The yarn, that is.

We have decided that it is high time that we bought a new house, which means that we need to sell our current house. The things that you have to do to get your house ready to sell include decluttering, cleaning, repairing, painting, and landscaping.  Apparently, yarn is classified as "clutter", and my stash is being moved to a cold, lonely storage unit, along with my sewing table. (The sewing machine will be taken out of this house over my dead body.) I am being allowed to keep a few small projects in a basket that will reside in the top of our master bedroom closet.

How sad is it for a knitter to be ripped away from her stash like that? I've already had daydreams of sweaters I know I won't knit in the next few months, outlandish shawls that I don't have the yarn for, and I have an insane need to stash more yarn before it all goes away for a (hopefully) short while. It's not like I was going to knit it ALL in the next few months – I can definitely be without it for a while. But still, it's a little sad to see it boxed up and ready to be sent to THE STORAGE UNIT this weekend. 

What I'm keeping: the beautiful skein of silvery-grey silk that I bought at SAFF and that was hand-dyed for me; the Baruffa Cashwool for my Forest Path Stole, and two lots of yarn for socks, which I haven't even decided upon yet. It's like choosing among your children, I swear. Okay, maybe not THAT dramatic, but still…it's hard to choose. 

What would you keep, if you had to make that decision?