a simple yarn

Note: The following is another non-holiday-season-diversional post to sidetrack the extended family from my Christmas work.

So Daughter-Kate has gone through another phase of knitting. Eyelash yarn has that effect on her. First it was a pink-purple-red-eyelash-scarf-that-was-too-wide, and so we gave it away as one of the squares for the Knitted Picnic blanket for charity. Next it was a green-red-triangle-which-became-a-watermelon-slice also given as food for the Knitted Picnic.

Right, observant readers will notice that I have this habit of giving away the things my daughter knits….

Feeling a tad guilty about that, I gave her some Twilley’s Freedom Wool in a nice red-purple-orange combination. She knit up a very cool scarf for herself…that I resisted giving away for Christmas! She was understandably pleased enough with her work that she began a scarf for her bear, Elizabeth, who has been a constant companion of late.

Elizabeth, modeling Kate’s scarf
So, the question becomes, is it considered ‘hoarding’ to have a yarn stash that a) most probably has more stock than the local yarn shop and b) is large enough that your child can go shopping for project supplies without leaving the house? When I see her working away at it, I’d have to say it’s well worth it.