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The wonderful @Virelai sent me some #franket supplies and I LOVE THESE! They are also way too pretty for that magnificently ugly thing. #knitting Thank you, Laura!
@Julia@Virelai A wise woman of my acquaintance talks about not "being anorexic" with her beautiful supplies - she noticed she ended up doing the same thing with her prettiest beads as with her self-nourishment: holding back for something "really worth it."
@Julia@Virelai oooh, sympathies. As soon as my friend mentioned it to me, I could see how I employed, albeit in a rather less intense way, the very damn, same pattern.
Maybe that's why my stash gets so unmanageably large? Hmmm.
@OldBrushNewPaper It's ridiculous how much beautiful yarn I have and instead of using that I'm LITERALLY MAKING THE UGLIEST SCRAP BLANKET I CAN! I have to think about my choices. Especially my choice to read #DoubleDaddies instead of a good book. Something is wrong in my brain.
@OldBrushNewPaper@Julia I recognized this at some point, that I was saving the nice yarn... I try to avoid that now but unfortunately I oftentimes buy single beautiful skeins and then need to pair them for a shawl etc. But I'm very picky with color combos so I end up buying new... Meh.
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@OldBrushNewPaper @Virelai 😱 I do that with everything! I don't even read the books I REALLY want to read and "save" them for some other time.