I've always been pretty good (I thought) at making sure I have my stash updated in Ravelry. This faith has meant that if I'm shopping and I run across something I know I've considered buying before, I can run a quick check and find out if I just considered it or if I actually pulled the proverbial trigger. This has paid off handsomely in the Rock and String booth at more than one fiber festival.
I've recently been giving the stash a bit of a toss and a tidy, doing some spring cleaning and finally enacting my plan to actually use the "stored in" field for Ravelry stash to match skeins to bins. The theory is that this will make it easier for me to put my hands on a given bit of yarn if I’ve a mind to.
This was the scene going in:
I've run across one or two things that weren't listed in Ravelry as I went, but not so many as I'd feared. A yarnbox monthly subscription from 2016 here, a random bit of sock yarn there, but really, I was feeling pretty proud of myself.
Until.
I picked up a gorgeous gobstopper ball of self-striping yarn with the fantastic colorway name of Gimli, Son of Gloin. Confident and pleased, I searched my Rav stash to locate the entry so I could update which bin it's in.
Wasn't there. Hunh. Well, I must have missed entering it. No harm, I know the shop, and since they're on Etsy it's easy as pie to find the order details so I can fill in the date purchased, etc.
Off to Etsy I go and happily type “Gimli” into the “search your purchases” field.
I bet you can guess where this is going.
Apparently, not only did I not put dear Gimli into my stash the first time I bought the yarn in 2019 (nor his tall boyfriend Legolas neither), I also failed to add it to my stash the SECOND time I bought it in 2020. A year ago.
You will note I did not realize that there were two of them in this house until I saw it in my order history.
Somebody really needs to do something about the way things are over here.
