My Stash is a Thing of Beauty
November 20th, 2004 at 6:11 pm (storage)
I went to my knitting group this morning. As always a great time. Talking about knitting. Doing a little knitting. Passing Xander around. Looking at new yarns, seeing what everyone else is working on. We got to talking about stashes. I thought I’d fess up and share what mine looks like. I have three stashes - spinning, knitting and quilting.
First, knitting:
On the very left are the more ‘active yarns’. The open basket contains stuff I’ve played with recently, or the other yarns for small projects (like my gloves) and a few other misc odds and ends. The two bins underneath that are the most recent aquisitions. The top one has actual sweater projects. Bjerk is waiting in there, as is Xander’s fair isle cow/sheep sweater. The drawers hold my needles, yarn winder, ziploc bags (2.5 gallon size. Great for organising projects) misc spinning tools like my lazy kate, bobbins. The umbrella swift is too big to fit anywhere inside, so it sits on top of the drawer unit. There is one bin on the very bottom back right that holds enough yarn for several sweaters. I went on an ebay kick after I first started knitting :)
Another of those bins in the back on the right is only half full, and it has spinning fibers in it. The other two are mostly sock yarns. Way too many sock yarns.
So my spinning stash is both smaller and larger in some respects.
On the top: Olga (I think) a Corriedale/Something cross that is really fine. Under her, the dark fleece is Alice in both containers. The bottom container has batts that I created using a drum carder for Alice. The box has Mission Falls cotton, a lot of leftovers from quite a few projects. And under that - I have no idea. Some kind of fleece waiting to be prepared and spun up.
I’ll wait for another day to share the Quilting stash. It’s a bit more sizeable because I’ve been working on it for a much longer time.
Mandella said,
November 21st, 2004 at 3:23 am
Nancy, thanks for this morning’s giggle opportunity! I too have multiple stashes, only in my case it’s quilting, cross stitch, cardmaking and knitting. You’ve made me think about fessing up on my own blog …..
I don’t believe in being ashamed about it either - some people collet stamps!
jill said,
November 21st, 2004 at 4:41 pm
Do you still have the picture of the quilting stash at your last house (in the built in dish display?) That was so neat. When I get my craft room (in another life?) I’m getting builtins!