2012: Year of the Stashbust

Oh God.

It is not quite 9 p.m on a Tuesday evening and I have decided to finally kick-start my most important New Year's Resolution: that is, to begin the process of depleting the considerable yarn stash I have amassed since college. And, you guys, that's not even most of it, because I have about 20 more balls of yarn back at my parents' house that I purchased when Vanberia had 100-gram hanks of hand-dyed wool crazy on sale.

Therefore, I have decided to start a new blog to chronicle my domestic pursuits, including The Great Stashbust of 2012 (knitting), my newfound love of sewing (thanks, Mom!), and cooking, which, to be fair, will probably have more to do with bragging about things my roommate made, because she's the talented cook in our household--after all, it is her job. This blog, Grownupitude: Adventures of a Reluctant Domestic, will, I hope, keep me accountable to this particular New Year's promise, because I live in a tiny apartment, and there just isn't room for me AND all of this yarn.

Tonight I went through all of the yarn in my apartment and catalogued it by brand, weight, color, and yardage (the last of those categories involves mostly guessing on my part, since there's no sure way to tell). It fits into two bags--I don't know how this is possible, especially given how insurmountable the task of whittling this stash down feels at the moment. I can only assume that there is some type of Mary Poppins thing going on in my salmon-colored travel bag, which accounts for the amount of yarn currently residing in it.

As for what is to become of all of this wool and merino and acrylic and alpaca, I can only assume that I will be making a lot of small, instant-gratificationy projects, and those that are good enough to satisfy my lofty standards will end up on my Etsy shop, because I certainly don't need them. I will probably take inspiration for projects from The Minimalist Knitter, whose stashbusting goals are similar to mine. I did finally figure out how to make those nifty little earwarmers all the kids seem to be wearing these days, and without having to crochet (!), so I suspect I'll be making more than a few of these:

As for the rest, we'll have to see. I'm taking a breath, counting down from five, and jumping in.