Otherwise known as Yarn Fasting!
This is the practise of refraining from and resisting any urges to purchase yarn. Whether this be via online purchase, visiting LYS or even buying from destash sites.
I have been on a succesful, self imposed, yarn fast for all of 2022. I have way too much yarn and some of it needs to go. I have tried to design items that will use up some of this copious amounts of yarn, and while I have placed a tiny (and I do mean tiny) dent in it, no one else would probably think so.
Yesterday was a very odd day! Where I live had torrential rain. Yep it was bucketing down and as the old saying goes, IT WAS RAINING CATS AND DOGS!
I had the need to venture forth into the world and check on an elderly relative. I combined this with a stop at the gym for a workout. Heading out I was wondering if this trip was a great idea. I had to drive my little car through a few patches of water that was halfway up my car tyres. The optimist in me just kept saying that it would all be OKAY!
After doing the things that needed to be done and braving the CATS AND DOGS flying everywhere, I headed for home.
Now sometimes the call for yarn can be strong!
And in fairness to myself I did have to drive home via a different route than I usually take due to the flooded roads. This would take me RIGHT PAST the LYS. I live very rural and this store just seems to magically be there. It isn’t in a row of shops (as you would imagine most yarn stores to be), but on a property fronting a road I had to drive right past. I am sure that often when I pass, I can see a halo of light shining above the place beckoning me in.
Of course today was a little different due to all the Cats and Dogs flying everywhere, but as I neared the spot where the LYS appears sort of like Brigadoon, I looked through the madly rushing windscreen wipers as they made a vain attempt to keep the windscreen clear enough to see, I felt the urge to shop! Have you ever tried to resist the yarn buying urge when it just calls to you? Impossible, RIGHT!
I do need some Scheepjes Whirl to finish a partially designed blanket, I thought to myself. I am only going to have to come back another time if I don’t get it now. Sooooooooooo there is a little bit of rain, i think to myself as another log goes drifting by the car.
I knew the LYS should be open on this day as they usually are. But apparently making a promise to ones self is taken seriously by the powers that watch over these things!
The entrance gate to the LYS was shut and I could just make out the horrid RED sign (I don’t much like red. It’s not as bad as green but still not a favourite) on the gate CLOSED! Sure it was a day of flood warnings and I did have to drive through water that was now up to the top of my car tyres, but really. I wanted yarn! I did consider just ramming the gate and demanding they provide me with yarn, but then they may never let me back. I discarded this idea almost immediately.
Sulking due to being thwarted in my effort to break my yarn fast, I headed on home.
I did eventually manage to get there and I won’t be going anywhere till the flooding subsides. I sure won’t be buying any yarn from the LYS until it does!. In all honesty Scheepjes should just give me some for all the designs I do with their yarn!!!! Just saying!
Back to my Yarn Fast. Did I tell you I HAVE NOT bought yarn all year!
