No Yarn Diet / no Yarn Emperor/Empress until January + UFO/Wollstube dates

Dear users, dear authors,
since many handmade projects need to be finished before Christmas now, the Yarn Diet / Yarn Emperor/Empress is taking a break until January.
Have fun shopping and using up your yarn.

More project dates:

October-November
Leftovers-Bestovers // use up leftover yarn and receive compliments
10/30 to 11/6.

New date for UFO Week:
11/13-11/19 or 11/20

December
No UFO Week in December; instead, Project Wollstube will be running:
1st Sunday of Advent until last minute before Christmas: Heavenly Wollstube (suggestion by Mowi19 ): finish Christmas gifts

"between the years":
Hopefully there will be time then for more extensive
projects. Starting in November, we’ll collect suitable ideas, and there will also be
a thread for introducing the projects.

Wow, that’s great, Josefa! I’m already looking forward to the Heavenly Yarn Room. Everyone can present their Christmas yarn room there with all the beautiful gifts that are finished and those that are still last-minute projects.

We can give each other tips, enjoy some punch or delicious tea with Christmas cookies, and simply share the festive anticipation together.

I’m sure there will be plenty of lovely gift ideas to share in the Heavenly Yarn Room.

Somehow, I’m already feeling a bit of the Christmas spirit…

I’ll be joining in on the UFO projects again, too. And using up leftover yarn sounds great as well.

Wishing you lots of fun with your crafts, Monika

Thanks, Josefa, for the overview.
And Mowi: that’s a great idea.

I can’t always participate as much as I’d like to. But I really like everything you guys come up with here. It always gets me totally motivated.

Best regards, Caro

Hello,

I’d like to join the Heavenly Yarn Room too.
Since I still have a few projects on my list for Christmas,
it’s twice as much fun to crochet them.

Yesterday I ordered 3 yarn cakes for scarves for my daughters and me.
I’ve never worked with a yarn cake before, so I’m very excited.

Also, for all the Christmas projects, I’m trying not to buy any
more new yarn, but to make everything from my stash by
crocheting.

Best, Heike

I feel exactly the same way as Heike—I, too, am trying to work from my stash as much as possible.
I’m really excited about the Heavenly Wool Room and looking forward to it. It already sounds so much like the smell of “Guetzli” (that’s what we call cookies here), candlelight, and pre-Christmas secrets…

I’m already really looking forward to the (pre-)Christmas season.

I’d love to start decorating the apartment right now.
But I’m going to wait until November 18–19, 2017, but then I’ll
decorate.

I’m curious to see how much of my to-do list I’ll be able to crochet
. Hopefully it all works out.

It’s heartwarming to see how excited you all are. :-)
This is going to be great.

Yes, I’m really looking forward to it too, especially when I see how excited you all are.
I feel like Heike now, too. I want to reduce my stash. Quite a bit of my yarn will be turned into new projects before Christmas.

I have to admit, I’ve never worked with a gradient yarn cake either. Next year I’ll give it a try. This year, from now on, it’s time for a yarn diet. Otherwise I’ll have to wish for a new cabinet for Christmas ... and preferably a new apartment to go with it. ;-)

So using up leftovers is coming at just the right time.

Have a lovely evening, everyone, and let your projects grow and your yarn mountains shrink.

Warm regards 
Monika

Would you like to have a project week for using up gradient yarn cakes?
I don’t earn anything from it, no commission, etc., but maybe it’s still awkward that you’d have to buy a yarn cake specifically for it?

What would that look like?

I wouldn’t buy a cake of yarn just for a cake-of-yarn week. I wouldn’t even know where I could get one that quickly. But that shouldn’t spoil anyone’s fun!

No, then let’s skip Bobbel Week and do some less complicated projects instead.

I ordered my first cake of yarn—or rather, two—because my daughters
would like a pretty shawl crocheted from a yarn cake.

I'm really curious to see whether and how it works. I've never worked with a
yarn cake before.