So, I went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond to get some organizing cubes and went to work. Here is what I started with:
And here is what I ended up with:
I still have some work to do. I just threw all of the yarn in random cubes, except for the sock yarn. Sock yarn is all in the upper right-hand corner. Mom's feet had better watch out!
On my to-do list for Operation: Yarn Organization is to sort the rest of the yarn in the bins in some fashion. I just haven't decided if I will sort by weight, or fiber, or color, or what. We'll see what strikes me.
Another task is to get a binder to sort my patterns that are not in books. I have only a very few knitting books, but I print patterns from the internet all the time and they are in no particular order.
While doing this project today, I did do one very good thing. I started an Excel spreadsheet for my stash. All pertinent details of my yarn stash are listed. This will really help me when I am trying to decide what I want to do, and also if I decide to sell some of my stash at some point. Eventually I want to add my needle info here as well, but I ran out of time and energy. One interesting fact though...I have the equivalent of over 13 miles worth of yarn. Eek! That's a lot of yarn. Spreadsheets are both a blessing and a curse sometimes...
Now, on to the FO report. Here is a picture of DH's completed Uniscarfity:
I am very happy with how it turned out, though I do think it should have been a little longer. But DH thinks it is just fabulous. I hope to finish his second glove this week, but no promises!
As for the WIP list, here is the update. Aside from a few items that will be tough to frog, I frogged several WIPs that were not working for me or that had been in "time out" for quite some time. I now only have WIPs that I actually intend to finish, and I will frog the remaining things when I have a free evening and when my brain isn't fried from all the yarn play. Here is my current list of WIPs:
- Shapely Tank - a little over half complete
- Short pink socks - 75% complete
- Cardigan for Arwen - Less that 5% complete, and very possibly going to be frogged to work on it in a different manner (different hem line)
- Mystery Stole 3 - About 40% complete. I need to get busy if I want this for Grandma's b-day! Probably not going to happen, if I am honest about it.
- DH's Fingerless Gloves - About 75% complete, should be done soon.
The good thing here is that I put each of the WIPs in it's own Ziploc and they are fairly ready to grab-n-go. I need to print a few patterns to put in the Ziplocs though, since a few of these have been worked on while looking at the patterns on the computer.
In addition to a nice and neat list of WIPs, now I have the materials and the organization to plot out my future projects. For example, the jacket for Bugs that was a WIP wasn't working. The yarn was not thick enough and the jacket (though nearly complete) was too small for her. I greatly underestimated her size. She is long and skinny, and the arms alone were at least an inch too short. Now I have the same yarn neatly wound into center-pull skeins and ready to use doubled up, or I may use some pink yarn that she will like even more I think.
Well, I feel like I make progress. My yarn is neat, my major chores and errands got done today, and I am ready to relax. You didn't think I just did yarn stuff today, did you??? Heck no! I also did the following:
- Mervyn's - Returned some slacks that I didn't love (Mom is probably so proud to read this. I am notorious for buying, not liking, and never returning. See, I'm growing up!)
- Bath & Body Works - Hand soap and lotion. They had a sale, and we needed soap. DH likes the foaming hand soap at the sink, and I like when he uses that as opposed to dish soap to wash his hands. The lotion was free with a coupon.
- Ulta - Shampoo, hair spray, mousse, makeup, face wash. All on the list. But they were out of hair color, like always, and I was irritated, like always.
- JoAnn Fabrics - Tiny crochet hook that turns out not to be small enough to use for adding beads to the Mystery Stole. I will either have to deal with my current method or order one.
- Grocery Store - Needed some food
I can't believe it's already Sunday night... I am really not ready to work tomorrow. Oh well. At least I have things to look forward to. In less that 2 weeks, mom and I go to the fair and the water park like we do each year and I'm totally excited. Fried food on a stick, here we come!
2 comments:
Hi Sunny!
Looks like you had a very busy weekend. The organized stash looks great.
I had a good weekend too. I went to the Knit Cafe, which is one of the 2 places listed for L.A. in the Stitch n Bitch book. I was just going to browse, but ended up buying some yarn because it was pretty and was on sale. This is it:
http://www.knitrowan.com/html/yarns_results_new.asp?groupcode=80&weight=null&spec=null&guage=null
in a turquoise mix. I am planning to do a tank top, which I might keep or give to my DIL, depending on how I like it! They also sold me bamboo needles, which are expensive ($10.95) and I am not used to, but I might just keep.
I am getting quite obsessed with knitting these days, between knitting, looking at yarn and patterns online, and reading knitting books. Soon I am planning to go to a Stitch n Bitch meeting - the same one that "Crazy Aunt Purl" writes about on her blog. Very exciting.
Take care and keep knitting!
-goodstuf3
Does that not feel great? I know that getting mine out of random boxes and into some kind of order felt awesome.
Of course, now I'm lusting after 'storage solutions' that provide an ever-greater level of organization - I'd bet that given my way (and an infinite budget) I'd eventually have my walls lined all the way to the ceiling with wee bins just exactly big enough for a project's worth of yarn.
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