I have had the idea for a long time (since before my teenage daughter was born, probably) to write a book about stash busting for knitters and crocheters. Not necessarily about purging yarn (though I do have a book about decluttering your craft supplies, too), but ideas for helping you figure out what’s in your stash, what patterns might work for those yarns, and techniques to use to make your yarn go farther or to use more yarn in a project.
I’m excited to share that I’ve finally done it, and Stash-Busting Strategies is now available as a free download when you subscribe for email updates on my website Our Daily Craft.
This 50 page ebook covers all the basics of stash busting, including:
- How to evaluate your stash and get it organized
- How to figure out what those odd balls are: what yarn weight and material and how much you have, no ball band required
- How to find patterns that will work with the yarn you have
After that, it’s rapid-fire ideas for ways to combine yarns so you can make the projects you want to make, or just to use more yarn so you go through your stash that much faster.
From adding stripes and other colorwork to pockets, hems, marling and more, I hope that these ideas will get you thinking about how to use your stash in ways you hadn’t considered before.
Rather than providing specific projects (since I don’t know how much of what kinds of yarn you have or what you like to knit), this is an idea book that intends to inspire you to shop your stash first and get creative. It includes plenty of examples from my own knitting life (because I’m notoriously terrible at judging how much yarn I need for a project) of things like working cuffs and necklines in a contrasting color, making a new yarn out of yarn I already have, and adding stripes to make a project the size it needs to be, just to name a few.
You can learn more about the book and sign up for updates here. I hope you’ll check it out!
