Anybody here knit…..collect hand dyed yarn?

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.