I am at the airport getting ready to board the first leg of my trip. I have the song “leaving on a jetplane” stuck in my head. 
Although in this instance I do know when I will be back again. Hopefully I will be able to keep up with blogging while I am overseas. I promise the Sticks N Stitches post is coming. Even if y’all don’t believe me anymore 
Tonight I got to play on a Lendrum and I spun up this yarn along with my chum Stanzi. Mine was kind of all over the place on consistency while hers was rather consistent. Maybe someday I will come up with the funds to buy one. For now I think it’s me and my drop spindle.
Stanzi's and my first lendrum spun
Some of my lendrum spinning
There’s a thread in the Stash and Burn Groupies forum on Ravelry about how many yards one knits on average a year. I had been following it for a couple days and well curiosity got the better of me. Alas, you can not download your projects on Ravelry into an excel spreadsheet as you can with your stash. So I sorted my projects into a list and started with the item cast on January 1, 2008. Turns out I didn’t have any carry over in my projects from year to year. That’s a shock in and of itself to me. At any rate it turns out that I knit somewhere over 10,000 yards last year. Or rather that I had 10,000 yards knit into FOs. There were a couple other knits for swatches that are still laying around. 10,000 seems like such a big number but really when you knit a couple adult sized sweaters, throw in a large blanket and a couple pairs of socks. Well it adds up quickly.
Seeing those numbers makes me realize that my stash is only 4.7 yrs worth and that I really do stand a good chance of making a sizeable dent in my stash by MDSW. The leyburn sock #1 will be cast off tomorrow. I have also packed away some odd balls of yarn to take with me on holiday. I have a number of quick projects all requiring somewhere around 100 yds that I plan to knit up. The small projects also tend to add up quickly and it feels so great to get them done quickly. 
How many yards/meters did you knit last year?
I cast these socks on Monday night when the other projects went into quarantine. Turned the heel last night.
Leyburns Sock #1
So for those of you sitting on the edge of your seat. We’ve decided that my entire stash isn’t contaminated because the new yarn simply wasn’t in the house long enough or anywhere near the whole stash to infect it. The yarn in question was opened up and examined for any additional larvae or egg clusters. I didn’t see any of the above but then I was told I may not be able to see the eggs depending on yarn color. All questionable yarn is in the freezer individually packaged in Ziploc bags. I am aware that my freezer isn’t cold enough to actually kill eggs but I am hoping to quarantine it until I have enough time to build my moth hospital. I have a chest in our spare bedroom that doesn’t house anything but sheets for the bunk beds. I will be putting the sheets on a shelf and putting moth balls and some spray from the hardware store in the chest along with the contaminated yarns.
I won’t be working on Vivian or Vixen for probably two weeks at the soonest. Which is fine, I have decided to work on the two pairs of socks I had lined up for myself after the sweater and camisole were complete. I am also going to begin the baby knitting. 4 babies are due in my life. They always come in droves don’t they? The good news about all the baby knitting is that it has given me a starting point for a problem I didn’t know I had until this moth scare.
The moth scare now has me wanting to knit down my stash and get it into manageable airtight clear bins instead of being all on display out in the open. I went on Ravelry and downloaded the excel spreadsheet of my stash and found that I have 192 balls of yarns in my stash. Which doesn’t include the about 10 balls of yarn I got over the weekend. It does however include partial skeins. I also added up my yardage and it appears that I have around 44k yards of stash left. It’s clearly time for some stash busting and I would like to make a size-able dent before Maryland Sheep and Wool (MDSW) so I can be justified in buying yarn there. Although in my defense I have currently knit up half of the yarn I bought at MDSW last year and over the next week I will cast on a project with another purchase from MDSW. So my goal for this year is to find a way to knit up somewhere between 50 and 75 of those skeins. That’s doable right? Or am I just a mad woman?