Day Three: Tidy mind, tidy stitches.

Why yes, the stash is the neatest thing in the house!

How do you keep your yarn wrangling organised? It seems like an easy to answer question at first, but in fact organisation exists on many levels. Maybe you are truly not organised at all, in which case I am personally daring you to try and photograph your stash in whatever locations you can find the individual skeins. However, if you are organised, blog about an aspect of that organisation process, whether that be a particularly neat and tidy knitting bag, a decorative display of your crochet hooks, your organised stash or your project and stash pages on Ravelry.

My stash, as it were, is neatly organized on this lovely stand re-purposed to me by my friend Leigh Ann. In a perfect world this would be my studio; I would craft and create making wonderful yarnthings. In the real world I craft on the go, hoping to get a few rows stitched between books, work and family life. I had hoped once I got ‘it’ together things would fall into place and I would find myself more on the ball.

My materials and books are neatly organized and ready to be used but is it any good if I am not actually using them? Lately I have taken to carrying my latest projects in a Paton’s bag that was free with purchase or in a basket of brightly colored skeins that have hooks sticking out of them. I keep one or two WIPs with me so that I can focus on it and actually get the project done. I’m still not as organized as I would like to be. I find that I have huge tangles of yarn that I spend time trying to get knots out of but I have less UFOs than before (does PNS projects never started count?).

As for patterns…I have been using Ravelry to keep a running list of things that I like, want to try or am working on. I was thinking about a notebook because despite the digital world I like writing stuff down. I have been using this blog as a record of my finished works. I like writing about the items that I finish and seeing my progress.

-r

Tips: Many people use their blogs partly as an organisational tool – logging and cataloguing projects and newly attained skills, projects and modifications. Did you bare this in mind when you began blogging?