The Great Wool Sort of 2006

Obviously, this blog post should be about the things I bought at Alexandra Palace. But it isn't. This post is really about the wool already had.

(For those interested, if you count the scrumble pack from Taj yarns as containing four balls of wool, I bought 21 balls in total.)

I've been tracking how much I bought over the last year and how much I used/gave away, and they come out roughly equal. However, that still left me with the problem of knowing what I had. Or more importantly whether I ever had enough of any one type to make the things I want to make.

Which led to the Great Wool Sort of 2006.
It was a simple process. I sorted the yarn in the big blue box into categories (usually brand/type, occasionally yarn-type), and wrote the number of different balls of each colour onto bits of paper.

One conclusion was inevitable.

I have rather a lot of yarn.

I won't say how much, but it is a number of jumpers-worth.

Actually having enough for several jumpers doesn't bother me, it is all the odd balls, like the ones in the picture. I bought them when I was thinking about knitting some Kaffe-Fassett style jumpers. On the other hand, imagine if I'd bought enough for a jumper each time I bought a single ball...