{"id":68,"date":"2008-01-15T03:47:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-01-15T03:47:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T03:47:33","slug":"moths-the-scurge-of-all-fiber-and-fibery-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/moths-the-scurge-of-all-fiber-and-fibery-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Moths &#8212; the scurge of all fiber and fibery-goodness&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2008\/knit_gen\/moth_holes.jpg\" title=\"Moth holes in a sock\" alt=\"Moth holes in a sock\" align=\"right\" border=\"3\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"3\" \/>I doubt there is anything worse for a knitter than finding a moth in the house. Well, finding a moth has eaten a hole in a beloved project or two or three.  It&#8217;s been on my TO DO list for a while to go through all my stash and get it organized and figure out what I have and where it is.  If you remember one of my New Year&#8217;s resolutions was to finish some of my WIPS (works in progress) and UFOs (Unfinished Objects).  So, finally this past weekend I started.  Imagine my delight when I found this sock &#8212; I still like the yarn.   I started to wonder why I never finished it and remembered it was my first ever toe up sock and I didn&#8217;t have a pattern for doing that and was winging it and having some problems with the heel&#8230; turned it over and started looking at what I&#8217;d done&#8230;.  Horror struck &#8212; it had been eaten by something.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/2008\/knit_gen\/stash_n_bags.jpg\" title=\"Living room stash in zip-lock bags\" alt=\"Living room stash in zip-lock bags\" align=\"left\" border=\"3\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"3\" \/>Now, a while back I&#8217;d heard that Zip-Lock bags were a gift to crafts people protecting fiber from moths, dust, dirt, and other damaging whatevers that could cause fiber disasters.  So, I&#8217;d bought boxes of various size bags and had been putting yarn into bags by project as it arrived at the house.  However, I hadn&#8217;t yet started on the stash. So, tonight I started going through my living room stash: checking for damage, sorting by yarn and color.  Now I feel better since I, so far, haven&#8217;t found any other evidence of moth damage or any other damage &#8212; so my delusion is that only this one sock\/yarn\/project has a problem.  I&#8217;ll live with this delusion as I move on to my next stash area and more organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt there is anything worse for a knitter than finding a moth in the house. Well, finding a moth has eaten a hole in a beloved project or two or three. 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