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It’s time for the great Stash Flash of 2006! I didn’t participate last year as I was a total newbie knitter and had little or no stash to speak of. What a difference a year makes! Let’s get started with the yarny goodness, shall we?

First up, we have my stash of crochet cotton. I inherited most of this from my mom. I’ve crocheted a couple of doilies in the past and even used some of this to crochet snowflakes this last Christmas. I’m sure I could knit quite a few doilies out of this. (Stop drooling Monkee!)

Next up is kitchen cotton. Hobby Lobby had a big sale on this when I first started knitting. I love handknitted dishcloths and you can never have enough as far as I’m concerned. They also make nice gifts as well. Quick, easy and a great way to try out new stitch patterns.

I really wanted to group my yarns together according to fiber or some other really cool attribute when I took the pictures. It started off really well. The crochet cotton and kitchen cotton were easy. Sock yarn! Of course that all goes together. But after that my brain went on vacation and I just ended up taking pictures of odd groupings of yarn and then I have a couple of late entries as I’ve added to the stash since I took the pictures.

So without further ado, here is my mish-mash of yarn. In this group you will find several wools that I’ve used for felting, wool that is left over from mittens and some acrylic blends. (See, I told you my brain stopped working.) Most of this is Plymouth Galway that I used for a French Market Bag. The salmon colored ball is from a Zeilinger’s Wool Company in Frankenmuth, MI and is left over from my Clapotis.

In the next pile we find some Lamb’s Pride worsted, KnitPicks Merino Style and Wool of the Andes, and some miscellaneous ball of wool. The brown Wool of the Andes is destined to become Kepler. I have started it. Really, truely. I’ve completed one cable band for a sleeve and am almost done with the second.

In the next heap we find some Cascade Pastazza, Artful Yarns Jazz, brushed baby alpaca, Andean Silk, Noro Kuryeon and Debbie Bliss Soho. The Jazz is being used in my second Clapotis. The alpaca and Andean Silk were a gift from my SP. I might make a small felted purse from the Noro. I haven’t decided yet.

Our last pile of hodge-podge is just that. The Peruvian wool and the tweedy yarn were another SP gift. The two muppet heads in the front I won at the last Knitting Guild meeting. I’m not a big fan of novelty yarn but I’m sure I’ll find something to do with it.

This next picture

 makes me want to cry. This is Sonata in a really nice greeny color called pesto. This beautiful yarn was destined to become Soleil. I can’t even recall how many times I cast on for it, but it defeated me every time. It’s been lanquishing in my stash since last summer. Maybe this year will the the year I conquer it.

This wool also came from Zeilinger’s. (I couldn’t resist. How can you when all their wool was 95 cents per ounce? I paid the price of one hank for this entire pile!) I want to make a sweater out of it but I haven’t found the right pattern yet. But that’s ok . . . 95 cents an ounce!

Again for the Monkee, here is my small but growing stash of laceweight and mohair yarn. My first SP gifted my the knitter’s crack Kidsilk Haze, and the Kid Seta was a RAOK from the infamous Monkee. If I could tear myself away from socks, maybe I could get some lace knitting done.

I of course saved my absolute favorite yarn til last. SOCK YARN! I’ve added to my stash of sock yarn since this picture and have actually knitted some of it up already. (Guess that means that it never became stash. Something’s not right there.) Here we have Paton’s Kroy, Sockatta, Regia, Trekking, Lana Grossa, Lang, Lorna’s, Mountain Colors and Koigu KPPPM. Yum!

My latest additions to the sock stash include more Regia, Cascade Fixation and Koigu KPM. The darker Regia (under the green Koigu) is for hubby’s second pair of socks. Of course I guess that means I need to finish his first pair. The Fixation is for another pair of ankle socks. (You can find the pattern for them on my sidebar.)

Now for the grand finale. I had two hanks of Schaefer Yarns hand painted sock yarns that refused to be photographed with other yarns. So these divas were granted their own private photo shoots. The results are below. (The first hank is Lola and the second hank is Anne. Such yummy, rich, soft sock yarn!) Thanks for stopping by!