"Found" Yarn

My relaxation on the Fourth of July, along with sock knitting, was to completely reorganize my yarn stash. The stash lives in plastic bins from IKEA in a corner of the livingroom (it has it's own two bookcases) and I'd not been fully through it since the moth-issues of a couple of years ago, when everything got put into ziplocs. 

The yarn was rather unceremoniously dumped out onto our couches and I spent several hours rearranging, but now it is back to it's bookcase and theoretically, I can find things more easily. It helps that almost all of the yarn I bought this spring from various new dyers I've discovered had already arrived and also that yarn that I've been working through for stash dash is going out the door to new homes slowly. 

But it also meant that I found "new" yarn -- and by new I mean yarn that I hadn't told Ravelry about yet although it's lived in the house for an unspecified amount of time. For if it isn't in Ravelry, I have no memory of it existing when I'm miscellaneously rummaging through the stash page on a bad day. First up was this stunning skein from Fiber Optic. She's doing unified gradients now so rather than deeply envy the spinners, I can just shop contentedly and not be faced with a million ends.  These skeins aren't inexpensive but the yarn and the dying is so gorgeous, it's well worth it. 

There was also this random skein of Malabrigo. I'm not sure how one ends up with "random Malabrigo" but here we are.  

And then there was this package. I knew what was in this package but truth be told, I had never opened the envelope from the Loopy Ewe. 

I'd gone on a significant splurge one night and bought enough Wollmeise DK to make myself a sweater.  It arrived and I didn't have brain space to start said sweater and I knew what was in the package so the envelope just went into the stash. 

Please note the date. That was nearly three years ago. I have been moving that sealed envelope around the shelves on the stash for 3 years.  Sheri and Team, thank you for being so Wonderfully Consistent and Reliable that it never occurred to me that I'd need to open and verify what you'd sent. The yarn was, of course, just as expected. And the yarn is potentially in queue for Fall 2019 Knitting Plans. 

Last was a pile of worsted in an acrylic base that I picked up at Loopy Yarns last year. This had specific plans at the time but those plans have faded and I am trying to sort out what an alternate solution should be.  

This does also mean that while I'm getting thousands of yards out of my stash for StashDash 2019 (going well, thanks for asking), I've also now added about 3.5km just by going through the stash boxes. 

Yarn Collection as Hobby. That's my line and I'm sticking to it.