I have made wonderful progress on reducing my yarn stash. Behold!
You will note the box of 25g skeins in many colours. I cleared out my stash only to immediately need some small amounts of colour for a project… but at least this way they’re all the same weight and easy to use together.
I used a good amount of stash in 2024 – 5.9kg – but I was also touched by yarny destiny early in 2025. My sister saw an ad on a local freecycle kind of site, asking for odds and ends of yarn for a crochet project with young people. I packed up a whole box of yarn to donate – a 1.5kg box! Some of it had been with me for a long time, shut away and unlikely to ever be used. It felt so good to send it all on to a new life.
I did buy and receive yarn through the year, naturally, and last month I bought myself some lovely mohair with an Etsy voucher I got for Christmas, plus yarn to make two gifts for upcoming birthdays.
(it’s leopard print)
So all in all, now I have 4kg in stash, compared to the 10ish I started with in Jan last year. I have plans for some of it already, and 3 projects on the go…
Circle of life, innit?
The Crafty Yarnster 