I am very sad to say that I’ve had to cancel my subscription to Knit Today, a magazine published by Immediate Media. I love the magazine. I don’t really need the tutorials, and a lot of the patterns are not to my taste – I just love getting a monthly dose of real-life knitters. Ravelry is fine, but it isn’t always easy to access info about local events etc, whereas the magazine does have that.
However, for the sake of a few pages of useful information, and a lot of pages of pretty pictures and adverts, it’s not worth paying the amount that I do pay. It’s not a lot – I am just earning less than I ought to be to justify a subscription of this frivolous nature!
Other than Knit Today?
I have tonnes to tell you, but this is just a brief post to say hi – today I am packing away all of the crafty stuff that I don’t use, as JS and I are starting to look toward moving out of his parents house, and our room is currently A BIG STATE. I have until he gets home this afternoon to sort it out!
I had a wonderful weekend, which I will explain shortly. For now, why don’t you check out my Facebook page? I spent some time in December working out how to find interesting photos and news stories, and the PM page is benefitting greatly!
I also have a giveaway planned for when I hit 200 likes – I’m on 93 at the moment, so quite some way to go! It’s gonna be great though.
I do have some questions for you all.
- How do you organise your yarn stash?
- When you destash, how do you decide what to keep and what should go?
- Do you embroider? How do you store your floss?
We are desperate to get our own place. Unfortunately, my crafting stuff takes up enough room to fill TWO craft rooms. Need to sort it out, and would really appreciate some advice!
Much love,
Corrie xx
Hey Corrie and fellow PM followers.
I organise my stash by weight of yarn, and then they go in a plastic box together, these then live in a wardrobe, with my sewing machine, loom and library of knitting books. (There is another box for ‘in progress’). If I were to cull my stash I’d start by rationalising which yarn I have a vision/ pattern for. If you don’t know what you’re going to knit or who it’s for then perhaps you won’t miss it? I do personally hold strongly to the belief that knitting is amazing because 1 ball of yarn could become any number of things which makes this hard to enact, but I have previously bought yarn just because it looks amazing without anything in particular in mind so this would be the first to go if I had to apply logic over emotion.
Once I stopped just buying yarn, I then moved to only buying patterns because they are generally more storable, but now I have approximately enough patterns to last my life. Needle accumulation has followed…
Hope this helps!
I LOVE this! Absolutely brilliant. I too have found that recently I buy patterns like a demon and haven’t really bought yarn for a couple of years. Now I need to work out if I do need to destash, or whether I should just bite the bullet and knit with my older yarn…at the moment I am avoiding knitting a bit because I don’t know what to make!
Well, I knitted this as a bit of a stash buster, and actually she has some other fun ideas as well: http://www.cyn.ca/knit/patterns/brainmonster/
I have a tendency to move every few months due to my job so I can’t really have a permanent set up, like a room, for my stash. I have all my yarns in zip lock bags that are labeled with the weight and brand on the out side of the bag. The smaller items, such as my double point needles and my stitch makers etc, are also in labeled bags. All my knitting items live in a giant wicker basket, which makes transport easier.
When I have to destash, aka it doesn’t fit in my basket anymore, I have a great pattern for a hodge podge blanket or I make a grab bag scarf. I’ve also participated in the making of patchwork squares to give for a blanket that was donated to the Linus foundation. It was combine with several other squares.
This is a really good idea. The other thing one of my Twitter friends suggested was vacuum bags which allow you to compress your yarn. I’m putting off tackling the trunk right now because it’s got stuff on top of it…have got to get over this procrastination thing!