If you finish a pair of socks, you're going to try them on.
When you try them on, you'll love how the Solemate yarn feels.
You will decide that you should knit another pair with that single skein of Solemate that is allegedly in your stash.
When you can't find that skein in the fingering weight bin, you will have to pull everything out of the closet to look for it.
While you are fruitlessly searching through the bins and bags, you will probably decide to take the KonMari approach and dump all the yarn on the floor.
After you gleefully spy the skein, you will take this opportunity to cull your stash ruthlessly. (Okay, maybe not ruthlessly. How about judiciously?)
Then you will congratulate yourself on donating two trash bags of yarn, while thinking that you still have way too much.
When carrying the bags to the basement, you slip on the stairs and crash down on your well-padded butt and less padded arm.
Examining the ugly swollen bruise on your arm, you decide that the best course of action is to wind your newly-found skein and cast on.
You will delight in knitting two socks at the same time because in your search for yarn you also found a second pair of Signature double pointed needles that you had absolutely no idea you owned.
And chances are, you're going to love the next finished pair of socks!
holy cow! you have to be careful!! lovely yarn and I love the stash diving photo :) :) :)
ReplyDeleteAll's well that ends well, I guess?
ReplyDeleteWhat an adventure! Finding an extra set of Signatures is such a great ending.
ReplyDeleteOh dear, that's quite a spectacular bruise! But knitting rewards are perfectly appropriate. Hope you aren't too sore!
ReplyDeleteOooo. Sorry about the tumble, and so glad it wasn't worse. LOVE your post! I often get lost in my own mouse-a-cookie wanderings. (And that yarn is gorgeous.) (My sock-without-its-mate-yet is also knit in Solemate. Lovely stuff.)
ReplyDeleteThis entire story reminds me of "when you give a mouse a cookie" right up to the fall down the stairs part. Moral of the story? Don't cull the yarn stash? Yikes! That bruise looks nasty! However, those socks are so cute!
ReplyDeleteWow! That's a big bruise. Glad you're only bruised. Love the socks!
ReplyDeleteOh my! That arm looks sore. I'm so sorry you took the fall (and that you weren't badly hurt!), but you gained an adventure story about the socks! Love the socks that sent you on the quest, too!
ReplyDeleteYikes! I hope you've got your ice maker cranking...make sure you take care of that please! Those socks are absolutely wonderful. I'd really like to go home right now and make a pair!
ReplyDeleteThis all seems perfectly logical to me. Hope your bruise disappears quickly! Love the socks.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I think the bruise looks worse than it really is. I'm glad that someone else gets how things like this happen!
DeleteOh my goodness, OUCH!! What a terrific story you've told, though! Congrats on culling the stash and finding "new" needles! (I can't even imagine the needles I've stashed away.)
ReplyDeleteoh yikes! I hope that bruise doesn't upset your knitting!! woot for culling the stash and finding the yarn - and double woot for the 2nd set of Signatures ... what a wonderful surprise!!
ReplyDeleteOuch to the bruise, hoping it is not causing to much pain, love the socks and the new yarn and well done for reducing some of your stash, never an easy thing to do.
ReplyDeleteThe bruise probably looks worse than it is, and it was a good lesson to not carry too much when I'm going down our old, uneven, slippery basement steps. It did end well with yarn and needles I didn't even know I owned found, stash culled, and yarn donated!
DeleteGlad the bruise isn't too bad and you had successful declutter and finding session.
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