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February 25, 2005
Organizing Stash
So I am trying to talk somebody out of their Classic Elite Maya yarn. Should you happen to have any stashed away, even a partial ball, consider my deap love of this yarn. Now I have been asked about laceweight yarn for swapping purposes. Thats the third swap in row where lace yarns have been specifically asked for. Fine and dandy~ I keep my lace yarns seperate from the rest of my stash and organized by whites vs colors. I also keep my shetland yarns seperate from other yarns and my Rowan DLT and Jo Sharp DK[original formulation]. Anyway in my desire to tempt poor Teresa out of her Maya I am taking pictures of my stash. Not the panaramic view you alls are used to but the inventory type of pictures such as Mare's or Teresa's Note I am nowhere near as arty with my photography tending to just put stuff on a white pillowcase. So here I am taking pictures like a madwoman and I have realized my yarn stash is very poorly organized. I need to buzz Mare and talk to her about this since she mixes different brands of yarns in nice colorful medleys... medlies? I just don't have the eye she does. I consider her a great art knitter and myself a nice technical knitter. Nevermind I am digressing. So OK I have my lace and shetland and such yarns in seperate bins and everything else in drawers per color. Ala Fassett. At least that is where I first read to do that way back in the 80's. And I am taking pictures and here is a lone hank of yarn X in blue drawer and another lone hank of yarn X in purple drawer and another lone hank of yarn X in orange drawer. No wonder I never think I have enough of a yarn to make anything! The three together would look smashing, to my untrained eye, but I never see them together so think lone hank of WW yarn for hmmmmmmm what already?
Anyway this long chit chatty post is my way of asking How do YOU organize your stash? I realize I am not miss comment garnerer but I would appreciate some thoughts on the subject. Keep in mind I don't usually purchase sweater lots of yarn or even yarns for a specific purchase. You will get to see the yarn stasharoonie soon enough since I asked Liz to hyperlink it. I am nowhere near having it all photographed yet which is a bad thing. I don't think I will ever be able to snarfle yarn out of anybody pleading poverty again. I mean I don't ever have much cash working sporadically the way I do and always try to swap before shelling out mulah so either people will be more likely to swap seeing the full stash or people will be disgusted by the excesses of fiber and figure they might as well find a buyer with a pocketbook instead of humoring my 'would you puh~lease consider a swap?' Oh well speak up on stash organization please.
Thanks, Elka
PS scroll down for yarn pictures taken for this mornings post if you havent' peeked in yet today. My camara is fixed woo hoo!
Posted by Elka at 09:06 PM | Comments (3)
What to do....
Ah so my camara is fixed~not that it was broken just that the program needed to be reinstalled after the computer crasheroonie. I decided I better just shut up about STTS cause I had completed the last lace round and chose to do another repeat. My fault I am antsy to be done already. There are, however, reasons for my making the choice. First the picture in the book shows the model standing holding shawl out in front of her. It's huge and I had it in my heart to have a shawl that extended beyond my wingspan. Even tho I achieved gauge I don't see how this is possible with only one repeat. I stretched from CO edge to last round of lace pattern and it didn't reach from fingertip to collarbone area and I couldn't see how the edging was going to add @5" Even more nail in the coffinish was my sense of aesthetics. Each ring is twice as deap as previous ring and we just didn't have that happening. Here is a picture of scrunched up lace on needles so you can maybe see the lack of depth in last lace ring. Keep in mind I have worked 6 of the 36 rounds for second repeat:
Being a sick puppy I said I was gonna go knit on something else and sat down to whip out 6 more rounds. Of course, keeping the canine analogy going, I have the self control of a flea infested dawg and Cast on for Clark's Jan/Feb Piecework Shawl. Shoal water or something like that. It calls for one hank/ball whatever of Misti alpaca and I had on hand 3 balls of lovely handpained Kid Mohair purchased at MS&W last year. I have swatched this yarn a few times and its torque-y. I felt that I either had to tighten up the pattern into a basketweave or slipped st pattern or use a lace that was firmly blocked to control this ickiness. Kid mohair in a tight pattern seemed a waste and I only have a bit over 600yds not enough for a mean little pattern. Lace it was. My shawl is ruffling already and I blame it on torquiness. I will probably knit a few more inches and then block and let it sit a week while I see how it behaves. Til then its good TV knitting[or hanging with hubby knitting] since no charts are involved at the moment. Tell me what you think
OK knitbuds, have a great one!
Posted by Elka at 08:44 AM | Comments (1)