Thoughts on the Stash

I am heading to Old Orchard Beach, ME this weekend and for the ride (1.5 hrs each way) I will be bringing my Aran Necklace Camisole and a few pairs of socks that I have in the works that I want to get done. When I am finished with them I have a few more pairs planned and ironically they are all for me haha. I figure if they are all intended for me I will be less stressed to complete them in a timely manner. Two of them are patterned socks and one is just plain vanilla. The patterns I am planning on are The Snowflake Socks and the Leyburn Socks.  I mentioned the snowflake socks in my last post so I will be using the yarn pictured there. For the Leyburn Socks I haven't decided on a yarn. I will have to do some digging in the stash for those. The plain vanilla socks will be in the Schoppel-Wolle yarn I bought on Ravelry, links to pics are in my post here. That yarn is made to be in vanilla....if that makes sense haha.

I have to admit that I often wish I was the kind of person that only works on one project at a time, has only enough yarn for that project and doesn't venture out to buy more until is complete. I feel it would make my life alot simpler to do something like that. I have a large stash of both yarn and roving and a million projects I want to do but life always gets in the way. Living at home certainly does not help so I like to think once I can afford to get my own place I will have more opportunities to do everything I plan to. Like knit through my entire stash of sock yarn so that when I am all done I can only buy one more hank and can't buy anymore til I finish the socks I intended for it. Not to mention I will have a hell of alot of yummy handknit socks!

I look at all the projects I have started but don't have time to finish and I get sad. Why would I do this to them? Don't they deserve just as much love as every other project I have? Why am I spending all my time with that plum purple camisole when there is a beautiful pair of pink fair isle socks that would like to be finished. What makes the orange and red socks better then the Patons Kroy sock I started?

Will I ever be able to stop buying sock yarn and get to a point where I am knittng one pair at a time? Lets not get to crazy. But it would be something if I could!