Wool/yarn addiction

[Purlywhites]

I haven't been knitting long but I LOVe knitting flowers and crafty bits.
I can't stop buying wool (£1-2 here and there) I spend around £20-30 per month.
My new found hobby is taking over!
Is anyone else a compulsive wool purchaser? No one warned me buying wool would become an obsession!

I have a biiig carrier bag full of fleece in the cupboard - I go to a felt making group once a month, and that is yet another opportunity to buy supplies!

As MoaningMinge said, I have no idea what you are all talking about.

I have a lot of naice sock yarn. Most of it far too nice for feet.

I so did not tell you about Kemps, WhingingMinge. Never bought from there in my life, oh no no no....

and even if I did, it's only because I learnt about it on MN.

Just placed bids on 3 balls of bamboo . If I win them for 64p I won't feel guilty.
I hope to knit bunches of flowers for grandmothers so it will all get used.
The colours are so lovely and the yarn is quite fine.

Why can't I control it?

Thanks everyone I will feed my obsession have a look later :o

ouryve what is this Wonderwool Wales that you speak of? Tell me more?

MoaningMingeWhingesAgain which one did you buy from Posh Yarns? There were a couple that caught my eye last week and I forgot to look on Sunday and then they were gone.

Wonderwool is today, Parker, a bus full of my friends went to it. They couldn't understand why I didn't want to drive an hour to meet up with the bus (leaving 7.30am), travel all the way to Builth Wells, then wander round a freezing cold showground all day. (Went there for the smallholder show, never again!).

I've just looked it up, DH very helpfully said 'Oh I read about that a while back - if you'd said you were interested we could have gone'

Oh god, our house is bulging under the weight of my yarn stash too

My purchasing speed far exceeds my crocheting speed, it's an addiction.

I think I need to add it to my Will, pass it on to someone who will appreciate it. I'm not sure my dses really get it. I'll have to hope I acquire a similarly minded daughter or son in law

It was this weekend, but it's an annual event, like woolfest
www.wonderwoolwales.co.uk/

I'm an absolute fucker for hoarding wool! My DM comes round occasionaly and steals confiscates it. She says it stops my house getting to cluttered , she's helpful like that.

I've got a a thing for self patterning wool so if I see that a must have it.

You bad, bad people, putting ideas in my head.

I have had a few from Posh Yarn. Pamela sock, with sparkles, Catherine heavy lace (3ply) and Diana Heavy Lace 3 ply.

And Bonnie DK. And another DK I forgot the name of.

Hardly any really

Just a few bits hardly worth mentioning then.

I had my eye on a lace yarn called Dragonfly last week but I forgot to go back when the shop was live

A lovely lady has just opened up a yarn shop in my town. She stocks the entire rainbow of Stylecraft and lots and lots of other lovely yarns, plus she has a huge squashy sofa where customers can sit and browse in comfort.

I would be doing both the local economy and her entrepreneurial spirit a disservice by not shopping there at least once a week wouldn't I?

My mum gets me to buy for her too, now as she isn't very mobile and can't get to her not-so-local yarn shop now. I have to post it, so I keep the Royal Mail going too.

My guilty secret is lovely lovely hand dyed yarn from Wharfedale Woolworks

I have loads of it, all waiting to be knitted into something...

And sock yarn, I can't not buy it. It's a sickness.

But I can't walk past any yarn shop without buying something event though I have a reputation for starting something and never finishing it

Your loved ones need to be more assertive, DAISY. Ds drew a picture of me knitting him the jumper I'd promised him in my birthday card this year, as a not-too-subtle hint to get the on with it.

There's still some Posh Yarn left from tonight's update I see sorry

poshyarn.co.uk/shop

That Wharfdale Woolworks looks lovely, I think I've seen that linked from Ravelry before?

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I too am a yarnoholic, but sine my mother is one too, I have the benefit of seeing how bad things can get, which has a sobering effect, so at the moment I am trying to reduce my stocks, and not doing too badly. I have instigated a rule that I cannot buy yarn without having some idea of what I am going to use it for.

Sometimes I do fall off the wagon, though.

Spot on, TheNinjaGoose! This is why I buy my yarn online.

But how do you get this cheap wonderful chinese yearn, Purlywhites? have never used ebay before, but am starting to realise this could get dangerous.

There are sellers called wiseseller, kool-diy and someone else. It's natural fibres in lots of different pastels and bright colours. The balls are quite small and fine, but lovely. I just won the bid for a dark rose colour for 89p. Free postage too. (Also got 6 other colours for my flowers).