For those who keep up with my Flickr photostream, it will come as no surprise that I have a ridiculous amount of yarn. A stupid amount, even. In my defense, I will add that while Flickr documents nearly every yarn that comes into my house, it does not capture the ones that leave, so not all of those beauties are still stuffed into my spare bedroom.

Still, the stash is getting out of hand. I’m trying to fix this by curbing my intake of yarn each month. So far so good for October. Of course, we’re only a week in. The other thing I’m doing to try and get it under control is destashing. Which is what led to the yarn explosion in my living room pictured above. Last weekend I went through my entire stash, trying to pare it down and find a bunch of stuff to sell. My efforts were largely successful, and I now have a few boxes of stuff to list on Ravelry (after already trying to push some of it on my fellow yarnies at knit night).

I’m also working on decreasing the fiber stash by spinning more pretty yarns! That adds to the yarn stash of course, but it breaks even, I think. And I tend to knit with my handspun pretty quickly. My latest is some superwash merino dyed by Pigeonroof Studios in the colorway Comfort. I was aiming for a nice thick worsted weight (practicing for spinning a sweater!), but it came out sport weight instead. Oops, guess I need more practice!

Since it’s thinner though, I can use it for socks, yay! I’m just waiting for the right size needle to arrive in my mailbox any day now.

In other news, I bought a bicycle! I haven’t taken a picture yet, but I will try to remember to when I get home. I wanted a pink bicycle, but I had to settle for purple. I like it a lot though! =) It’s a Raleigh Route 4.0. And I got a bright pink helmet to make up for it! (click on the color “sparkle magenta” to see what I actually got). My goal is to bike to work a few days a week and thereby get a tiny bit more exercise. We’ll see how that works out!