I said what? What was I thinking?!

Ok, when Chelle commented, I tried to pretend I never thought of the Knit from Your Stash thing from Wendy. Then, Mary jumped on and, thus, I'm hooked. After all, a gal can't brag that she won't live long enough to knit her current stash without having to put up or shut up.

Is that sentence long enough???

At any rate, I'm posting Wendy's rules first, then my own, since Wendy gives permission to do so. After all, we want this knit from the stash to be fun instead of a drudge.

Knit From Your Stash 2007: Guidelines for L-B and Wendy

1. The Knit-From-Your-Stash-a-Thon will start January 1, 2007 and run through September 30, 2007 -- a period of nine months.
2. We will not buy any yarn during that period, with the following exceptions:
2.a. Sock yarn does not count. What? You think we are made of stone?
2.b. If someone asks for a specific knitted gift that we really and truly do not have the yarn for, we may buy yarn to knit that gift.
2.c. If we are knitting something and run out of yarn, we may purchase enough to complete the project.
2.d. We each get one "Get Out of Jail Free" card -- we are each allowed to fall off the wagon one time.
3. We are allowed to receive gifts of yarn.
4. Spinning fiber of any sort is exempt.

Knit From Your Stash 2007: Laura's Version

1. The Knit-From-Your-Stash-a-Thon will start January 1, 2007 and run through December 31, 2007 -- rather like running through a swarm of wasps, really.

2. We will not buy any yarn during that period, with the following exceptions:
2.a. If someone asks for a specific knitted gift that we really and truly do not have the yarn for, and we can't talk them out of it, THEN we may buy yarn to knit that gift. No giving them the evil eye and saying they WANT a huge sweater that may not use all the yarn we need to buy.
2.b. Fiber festivals are exempt because very few of the people I know in real life go to more than one or two a year. There aren't many events in the midwest, not like on the coasts. Plus, our group does a yarn crawl to Yarn Barn once a year. THAT'S exempt. I mean, once a year for a few hours at most?
2.c. If we are knitting something and run out of yarn, we may purchase enough to complete the project. No need to be silly about it.
2.d. Birthday yarn is an exception, emphasis on birthDAY, not birthMONTH, or birthYEAR, or even birthDECADE. BirthCENTURY is right out.

3. We are allowed to receive gifts of yarn. Said gifts must not be forced from givee to us.

4. Spinning fiber of any sort is exempt, unless you have too much unspun stuff to comfortably lift in one load.

The reason why I've not made sock yarn an exception like Wendy has, is that I have enough to just knit socks for the rest of the year. She can also turn out a pair in a couple of days, while I can't. Also, she is limiting to nine months due to a fiber fest in October.

So simply put, the rules by me are:
1. ALL of 2007.
2. NO yarn UNLESS for a specific gift, it's a fiber fest, you can't finish without it, or it's your birthday.
3. Yarn gifts are allowed!
4. You can have as much unspun stuff as you can lift.

This is going to be way tough when those elann.com newsletters roll around. There's still 12 days to shop for yarn. I'm officially putting me on the yarn diet, just to see if I really won't live long enough to knit my stash. It'll be agonizing at times, but lots of fun, too.

In other, non-fibery news, all my tiles in the kitchen are off!! Woo hoo! There's only one bit of broken skin, too! I know, but really, it is cool. I owe you each 'one'. We bought a water softener system yesterday, installed today. It was nearly 10pm, I'd not had dinner, and I'm blaming the low blood sugar. Then too, the water system is great, they gave us a lot of soap, and the water is like bottled from the tap. I'd always thought filter-smilter, we don't need no stinkin' filtered water, but it is rather good. It's only been one day, so we may still live to regret this.

Speaking of dinner... I need to fix food. :)