Craft shopping addiction

[JollyScaryGiant]

Hello. My name is Jolly. I am addicted to buying yarn. I have no more money or space but still went into a charity shop today and asked if they had any wool. Then spent £4.50 on it. 1kg of yarn I have no use for.

I rregularly go on wool websites and fill my trolley. Sometimes I checkout. Sometimes I don't.

I think about crochet a lot.

I clearly have a problem.

The Ravelry group is called 'mumsnet yarn club'. Think you can just click the button to join.

Welcome fizz and Poppet - love the 'mothership' comment...that exactly what it is .

Pig - what yarn have you 'won'? I am seriously considering lifting some of the floorboards and stashing some of my yarn under there (in those huge plastic bags that you can suck the air out of with the hoover

It's nice soft mohairy type in white. Not sure what I'll do with it, I've no project in mind, so it'll just have to happily join the stash
Floorboards are out for me as I'm renting. I'm thinking of renting some storage space!
Don't put wool into those vacuum bags, my mum put some hand knit jumpers in one and they imprinted their patterns on each other...very weird, and she is anal about her woolly jumpers!

That's weird with the plastic 'bag' thingies. I don't use them but thought they might be a storage idea. Maybe the plastic leaches something???

The yarn sounds lovely. Sadly mohair doesn't like me and makes me itch. Anyway, you have done a good thing and given some wool a home .

I may have accidentally ordered a lot of some Sirdar Click chunky from Kemps Wool Shop. I find it makes lovely hats even though you an only wear one at a time.

And my silk yarn has dispatched from India [excited]

Oh dear. I spotted this thread and thought 'fab, support for my debilitating addiction'. I've only read a few posts but have discovered that you can by wool on eBay and in charity shops, and that there are people so much worse than me "so I can't be that bad, might as well carry on buying".

Have requested to join the fb group as this thread seems to have died and I need somewhere to go for ideas support

Well, it depends on your definition of support I guess...

Sorry for the enabling folks, but...

I saw on FB that Eden Cottage Yarn is about to put their prices up. They do lovely hand dyed BFL and dk/sock yarns. You may want to order some now before they get more expensive. I have used the Bowland DK and it is lush (my saroyan on Ravelry is made from it)

As you were.

My order from Jamieson's arrived ... woo-hoo . Lots of lovely shetland yarn.

Am jealous of your silk soup. Please show a picture of what you make with it (on FB page?) as I've often looked at it and been tempted (when am I not tempted by pretty much anything that I can knit ?)

vjh - I cannot describe the speed with which this thread lured all the yarn enablers from the shadows . You will get lots and lots of support for your yarn buying ability and we will ooh and ahh over all pictures of stashes and WIPs but do not look for any of us to help you with your own addiction ... we are knee deep in feeding our own habit . Come on over to FB and there is a slower moving Ravelry group (mumsnet yarn club) ... give in to the voices in your head ....

Btw: Loop has 44% off some shades of Tvinni (Isager yarn) at the moment. Following links to sale page:

www.loopknittingshop.com/category/187/SALE_YARNS

I'm not in the FB group but I will post a picture somewhere in 15 years time when I've made something :)

I was tempted by all the colours they had available but thought I'd try one lot first as it's free shipping.

soup, do you not want to join the FB group? I resisted FB for years but this has been a revelation for me.

Soup, why don't you set up a fb profile that's your mn name? Keep confidentiality and all that but still be enabled!
I did not buy more yarn and a cross stitch set today, oh no, no siree bob!

Because I can't be arsed! :o

That's as good a reason as any soup . Love your name, btw.

I have a different MN name for yarn-y stuff. :)

My rather large parcel from Kemps arrived today. Less than 24 hours from my order!

Fell into a wool shop by accident today. Came home with some rialto 4ply and some West Yorkshire Spinners BFL.

Don't you just hate it when that happens?

yep I'll be booking counselling

Button Porn.

There. I've admitted it. I have a lot of buttons. An awful lot of buttons. In fact, I just found two more tins I forgot I had (and what a happy hour I had sorting them out a bit).

And on Pinterest there are lots and lots of button-y, yarn-y,craft-y pictures. I won't live long enough to use it all up! But what a lovely inheritance for my DD!

I am a yarn addict.
It's getting to the point now where I have to hide my stash from my partner, because I know he will do his nut.
It is actually becoming a problem because I feel the post purchase guilt every time, yet can't stop!

Rogue my eyes are watering after seeing the prices in that link. Even after the discounts.

I have to hide my stash from my partner

One benefit of being a lone parent :o

Purlesque, you could be me . My DH does not know the extent of my stash and I work hard to keep it that way .

I know what you mean about Loop. I love their shop - it's gorgeous and lovely and the yarns are beautiful. The prices make my breathe catch though. I have bought from them and have spent a small fortune but have to rein it in at the moment . I get their emails though, which never fail to entice...so much temptation .

I am lucky that DP has a hobby which takes up even more space than mine and requires even more bits. But I still sneak stuff in when he's not looking.

He has a room in the basement (the ManCave) for his hobby and I have a lovely light and airy room for mine, which doubles as a spare room.

Sometimes I just go in there and look at my lovely yarn/fabric/felt/habadashery stashes