Stash Flashing (Streets and YOs)

April 1, 2006

My stash is out of control. I am quite good at acquiring yarns faster than I can knit them. There's easily a year's worth of knitting here. Though as long as the stash is organized and made up of yarns I want to knit with, it doesn't bother me. The stash is a preventative measure against runnning out and purchasing yarn for the next great thing. Every so often I go through and send yarns to SQ, a happy arrangement for both her and the stash.

The main yarn storage is this cabinet. This is a vintage-ish metal cabinet with glass doors that I purchased from a store in Williamsburg for $10 and painted blue to match my room. Karen and I lugged it back to my apartment. It was seriously heavy.

There's yarn for several sweaters, including Felted Tweed for Salina, Cathay for the Tivoli top, Alpaca/silk for the somewhat cowl, a sweater's worth of Prime alpaca, the recent unraveled yarns, and more. The yarns in this cabinet generally have projects.

The top shelf has boxes for sock yarns, circular needles and crafty supplies. A close-up on the sock yarns:

Secondary yarn storage is under my bed. There's a box and a bag.

The box primarily contains single skeins of worsted-weight yarn from other projects. There's Harisville Tweed on the top, a ball of Frog Tree alpaca, Cash Iroha, Peace Fleece, Karabella and Habu mohair.

There's some white cotton, brownish mystery wool/silk, blue mohair and sock yarn leftovers in this bag. This yarn should probably go to eBay.

Finally, works in progress go in this lidded basket. This seemed like a good idea, to put projects in their own spot, but its more like "out of sight, out of mind". The projects in here are often forgotten. Currently in the basket are the Argyle Vest, a yet-unmentioned turtleneck shrug redux, and alpaca mittens.

And that's the stash for 2006! This review has got me thinking it needs some more organizing.. I admire Jess' pared-down stash. Maybe I'll limit the yarns to what fits in the blue cabinet. perhaps, perhaps.

Posted on April 1, 2006 11:01 AM | Permalink

Comments (15)

vegasandvenice:

Love that cabinet and that stash!

Posted by vegasandvenice | April 1, 2006 11:28 AM

Posted on April 1, 2006 11:28

Pia:

I agree! The cabinet is great and it all looks so good! The colors you're using really must make your stash a peaceful and inspiring detail in your room!

Posted by Pia | April 1, 2006 11:33 AM

Posted on April 1, 2006 11:33

jess:

hey, thanks for the props! i've come to think of my stash (for the moment) like a french woman thinks of her wardrobe - a small collection of very nice pieces. i do love your yarns and especially your cabinet! sliding glass is ideal. yarn should be visible (if it's pretty), but with open cubbies my yarn is always collecting stray cat hair and dust that i end up picking off when i knit it up.

Posted by jess | April 1, 2006 11:50 AM

Posted on April 1, 2006 11:50

Chris:

Wow, your stash looks pretty organized to me! Love your blue cabinet and your basket.

Posted by Chris | April 1, 2006 11:58 AM

Posted on April 1, 2006 11:58

Roxanne:

Awesome!! Love it!

Posted by Roxanne | April 1, 2006 12:07 PM

Posted on April 1, 2006 12:07

isel:

Love the cabinet. The yarn looks so pretty in it...very organized and decorative. :D