Too Much Yarn? (a peak at my yarn stash)

UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 5, 2007: THE RESULTS ARE IN - AND THE CONTEST IS OVER - THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO GUESSED! :)

I was thinking last night... do I have too much yarn? Driving home, I was trying to recall where all my yarn is... and the truth is that it's all over the house - under the bed, in closets, in drawers, in bags stored in the garage.... everywhere! Really, I was wanting to buy yarn for another sweater (another sweater? I have 5 sweaters in progress right now... one that's almost done, two that are gettin' close, and two that have a ways to go) not to mention the 7 (yes, 7) sweaters in queue waiting to be started - I don't know for sure that these all have patterns, but I do know that they're "sweater quantities" of yarn... I think there's 2 of these that are waiting for a pattern... here's (most of) the sweater stash:

It's right next to my EEG machine - one of the original prototypes designed by a doctor in Pasadena, CA - it was in his office after he passed away, and the family allowed me to go through to get anything I wanted out of the house - this is my favorite thing - it's super interesting - although I'd NEVER plug it in (I think I actually cut the plug off) and I have no idea how it works - all I know is that it was used to measure brainwave activity, and that the cabinet is a beautiful wood and I love it.

On to more yarn....

In the garage, I have some huge tubs full of yarn sale grabbings - these are not organized, but I do notice another sweater in here... a tiny baby sweater that's fair isle and going to be made out of teensy yarn - that one is ready to go, but the yarn (drops alpaca) that I was buying took so long to aquire because of its cost that the baby is too big to knit it for now... it's going to take a long time... and I'm not wanting to tackle that one right now...

In the garage... 2 more garbage bags FULL of yarn - some of this has been divided by type of project - but most of it is just piled together - and that's Dakota - she's wondering what I'm up to - flopping yarn bags all over the place, snapping photos.

Another bin full of yarn - waiting for assignments. Maybe this weekend I'll work on getting my yarn in order - wouldn't that be nice! :) I have to get organized so that I slow down on the purchases and figure out what I'm going to do with what I have!

This is my Noro stash - it's for my mitered blanket - this bin is stuffed 2 skeins high - lots of yarn but at least it's spoken for!

This is a collection of neutral yarns (hiding in the close) for a blanket possibly. I haven't figured it out - there's lots of yarn I love in here - some stuff from Ozark Handspun (yummy) - and the dog and cat fur yarn that vipfibers made for me - oh! AND the first try handspun stuff I made when I tried spinning a few weeks ago. Part of me thinks this will become some sort of freeform blanket, but I am not starting anything with it until I at least finish mom's freeform shawl -

THEN, there's the big drawers of yarn sorted (sort of) by color- the top drawer has a number of skeins (I think 6?) of the sari yarn - made from bits of cloth or fiber that are leftovers from the sari making business... beautiful - but no project planned... another drawer of oranges, browns, etc., and the bottom drawer of whites/creams...
the OTHER big 3 drawer thingy - with creams/oranges,/reds in all three drawers -
This is really work in progress yarn - the blue color is for a cabled sweater I'm working on, the green is for my "first" sweater (that I'm killing myself to finish; I have the first sleeve ALMOST completed, and need to do sleeve #2 then get it assembled) - the grey is leftover from a funky shape blanket I made - saving it so that if I want to *fix* it someday, there's yarn here to do it...

yarn for my master knitting program (in the white bag) and my newly aquired lambs pride that I got to make a million of the little bullion circle crochet things we learned to make in freeform class - a tiny (wacko) part of me thinks a blanket of these (thousands of them) would be cool... (yeah, that'll happen!)
oh look... more yarn - orphan skeins from the abandoned circle scarf project - it needs to be put somewhere, or reassigned - man - I do need to get my knitting stuff organized!
junk in my travel case - most of this is from freeform knitting class - it needs to get back in the big tub of purple/blue/pink/cream yarn that I'm pulling for that shawl...
these are just samples from woolmeise - I have yet to order any actual yarn from her - it's SO beautiful though - even the samples make me smile!

this is the big bin of green yarn that I had at one point planned to make a blanket out of... I have so many random collections of yarn.... it's scary.

here's the tan/brown/rust/etc. under bed bin of yarn - and the blue/green bin... oh and my foot. :)
here's another blue/teal/green bin and the previously mentioned bin of pink/purple/cream/etc. yarns...

I am thinking of getting a friend to help me organize this during the weekend -since we have Labor Day and there's 3 days, it might be nice to organize my yarn, get it organized (along with needles, etc.) so I have a good grip on what I have and what I might want and need.... I can also be generous and get rid of (donate) yarns that I will never use...

so I ask you... should I be out buying yarn? is this too much for a "stash"? do I have a problem or is your stash bigger? - I know that a LOT of my stash came from Bishops when they were closing - and lots of it was too good to be true acquisitions, but there's thousands of dollars worth of yarn piled in my house -

Take A Guess - How Much Yarn Does Kyle Have?

How many balls of yarn do I have - put your guess in the comments - and the person who gets the closest to the actual number (or the number we arrive at after the re-organization effort) will win a fun (most likely yarn based) prize! I have tons of goodies to give out and love sending packages - I know having your number in the comments is not very "secret" and everyone else will be able to see, but since it's SOOOO random, (and since even I have no idea how much yarn I have) I think it's still fair! I should have the results next week. Good Luck!

aah the plans of a yarn whore! :) Happy knitting everyone! -