I’m definitely in stash busting mode. On a break on one of my work from home days this week, I organized my stash, and marked out some projects to use for some of the yarn that’s sat in the stash the longest with no ideas on how to use it.
The first item of business was to get rid of the rest of the Sundara Extra Fine DK Silky Merino in Dark Skies and the Quince and Co Phoebe in the Mars colorway I used this year. Those two are now officially fully retired from the stash tracking.
Next, I cast on a new Musselburgh hat in the End of the World Farm Fingering Weight yarn I’ve had since (gulp!) 2010, which was last time I had gone to the Common Ground Fair before we started up again in 2019. (Another gulp – that was longer than I realized.)
I chose this for a mindless project, since it very quickly gets to a long stockinette tube stage. I’m actually really enjoying the color shift as I knit with this yarn.
And finally, this is a Brownie hat, a pattern I last made when elder niece was a baby, out of yarn that I barely touched in making a hat for younger niece when she was a baby. (It was the contrasting color in a hat.) I remember really liking this pattern when I first made it, and the connection between my two nieces made it a shoo in for using up this yarn.