Account for 2017

As I had decided at the end of 2016 to abandon all attempts to curtail my yarn acquisitions I bought a lot of yarn in 2017, more than the previous year.  That is about all that can be said.  I bought a lot of very nice yarn.

I used up a similar amount of yarn as in previous years, 21.1kg, and that is encouraging.  I feel stressed sometimes that the thing I like knitting the most is the standard blankets, and I will always pick the current one up in preference to anything else.  That standard blankets use unravelled yarn, and the very nice yarn remain untouched.

For this current year, 2018, I will continue buying but try to concentrate on quality yarn.  I will, for the first time, try to consider colours to avoid ones I dislike.

To make my accounts look better, I have decided to exclude knitted garments that I buy in order to wear, even if they will eventually end up unravelled in a blanket.  And I am trying not to buy knitted items just for unravelling.  There are already plenty in the yarn store.

Here is one of my nicer purchases:  sock yarn at a very good price.

The next blanket

The next blanket, #191, is another dark blanket, using the same yarns as in the previous
one, more or less. This time I added a regular row of black mohair, and it adds some nice softness. My objective of reducing the amount of yarn in the blanket box is working well. I have nearly used up all the DK weight yarns. That means that I have run out of new yarns to add. A blanket uses about 100 gr of each shade, and I will need some 15 – 20 different yarns, so it means that I will need to find some more shades. I am itching to start on my box of yarns reserved for special projects, and I will have to decide between it and unravelling some more items. Ideally I need a mixture of the two.