{"id":234,"date":"2004-11-07T20:34:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T10:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=234"},"modified":"2004-11-07T20:34:42","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T10:34:42","slug":"jill-posted-the-other-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Jill posted the other day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jill<\/a> posted the other day about blaming the Internet for her stash woes.
\nI agree 100%. I never even had a stash before I started looking at knitting sites on the internet. And whilst I’ve always been a knitter, the availability of yarn, patterns, magazines and the like in Australia has always been limited. So I would knit something every once in a while when the mood took me, or when the craft store actually got in a pattern I liked.
\nThen I discovered knitting on the ‘net. I have projects planned for years to come. I have unallocated yarn stuffed into nooks and crannies over the whole house. Without actually checking the stash, I believe I have sock yarn for around 20 pairs of socks, 5 sweaters for me, 3 summer tops for me, 3 sweaters for Em, 2 ponchos, a sweater for DH, several scarves, and god only knows what else.
\nDoes this stop me?
\nGood God, no!
\nElann<\/a> is tempting me with the Highland wool. I have the pattern for Rogue. I’ve had the pattern for some time. I don’t have the yarn yet. I adore the Violet Heather, the Brook Blue,the Wisteria and the Lotus Blossom. I put the yarn in the cart, I take it out. I repeat this several times a day. I check to make sure they haven’t sold out of the colours I want. I keep going back.
\nI can’t afford more yarn. I don’t need more yarn. I certainly don’t need any more projects. I have some Jo Sharp Silkroad in a very similar colour to the Violet Heather, so I shouldn’t buy it. But that still leaves the other colours.
\nWe’re coming into summer here, and thats another good reason not to buy it.
\nSo I should<\/i> leave it.
\nShouldn’t I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jill posted the other day about blaming the Internet for her stash woes. I agree 100%. I never even had a stash before I started looking at knitting sites on the internet. And whilst I’ve always been a knitter, the availability of yarn, patterns, magazines and the like in Australia has always been limited. So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}