tidy mind, tidy stitches...2KCBWDAY3
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:10PM | Breean Elyse How do you keep your yarn wrangling organised? Well, that's a really good question.
I'm one of those people that tends to find harmony and order in a mess. There's a fine line between having "neatly organized" piles and having total chaos. While I like to think that my piles are organized, lately they seem to tilt towards chaos.
The photo above is one of the ways I store my yarn. I have 3 large storage containers from The Container Store that I keep most of my yarn in. The overflow lives in a plastic drawer unit inside my closet. My books, patterns and magazines all live on various book shelves, but there is no rhyme or reason to their arrangement. This method is a little hairbrained and annoying, but it's the best I can do with the small space I have in my city apartment.
One of my stash problems is that I am a collector of beautiful single skeins of yarn. This makes for many headaches - the need to constantly make one skein projects, and the inability to effectively organize my stash in a decent manner!
But I just can't help myself...look at this beautiful skein I recently purchased from Windy Knitty - Madelinetosh Tosh Merino Light in Duchess.
The only thing I am vigilant in keeping organized is my design notebook, which has sections for pattern notes, sketches and inspirations.
Reader Comments (6)
That really is a beautiful skein :)
Oooh love the colour!
That yarn is gorgeous!
That yarn is so lovely! I am also a collector of single skeins (especially the fingering weight variety!!).
I share your pain (and joy) over the single skeins: I have somehow managed to accumulate 20+ skeins of TML! That color you chose is gorgeous...hmm. Haha. Yeah, Madelinetosh is what distracted me from Mal March.
I have the same one skein problem! I think that is why I got into knitting mittens in the first place. And that is a gorgeous skein, I've been eyeing that colorway myself.