How Many Miles?!?

I keep hearing of how you can download your stash from Ravelry and then calculate how many miles you have in yarn.

I have yarn shame.

About a month ago I updated my Ravelry Stash with new purchases from the past few years.  In my defense, I really haven’t bought yarn in a long while.

Last year I spent about a hundred bucks on Cyber Monday over at Knit Picks.  I picked up a few cotton cones here and there and some sparkly red holiday yarn.

This year I haven’t bought yarn at all.  The year before was the same as last year.  Just a few small purchases.

I accrued my stash in my first few years of knitting.  I didn’t start until 2006.  I know this date because it was the year my son was born.  The same year I swore I’d finally teach myself to knit.

I joined a knitting group and somehow their bad behavior in buying yarn must have rubbed off.  Whenever one decided to destash I was all over that pile like a knitter at a 99% off LYS sale.

So I downloaded the spreadsheet.  There are total yard/meter columns and remaining yard/meter columns.  I noticed that for 13 skeins I have no yardage input.  They all say “unknown synthetic” so I let it be.

I cannot believe I’m sharing this.  I will justify and say that more than half is acrylic.

I have 37,210.4 yards of yarn.  When you convert this to miles (cringe) you get 21.142045 miles.

gulp

I have no huge urge to destash.  I also have no urge to knit through my stash.  I quit knitting for several years and I’ve dragged the yarn behind me like an ugly stepchild.  I just didn’t have the time.  I didn’t have the space.

This blog represents my journey into knitting…again.

I like having yarn sitting around just waiting for inspiration.  Doesn’t mean I’m going to buy pretties just cause.  I’m not a newbie to this, I’ve been there done that.

This time around I want to concentrate on finishing what I started.  This is my goal.

I have several things on the needles and I will finish them all!

my yarn!