Stash Clean Up

I have been busy again and missed posting last week.  I have a great excuse this time though; I was cleaning out and organizing my stash.

I have no illusions about the size of my stash.  It is huge and almost beyond the capacity of my closet and craft room to hold it all.  I wanted to have access to everything (and who doesn’t) so that I can choose some of the yarn that has been languishing for a while.  To top that off, I foolishly (or not ‘cause it was a steal) bought a stash of coned yarn for machine knitting which is hard to come by.

I any case, I wanted all of my stuff in clear containers for easy viewing and to keep it dust free.  I had solid bins that held everything but who can see through a solid plastic wall?  Every solid bin that I opened was followed with “what the hell is wrong with me?” and a lot of other cussing aimed inward.

I have read about using those shrinking bags with the air sucked out of them for yarn storage and invested in a couple of packs.  They work!  I managed to cut my storage of odd single, double, and triple balls into a workable pile stacked up in the closet.  I then had enough empty clear bins to go to town on all of the rest.  Hand knitting and crocheting yarns in the closet and most coned yarns in my teeny craft room with the machines, I almost feel like I won a huge battle.

Now all I need to do is crochet, knit, or machine knit for several hours of every day for the rest of my life, and it better be a long one, and I will cut my stash in half, haha!

I did find time before the big stash sort to knit up these cute gnomes on my standard bed machine.  I think that I will make a few more and put them around for the holidays.

 

Have a lovely week with little stress and lots of fun.  Thanks for reading and be kind.