Or is there such thing as too much yarn!?

Before I retired I always enjoyed a trip to my favorite LYS. I’m grateful the owner didn’t retire before I did.

A trip to “Uniquities” was rarely a quick trip. First I had to scan the scene to see if there was new yarn. Silly me. If course there would be new yarn!!

Sometimes a skein would literally call out to me before I could even get my coat off.

There it would be….. like an eight year who knows the answer, her hand waving wildly in the air. Her non-waving hand is pushed against her desk giving more height to the waving arm. “Oh, oh, oh!” she squeals, obviously close to exploding. She realizes she’s said those words aloud and stops waving so she can clasp that hand over her errant mouth. You want to ignore her. Rewarding behavior that would have had the whole room in chaos isn’t in your lesson plan. But it’s too late. She has your full attention!

You calmly walk over to the skein of yarn that called out to you when you walked in the door and you make the mistake of touching it.

It’s over and you know it. You need it. Some would say, No, you don’t need it, you just want it. Nope. This is a need. Like water for a dehydrated hiker, you need that yarn.

And that’s how it happens. If you’ve actually had enough therapy to resist the yarn’s call, you might be blessed with a friend who not only has money burning a hole in her pocket, but has a too generous heart. “Don’t you need it?” she asks in a voice nobody could resist. But those hours of therapy haven’t been for nought. “Nope,” you say with firm resolve. “I definitely do not need it.”

Out of the corner of your eye you see her putting the yarn in her basket. You know shes going to get it for you, something even Freud and Jung couldn’t have given you the tools to resist.

Now you have the answer to the age old question. There is no such thing as too much yarn!