Which-Crafts?

This holiday season was pretty hectic over at our house, including at least one event where the house was as full as I have seen it for big house concerts, and one where are few people slept over.

Those of you who have been to my house, can attest to its petiteness. I *do* have 3 bedrooms, but  I wouldn’t really want to put more than a double bed in two of them. Of course those bedrooms have multiple personality disorders, being asked to function as guest bedrooms, craft storage, music room,  library, adjunct closet, attic extension and an emergency cleaning dump location.

Let me remind you that these are 2 fairly small rooms.

Considering that both rooms needed to be availble for guests to sleep in, they had to largely cease to do most of their “dumping ground” functions. At Christmas my yarn storage cubes had foothills of unsorted, unorganized yarn. Much of it was in random boxes and bag (sometimes even the box or bag it came in). The fiber was mixed up with the yarn and much of it was jammed into corners or piled sort of haphazardly at the base of the yarn cubes like some sort of pagan sacrifice.

Enter many storage cubes, Jill the cube constructor and Evan the whirlwind cleaner. By year end all of it was up off the floor and in at least moderately organized cubes.

Obviously there is much organizing that still needs to happen. But it is very nice to have the stash up and at least mostly visible.

I can’t tell  you how many times I found yarn and fiber that I had completely forgotten that i had. It was like instant new yarn that I didn’t have to pay for.  There ended up being quite a bit more fiber than I thought there was. It is quite clear that I am going to have to start spinning a LOT more to keep up.

And you can just see a little bit of the setup I use for dyeing yarn on the left in the lower picture.

Tags: Stash