Yes, it's the buying! There's no shortage of yarn in my stash, but it's just so satisfying to buy it. There's no shortage of yarn shops in our area, either, and two new ones on that that will be dangerously close to my house.
It could be worse. I spend a lot of time in the room where my yarn lives, at least that helps me remember how much I already own!
Wow! So many fabulous ideas to try out. The canvas stitch is new to me and it's turned out so well in your design. I practice French every day on Duolingo and just recently got up the courage to speak a little French with a lovely native french speaker :) It's like I loose everything I've learned and my mind becomes blank when trying to have a conversation!! Like everything it takes practice and time to build confidence.
Oh the TBR... Along with the TBC (to-be-created)! I have no shortage of hobbies... genealogy, scrapbooking, watercolor painting, crocheting, yarn dyeing, reading... other stuff... But never enough time for them all! I realized several years ago that I needed to do what one of the comments at the end of that article said: just stop buying. I (mostly) stopped buying scrapbook supplies until I was ready to work on a particular event. So, for example, a basketball game, whenever I was ready to work on that page, I bought the basketball-related stuff and made that page.
I have been less successful when it comes to refraining from yarn purchases, but one thing that helps is for me to occasionally re-inventory what I have (to remind myself of what still wants to be made into something, and to decide what's no longer a realistic option), and when I'm browsing, if it's something I could dye myself, I save it to my ideas for yarn dyeing rather than purchasing it. Although I'm a sucker for a pretty string that I know I don't yet have the skills to replicate. ;) The thing I never feel I have enough of, unfortunately, is TIME. :(
Yes, it's the buying! There's no shortage of yarn in my stash, but it's just so satisfying to buy it. There's no shortage of yarn shops in our area, either, and two new ones on that that will be dangerously close to my house.
It could be worse. I spend a lot of time in the room where my yarn lives, at least that helps me remember how much I already own!
Wow! So many fabulous ideas to try out. The canvas stitch is new to me and it's turned out so well in your design. I practice French every day on Duolingo and just recently got up the courage to speak a little French with a lovely native french speaker :) It's like I loose everything I've learned and my mind becomes blank when trying to have a conversation!! Like everything it takes practice and time to build confidence.
Oh the TBR... Along with the TBC (to-be-created)! I have no shortage of hobbies... genealogy, scrapbooking, watercolor painting, crocheting, yarn dyeing, reading... other stuff... But never enough time for them all! I realized several years ago that I needed to do what one of the comments at the end of that article said: just stop buying. I (mostly) stopped buying scrapbook supplies until I was ready to work on a particular event. So, for example, a basketball game, whenever I was ready to work on that page, I bought the basketball-related stuff and made that page.
I have been less successful when it comes to refraining from yarn purchases, but one thing that helps is for me to occasionally re-inventory what I have (to remind myself of what still wants to be made into something, and to decide what's no longer a realistic option), and when I'm browsing, if it's something I could dye myself, I save it to my ideas for yarn dyeing rather than purchasing it. Although I'm a sucker for a pretty string that I know I don't yet have the skills to replicate. ;) The thing I never feel I have enough of, unfortunately, is TIME. :(
Just wonderful! Thanks for keeping me in the knitting world! One day.,...