It will be no surprise to my regular readers that my pledge to craft from my stash for 2007 went tits up at least a couple of months ago, so I have absolutely no guilt about showing you my new yarn :-)

Firstly, because it's the most important, some handspun!

I spun this from stash roving so it wouldn't have counted as a purchase anyway :-P

It's 168 grams of 2 ply, 12 ply weight corriedale and it's so soft and bouncy that I love it. There's also a huge amount of yardage so it will make a nice watch cap for someone.

Yesterday we went to Reverse Garbage in Marrickville and I picked up some fabric (also sending the stash challenge boobs skyward), and I found some cool vintage yarns at the Bower, which is another shop in the amazingly cool Addison Road Community Centre.

Two one ounce balls of Patonyle in a lovely light orange

One ounce of another unnamed sock yarn in a cool vintage brown

and

50 grams of Villawool Tivoli in pink. Cotton/Viscose/Linen mix.

I'm thinking the orange and brown should be stripy fingerless mitts for me and the pink maybe doll clothes for a rag doll I want to knit. Either that or an accent yarn for a hat.

I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to craft only from stash materials when you buy 99.9 percent of your supplies from recycling centres, bric-a-brac stores, op shops and garage sales. I mean, if you don;t buy it right away then it's gone and you'll probably never see it again, right? So I'm not going to bother trying any more. Besides, I found a really cool quill patchwork technique in one of the Weldon's reprint books that will make an amazing cushion front. It uses a lot of fabric so that will put paid to a sizable chunk of the fabric oddment stash!