I am going to show you my entire yarn stash! If you see something you like, let me know! If you think a certain yarn should become a certain something, let me know! I think my stash is too big right now. Even though I have many projects planned, it will be nice to plan projects for the rest of my yarn.

Here is the first installment…

1) Cottons : Here we have some burgundy and yellow Sugar n’ Cream in worsted weight (I also have some blue somewhere) and several blues and greens (left over from turtle and Mr. Stegs), red and orange Cotton Classic in DK weight (I bought this to make stuffed animals).

2) Acrylics: Here we have the Red Heart rainbow left over from Lilla’s sweater and the cat toy. Above that we have Lion Brand Micro-Spun in lilac left over from my Picovoli sweater. Above that we have the white Lion Brand Wool-Ease worsted with little sparkles in it (see detail picture) left over from Anika’s lace scarf. To the left is some multi-colored chenille left over from a scarf I wove in high-school and some red chenille left over from Viviane’s hat.

3) Acrylics - Lion Brand Homespun. This is all Homespun, a bulky acrylic yarn. The Williamsburg blue I bought way too much of for Claire’s baby blanket. I need an idea for what to do with the 6 skeins I have left. You can see the color better in the close-up.

The lighter blue yarn at lower right is left over from my fluffy cuff mittens. The pink I don’t know why I have. The multi-colored one with purples and oranges is left over from Nhyx-Selene’s hat.

4) Acrylics: Bulky! Here we have Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick n’ Quick in burgundy, black, red, and green.

The red and some black are left over from dad’s scarf. Randall was talking about crocheting a blanket out of the burgundy and black, but I don’t think that’s enough yarn for a blanket…

5) Acrylics: Fuzzy! Here we have some fuzzy soft worsted weight acrylics.

The green and black are TLC Amore, left over from Stefan’s alien illusion scarf and crazy hat. The purple is from Anika.

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Apparently I can’t put more than 5 photos in one post, so here are 3 more planned projects.

This is some very soft blue sky alpaca sport yarn in tan and brown for a monkey stuffed animal for my (almost) niece Claire.

After dad heard about Oni’s fingerless gloves with mitten flaps he put in a request for some of his own. I’ll be using this Cascade 220 in red and variegated red.

Lastly here are 9 skeins (some are underneath) of Red Heart in multiple colors. I was going to learn how to crochet and crochet a blanket out of this, but I got too frustrated. Luckily Randall volunteered to jump in and do the project, so he’s got the 10th skein and a hook in hand…

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This is the yarn for mom’s aran sweater from Debbie Bliss’s book Cotton for All Seasons. It’s called the cotton/silk aran, but I’m using Knit Picks Andean Silk in Cornflower (21 balls!), which is 55% superfine alpaca, 23% silk, and 22% merino wool. Very warm and soft with a little silk shine. Here’s an image of the sweater from the book.

This fun sock yarn, Knit Picks Sock Memories in Gladiolus, is for mom’s future socks! If you click on the link you can see what the self-striping yarn will look like when I knit the socks. I’ll probably use the same sock pattern I used for my socks.

This fun sock yarn, Knit Picks Parade in Checkers, is for dad’s future socks! If you click on the link you can see what the self-striping yarn will look like when I knit the socks. I’ll probably use the same pattern as I did for my socks in a larger size.

Here we have some Karabella Aurora 8 in oatmeal and a light blue. I had the light blue and I just bought the oatmeal this week on sale as an early birthday present to myself so I have enough yarn to make a sweater. I will design a sweater for this yarn either before or after the Jaeger Chamonix sweater.

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Here is my cable swatch using the yummy Jaeger Chamonix (48% angora 47% extra fine merino 5% polamide) in a subtle blue (color 902). For more on this topic, see the experimental raglan sweater in my on the needles post. This sweater will wait (I think) for the completion of at least the experimental raglan and probably also another aran sweater I shall be starting soon as part of the Follow the Leader Aran Knitalong (FLAK). I’m waiting for my yarn to arrive to start the FLAK. I ordered donegal tweed in linden green from WEBS on sale. I want to know more about sweater construciton and design before I use the Chamonix.

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First we have a fun little scarf for Sandra, out of Lion Brand Wool-Ease worsted weight in gray and black combined with Crystal Palace Fizz in black/white. It’s a striped version of the Farrow Rib Scarf from the Little Box of Scarves using size 8 straight needles.

Next up is a cabled zippered cardigan (for myself) I started working on before the holiday rush and then put on hold. I’m using Knit Picks Shine in cream. The pattern is from Debbie Bliss’s Cotton for All Seasons. This is the back of the sweater. The first 3 1/2″ of ribbing were knit on size 3 circular needles and then I switched to size 6 for the remainder of the sweater. I just started ball #2 out of 21 balls of yarn!

Lastly we have the experimental raglan sweater… for me. I saw someone mention The Incredible, Custom-fit Raglan Sweater in one of the yahoo knitting group postings that I read. I convinced dad to buy me this amazingly wonderful yarn for my birthday, Jaeger Chamonix, which is being discontinued, so it’s on sale for almost 60% off. I want to design and make a cabled raglan sweater with this yarn, inspired by Cookie’s sweater, which she brought to work on at a PeninsulaKnitters meeting last month. As soon as I felt the yarn I knew I had to have some. Anyway, I don’t want to screw up the real thing, so I’m making a practice raglan using the custom-fit guidelines, to figure out how a raglan is constructed so I can design the perfect cabled raglan to use the Chamonix for. I started swatching different cables in the Chamonix, which you can see in this post. Anyway, the practice sweater (for which I don’t have enough yarn yet), is being made out of Patons Divine yarn in icicle white and soon regal red with size 10 circular needles. I am almost done with the raglan line, after which I will put the sleeve stitches on stitch holders and then work the rest of the body with a red stripe across the chest.

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I added the pattern, yarn, and needle size information to all of my previous posts for anyone who might be curious about such things… (I also added a photo of Stefan’s Monster slippers pre-felting).

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With all that space on the other side of the couch you would think she could sit there, but no, Siena had to curl up on top of mom’s shawl. Well, I pulled it out from under her to show you how far along I am. Only one more ball of purple yarn to go (out of 6 balls total)! The yarn is Crystal Palace Party in lilac and cloud cream, knit on size 11 needles. The pattern is my own, inspired by this capelet.

By the way that is my knitting bag next to Siena, otherwise known as the Spring Fling Purse from the Pursenalities book by Eva Weichmann. It was knit with Cascade 220 in purple and blue/green with Crystal Palace Fizz in purple/blue/green and blue/green on size 10 1/2 and 15 circular needles and size 11 dpns.

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Here’s the patterned crazy hat I made for Stefan’s birthday (Dec. ‘05). It’s my own pattern using leftover TLC Amore yarn from Stefan’s Alien Illusion scarf and leftover Fun Fur from his Monster Slippers! I used size 8 circular needles.

Here’s the hat I made for Randall (Nov ‘05). It’s my own pattern using Rowan big wool in red and Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick n’ Quick in black on size 15 circular needles and size 13 dpns.

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