August 24, 2004
Annie wrote on her blog
Annie wrote on her blog a few days ago about S.O.S (State of the Stash). I read through her list, and thought "Well, that's not so bad!" So tonight I got thinking about S.O.S and I decided to have a look at my stash and bare it to the world. I'm not actually going to show you each component of my stash - I'm not far enough along in my recovery to face that yet ;)
When I picked up the needles again a year or so ago, I decided that I was only going to buy yarn as I needed it. No stashing, just buy the yarn for each project as I started it.
Within 6 weeks of that misguided notion, I bought this as my stash box. It's designed for under bed storage. Nice and inconspicuous. I can still kid myself that I'm not stashing yarn. And seeing as I'm only buying it as I need it, I'll just pop the yarn in there until I get caught up in my knitting.
A while after that, I bought this box. It also lives under the bed. I needed it because the yarn that wouldn't fit in the flat box kept falling off the top.
I justified this box by saying I needed somewhere to keep the single balls and small amounts of yarn for little projects like socks and hats and the like. It was easier than finding the single balls among the big projects that I wasn't stashing in the big box.
I had to buy this box a few weeks ago, after my Pusher sent me the Big Box of Yarn. And I seem to have filled it up pretty quickly. It lives under the coffee table in the corner, out of sight, but close at hand.
Keep in mind that we live in a very small 2 bedroom villa. I don't have anywhere else to hide boxes. Which is a problem, as I also have this.
So I'm not going to buy any more yarn until the yarn I have can fit into the boxes. Yeah right. ;)
I can't keep cardboard boxes, because someone in the house eats them.
Note the evidence beside her.
And just because I found the picture on a CD tonight, and it's one that I love, here's Em at age 3 or so. This was the first time that she had enough hair to fit into pigtails. :) Unfortunately, you can't see the pigtails very well. She was almost completely bald until she was 2 or so :)
Comments
I started out with the same strategy. But then there were some good sales so I had to pick up a few things....and now I have plans for that stash..sort of. My husband happened to buy a large plastic tub for something and then didn't need it so I put yarn in it because a big empty plastic box is just wasted space. But that's as much space as the stash gets...I live in a tiny 1 bdrm and my current WIPs are already taking over the living room. BTW, Emily looks so grown up now! Your daughter sounds like such a sweet girl! You're very lucky!
Posted by: Evelyn at August 25, 2004 04:12 AMOh, this is only the beginning... stashes have a way of growing without us realizing it.
I've been lurking on your blog for a while and thought I would say "Hi," especially after you linked my "Yarney Olympics." (By the way that Ian Thorpe is such a cutie.)
I live in California and I know you live in Australia. Both my brothers-in-law live in Aussie (one on each side of the continent) and my parents-in-law are moving to Aussie in September (from New Zealand). I was just wondering where you're located.
Take care!
Posted by: Marie at August 25, 2004 05:07 AMI was just the opposite--when I first started knitting, I wasnted a stash! I wish we could see inside the boxes, but thanks for the sneak peek!
Posted by: Renada at August 26, 2004 12:52 AM
At least it's organized. I'm tempted to start selling some of my stash on ebay, so I can buy more that sits in a box :)
Posted by: Jill at August 24, 2004 11:41 PM