Addiction

Now, now, don't get excited. I'm not taking about anything crazy here. Well, it might be crazy to some people, but not to me. I have come to realize that I have a serious addiction to anything and everything related to crochet and knitting. I have an addiction to yarn - I used to never leave a store that carried yarn without some sort of a purchase. This means I have a very large stash - it currently takes up a large portion of my walk-in closet, some of the spare room and a nice corner of the family room. Now, the stores I have typically frequented don't carry the 'higher end' yarn (yep, there's high end yarn), so most of my stash is of the affordable type. I have recently discovered (thanks to Ravelry) online shopping resources. Now I can't stop myself from thinking of ways to use up the old stash to make room for even more 'higher end' yarn. There are 2 projects in particular that will take a fair bit of expensive yarn and I can't wait to get started on them. I'm doing a good job of making a dent in the stash this week - I have completed one stuffed toy for my son, I will have another one shortly and I have even discovered a project that will use up yarn leftover from a project I did years ago - so yay for me.

Alas the addiction does not end with yarn itself....I also must surround myself with pattern books. I have more patterns than I could possibly make in a lifetime, but if I see a pattern I *think* I will make some day I can't stop myself from buying it. So bad is this portion of my addiction that upon sorting through my patterns at a later time I often discover I have purchased duplicates....whoops.

Then there is the last part of my addiction - the creation portion. I love making things (especially for other people, and even moreso if those people are children) and so I always have a project....er....a project or 2.....ok, ok, fine....I have so many projects on the go I can't remember what all of them are. Oh well.....I sense this addiction is only going to get worse as I get older.