I was in one of the forums I belong to on Ravelry today and I saw this term – YINKs – Yarn I’ll Never Knit. My first thought was what a great term, which was quickly followed by have I got a lot of yinks! This gave me a great idea for what to do with my yinks. I’m going to put up a new gallery on this site that’s called yinks and it will have quite a bit of my yinks in there. Now truthfully, I won’t just dump all my acrylics in there (I have to keep […]
If you’ve been following this blog for a while now you’ll know that yesterday I took on the daunting task of organizing my stash. I have to admit that I didn’t realize how much yarn I had. I mean, I knew I had a lot, but seriously? I think the only way I could have more is if I had my own store, but at that point it wouldn’t really be mine. I have often joked with people saying that I could open a small store – I guess it wasn’t really a joke. I have started cataloging it […]
Wow! I’m speechless. From 9 – 5 today, a regular working day, my Area 51 (stash) was transformed from the organized chaos that it was to a neat orderly stash where not only do I know what I have, I can find it (and so can anybody else) in a matter of seconds! How did this happen you ask? Well, remember the lady I mentioned in the post this morning? Well, she may be short (5’11/2″ – the half is important ) but she has a huge whip! She’s a house guest for the week and suggested we organize […]
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