[Nfb-krafters-korner] Dealing with Yarn Sta

Thu Oct 28 22:10:09 UTC 2010

I love organization!  Organization means simplicity.  Simplicity means
peace.  I am a great believer in the old adage, "a place for everything, and
everything in it's place!"  Rocks my world!

Keepin' it simple,
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: Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:16 AM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Dealing with Yarn Sta

I am just organized by nature, I am a Virgo. We are obsessive and compulsive

with our organization. Cannot tolerate disorder of any sort - have to put 
everything in a logical order.  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 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Dealing with Yarn Sta

> Linda - just color me green!  Such organization is what dreams are made 
> of -
> no joke!
>
> Sorting it all out,
> 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 6:51 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Dealing with Yarn Sta
>
> 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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