Bustin' Up the Cotton Stash

I finished a nice "Friendship Scarf" this weekend -finally. It's a cotton piece, in a cool 18 row pattern repeat that has traveled across the country to four other knitters. Hopefully mine should be coming back to me in the next few weeks.


Last night, as I put away all of my cotton dishcloth yarn, I was simply aghast (yes, aghast) at the incredible number of full and partial skeins of cotton yarn I had - in a ton of colors I probably won't ever need. I have amassed a huge Peaches & Creme and Sugar 'n Cream collection over the last two years of dishcloth swaps. I also have about 100 dishcloths I have received in said swaps. Please note, my husband refuses to even use dishcloths. So now what to do with all of this yarn (the photo above is AFTER I used a bunch of the cotton!).

Bob had been to the knitting room, which is a total mess right now, earlier in the day, and was quite surprised, but probably not aghast at how much yarn I had. When I mentioned that I wanted to do something with the cotton, he suggested pitching it. Uh - no. I don't ever pitch yarn. And, I really am trying not to buy a lot of yarn until after I use most of what I already have.

The Easter Bunny Vintage Vertical Stripe Afghan's Humble Beginnings

Thus the Easter Bunny Vintage Vertical Stripe Afghan was born. There's not much to it - I simply took my cotton yarn and started crocheting in DC. I figure crochet is fast and will use up more yarn. Seeing as I have mostly bright variegated colors, it's going to be a very ugly blanket, but that's OK. It works up super fast, and I have probably gone through a third of my stash already! At only $1 a skein, it's also going to be cheap to add on to the blanket in the event I don't have enough to make it proportional.

Up Close and Personal with the Easter Bunny VVS Afghan

So hopefully I will be able to bust through the uncounted number of skeins and by mid-April have more room in my knitting room for my sock yarn, as well as the feeling of being somewhat more organized!