State of the Stash - 2010

I have a tradition. Every year, I go through all of my crafting supplies on the first of the year. I empty out the tubs, take note of what I have, reorganize, wind up partial skeins that have gotten tangled, wipe down all of the containers storing yarn, check for damage, that sort of stuff. And I take pictures.

I've done this every year since 2007, but only posted to the blog in 2008.

Every year, it gets a little easier, and I get a little more organized. This year, it included organizing my craft room/guest room.



The spinning wheel sits in the corner, next to my craft bookcase.



Do you see the yarn? No? It's neatly packaged away in the blue boxes.

And then there's the bookcase.



This is where I store all of my UFO's. Every last one of them. Knitting, crochet, spinning, the braided rug I started in 2005, all of it. Several of these are more than a year old.

Here's a better look.



My goal for 2010 is to clean this up considerably, so I can use it for other things. Like books.

Anyways, my sewing table, blocking board, and ironing board all fit in the closet, although in reality they don't spend much time there. The important part is that they can!

Having a guest room, with furniture, painted walls and pictures makes me feel oddly grown up.


But surely that can't be all of my crafting supplies, right? Right. The giant tower of craft remains in my hubbies office.



I did organize everything on here.

There's a shelf for sewing supplies



and one for fiber



and the other shelves are organized by how much I'll use them.

But what about the yarn stash?

Well, here is my handspun



and here is my collection of all the little bits and bobs.



It may seem odd to keep all of these little scraps, but they are surprisingly useful. I'm never without stuffing or stitchmarkers.

Here is all of the partial balls



and the source of all my guilt, the yarns which I haven't used at all.



Indy and I investigated and



The oldest: a ball of GGH Apart I bought in 2006, for the Rockstar scarf I never made.

This seems like a reasonable amount of stash to me. It hasn't grown too much since last year.

My only crafting resolution this year is to finish every UFO I have now by the end of the year. And to keep my guest room looking like a guest room.