Fluffy, Fabric-y Free for all!

There are yarn geeks, fabric geeks, and glue geeks - yea, verily, I have discovered a whole new world.

I had mostly stopped being crafty while in grad school. Then a friend announced a small sprog would henceforth appear, and oy, silly me. First thought I had was “let’s make something for her!”

I’ve visited the Big Chain Store of All Things Craft several times now. I have rediscovered a group of people who have a fandom of wool, cotton and acrylic. And I have been sucked in. Every time I think of Just One More Thing I Could Make Real Quick(tm), I go — and I have not just one skein of soft purple velvet spun, I have 4 oz of baby boucle, and oh my, that would make a nice vest for friend K for Christmas, and look a sale on fun fur! I could make something from fun fur! And decoupage - I did that once! And look, how neat that quilt is turning out! and all the ladies knitting - wow, I should learn to knit! And ZOMG I didn’t know you could do that with cardboard and paint! At which point I have to force myself to run, not walk, toward checkout, lest the next hobby sink its cold fangs into me.

And then when I finish a project, I have leftover yarn. Then it’s “OH if I had just a little more of it I could make — ” and another skein goes on the shopping list, which will no doubt be accompanied by a dozen other colors that just JUMPED INTO MY BASKET HONEST and now I have to make another afghan for someone Christmas-is-coming-soon!

This is how it starts. And soon, whenever someone opens the hall closet, there will be a cry of “oh!” followed by the sounds of suffocating under a pile of fluffy soft yarn.