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Is it possible to have too much yarn?
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- Yarn addiction, hoarding, self-fulfillment: are these positive or negative? What happens when supplies for a hobby (like knitting or crochet) become too overwhelming and get in the way of the hobby itself? These are all things I'm digging into in today's video. Brace yourself because you're about to find out how I really feel, and what yarn minimalism means to me.
I'd love to hear from you about how you feel after watching this. Leave me a comment or send me an IG DM!
0:00 - 0:29 - Overview
0:29 - 3:03 - My history with yarn
3:03 - 4:07 - Yarn addiction
4:07 - 4:57 - Hoarding
4:57 - 5:26 - The happiness myth
5:26 - 7:05 - My yarn story, continued
7:05 - 9:52 - Destashing solutions
Yes, I went through a similar problem with too much yarn. It helped to be honest with which yarns I loved and donating the rest to a charity shop. I still had 150 skeins! So I am working through them and resisting buying more. My goal is to only have 50 skeins on hand.
When I finish a sweater or large project, I immediately donate the extra skeins instead of saving them. And I am using some of my single or double skeins to make items for 'Knots of Love', a wonderful charity that collects NICU blankets, chemo hats, PICU line covers and crutch covers for Veterans. They have a list of approved acrylic yarns (as items need to be machine wash and dryable as well as soft) and free patterns.
Good luck to all destashers!
Awesome! That sounds like a great game plan as well as a worthwhile cause.
Watching this as I prepare my own video addressing the yarn addiction and hoarding that I see being encouraged in crochet groups, online, and in other CZcamsr videos where they have entire rooms positively stuffed with it. I'm also going to be talking about how it's also encouraged to hide yarn purchases from their significant other, as if their opinion should never matter.
Yes that's a good point! I feel so gross when I see anyone taking about how to lie to spouses about actions. A hallmark trait of addiction.
@@BeccaJNorman I really despise how addiction has been normalized in our society. Almost as if you're not human unless you have one. I also hate how OCD is used as an adjective or rather than in its proper place, especially as somebody who has clinical OCD.
@@skeinofadifferentcolor2090 💯
Thank you for addressing this. I've been thinking a lot about this lately. It's so uncomfy how the people who feel a little weird about their own yarn buying habits turn to the community to see if their situation is normal and get told that they're fine in very hyperbolic terms. People who might have benefited from more nuanced language hear "you can never have too much yarn!" & "nothing wrong with being a yarn addict." It would be cool to hear a change in how we talk about that as a fiber arts community.
I'm trying to help change that conversation!
Thanks Becca for addressing this, it IS a serious thing, and some words get thrown around like nothing, hoarding, depression, "being ocd" to name a few, are serious issues yet they have become common expressions used just like that...I myself am battling with hoarding issues and still struggle to call myself that way, as I would rather just call it clutter, but I really have an issue with letting go of stuff, in spite of all the books and courses I keep reading and taking to help myself (and therapy) and I also go through phases of acquiring, after long months of being really aware, it feels like I am never really "safe" with the binge buying tendencies...One of the things that make it hard, when you were referring to "toxic positivity" is that there is a huge denial around hoarding, and the culture we live in does not help. I have been back at buying yarn because I got back to knitting after many years, and it is really helping me, so I started watching podcasts, vlogs, etc. and in spite of knowing better - I am not denying my issue but owning it even if I still cannot find the whatever it takes to really overcome it - I got sucked in to all the pretty yarns, all the knits I want to make, all the sales....yet I really enjoy watching other knits, I learn from it and get a sense of sharing a passion that I do not have in my real life...so it is hard...I know it is my responsibility to be able to watch others buy and knit without going on a yarn spree, but I just wanted to outline that there is so much consumption going on all around, it may just seem "normal" and one can loose track..long message thanks for the food for thought and wake up call... still trying to find real help with this 🙏
Thank you so much for opening up about your personal struggles. I'm sorry that it's been so hard. I do hope that a a culture, we can open our eyes to your and stop treating it like a joke, and that knitting can become that real life passion for you without pulling you down. Keep working. You can do it. 💓
@@BeccaJNorman 🙏
Wow n congrats on your yarn diet. That’s amazing! I have way more than I can use. I’m going to look into that’s place ur subscriber spoke of for donations.
Good luck! I know it can be stressful to dig in, but it feels so good once you've pared down.
Been there, done that. Now I have to figure out where to donate excess yarn, knitting needles, etc.
You can do it. 😊
Yarn collection is better then drinking & drugs
Yes that's true but also doesn't mean that it can't be problematic.
Can totally relate. We should start a yarn swap of some sort.
Ha, not a bad idea.
@@BeccaJNorman I'm in if someone wants to start it.
It me. Lol
Hahaha!! *runs to delete my last comment on your other video about purging your stash*
Lol!
Guilty... 🤦🤦🤦
How do you feel after watching this?
I think the worst comments I’ve seen are those trying to justify purchasing yarn as a “hobby”. How is overindulgence in yarn which clutters your home a hobby? It requires no skill whatsoever. Also this militant belief that your husband (usually other women addressing married women who bought too much yarn) has no say on what you bring into the household and that if he’s annoyed then he’s abusive. A lot of people out there are trying to ruin relationships.
Yarn hoarding is serious and shouldn’t be encouraged. This stuff is literally a fire hazard or encouraging pests/ causing obstructions in your home and draining your money
100% taking your household into debt hurts everyone.