Stash Wars

I posted at the start of the year that I wanted to use more of my stash. A number of people have posted on their blogs or on forums that 2007 is the year of using stash or not buying yarn. I am sure that many of them make that statement every year. In 2006 a fellow knitting blogger, Bess declared that she would only be knitting from her stash and not buying any yarn. At the beginning of 2007 she wrote that she had achieved this and how she felt about it. Others have declared their own set of rules for 2007.

Apparently this is not good. For more than one reason.

Did you know that yarn stores will be dropping by the wayside this year as no one will be buying yarn? Yup - bloggers have been contacted by customers and owners blaming the yarn dieters for the future demise of their store. Sounds a tad dramatic to me. Its not as if the whole world is going on a yarn diet.

Then there are those with stashes who feel guilty about their stashes but instead of doing something about it blame the stash busters for making them feel guilty. If you feel guilty about your stash do something with it. Knit it, sell it, give it, throw it. But the feelings about your stash are your own and not anybody else's responsibility.

But what I think is the saddest are those people who feel guilty for not having a stash. Knitting is about doing something you enjoy. It is the end results not how you get there. You haven't lost if you don't have a stash or if your stash is small. There are no rules in knitting.

And that is the problem, somebody posted some fun rules on her blog and stash wars has broken out