I’ve spent most of this year doing a great job sticking to my yarn diet. I only buy the yarn that I have earned (100 g earned for every 300 g knit). Recently I went off the rails, and now I’m 2052 g in the hole for the year. I don’t think I’ll be able to knit my way out of it this year. I’m disappointed in myself, and I’ll be continuing my yarn diet next year.
It all started out so simply. My sister is going to have a baby, so I wanted to get yarn to make a baby sweater. I found a pattern and yarn I liked on bluprint and decided to buy it.
I didn’t want to pay for shipping, so I added on a sweater kit I’d been eyeing.
But when the kit arrived I noticed that I had made a grave error. Instead of selecting coral, I distractedly ordered two different teals.
Obviously that wouldn’t work, so when I ordered the coral I added on some yarn to get to free shipping. I found a nice wool/silk blend on sale, so I bought a sweater quantity. The problem is I wanted to buy 1000 yards, but instead I convinced myself I needed 100 g, so now I have enough yarn for two sweaters.
I was going to be done, but I had already promised Ivy I would go to an Andrea Mowry KAL at a local yarn shop. I decided on the Range shawl, but I didn’t have the right yarn for it. So I bought four skeins of Malibrigo for the shawl.
I know I will use all of the yarn I’ve purchased, but I sure do wish I would have utilized my stash first. I have never gone on a yarn binge like this before. I hope I never do again.
So now I’m off to learn brioche so I can continue to work on the shawl. I am also going to work on my whitehorse sweater so I can finish it and cast on the baby sweater. It’s a good thing I feel inspired to knit again, as I have a lot of knitting to do.
mildlygranola 
OMG! Lovely yarns but oops. I’ve been in the ‘avoid shipping’ scenario too. Does the Betty Ford Clinic do yarn cold turkey treatments? 😉
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Oh my gosh, someone needs to create a yarn rehab program.
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Don’t know I could check myself in though. Have to be some intervention!
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All happy accidents:) If you’ll use the yarn I see no problem here.
The yarn is lovely:)
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Oh, gosh! I can so relate. At least it’s gorgeous yarn!
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This entire scenario seems perfectly logical to me! 🙂
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Thank you, Melody. I MISS YOU!!!
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That’s quite the rabbit hole you fell down! Wish I had gone with you! All your color choices are beautiful
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I’m living vicariously here. But you’ll surely use all that lovely yarn. You can always NOT buy yarn later. 😀
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Don’t feel guilty for too long–I think we’ve all been there and fallen into the “free shipping” trap! You got some lovely yarns for a stash that probably brings you much joy!
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Well you ended up with some beautiful yarn, but I can definitely understand your feelings
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Oh I have totally fallen down the trap of free shipping…the other one that gets me is if you spend more you get 5% off or even more 10% off. Next year is my year of a yarn diet…I’ll have to remember this post as a warning…that said…you have some lovely yummy new yarns!
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Oh goodness – it happens to all of us! Baby knitting, huge sales, cool patterns – we all have our yarn diet kryptonite. You have been doing great all year, and you will do great again. Also, that is beautiful yarn! Knit and enjoy your lovely yarn 🙂
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Oh my, that is a lot of yarn. I wish you some smoking hot knitting needles to get through all of that stash!
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Thank you, I’m going to need fast needles to get myself back where I want to be.
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It is so easy to go off the rails with all of that tempting gorgeousness on offer. I am sure you deserve it for your previous yarn fasting 😎
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All I can do is laugh.This is all of us.
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It does make me feel better to know I’m not alone in this sort of a binge.
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Ohh but look at all the pretties! How can you feel bad about so much gorgeous squishiness?
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I just need to find a spot to store it all.
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