Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Naughty and the Nice

The topic for day three of the 2nd Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week:
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.
You should probably be sitting down for this post. I'd suggest alcohol, too. Maybe practice averting your eyes quickly. You've been warned.

First of all:

No, this isn't the naughty. This is the nice, what there is of it. It's the yarn wrangling doodad I bought at Madrona. It's about as organized as I get, aside from some pretty fabric baskets I bought on sale from Amazon. I half-assed thought about saving them for gifts, but Little Miss Greedy Pig has kept them for herself. 

Enough of the diversionary tactics--here's the naughty, in all its shame:


Doesn't look so bad, except that this is the best this particular spot has ever looked, and that's because I spiffed it up before I took the picture. I also Photoshopped it. And left out the huge pile o'crap to the left. But wait! There's more!


Once again, you're probably say, "Jelli, it's not that bad!" But see the plastic space bags on the left? I DID NOT PUT THEM THERE. But I did move the dozen others that were blocking the boxes containing yarn that you see on the right. I'm fairly certain that putting space bags containing tee shirts that you are never, ever going to wear again in the closet where your spouse stores yarn is grounds for divorce. ARE YOU LISTENING TO MEEEEEEE?

Someday we will be empty nesters and someday I will have the office of my dreams, with shelving and storage and a wine refrigerator, and maybe even a bean bag chair and a little bell I can ring when I need more ice or a cappuccino. If you're going to dream, dream big.

12 comments:

  1. I think putting those tee-shirt space bags in the yarn closet is only grounds for divorce if he complains about you cutting them up and knitting them too.

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  2. Rogue--you are a genius! I never thought about cutting up and knitting the tee shirts! Thanks!

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  3. A wine fridge! Brilliant idea. Now I really am turning the guest bedroom into a studio. No more dilly dallying.

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  4. I feel this, yes I do. About the t-shirts - Leigh Radford has several patterns turning t-shirts into knit rugs. And they are rather spiffy.

    The bell is good; one's own masseuse and hair shampooer - now that's high-falutin' dreamin. :)

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  5. Oh this made me laugh. Your first photo of the "doodad" - I about fell out of my chair. :) Knitting t-shirts. I love that idea!

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  6. I still say it's a little naughty. :-)

    http://ficklecattle.blogspot.com/

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  7. I do miss the kids, but having room for yarn is pretty awesome!

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  8. It looks like the yarn is pretty well wrangled. As long as it isn't falling out on the floor and tripping up dust bunnies, all is good.

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  9. When you get the office with the wine fridge, can I move in with you?

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  10. A wine frig!!! now that's what I need to add to my craft room.
    (it took 37 yrs before I got my craft room! Before all I had was a closet...or two...and a dresser drawer. Hang in there)

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  11. Rogue stole my idea! I was gonna say if he thinks they belong with the yarn, you might as well turn them into yarn! But be sure to keep a few snuggly ones for wearing as pj's.

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  12. Yarn is a good idea for the tshirts, but he might prefer the tshirt quilt...it's pretty cool

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