Knitting wool stash

I just love this - thanks to the Flickr member who has provided it and says that it's okay to make copies as long as we don't sell them. Thanks also to Cornflower, where I found the link. In fact, it was as a result of finding the blog Cornflower that I began knitting again after a few years where the wools available had seemed boring, and my eyesight not up to it. Now I've got several pairs of glasses, varifocals, and there is such a marvellous array of wonderful yarns to choose from.

My stash is - yes - so large that I couldn't hope to knit it all up if I lived to be 200 years old. I remember one of my aunts who lived in a lovely big house, showing me her dressmaking material and wool stash once in the late 1960s. It was housed in a built-in wall cupboard of her Georgian dining room. It stretched from floor to ceiling. So the art of stash-building has been around for some time.

My mother, however, was not as well-off, and how I remember her having her wool 'put by' at the woolshop, and collecting it an ounce at a time.

This is just a tiny glimpse into one of my 'archive' stashes, of pre-baby (he's now 18) Rowan and Jamieson's Shetland. My mother would not have approved.