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January 5, 2006
I Do Love A Good Plan
I'm a planner. I think it goes with being anal, but there you have it. So, Caitlyn and I have come up with a plan to further our fiber obsession. We both want to learn to spin and we both want to purchase spinning wheels. In recognition of this goal we've decided that since we both have plenty of yarn and projects designated for the stash yarn, we aren't going to buy any more yarn until we've each saved enough money to buy our spinning wheels of choice. I know. It's a bit shocking and I had to sit down when I first hatched this scheme, but the queasiness gets better after a few minutes.
I think I can save enough money by not buying yarn (and saving a little extra too) to have a spinning wheel by late spring (late spring for you all, actual spring for me - like April). I have no crazy thoughts in my little head that this saving plan will be easy, but with some moral support from my co-conspirator I think it can be done. It's good to have a plan and a goal (a cohort doesn't hurt things either) and if you hear me talking about a new project that requires a yarn purchase, I'd really appreciate it if you could remind me of this plan because I have no doubt such occasion will arise. Because let us not forget the fundamental fact that I am weak when it comes to yarn.
Comments
I am SO glad that we are in this together!!! We can do it, we can do it!
Posted by: caitlyn at January 5, 2006 9:35 AM
Sounds like a great plan. You can totally do it - you've got Butterfly to do, and I have faith that you can take care of other project dalliances with stash yarn for the next few months. It will be well worth it, then just think, you can spend some of your yarn allowance on fiber, which you can spin to MAKE MORE YARN - it is a really beautiful system, when you think about it.
Posted by: PumpkinMama at January 5, 2006 9:50 AM
way to go!! i would like to see it come through. more spinners in the blogland.
Posted by: blossom at January 5, 2006 10:10 AM
You had better stop reading blogs because this is a land made up of the finest enablers around. Good luck, it's a worthy goal.
Posted by: margene at January 5, 2006 10:13 AM
I love a good plan as well, so I am completely supportive of this plan. Let me know if you need me to send you harrassing emails about not buying any yarn. :)
Posted by: Purly Whites at January 5, 2006 10:37 AM
Oh, you can SO count on me to keep you on the path to being owned by a spinning wheel! Understand, however, it's a "do as I say, not as I do" situation! (Hey, this is how I gathered the funds to go to SOAR....I kept adding money every week to a jar on the shelf in my kitchen, although I don't recall it involving not buying yarn. Just saying.)
Posted by: Marcia at January 5, 2006 10:37 AM
Be strong! It is for a worthy cause!
You are very brave by the way :P
Posted by: emily at January 5, 2006 10:41 AM
I hereby solemnly swear to help you enforce "the plan."
Posted by: grumperina at January 5, 2006 10:42 AM
What a great plan. I'm trying to figure out a way to convince my husband for every pound I lose I get $5 towards the purchase of a wheel. Of course to buy the one wheel I was looking at I"d have to lose 75 pounds. It's doable, but it might be fall before I get my wheel, or 2010.
Posted by: Rebekah at January 5, 2006 11:00 AM
But sock yarn doesn't count, right? ;)
Posted by: Angela at January 5, 2006 1:12 PM
You'll then be joining us for the Estes Park Wool Market, yes?? Sounds like a good and doable goal, best of luck!
Posted by: Kristi at January 5, 2006 2:55 PM
Oh boy spinning! I really do not want to start another hobby but I am very supportive of you doing it. Unfortunately I have a slight feeling it might give me that little push to go ahead and start - yikes! And being the enabler I am I will do my best to help you not buy more yarn but if you really want to . . .
Posted by: Stephanie at January 5, 2006 7:28 PM
Hmmm... I could donate to the efforts in exchange for some of your yummy yarns. Interesting....
I can't believe you have the willpower to not buy yarn. I know I couldn't do it and I don't knit nearly as much as you do!
Posted by: Jenn at January 5, 2006 8:02 PM
This sounds like a great plan! I promise to try to steer you away from any yarn-intensive project ideas.
Posted by: Diana at January 6, 2006 6:51 AM
i am fully supportive of this plan...although personally i think spinning is akin to one of the dark arts. however, if you are going to go over to the other side - at least you can go with a strategy in mind.
Posted by: jacqueline at January 7, 2006 2:10 AM
