as grand prize in the HPKCHC Ravenclaw mini sock sprint Winter term 2015. Donated by bacs.
• I received the first shipment of the 2015 yarn club DH gifted me for Christmas – a skein of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Mediumweight.

STATUS:

At the beginning of the year, my unspent allowance was 16.5 balls of sock yarn and -4472 yards of any yarn.

I used 8 skeins of sock  yarn and 2059 yards of other yarn and added 6 skeins of sock yarn. This puts my Q1 numbers at 2 balls of sock yarn and 686 yards of any yarn.

My accumulated unspent allowance by the end of March is 18.5 balls of sock yarn and -3786 yards of any yarn.

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We are almost half-way through 2015, and it is time for the grand plan to get digitalized from its pen&paper draft. 

If you are interested in the back story or the original rules and goals, you may take a detour to the January 2013 and January 2014 posts. 

My long term objective (beyond the obvious overall stash reduction) is that the majority of my stash is sock yarn, simply because that is what resonates with my crafting.  

My revised rules and goals for 2015 are:

• In general, knit up as much as possible from Deep Stash (older than two years)
• Vanish all pre 2015 Dale Baby Ull and Nostebarn / Askeladen Merino-lammeuld (2 ply)
• Vanish all pre 2015 yarn of sport weight or thicker
• 1:1 ratio for fingering sock yarn – Knit one pair of adult socks or a shawl, may buy 100g of new sock yarn
• 1:3 ratio for all other yarns, based on yardage
• Yardage in is when the yarn enters the house. Yardage out is when a WIP becomes an FO or yarn is gifted/donated/traded
• 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

As before, I will not reveal the overall size of the stash in terms of skeins/balls or yardage, but I will report on yarn going in and out 🙂

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