Although the knitting on Passel is continuing at a good pace given how little time I am devoting to it, that is all about to change. We are driving down to Knoxville tomorrow for a few days with DSD and baby Owen. I am not sure how much knitting will be accomplished on the trip as I may end up doing a lot of the driving but there will certainly be knitting time available once we arrive. I have packed the entire thing in my bag, naive I am sure, because I doubt I will get the entire sweater knitted as I am only about 1/2 way through the back. But it seems best to plan for the best case scenario.
Anyway, in my spare time, instead of knitting, I have finally started reorganizing the old yarn stash. As you will recall, I lost the previous spreadsheet, and finding anything has driven me up the wall. I literally had no idea what was hiding in various closets and boxes.
I toyed the idea of building a database with pictures, but quickly gave up on that idea as I just don’t want to spend the time setting up a database the way I want it. This spreadsheet will work just fine.
What I am finding as I go through things though, aside from a few bits of yarn that can be added to the every growing e-bay pile, is that each time I see the yarn for another sweater I fall in love with it and want to start knitting it right away. There are about 20 such projects currently milling around my brain and I am seriously wondering why I never got to them the first time around. Oh I know the answer, but now I want to knit each and every one of them now…..at least until the next pattern book comes.
(Where are you Vogue Knitting!)
So I am somewhere between 15 and 20% through the stash, and I am going to organize books and patterns as well so there is really a lot more to do. I am really excited about the process however, and I think there will be a great benefit to the work.
Oh yeah, and as the new pattern books have come in I have found projects for at least 3 yarns that have been languishing in my stash. Now I just have to get those projects knitted up.
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4 responses to “Re-organization”
Mardel, I’m so impressed that you have a spreadsheet for your yarn stash! I also spent part of the day organizing ALL of my knitting magazines, and they are quite a lot. I can’t get rid of any of them because I never know where my interests are going to take me. Last year it was socks, this year it is lace knitting. It’s so hot and humid here, I went swimming and kept my wet swimsuit on (even with the a.c. going) as I organized all my books and magazines. Done, finally! Have a great trip to Knoxville.
Mardel, I’m so impressed that you have a spreadsheet for your yarn stash! I also spent part of the day organizing ALL of my knitting magazines, and they are quite a lot. I can’t get rid of any of them because I never know where my interests are going to take me. Last year it was socks, this year it is lace knitting. It’s so hot and humid here, I went swimming and kept my wet swimsuit on (even with the a.c. going) as I organized all my books and magazines. Done, finally! Have a great trip to Knoxville.
Have a wonderful trip. I hope you are packing plenty of cheese and pants. I’ll see you next week either in POK or HP.
Have a wonderful trip. I hope you are packing plenty of cheese and pants. I’ll see you next week either in POK or HP.