These days I don’t often get the chance to pull out my yarn stash and have a fondle, so it lives pretty much undisturbed in the cupboard under the stairs, a bit like a woolly Harry Potter. This causes problems when the gas meter needs reading, however, and today I had to pull the whole lot out so that the meter could be read and I took the opportunity to look at my lace stash.
This box is all yarn that I have earmarked for lace knitting, either because it is actual lace yarn or because it’s too nice for socks. 
It’s grown over the years because, unlike socks, a proper laceweight shawl takes a long time and much concentration to knit and I always seem to find the temptation of a quick project stopping me, whereas buying the yarn is relatively quick and painless. 
Plus I have accumulated some as gifts, which wasn’t my fault (and I’m not complaining).
Even now, I’m knitting lace with DK weight yarn because the whole thing will take a matter of a week or so to finish (if I can work out the maths, but that’s another post!) and will still be lacy and lovely. But the fine yarn beckons. Maybe the cotton/cashmere from Colourmart that has about 3,000 metres to 150g or even the 2ply alpaca that comes from a named mother and daughter pair of alpacas (they’re called Magic and Lara, because I know someone will want to know!). Or the squidgy Dream in Color Baby which will need a fairly simple pattern because it’s variegated, but will be like wearing a cloud. Maybe I just need to do some more fondling to help me to decide. 
