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afuna ([personal profile] afuna) wrote2011-05-01 03:03 pm

PICSPAM: The stash and needle edition

So it turns out that when I'm nervous, I end up organizing stuff. When I'm really nervous, and happen to have supplies on hand, I end up doing something like this:


circular knitting needles hanging from labelled hooks on the inside of a closet door. Sizes range from 2.0mm to 4.5mm
circular knitting needles hanging from labelled hooks on the inside of a closet door. Sizes range from 5.0mm to 9.0mm

The first picture is all my unused small needles, the second one is all my larger needles. The empty hooks are for needles that I'm currently using.

The hooks themselves are decorative clips I picked up at the hardware store, originally for hanging up Christmas lights but we didn't need them last year, so this seemed a better use! They were only 150 pesos for twenty pieces (less than 4 USD), which was enough to hold all needle sizes from 2.0mm to 9.0mm, with a couple hooks extra.

Each hook can hold up to four of the smaller circs, and up to three of the larger sizes.

The edges are a bit scary because it looks they should, by all rights, stick out past the sides when the closet is closed, but they don't! *bounce* I took care to make sure of that *g*

I also took care not to have too much vertical overlap, but afterwards realized that the overlap would have been useful: the cords on the lower needles, when overlapped with the needles above them, help hold the needles in place to reduce clinking.


Since I posted pics of my needles, I guess I should post some of my stash too! Or rather my stash containers :D I found these really nifty boxes: six partitions (removable partitions), each partition just about wide enough for two balls of yarn, about high enough for two layers of yarn, and coincidentally at the perfect size to be able to squeeze four such boxes under my bed (eight if I stack them two high, but I haven't needed to go past four yet...)

The hardware store is surprisingly good for finding useful stuff that can be adapted to crafts. So are bookstores/office supply stores.

Anyway, box/stash pics:


This was when I only needed one box:
one box of yarn with six partitions, separated by color into each partition

This was when I realized my stash needed more space to breathe, so I separated it across several boxes:
four boxes of yarn, separated by color: yellows, greens, and browns in the first; reds and pinks in the second; grays, whites, and blacks in the third; blues and purples in the last
I've bought a bit more since then, and I'm trying frantically to knit fast enough to use them up.


This is the shot of the boxes squeezed under my bed :-D So happy at just how perfectly they fit:
far view of four boxes arranged in two layers beneath a messy bed

Random closeup of yarn and yarn colors:


And for comparison, here is a shot of my needles and stash back in October 2009, back when I'd first picked up knitting (and before I went on yarn shopping sprees in several countries >_>):
twenty-four balls of yarn, three circular needles

It's not even a fifth of what I have now :-D




ETA: I just stumbled across the abuntant yarn blog via one of the Ravelry forums. Lots of good techniques I'm bookmarking for later.

BUT but look at their very first entry. So many boxes of yarn *_*

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