May 01, 2007Hiding in Plain Sight
One of the many interesting topics covered in the podcast is how to acclimate your spouse, significant other, flavor of the month, etc. to the vast amounts of yarn that will invade their lives as long as they remain with you. (I suppose a corollary of that is how to keep them around despite these vast amounts of yarn.) One of my favorite suggestions was to hide everything in plain sight, in order to de-sensitize your significant other to yarn by exposure. This is one I have lived by for quite a while. A few years ago, when my stash reached rather unruly proportions with the advent of internet yarn sales, I purchased a Magiker cabinet from Ikea to store all my yarn in. It's been a great solution. The yarn is protected from dust by the cabinet, but with the glass doors I can see much of what I have. My particular unit is half the size of the one in the link - it is tall, thin and deep, so it scoots easily into every living space we have had and yet accommodates a lot of yarn.
Anyhoo, this week I am completely going through the girls' room (our extra bedroom, so named because it is predominantly used by me, my crafts, and all my girlfriends who craft). My clothes closet is in there, and I have gone through that completely, and am now in the midst of going through the yarn, fiber, fabric, buttons, beads, and ribbon. Oh yeah, and books. Lots of books.
Just something to think about. How do you store your stash?
In after dark nightie | asana | kitties | main | stash | thelma
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What I meant to say was, "I'm a pretty new blogger." Not new enough not to know how to post a comment though! Feel free to edit. Posted by: Faith at May 2, 2007 11:20 PMLoving the nightie- and it looks great as a tunic as well! I'm a pretty new knitter, but always have a bunch of knitting related links with each post- you may want to check it out! Posted by: Faith at May 2, 2007 11:19 PMThe girls room I like that. Hey perhaps that's the solution...have one extra room in each home you live in designed for your artistic needs...some call it "an office" for you it can be my "craft room"...right now I don't really have an orgenised place to put my yarn so where I find some place I stick some yarn. I have some in my closet, some in my dad's coat / table cloth closet, some in my little 'warehouse' [it's our bomb shelter and because our room is big enough for all our cloths, or at least mine, I keep thier the cloths from the season that isn't,...like now my winter cloths will be moving in thier. and so on...I allocated for my self a section of one of our book cases for my books and mags, but it's not really enough....I just don't think dh will appreicate if some of his book disapper. :-D Posted by: Orli at May 1, 2007 08:39 PMI'm actually in the market for a wardrobe myself. Not only so that I can see my stash better but also to store the hand knits that seem to be piling up around the house without a good home to keep them in. Posted by: disentangled at May 1, 2007 01:48 PMMy stash lives in a empire style dresser and a primitive cupboard in my yarn room, er, guest room. I have just recently discovered Stash and Burn and really love it. I think it is really well done. Posted by: Liz K. at May 1, 2007 01:17 PMI store my stash in my knitting room closet. It's just a little one, about 2 feet square. Inside I have a shoe organizer hanging from the bar, a toy hammock in one of the corners and a stacking wire frame units. Odd balls and laceweight go in the shoe organizer, sock yarn is in the toy hammock and sweater yarn is in the wire frame. There's also some bagged yarn tossed on the floor. My goal is to not overflow the closet. I recently cleared out some unloved stash, and that's helping me stay with my goal. ;-) Posted by: LaurieM at May 1, 2007 12:42 PMThanks for the link to the podcast! I find organizing to be a freeing activity. When I recently went through my fabric stash, I felt so much lighter. Well, I had just lost 30 or so pound of fabric, so that makes sense. Posted by: nicole at May 1, 2007 11:04 AMFYI the Black Sheep sale isn't over... they have a bag sale section now (cashmerino - regular and baby - $40/bag). Your kitty stash is pretty darn cute, by the way. :) PS didn't comment yesterday but AWESOME NIGHTIE!!!! love, MH Posted by: Mary-Heather at May 1, 2007 10:17 AMMust be something in the air. I have been feeling the need to get my stash in order. I never used to stash to this extent, but somehow I've accumulated quite an arsenal lately. Bad me. It's kind of overwhelming at the moment, in giant tubs. I need to come up with a better solution... Posted by: Nonnahs at May 1, 2007 09:34 AMLove the whole concept of 'hiding in plain sight'. Handspun, fabric, ribbons and buttons show off so well with their colors and textures. Posted by: margene at May 1, 2007 09:21 AMAbout six months after the stash-acquiring part of my life began, I started to worry about moths. I bought four big plastic tubs and four boxes of moth balls, and put all of the sweater yarn in there. The sweater yarn is all intended for specific projects, so I'm not really in danger of forgetting about it, even though it's shoved away in a closet. For smaller amounts of yarn and yarn I "just had" to buy for no particular reason, I have two small cabinets with doors. One is sock yarn, one is everything else. This is useful not just for getting inspiration when my knitting mojo ebbs, but for shaming myself into NOT buying more sock yarn. Posted by: Kat at May 1, 2007 09:21 AMI've been tempted by the BSK sale, but since they're not open on Sunday I've been safe so far. I like the idea of having the stash visible - my old apartment in the Valley had a built-in bookcase that was perfect for storing all my yarn. Now I have an Ikea bookcase instead. Beautiful handspun by the way! Posted by: Kate at May 1, 2007 09:14 AM |
