sock yarn stash?

Hello?! Where are you? Huhu?!! sock yarn stash!???
Sadly, this is the rest of my sock yarn stash(missing:two skeins stored safely away for swaps):

I think I've knitted a lot more socks than I can remember, how else could you explain my sock yarn leftover stash?

Actually in some/most of these is enough yarn left to knit another pair, but I don't really like to knit two matching pairs and so these are kept to make a big Patchwork blanket someday.

Lolli also asked some questions:
Do you have certain patterns planned for some of the yarns? Do you buy yarn and then choose a pattern?
No, not really. I buy sock yarn when I see one I like, I don't think about any pattern at all. Mostly because I seldomly knit patterned socks ;-)

Does a certain sock yarn you have in your stash take you back to a certain event? (where you were when you bought/received it? what was going on in your life at the time!)
hmm, not that I remember right now. I still know when and where I got most, but I guess there was nothing special on these days...but then my memory is pretty bad event-wise anyway.

cleaning up my closet

Before(click to make bigger):


After:

Unbelievable how much yarn I have and there's another big plastic bag and one small box in my mum's closet! I have sorted out alot, three bags of junk and one bag each of fabric and yarn to put up on Ebay or freecycle, haven't decided yet.
Once I have more time I'll sort through my whole yarn and fabric stash, but that could take some time. [totally forgot to add in the pic: there's another box with craft supplies under the fabric box!]

Otherwise I spent the last hour browsing through this website. OMG, I love this vintage stuff! Wish I would find something like those dresses at a fleamarket just once. Warning, don't check out the handbags, seriously don't, you'll want to buy them! A bit pricey though...
I do own an approx. 1950 tweed skirt suit, but it's a bit too wide now and instead of hitting my waist drops down to hip level :-(

Ok, I'll be gone over the weekend. I'll visit my grand-aunts with my mum and of course a fleamarket(actually two, one on saturday and another on sunday). Cross your fingers for sunshine and warm weather please! Forcast looks good so far, but we'll be at the sea and you never know there.

inbetween knitting + shopping

I can't learn 24/7, since when I take a break, it's sort of a good idea not to spend more time on the computer, I knitted inbetween learning!
I finished the second pair for my cousin and started a pair of socks for myself too.

I began knitting a simple sweater out of the Shine sport, nothing fancy, but with a deeper v-neck.

I also sewed a needle case for my DPN's and though I had no real idea what I was doing and didn't do any kind of math beforehand, it came out ok!

And now to the shopping part. I drove to the "Stoffmarkt Holland"(=fabric market) today and apart from a 30 minutes odyssee-one road was closed and I had no idea where the hell I was-I found the way quite fast. In the ads they said that around 140 booths would be there which I can't verify, but it was big and kind of overwhelming nonetheless! I wandered around once without buying anything to get a good overview of the fabric selection and then very well considered every purchase in my next two turns around the market ;-)
After an hour, I decided against a fourth round and drove home. I'm quite proud of myself and my self-control as I did NOT spend all the money I had!
Here's what I brought:

top:
-pink-purple quilting fabric; 2+m for 4€
-blue-mudcolored corduroy; 1,5m for 5€
-flowered brown corduroy; 1,5m for 5€
-fake leather in fawn; 1m for 2€
bottom
-blue quilting fabric; 1+m for 2€
-blue jersey; 3m for 9€
-purple fake leather; 1m for 2€
There are also two different ribbons. The smaller one is for bag in combination with the purple fake leather and I want to make a belt out of the bigger ribbon.
Here's a close up of the ribbon: