There was another wonderful package waiting for me when I arrived home from Germany. (Maybe I should leave town more often? 
) I had participated in a blog contest over on YeaIKnit’s blog and I was the lucky winner. So she sent me the following two yarns.
Interlacements Tiny Toes
Lorna's Laces Bullfrogs and Butterflies
I haven’t decided what to knit with the Interlacements Tiny Toes yet but I think that I will do this shawl in the Lorna’s Laces. 
So I came home from Germany to find the last bit of my yarn from Maryland Sheep and Wool had arrived. Perhaps y’all would like to see some pictures of what I managed to score?
I headed over to the Tilli Tomas booth to find yarn to make Sahara as well as the pattern. They didn’t have the worsted weight silk there but they did have the DK Plie. Unfortunately they were out of Atmosphere which is the colorway of the worsted sequined silk that I got last year. Fortunately Tracy is awesome and shipped some to my house. That would be the yarn that showed up while I was in Germany. Now that I have all the pieces I s’pose I should get around to knitting it eh? Oh and I also bought some Beaded Plie because I felt like it and it was pretty. Any ideas what to make with 120 yds of DK beaded silk?
Beaded Plie by Tilli Tomas
Plie by Tilli Tomas
Highland Heathers
STR Lightweight Mill Ends
We shall see how long it takes me to actually get around to spinning it.
one pound of Alpaca roving
Wollmeise in Fratello
Lord only knows how long that will keep me entertained 
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?
I know I promised an update to Sticks N Stitches today but I am sorry that’s going to have to wait another day or so. Right now I need your help. I found a little white larvae on a new skein of yarn today – this yarn came into my home on Friday evening from a friend and was not near the Sticks N Stitches stuff for anyone who is wondering.
It was however in my knitting bag and on my carpet and came with a giant bag of fabric. The yarns and projects are now in ziploc bags in the freezer and the fabric is in the garage. (It’s still below freezing around these parts.) Uh now what?
Have any of you experienced a moth infestation and know what to do? I would like to be sure that these skeins are no longer infected before I continue knitting on the garments. I know there is something about making sure there are no more eggs and such. I also need to let the person who gave me the yarn know but I would like to be able to give them a solution rather than just a massive problem. Thanks for any advice you can offer!
Back in September I went to Wool Gathering in Yellow Springs, OH. It appears I forgot to blog about it. I bought some very yummy looking Dream in Color Smooshy from Ball & Skein. Pictures!
Smooshy!
Dream in Color Smooshy
Lovely brown Smooshy