Hooray. Having sold some yarn through my flickr account (lookup Stephania116 in flickr and pick out the stash sale set), I’m down several hundred yards. I’ll have to tally it up.

How are you all holding up? I haven’t bought yarn in a week or two and I’m feeling the withdrawl already.

I should point out that no one signed up, but no matter. I’m still going to do activities and may still even have a contest at the end of the month. If you participate in them, it would be great if you sent me comments or post on your blog.

So far, there has been the idea of a weekly confessional in the Greatest Knitter diet and several sock yarn wall art projects.

Regardless of whether anyone officially signs up for the two contests, you are free to yarn diet along in January. Have a button and play.

The first couple of ‘events’ are going involve playing with your stash. I might ask you to inventory it, photograph it or weigh it. I’ll offer some ideas on selling and trading your stash and of course, I’ll be asking you to tell a story about something in your stash. Of course, I’ll be making lists of one skein quick gratification projects and I hope you’ll be sharing back. I also will give you some of my ideas about decorating with your stash! That will be too funny.

I think the more you interact with your stash, the less likely you will be to buy yarn. This is assuming you are already knitting crazed. If you do so and are not yet among the fiber obsessed, interacting with your stash could prove deadly to your wallett.

Leave me a comment here or send an email to moiraeknitting at gmail dot cahm to sign up for either of the yarn diets. Sign ups are now open and end December 26th. Diets will begin January 1st, 2007 of course!

The rules each have their own page. There will be lots of activities in January to help you stash bust and a few articles about managing and relating to your stuff. Have questions? Send me an email or leave a comment below.

What’s a stash diet without the host flashing their stash? This is not to lust over – it’s to remind me that I have good stuff.

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We can’t have a contest without a button, so I made a yummy one with digital yarn. Feel free to take it and upload it to your own hosting site. To use this button you need to right click on it save it to your desktop then upload it elsewhere. Here’s the sample code: <a href=”http://www.yarndiet2007.wordpress.com”> <img src=”your hosting site goes here” width=”110″/>. I recommend a width of 110 for the yarn diet 2007 button and 80 for the sock beach diet button.

I bought sock yarn. I’ll tell you about it when it gets here. The rules for Yarn Diet 2007 will be posted here and on Moraie Knitting on November 15, 2006. The contest will begin January 1, 2007.

Anyway, I thought I should give you a little overview now. But first I’m going to tell you what prompted this excursion. I have been keeping an excel spreadsheet of my yarn; I made it this fall and put in what I can remember about this summer and this fall. It was a little scary and the fact that it was only a 3 digit number was not consoling. Then the Girl on the Rocks‘ fake Rhinebeck contest came along and taking out my yarn made me feel guilty all over again. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the future home of Yarn Diet 2007, a contest matching the wills of self-proclaimed yarnaholics. The details for the contest will be announced Noveember 17th in the About Section of this blog.  In the mean time, feel free to check out my blog, MoraieKnitting.