Why the yarn stash

For a long time, I've had a hard time explaining to myself and others the essential "why" of a yarn stash.

Now, I can do so easily.

This is going to be a LEAN yuletide. Money in our little family is short. Not short as in we can't pay the bills, but short as in we can't do a whole lot other than pay the bills.

Yule this year is coming off my needles, and out of my yarn stash. I'm not buying any yarn to accomplish this goal.

So that's the why of the yarn stash. A knitter/crocheter hoards its yarn. Saves it up for the rainy day that is lean and the ability to buy new shiny yarn is scarce.

That way they can keep knitting!

In other news, quite related:

I finished a present for Nick. He knows about it, cuz I knitted and felted it right under his nose on Sunday. Its an oven mit!! The coolest thing about this that it has yarn that I SPUN in it! I'm so stinky proud of myself!

And I started Bronnies Yule present. :D Things are going swimingly in the present department