Comments: Born Free

I will give away yarn if it was given to me in the first place. Unless I like it. I've given away most of the craft yarn that came to me from the mother of my daughter's then boyfriend. Somewhere there's a very stiff afghan scratching someone's face.

Posted by Larry at March 22, 2004 11:00 AM

I keep forgetting to ask what yarn you're using for "the swatch" Stephanie...

Helen

Posted by Helen in New Hampshire at March 22, 2004 11:00 AM

The swatch is being knit in mystery yarn from the thrift store. I've checked it out and I think that Rowans "Kid Silk Haze" would be similar.
Other suggestions?

Posted by Stephanie at March 22, 2004 11:31 AM

Oink,oink !

KidSilk Haze in the thrift store ?!!! Where,exactly was that ...

Posted by Emma at March 22, 2004 11:36 AM

That swatch you're knitting is gorgeous. I knit five M-D squares last week - feel this entitles me to buy more yarn for me. Maybe you want to add this to the wool-pig list? I need a pick-me-up - spring break here starts Friday (3 teenage boys).

Posted by Debbie/St. Louis at March 22, 2004 12:12 PM

OMG! Just call me a Wool Pig. I refuse to admit to just how many of those I related to....

Posted by LisaK at March 22, 2004 1:38 PM

Wool Pig: I think I qualify since I only missed one criteria. I just bought 65lbs of yarn because it was at a going out of business sale.
Winter break just started here - 1 teenage boy "at home". (The other is out of college) There's an advantage to teenagers - mine is on a school trip for the first week. This means he is on a beach in Puerto Rico and I am home with his dirty laundry, but at least he's not here bugging me for the car. LOL

Posted by terrilee at March 22, 2004 1:53 PM

Oink. The only things that save me from full-on pigginess are (a) lack of space and (b) lack of money. I am frightened by how much, within those limitations, I match that profile.

Posted by Rana at March 22, 2004 2:54 PM

Well, I buy yarn just because I love it (no projects requiring it now or in the future) and I even buy yarn I don't love. Just to have it. When the Ben Franklin went out of sale and their yarn was 99 cents a skein I filled up a shopping cart in a yarn-induced frenzy. I don't have anything I want to do with it but apparantly I'm afraid there will be a yarn shortage like the gas shortage in the 70s. However, don't think that when yarn armeggedon comes that I'm going to share it. It's mine...all mine! (oink)

Posted by Laurie at March 22, 2004 3:11 PM

hi there. love reading your blog - the "swatch" is quite marvelous. oh and what i really came to say ? Yup, I'm a Wool Pig. Most definitely.

Posted by carolyn at March 22, 2004 5:55 PM

http://theknitlette.typepad.com/the_knitlette/2004/03/and_another_but.html

i made another woolpig button for those who like 'em tiny. :)

did we ever get a woolpig count? this is fun. i like making buttons. i think everyone should have a button.

ok, must continue the sock. i actually got some cleaning done today. i hope that your day has been as wonderful as you'd hoped. and quiet. other than the oinking of woolpigs, that is.

Posted by abby at March 22, 2004 7:09 PM

First, "free at last!" Congratulations for rebuffing the lure of homicide.

Second, as I suspected, I am unqualified for Wool-Pig-Dom. sigh. I'm not worthy.

Posted by claudia at March 22, 2004 7:11 PM

(raises right hand) I, state your name, Nicole, do hereby acknowledge that I have lied about yarn possession. I am a bad, bad, bad person who is addicted to yarn. I am a wool pig. I admit it. (hangs head while trying not to giggle...)

Posted by :) Nicole at March 22, 2004 7:18 PM

OMG! I am a Wool Pig!
Just how many of those rubbermaid containers really makes you a Wool Pig?

Peace

Posted by Bonnita at March 23, 2004 12:50 AM

I am such a wool-pig! I not only buy yarn and fiber, I have 8 sheep and 2 llamas and the only way I will part with any of their fiber is to occasionally trade it for someone else's fiber. I used to sell my wool, but then realized I was taking the money and buying wool from other people, so now I keep it. It's mine, I tell you, MINE!!!

Posted by Beth at March 23, 2004 7:27 AM

Stephanie--You are all the time making me laugh.

When we started the Afghanalong, I thought to myself: excellent. I can use up all this stuff that will otherwise sit in the stash lounge sipping coffee until the end of eternity. The only problem: an eight-inch square uses about two feet of yarn. I knit as fast as I can, and the stash looks exactly the same size. It's hard to make a dent in it.

It's hard being a Wool Pig.

Thanks for spreading the word. If you feel the urge to have a Canadian sew-up party in late summer, I'm guessing we'll have plenty of squares available. We're already expecting sew-up blowouts in London, France, NY and Nashville. We'd love to have you join us!

Posted by Ann at March 23, 2004 10:37 AM

Oink - I am guilty of 7 out of the 8, plus Debbie/St. Louis' additional criteria! The afghanalong is not helping much. I want every square I make to be special, and leftover wool doesn't feel so special because I have used it before. It is hard work being a woolpig. My stash could pay for a nice vacation - but I'd probably just sit and knit wherever I went - and cruise for wool shops!

Posted by alison at March 23, 2004 11:07 AM

I have done many of the above things, so I guess that I can "oink" along with the rest of you.

However, it's not that I lie about how much I have in my yarn stash, but I don't offer to show my hubby how much yarn I have in my stash either.

wink, wink

Posted by Vera at March 23, 2004 11:14 PM

I don't lie about my stash, I just keep it in a room we don't use and never go in to, and hope Hubby doesn't ask...

*oink oink*

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