Flagel Knitting Files

I didn't want to brag too soon, but yes, I did clean up the stash last weekend.  The best way for me to motivate myself was to set a certain length of time and then go at it for just that long and then stop. So mid-day on Sunday while I was doing the laundry I moved all six bins of yarn from the room I store it in, often referred to as my mess, to our bed.  Now there was a plan here.  If I wanted to sleep in the bed that evening I'd have to finish.  I couldn't dilly dally around.  (Like I've said before I enjoy looking at yarn; it inspires me.) During the time it took one load of laundry to dry in the dryer, (about an hour) I finished the job.  When it comes right down to it, I spent more mental energy thinking about this task then doing it.  Here are the results. My stash is managed again There are six bins in total.  What it hard to see are the clear plastic bags I used to put colours together as well as to separate acrylic from wool ya...

Yesterday I added to my stash causing me to feel guilty about the clutter I create by not managing it.  The sun was out today and the view from the living room window was more beautiful than it has been for several days.  I took this as a sign to do something and not just think about doing something.  (Why, you might ask?  The sun makes me feel like moving and the rain makes me feel like I should hunker down.) The sunny view today from my living room So it was time to do something around my "work area."  (Note the avoidance of the stash.  I'll tackle that bigger task later.  Hold me to that, OK?)  Paul is very tolerant about my knitting obsession, but there are times when this fastidious supporter gets a bit frustrated.  So before that happens I moved to organize my stuff in the living space we share.   (Thankfully my stash is a mess in a separate room with a door that closes behind it.) Where the magic happens as well as ...

It started on Wednesday, October 19 when I received the following e-mail from my LYS: Sat Oct 22 thru Fri Oct 28 we will celebrate our 3rd Anniversary at Black Sheep Yarns  by offering you up to 50% off selected yarns. Each $20 purchase entitles you to an entry into our raffle for door prizes ! I told myself no, you shouldn't go, don't go.  My stash is already too big.  View from my living room on Saturday, October 22 about 8 am But then I got up this morning and the weather was wet, again.  I know, what a shock it is rainy in greater Vancouver this time of year. And Paul is off taping 4 episodes of his show all day so I'm left here alone with my obsession and a 50% sale on selected yarns starting at 10 am. I fight it telling myself what I really need to do is organize my stash, again, so I can find the cotton or wool or specially coloured stuff when I need it. Do I do any of that, you ask? No, of course not. But I do think about organizing and...

So much yarn, so little time The yarn above needs to be turned into 4 baby bibs in 2 days.  They'll show up in another post when they're done.  I know I named this a knitting blog, but these bibs will be crocheted. Thanks Suzanne and Nicole for giving me a reason to get going with this project.

I have plenty of stash, most very small amounts of yarn.  It is tough to figure out what to do with all these tiny amounts and frankly I'm too cheap to throw them out.  My stash of leftovers has grown to an impressive size.  So when someone wished that she could get something "artistic" regarding donuts, I offered to knit her a couple.  Using Susie Johns', 20 to Make:  Knitted Fast Food   I found a way to cut my stash and make someone happy, hopefully. After knitting two donuts and sending them along I decided it might be fun to see what variations I could develop.  The donut to the right above was designed around one with sprinkles now available from Tim Horton's.  I added plastic with yarn on another to get a glazed look.  Tiny white beads were added to others to make them appear sugared.  Before I knew it one donut became ten. So needing a container I got a clean donut box and filled it.  Sin...