Anybody here knit…..collect hand dyed yarn?

How does one streamline yarn? It's fundamentally non-aerodynamic! Haha.

I cannot advise on this. When husband suggests I get rid of books I say how can one build a library by getting rid of books? The same holds for yarn! My only suggestion is that if you try to organise it by size and colour then you might find it fits more easily into the space and you don't need to get rid of any.

I have considered that a duvet cover would hold quite a lot of yarn and it would be quite handy if you suddenly get the urge to knit or crochet in bed! Just don't leave the needles in there and go to sleep...

I think I have more UFOs (UnFinished Objects) than finished items. I am bad at finishing things. But I do have a decent collection of hats. So many that I no longer feel the need to make hats, which is a shame as hats are a nice easy project.

Oh wow, wow, WOW! 

Well I’ve found my niche on here.  
Oh, Dawn, I have a room for it all too…..but it’s overwhelming me at the moment. 
I’m supposed to be ‘streamlining’ the room as there’s too much in it but I don’t know where to start. Aggggggg! 
I’ve also so many half completed projects…..but then when I get stressed I start a new one. 
Half finished socks, shawls, cardigans, jumpers and blankets, BLANKETS? 

I would knit and crochet all day long if I could…..well actually, sometimes I do! 

I used to think I'd leave mine to my knitting group or spinning guild, but I haven't been to those since covid. Hopefully I'll meet more knitters/crocheters/weavers before I die! I think once can always find a local knitting group that might appreciate it though.

Although I do have the dreaded moths so actually probably nobody would want any of mine

Thanks Gilly for the post. You started a laugh here, but you are in good company, it seems

SABLE lol. Got that. Just who do I bequeath my remaining stash too. Lol. I'm in stitches now ... metaphorically and literally.

Maybe if I crochet blankets for the cats protection league from now until I peg it, I'd use up the stash and keep generations of kitties warm, lol?

That sounds like a lovely room! I also have a room with lots of yarn in (two of those Ikea units of 5x5 cubbies although not every cubby has yarn in) plus there is yarn in other rooms too. It doesn't seem to like being confined to just one room, it likes to spread out!

It sounds like you also have SABLE (stash acquired beyond life expectancy). I just don't use mine up very fast at the moment, so I had to stop acquiring. I think it is because my eyes are not what they were and I get annoying blobs in them when I focus on things in my hands. But I hate wearing glasses.

Do I sound too geeky if I confess to a whole room in my house to store yarn? .. either unusual natural yarns or self changing yarns. Oh well, if every clothing shop in existence closed tomorrow, my stash could clothe me and my whole family - eccentrically, but warmly, for life lol.

Oh the good colour changing yarns are the best! I like the gradual changes, not the abrupt striping ones.

Funny you mention the B----- word. I can't handle clothes that have the round fastening things. I think it's my Synesthesia I can't deal with the object or the word - makes me sick. Wierd, huh?

But oddly, I started knitting because I needed cardies which don't have them.

With yarns, I have a thing about self phasing yarns, repetitive stitches while colour generally changes through your fingers, transfixes me.

Kudos for the spinning. I never tried that, but would love to.

You are not alone! Defo not alone. Dawn and Triker are the same I just read and so am I. I literally have lots of tins and boxes full of materials and fabrics. Got lots of adorable buttons. Every year I make myself a new soft hat and scarf. Like Dawn said it meets my sensory needs which shop bought stuff never does.

It's also so soft to hold and touch. I used to sit with my gran and watch her make clothes, baskets and dolls. She taught me so much about it. 

Oh no  lol. You are sooo not alone.

I make my own clothes because that's how to get clothes that meet my sensory needs. Just trying that one little project sharp turns in to errr, hmmm "specialism". All those lovely rhythmic stitches and stitch counting is so therapeutic, huh?

And then, you got something you can wear without irritation.

I had a particular thing about socks  for like two years. Nobody but nobody crochets socks...ehhhh hummm...except me. The crochet socks went with me on the bus four hours a day to calm the sensory bus overload and I meanwhile produced enough socks for my whole family for a life time, whether they felt they needed them or not.

Sooo, no you aren't the only one, lol.

You are not alone! I love yarn so much I learned how to spin so i can make my own! I prefer thick but squishy yarn, which is not the easiest to make and is rare to find in natural fibres so it is useful to be able to make my own. And art yarn! I have some lovely squishy hand dyed fibre which makes beautiful yarn, though I also enjoy natural coloured wool and alpaca.

I had quite an intense obsession with learning the skills a few years ago, but seem to have slowed down. I am not quite sure why. But I have a nice collection of yarn and pre-yarn! Sometimes I even manage to decide what to make and turn some of it into a wearable item...

What do you like to make and what is your favourite yarn?