A PINK LLAMA......Is that like seeing pink elephants????
Only if its getting dizzy or hallucinating-ly intoxicated by yarn. Seems right!
The pink llama was the star at the Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival. While in Cincinnati for a conference, I fell upon the Fiber Festival in Lexington Kentucky, which was only an hour a way and made for a perfect Saturday diversion.
Summer trips and side trips are the perfect time to visit Fiber Festivals, cashmere goat farms like Mountain Hollow or any farms hosting sheep, alpacas, llamas and goats and of course, any or all Local Yarn Shops. If you're near Cincinnati, you must not miss.... Fiber Optic Yarns in Milford.
This of course, comes with a warning......your stash will grow and grow. This stresses out some, but not me, I love being surrounded or rather drowned in beautiful luscious hanks of fiber. This yarns makes me happy. It inspires designs, its a virtual painters pallet for me.
Some like to keep track of their stash on Ravelry, this is a wonderful tool, but way too much accountability for me. If I actually knew how much yarn I had, I might get stressed out too. That's right......Ignorance is bliss.
I do have my yarns sorted by weight, which is really helpful when I have a design in mind. I have bins under my bed, a stack of bins in a closet and a very cool metal basket style tower in my studio. The tower is filled with new yarns I want to try and of course, my favorites. Yes, I do favorites.
There is also that small matter of the 4 or more tub style bins that have been sealed up and relegated to storage.....for those are referred to as....He Who Must Not Be Named. There is nothing wrong with the yarn in storage, they are either an abundance of a type of yarn (like facecloth cotton and computer dyed sock yarn) or those yarns that don't currently inspire. Yarns classified as SOMEDAY YARNS.
More later on new designs, what's on the needles and travels....
Until then.....
Happy Knitting!
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