[Nfb-krafters-korner] Dealing with Yarn Sta

Wed Oct 27 23:50:37 UTC 2010

Witness here!  Yes, Amen

Here is how I have my yarn stashed, mostly.
I bough pull out drawer containers at Dollar General for about $6.00 each. 
My husband built shelves on my walls in my office.  Each shelf will hold 
three of the drawers across horizontally.My wall holds 21 of the drawer 
containers.

I have some peripheral vision, so I can see contrasts, but nothing in detail 
and nothing clearly, and not much color. I made large labels that are as big 
as the drawer - used white paper and used the Big Mamma marker - labeled 
each drawer, such as "Socks" "Mohair" "Dishcloth" Noro (My favorite, so I 
have three Noro drawers) and like that. /Ths works really well for me.

In addition to this, I have some of the large totes you mentioned. Also have 
some nice basket type of storage things that stack on each other, and have 
matching lids. Three to the stack.  Plus, I have yarn in a yarn basket, all 
in baggies and each baggie has yarn for a future item I plan to knit.

My needles are all stored in ONE place. A container that fits onto the 
shelves - I have a second set of shelves on a different wall in my office. 
These shelves hold the flat containers that were probably meant for cup 
cakes.  They were at Dollar General, too, and about $3.99 each.

In each of those containers is ONE PROJECT - everything I need for that 
project.

On this second wall, there is a shelving unit that has five shelves, up to 
the ceiling.  This unit holds all the cupcake type of containers, and some 
other larger containers.

That is how I store my stash.  I know I could probably knit from my stash 
for the next five years if I put my mind to doing it and quit caving in to 
my desires to purchase MORE yarn.

This is why I want to de-stash over the next year and see what I can 
actually accomplish with it. I think it will be really fun and enlightening 
to do this -

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "linda" <the_ninn at tx.rr.com>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience

> Okay, now you're just singing my life with your words!  I have really come
> to appreciate people who are on time, you know!  And, as for looking for
> things that I have laid down - I hate those days.  I drive myself crazy
> spending hours looking for something that is right there in front of me - 
> in
> a place I have looked a hundred times.  I have not figured out the
> "barracuda" factor on it yet, but it would be nice to know, then I could
> just look there X number of times and get it over with.  I think I can
> safely say that my white hair is directly attributable to this
> excruciatingly frustrating exercise.
>
> I, too, have a stash problem.  Doesn't everyone?  My daughter and her two
> children moved in with me 3 years ago and took over my two extra 
> bedrooms -
> you see where this is heading - and I lost all of my extra closets for
> storage.  My bedroom has become my only place for my "everything" and my
> stash is beginning to take over!    I think my skeins are reproducing!  Do
> skeins have gender??  LOL
>
> Seriously, I hate to keep my yarn in bins - too much stacking and
> unstacking.  I have started using those large heavy-duty plastic zippered
> bags that you get comforters in.  My stash is divided by yarn type.  For
> instance, I have all Vanna's in one bag, all wool in another, all cotton
> (Sugar and Cream) in another, etc.  I also use the smaller ones that sheet
> sets come in for project bags.  They are clear and I can sort of see what 
> is
> inside.  Because my closets are full, I bought two of those canvas shoe
> holders that drop down and open into square compartments and hung them 
> from
> the ceiling.  I stash yarn In this holder for which I have a project in
> mind.   However, best intentions aside, I still need a way to figure out
> what color the yarns are. I do have peripheral vision, but am color blind!
> My daughter recently got an I-Phone and has an app on it for shopping. 
> She
> took pictures of bar codes in the grocery store the other day and it gave 
> us
> the info on the item.  I am wondering if it will do the same for my stash!
> Anyone know if the I-Phone will work for me?
>
> I need to find a "YAA meeting somewhere - can I get a witness!
> Ninn
> The_ninn at tx.rr.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of River Woman
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:51 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience
>
> Yes, for me it will be three years this week. Waiting has become a way of
> life now and at first it was so difficult to know you had to wait for so
> many things that were beyond your control. I still get anxious sometimes,
> then I tell myself to relax and go on with something else. What bothers me
> themost now, is losing things. Not being able to find something that I
> normally would have found without delay.  I lost the piece of pottery I 
> had
> bought for my grand daughter's birthday present...have not yet found it, 
> so
> today I bought another one which I will give her. Where the first one is,
> anyone's guess! I also searched for a very long time this morning for the
> Addi Turbo Needle I had bought for the Life Line Class - fainny found it
> exactly where it should be, but I had searched that place several times 
> and
> did not find it there...often times things are where they are supposed to
> be, but I miss them again and again. Yes, I understand the waiting game,
> too. Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:22 AM
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience
>
>
>> Man, I will definately say I went blind 13  years ago and I HAD to  learn
>> a
>> lesson in patience.  Wait for a ride, wait to borrow someone's eyes  for 
>> a
>> second to look at this or look at that, crawl around on the floor feeling
>> for something I dropped, wait to save some money to get this or that, 
>> that
>
>> I
>> just can't live without.
>>
>> OK enough of my wining.  Take me out in the bacdk yard and shoot  me.
>>
>> I think I will go put on Pandora radio and sit back and knit that other
>> slipper for one of the Princesses.  Thank you so much for that class in
>> cozy
>> slippers.  I am making my first pair out of the 8 ply cotton yarn of
>> Peaches and Cream.  The girls loved it when I got it.  Pinks and  purples
>> and I
>> got solid pink and solid purple for toes and stuff.so they can  tell 
>> whose
>
>> is
>> whose.  The oldest just wants it in the varigated yarn.   I feel the calm
>> coming over me...
>>
>> Joyce  Kane
>> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>> Blindhands at AOL.com
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