Tidy Mind, Tidy Stitches: 2KCBWDAY3

Tidy Mind, Tidy Stitches: 2KCBWDAY3
How do you keep your yarn wrangling organised? It seems like an easy to answer question at first, but in fact organisation exists on many levels. Maybe you are truly not organised at all, in which case I am personally daring you to try and photograph your stash in whatever locations you can find the individual skeins. However, if you are organised, blog about an aspect of that organisation process, whether that be a particularly neat and tidy knitting bag, a decorative display of your crochet hooks, your organised stash or your project and stash pages on Ravelry.

I am quite organized - but I allow things to get a bit messy, because I enjoy tidying it all up again: it gives me the opportunity to rummage and re-find stuff that I'd forgotten about. Also, if it didn't get messy in the first place, how would you (DH, I'm talking to you) be able to tell if I'd tidied up at all ?

So here is my knitting corner, which is at my end of the sofa.:


You would so pity me and question my levels of medication, if by chance you saw me when anyone else sits in my seat: it is quite pathetically sad. I droop, mope and wander around aimlessly like a dog whose bed is drying on the washing line. And no, I cannot knit in some other seat - my seat has the lamp where I want it, and all my bits and pieces right to hand, and I'd have to lug them - oh, as much as 2 feet, I guess - to get to another lamplit position.

So here's a bit of a close-up so I can bore you rigid explain exactly what you're looking at:

The coffee jar holding my straight needles has been decorated by Mini Diva; a hibernating project (Willow Leaf Stole:skinny silk on skinny needles); the knitting books and magazines are under the artistically arranged 'good' stash in a pretty seagrass basket; a scented candle and some luxury cream from my friend Jude over at Saffron Barr; Mini Diva's knitting (the Battenburg colors) and Destructo Boy's blue knitting .... well, he likes to have it in his lap sometimes when watching TV and then thinks he's knitting.

More 'good' stash in another pretty basket; a scissor-holding hedgehog, a gift from one of my 5 sisters-in-law that shows she actually thought of me and what I do (which makes me love it so much); embroidery scissors (one of about 5 different types gifted to me some while ago by my father); pin box with ordinary pins, knitting pins, and needles of all kinds stuck in the top. No, I tell you, that is not a sock-knitting book.

I shan't tell you about my notions bag, as that is really messy right now: I need a crochet hook roll and some teeny boxes or bags or something - I'll save that post for another time. Instead, moving right along now to the stash:













That massive Blue Tub of Mystery lives on top of my wardrobe and is filled with yarns of all kinds, most of which are waiting for me to find the perfect project for them. I have very few leftovers right now, as I gifted them all to Mini Diva's school crafting group, but those I do have are in the carrier bag in the right hand picture: they are waiting until they irritate DH enough with their passive trip-hazard existence to pull down the Blue Tub of Mystery for me, since I don't want to die quite yet. The pink tub and wicker baskets we are ignoring, as those are sewing, quilting and shoe stashes.

And as I mentioned in my post yesterday, Ravelry provides one of the easiest, quickest ways to organize one's knitting: I tend to use it mainly for projects, as I forget to photograph yarn until it's been used in a finished project. I see no point in cataloging my needles, as I mainly use straights, and I can see those in my jar; however, I guess could use a listing of my circularsso that I don't keep buying the same sizes over and over again.

And that's it. I have finally run out of steam on this topic ....you could keep your thankful sighs of relief a bit quieter, please .....