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Craft Chaos Conquered

For a little while anyways.

My projects and stash have been getting a bit out of hand: multiple projects sharing a bag along with random skeins of yarn, fiber still in the bag it was mailed to me, towers of fluff threatening to topple onto the closet floor, coffee table nearly obscured by craft bags…

Things were… ok… before we left for Shetland. But when we got back, I basically just got everything stashed somewhere safe from the cat, and not much further than that. But yesterday was a German holiday (for some regions – others had the 31st and a few, like Berlin, had neither) so I used the free time to pull everything out and do a little reorganizing and tidying. I used my office because I had several surfaces at a nice height to work, especially since I have a sit-stand desk (100% worth it if you can spring for one). Here’s what things looked like:

A white office desk and surrounding area are covered in a variety of colors and types of yarns, fibers, and bags with yarns and fibers spilling out.

One of my work surfaces was co-opted by my “craft manager” though, minimizing it’s usefulness:

A semi-long haired black and white cat lounging on a pale turquoise ironing board.

Yarn that’s in a hank or ball doesn’t particularly interest her, but knitting needles and plastic bags are definitely a temptation. So, I was hardly going to dissuade her from hanging out on the ironing board if it kept her out of my way.

Yarn and fiber is all neatly back in it’s storage space and all current or upcoming projects have an appropriate craft bag now. I wound the second hank of yarn for my Twisted Lines top as well as this lovely skein of Yak Yak Sock, which will become Tuva’s Arrows. This looks like a great travel project – one skein, with a pattern that should be fairly simple to follow.

A skein of fingering weight yarn in a dark rainbow colorway on an Amish-style swift in maple wood on a light colored table top.

I also updated my stash walls to include some of my more recent purchases. I’ve decided that based on the lighting in the bedroom, especially in winter, only warm colored yarns, especially pinks and oranges, or white, will be on this wall.

A white wall decorated using wood clothes pins with nine skeins of white, orange and pink yarn as well as a long braid of orange wool fiber.

All my cooler colors and reds will remain out in the main room:

A large white wall decorated using wood clothes pins in over two dozen skeins of yarn in reds, blues, purples, greens, yellow and natural colors as well as a couple braids of fiber in blue, orange, pink and brown.

TheEnabler really likes the wall updates, which is good since I didn’t consult him. He has a lower tolerance for chaos, disorder and general untidiness than I do so I try to undertake stash dumps and reorganizations when he’s out of the house.

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