A long day of travel finds me in Albany this morning - staying with Uncle Chuck and Aunt Barb - and their delightful hospitality. This morning Tracy and I are heading out to The Highland Lodge for all the thrill and excitement of the Mindful Knitting Retreat. And the food! Around here, though, there is only one thing everyone is talking about - Spitzer. I’d rather be knitting - says the person who does not live in New York State.
AND - drumroll please - Spring Knitty is LIVE - and the Spring Mindful Knitting Collumn is available for your perusal. Enjoy - please drop a comment here or on Ravelry in the Mindful Knitting Forum if you are one of the lucky ones already on the site. I’ll let you know when we get there - planning on stopping at Karme Choling on the way - a retreat center in the Shambhala Buddhist Mandala - and Trungpa Rinpoche’s first US center. Looks like good weather may hold for our drive. Enjoy the collumn!
(and PS - I have NO intension of letting Amy sneak out - we will shower her hubby with way rocking birthday love. Knowing the weather up there, we may not get them back!)
what a wonderful essay on stashing! you’ve covered all the reasons and pleasures, the guilts and unspoken fears (”Who will get this if something happens to me? What will others do w/it?”
How thankful all knitters should be to live where an abundance of yarn is possible, where the purest enjoyment is possessing a lovely fiber to hold and envisioning what it can become—or not. My own stash fills a single plastic K mart bin. I used to think it was Too Much and have been stoically knitting my way through it, some for gifts, some for me, some charity donations, (thinking, when it’s done, I can get some more, but not as MUCH more). But it is the sheer joy of having, seeing, remembering where the yarn came from, what the planned project is, that is an added gift. If I were stranded at home (NOT a desert island, please!!)for 6 months and could knit my way through every yard, would I be stash-less very long? I doubt it! and I doubt it about everyone in the same situation. Thanks for shining a light on the piles of yarn in our lives…