So it seems I only blog when I have homework and don't want to do it. Oh well, here goes.
I recently started looking at base yarn to order for dyeing over winter break. Just a couple months ago, I figured I'd be spending winter break putting together a yarn club for the new year. I then, of course, realized that I couldn't do a yarn club this year because any club requiring me to send out a monthly package wouldn't fit in with my school schedule, and any club requiring me to send out a package every other month would mean that I'd have to be dyeing and sending out yarn as I prepare to leave.
That's when it hit me. In less than a year, I'm leaving. It's one thing when you're a freshman or sophomore and the people you occasionally hung out with leave, and it's another thing entirely when you're a junior and some of your oldest and closest friends leave (My boyfriend leaving at the beginning of this year wasn't as big a deal as I thought it would be, since he's only a half hour away, but still...), but being a senior and realizing that you're going to be leaving your home, your family, the ability to drive for five minutes to see your best friends, and the easy 30-minute wait to see your boyfriend...
What if I get to school and can't find other knitters? What if my roommate or suitemates don't understand the big piles of stash or envelopes? What if somebody sees my dyepots and decides to make pasta and then everybody gets sick and there's a lawsuit and GAHHHHH!
Anyway! What was it like when you left home? Share your stories, advice, stash space-reducing (not stash-reducing!) secrets?
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Where are you going off to school? Maybe you can start a knitting club there!
When I left for uni, I didn't actually have any stash. I didn't really pick up knitting until my second year and even now my stash is pretty small. As for reducing stash space, those vacuum bags are pretty handy.
Other than that, I loved being away from home. I got to live how I wanted to and did things according to my schedule (with due consideration to my flatmates as well).
Don't worry about not finding other knitters. Just find your closest LYS, ask when the next knit night is and just go there. That's what I've done it's worked out okay. :)
I'm either going to school in Philadelphia or NYC, so I'm sure there'll be other knitters around somewhere (since there are plenty of great yarn shops around both, especially in Philly). I'm just hoping that there'll be some on campus too!
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