Monday, February 12, 2007

How do you store your stash?

There’s a new post at The Dye Pot.  The new yarn is called Ibis…

...and is a hot pink/tangerine mélange of bright, warm color.  I have also posted a link to the crock pot dyeing tutorial on The Dye Pot - it’s under Links on the sidebar.

It was a real quiet weekend here.  In fact I spent most of yesterday reading - trying to finish - the last of Robin Hobbs’ The Tawny Man trilogy, Fool’s Fate.  Bron - does this one seem to go on and on and on?  I have really liked this series and have, more or less, read it straight through but this last book seems to fall a little short by actually being a lot too long.

I have finished the first sleeve of autumn Seeds and the second is under way :)

I think this is may be a hair long - but just a hair and I’m fine with that.  I’m noticing the stockinette on either side of the seed stitch panel shows a distressing tendency to curl over the seed stitch.  I am hoping that washing and drying will help to curb that.





Otherwise, I’m very happy with things and looking forward to having this completed and wearable.  I am trying very hard not to torture myself with the thought that if I’d planned this out a little better, I’d have done the neck in seed stitch too for a more pulled together appearance.  The plain fact is I am not going to rip this entire sweater out to replace a perfectly presentable collar with something that’s trying to convince me it would be a better option.  I refuse to be haunted or guilted :) And I absolutely refuse to rip!  Well, rip again anyway…

Another washcloth done (yawn)…

...in the same stitch pattern but a different yarn.  Both yarns were Peaches ‘n Crème but the solid blue wasn’t nearly as heavy as this variegated pink.  I used size 7 US (4.5 mm) needles on the blue one but had to go up to size 8 US (5 mm) needles for the pink.  It doesn’t matter in the slightest - it’s just interesting to note that while both are the same brand and type of yarn (utility cotton worsted weight), there’s considerable variance in their thicknesses.

Then I went rummaging through the stash for that splendid red yarn I mentioned in last Wednesday’s post?  The one I’d like to use to make Myria something for Valentine’s day :) The problem is that the word stash sounds like a single, consolidated thing when the reality is that there are quantities of stash in three different places in the apartment.

These cabinets are in the hallway between the living room and the kitchen.  There are six of them built into the wall and they’re about 2 x 2 x 1 feet.  I use three of them for yarn roughly divided (very roughly!) into wools and wool blends, cotton and cotton blends and acrylics.  There is also this:





...which live under the coffee table.  Almost anything can be in these bags but usually they consist of half done projects, things that need to be frogged and experiment yarn (anything I can grab quickly to test out a technique or a stitch pattern) - usually acrylic.  In addition to all that, there are also two or three large bags in my clothes closet.  Often this is newer stuff that hasn’t been allocated to another storage space yet but there is also a bag of mohair in various colors and a partial bag of Caron Simply Soft - seriously depleted (and that’s a good thing) in the making of the Crocheted Jacket (scroll down a bit).

Of course I could find the yarn I had purchased at the same time as the red - in fact the current dye project is part of that acquisition.  But do you think I could find this?  I must have gone through things three times before I finally discovered it lurking at the bottom of one of the bags under the coffee table.

Do I know what I’m going to do with it yet?  Not a clue :)

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1. You mean I’m not the only one who’s stash isn’t all in one place or organized? Well, mine is, technically, all in one place as it’s all in the garage at the moment. But organized? HA! There are things I know I have, but trying to find them is next to impossible.

   I love the yarn colour, by the way. It looks cheerful and bright.

   Posted by Ev  on  02/12  at  04:41 PM
   Location : looking up



2. Store ... stash?  Um.  Well, I have a sewing room.  And when I buy yarn that I’m not intending to use right away, I ... er, toss the yarn into the room and close the door quickly ....

   Posted by Colleen  on  02/12  at  05:35 PM
   Location : Work, sadly



3. okay, the ‘ibis’ is definitely to dye (another bad pun- i am addicted) for- such a gorgeous blend of happy colors- *and* the sweater is looking quite smashing too- congrats on a getting over your sweater syndrome-

   stash storage? surely you jest! as you know we have a really large house, and yarn and needlework oddments have a bad habit of lounging around in every room- i do have some in designated areas (several bookcases) but opening any drawer or cabinet door is almost a guaranteed way to find hanks, skeins, or balls of yarn that i put away because sheer inertia kept me from ever getting organized- i call my method ‘relaxed storage’-

   stay happy-

   Posted by  on  02/12  at  05:38 PM
   Location : right here waaay to the south of you



4. Ev - You mean all I have to do to get the stash under control is move?  Well now, that bears thinking about :)

   Posted by Robbyn  on  02/12  at  08:04 PM
   Location : Up the creek...



5. Colleen - Well, at least you know where it is :) I assume the slamming of the door is so that it doesn’t escape?

   Posted by Robbyn  on  02/12  at  08:06 PM
   Location : Up the creek...



6. Barb - You have no idea how much your relaxed approach appeals to me :) I see yarn peeking out of the silverware drawer, out from under the tea cozy and stuffed into the center of toilet paper rolls.  I don’t see a problem!

   But Myria - she’d have a problem and if, in extremis, she happened to grab the yarn for a necessary task rather than the toilet paper, I would also have a problem :)

   Posted by Robbyn  on  02/12  at  08:11 PM
   Location : Up the creek...



7. Yep - it DOES tend to go on & on. I’ve always been a bit dissatisfied with how she finishes up the story. Honestly, I don’t know if she’s leaving room for even MORE books in the series or what. All the books are worth reading, but nothing compares to the first trilogy. :)

   Posted by Bron  on  02/14  at  09:02 AM
   Location :



8. Bron - Well I finally finished it at about 3:00 this morning whilst wondering where my need to sleep went.  The Fool reminds me of Stark (Farscape) for some reason and if I were casting the movie, I’d be looking for that actor.  Fitz?  Jason Carter (Marcus/Babylon 5)

   Posted by Robbyn  on  02/14  at  03:55 PM
   Location : Inside looking out...

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