My First Yarn Purchase

You can knit with two sticks and some string, but the thing that most knitters get obsessive about is yarn. Knitters like to have yarn-on-hand. Yarn-on-hand is called The Stash. There are people who have been knitting for years that have an impressive stash. I really haven't even started, because I don't have a yarn stash, yet.

In Wendy D. Johnson's book, Socks From The Toe Up, she says:

ONE OF MY MOTTOS IS "SOCK YARN DOES NOT COUNT AS STASH," AND I WILL DEFEND THAT IN THE FACE OF ALL OPINIONS TO THE CONTRARY.

It sounds good to me!

Anyway, after I finished my successful Training Sock No. 1, I treated myself to my first yarn purchase.




Cascade 128
Yarn weight: Bulky / 12 ply (7 wpi)
Amount stashed: 2 skeins = 256.0 yards (234.1 m)
Purchased at: Knit Picky
Purchase date: January 2010
Price paid: $21.50
Dye lot: 0103
Colorway: 8010
Color family: Natural/Undyed

On the left is the hank, and on the right is the cake of yarn after the hank was put on a swift and wound with a wool winder.

Knitting has its own language.