“SABLE: a common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
“At some point in a dedicated knitter’s career, he hits this point of yarn ownership. He discovers that he has so much yarn that even if he were never to buy even one more ball or skein, and even if he were to knit full-time from now until the hour of his death, he couldn’t knit it all in his lifetime. This amount of yarn is highly variable, of course, and depends on factors such as knitting speed and the age of the knitter in question.
“Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.”
from At Knit’s End: Meditations for Women who Knit Too Much
by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot
