That is an impressive list of projects Alison. I think the period between kids bedtime and when us knitters need to collapse in our own beds should be extended by a few hours, don't you think? Do you have a pattern in mind for your leftovers vest? I love the colours you have left over...

OK now i feel a little less guilty about my stash and my extreme lack of progress into it (and my inability to generate the list that i told kerri i would be posting also!!!)... my question is not "how you can have that many projects in your list" but "how can other people not when yarn's so pretty"???

and i too am just in love w/ some of the norske strikekdesign/poetry in stitches. my fair isle isn't up to doing a PIS yet tho; but i'm thinking of doing that norske one, it's a lots of red/stripes garter stitch cardigan that is not in one big piece working sideways...

this long of a list would only be a bad thing if you suddenly decided never to knit again and had all this yarn going to waste. and we know that's not going to happen!! :)

hello typos. i meant strikkedesign obviously. and "knit" in one piece not "not". :) i've got yarn on my brain, forgot how to spell....

and not to leave you like 1,000 comments or anything, but now i am working on my list, and you will be pleased to hear it makes yours look like short-hand. seriously. it's unbelievable. check my blog later, i'll have it at least temporarily up later today if w/o pictures/links until this weekend.

I don't know what pattern to use yet for the leftovers. I want a simple v-neck vest that either has waist shaping or that I can easily add it to. Any suggestions?

I think making that is a very useful exercise. It puts it all "out there" and helps with setting priorities. I don't think you should be horrified. It's not like you constantly start projects without finishing. You get stuff done! Question: why can't blue tweedy be the blue blog sweater?

woo woo--I was just writing up a list like this last night while waiting for dinner to cook itself...so many knitting projects and so little time. Would you be interested in doing a knitalong with a Poetry in Stitches sweater (someday)? I have quite a few (well, almost the whole book) on my wish list.

Uh, ehem, because I already have other blue yarn for the blue blog's blue sweater. ;)

[Waves hand vigorously in air] Oh oh oh!!! Knitalong! Nursery sweaters!

(Provided, of course, I knit through my horrifying list of projects. Perhaps I'll publish it on my site tomorrow, as a means to publicly shame myself into knitting through my stash before buying more yarn.)

Now I feel a little guilty about my stash and list of porjects. I have the Wips, Soon to Come and Hopelessly something on my gutter. But they don't even cover the rest of the stash that isn't dedicated to something!

For the record, I am the only SANE one among you. You all boggle the blog(gle). I'll just continue moseying along in my little country bumpkin ways . . . hear no evil, see no evil, buy no evil, knit no evil. ;)

Don't lament the size of your stash. Mine is so large that when I moved a year ago, I have somehow misplace a whole rubbermaid container filled to the brim with Adrienne Vittadini yarns...Arghhhh! Of course, I am ready to use all that cashmere and spring-gorgeous narrow tape yarns NOW. I have checked all of my usual hiding places and no luck so far.

I think you've pushed several of us to inventory. Watch my blog for my own unbelievable list later today! And don't worry, I'm pretty sure my list is at least 2x as long as yours. ;o)

i have a new theory: stash inventorying is a sub-genre of spring cleaning. as evidence, i give you the proliferation of yarn-lists burgeoning everywhere in the knitblog webring, my own included. some have been inspired by others, feeling they can 'come out of the closet' with their habit, as it were, while in many other instances it is a case of convergent evolution. we are all spontaneously and simultaneously feeling the need to list our fiber-vices for all the world to see!
VIVA LA STASH!