The stash

Here's the scoop:

For those of you who don't know, I am incredibly underpaid and underutilized in my role as a cataloger/librarian at a small private college. It's not a bad job, per se, in fact, there are days where I really do enjoy it, but one of the biggest problems of no $$ is no spending ability and with no spending ability comes no yarn!

So, where I stand currently, I have to look for projects that either don't use up a whole skein, or projects that take only one or two skeins at best. I was lucky with my most recent scarf, because I had more than enough (thank goodness for large needles and chunky yarn!)

I also regularly depend on free patterns on Ravelry, Knitty, and wherever else I can get them, and also accept the kindness of strangers (or more often, friends), such as "A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, by Barbara Walker", given so kindly to me by my friend Anne (as well as three magazines of Noro-specific patterns and most recently, Kaffe's Classics). I also have a few magazines donated by Annie in the CKW group, and I have sweaters lined up to knit from the Knitter's Vogue, with all sorts of menswear in it! LOVE!

My needles are almost all Brittany or ChiaoGoo and I noticed, as I lay them out, relatively few in terms of sizes. I have, in various lengths (and 2 sets of dpns), 5mm/US8, 5.5mm/US9, 6mm/US10, 8mm/US11, and 10mm/US15 needles. I also have an H/8-5mm crochet hook, though crochet continues to escape me. Too much one-handed-ness, and though I could make a pervy boy pun about one-handed activities (indeed there are many), I can safely say that sometimes, two hands are needed to get the job done right!

I also have my Lil' Guppie pocket utility man-objects (it's cute, though and looks like a fish...it has a bottle opener, wrench, knife, and 2 screwdrivers) The knife is the reason I use it. It comes in handy when I need to cut some yarn.

Pictures will follow eventually, though I recently had a massive hard drive death, so I lost a fair share of recent knit pics I'd taken. =_(

I also have Knitting with Balls, and two books from the Stitch'n'bitch series. Disconnected, I realize, but that's how I think. I switch topics like there's no tomorrow!