A Mile in My Shoes

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.
That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

-Jack Handey

That was easy. This whole Knit-A-Mile challenge over at A Loose Knit Group. Done. Nearly a month early.

Usually I track my yardage by project completed, rather than by keeping a running tally of what I've been knitting, but this challenge inspired me to take a look at the skein-by-skein count, including what I've knit on Salt Lake City so far. (It still does not actually get erased from my stash until the project is complete.)

By the way, I got a phone call from my dad the other day telling me that my OCD tendencies are really coming out in my yarn stash spreadsheet. Hmmm . . .

Anyway, turns out that a mile is only 1760 yards. And this all adds up:

• Target Wave Mittens - 190 yards
• Very Cabley Mittens - 190y
• Salt Lake City in progress - 4 skeins @109y = 431y
• Manos Four Seasons Throw in progress - 5 skeins #138y = 690y
• Wacky Selbu Mittens - 2 skeins @ 110y + 1/2 @ 210y = 325y
• That's 1826 yards (over a mile) and doesn't count some stealth projects in progress that I didn't bother to count

This is overall, good news for the stash, although a few skeins of sport weight are accompanying my copy of Selbuvotter, which is finally on its way to me. January is just a great month for mittens, isn't it?