Wednesday, September 5, 2012

back to work

Today is my first full day of work since Kyr was born, 18 months ago. Both boys are off at preschool today, and I finally started getting myself organized! I wrote up lists of projects, prioritized everything, went and got supplies, and then attacked my disaster of a yarn stash (I figured it wouldn't do to start anything before I knew what I had).


Four hours later, everything is finally back in it's place, neatly organized into bags by weight and colour. There's also a large bag of yarn to be sent off to the thrift store. I discovered I have far more of some things than I will probably ever use (how many outfits would I have to knit to use up 6 large ziploc bags of fingering weight yarn?) But also much less of some things than I would like (such as full balls of worsted weight yarn for knitting toys). At least I have what I need for the first project on my list.

Tomorrow, I think I will clean up the rest of my studio, just to make a really good start at this working thing.
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3 comments:

  1. KardemummaSeptember 5, 2012 at 4:17 p.m.

    I'd love to take that large bag of yarn to be sent off to the thrift store. Unfortunately I live so far away.

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  2. KSeptember 6, 2012 at 6:38 a.m.

    I was thinking right along the same lines as Kardemumma, actually. I have huge boxes of yarn, roughly organized into types, more than I'll probably use in a lifetime. But then, I have buckets and cabinets full of quilting fabric, too -the same. But I like that. I like knowing that I've got potential here. The stupid thing is that I tend to run for something new when I start a new project - instead of checking the stash. Idiot. How nice that you had the chance to go through things and make it all neat and findable.

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  3. jgontourSeptember 7, 2012 at 6:24 p.m.

    Welcome back! How nice to get everything organised.

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