Midterm grades were due yesterday so I plowed through the pain and got all caught up with my grading so I could post progress reports for all my classes.  As a result, I am taking a “sloth day”! Three thirty in the afternoon and I am still in my bathrobe and pajamas (I did brush my teeth, however).

While visiting the Shenandoah Fiber Festival last month my friend Janelle (TT 820) and I started hatching plans to use up the “stash” yarn we have hibernating.  Mine is stored in large plastic tubs in the basement and I am a little ashamed to admit that I don’t frequently look at what I have.  I have seriously curtailed buying more yarn in recent years, but my stash hasn’t shrunk much.

So we decided to create some projects, pairing stashed yarn with patterns, hide them away in paper bags (so we can’t see what is inside), and work on them during the following year.

Here we have a photo of 10 project piles and next we have a photo of 10 paper bags filled with said projects:

I even made my poor husband do the sorting and stapling…I really don’t want to know which project I’ll pick when I get around to needing a new one.  Kinda like Christmas every other month or so!