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Yarn Stash Overhaul

May 16, 2007 By Carole

Most of my yarn is kept on shelves in the computer room. There is a bit more in some boxes under the computer desk – four sweaters worth or so – and there’s also a basket full of Sugar ‘n Cream – and a really big basket of handspun – but the bulk of my yarn stash is sock yarn and I keep it on open shelving. Oh sure, there’s some lace weight and some odd skeins of Noro and other worsted weights and some plain yarn for dyeing but mostly what I have is sock yarn.

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These last few months it’s gotten a little messy. Blame it on Sock Madness, blame it on the winter blahs, blame it on the fact that I don’t spend a whole lot of time in this room, but it was definitely out of control and maybe even a little overwhelming. So last week I decided something needed to be done and I set about reorganizing the shelved yarn stash.

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Of course things always look worse before they look better.

I was brutal with the stash and only put back the stuff I know think I will actually use. The rest has been set aside for prize donations and gifts – it’s good yarn just not yarn I love.

And see how nice it looks? That top shelf is worsted weight and dye-able yarn and the bottom shelf is lace weight and miscellaneous other yarns. Those three shelves in the middle hold the sock yarn stash. It’s good sock yarn, too. Lots of handpainted stuff along with Opal and Trekking and Fleece Artist. I’m really happy with the way it all looks.

I did make one fatal error, though. I counted the skeins of sock yarn. 80 pairs worth. Oy.

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  1. Cookie says

    May 16, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    Sounds like a good start on our summer of socks. ;^)

  2. nova says

    May 16, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    Only 80? I would have thought you’d have more sock yarn in the stash, actually. I like the orderliness of your resources…very librarianish of you!

  3. Anne says

    May 16, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    Ooh, I have more than half as much as you!! Hey, and that means you could wear the same pair only 4 times a year!

  4. Theresa says

    May 16, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    Oh, you didn’t count! You really didn’t want to know, did you?

  5. BigAlice says

    May 16, 2007 at 2:05 pm

    That pile of yarn looks lovely, all those colors.
    woo boy. 80 pairs? Better get knitting 🙂 On the plus side, you may never have to buy socks again.

  6. kmkat says

    May 16, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    Any centipedes in your immediate (or extended) family? That could take care of a lot of sock yarn 🙂

  7. amanda says

    May 16, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    Hmmm…it’s not bad Carole! Really not bad at all. I know last year in early April I counted only the sock skeins and could’ve knit about 97 pair of adult sized socks. After a rough winter, having el hubster traveling a lot (read: lots of time on my hands), and need for stress relief, I’m absolutely afraid to even count or consider counting.

  8. Beth says

    May 16, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    LOL, 80 seems about right to me too. And my sock yarn stash looks like that everytime I dump it out of the floor too.

  9. Kelly says

    May 16, 2007 at 5:11 pm

    It looks like shelves in a yarn shop. Great job. Now you better get cracking on the sock knitting!

  10. Annie says

    May 16, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    80 pairs? Uncle! You win.

    Looks lovely — yarn as art, you know?

  11. Debi says

    May 16, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    Good job on the reorganization!
    I shudder to think how many pairs of socks I could knit from my stash but spring cleaning is on the agenda for me soon too! Where’s that xanax? 🙂

  12. Cynthia says

    May 16, 2007 at 7:53 pm

    Well, it *is* only enough for 10 octopuses. But then, they don’t really have feet, just…ummm..appendages. OK, that is a lot of sock yarn! I would definitely be up for any castoffs from that marvelous stash, did I hear prizes correctly??.

  13. Lucia says

    May 16, 2007 at 8:48 pm

    Make that 81: remember I owe you one.

  14. Abigail says

    May 16, 2007 at 11:44 pm

    Great job!

    But don’t feel alone I’m at about 60 pairs in my own stash. I swear it multiplies when I turn my back.

  15. Teyani says

    May 17, 2007 at 1:39 am

    lookin’ lovely with that Sock Yarn IRA there…
    hmmm… it seems as though you have carved out some room for more stash! Way to go girrrrll!

  16. ~Kristie says

    May 17, 2007 at 2:38 am

    Nice reorganization!! It’s a little daunting at first to take on a reorganizatio project, so it’s great that you dug in and got through it. It looks like beautiful bookshelf art.

  17. Donna says

    May 17, 2007 at 7:53 am

    I overheard somebody at NH Sheep and Wool this weekend say it best – the hobby is COLLECTING the yarn, not necessarily knitting/crocheting!

    Good job on the cleaning out. Looks great! And I feel so much better about my sock yarn stash now that I know how much you have! But let’s be honest – the way you have been knitting socks, you will plow through that stash of 80 in no time!!!

  18. Wanda says

    May 17, 2007 at 9:44 am

    You have plenty to choose from whenever you’re ready to cast on socks, right? 😉

  19. Sylvia says

    May 17, 2007 at 12:43 pm

    I am haunted now by the images of your tidy skeins and Juno’s proper closet. I will not succumb! We will continue to have yarn willy-nilly throughout the house!

  20. brenda says

    May 18, 2007 at 10:05 am

    I love the pictures of the stash reorganization. Eighty pairs of socks?! I hope you have a pair of socks on your needles at all times;-)

  21. Rachel says

    May 20, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    I just reread the first Harry Potter book and in it, Dumbledore tells Harry that his heart’s desire is a nice pair of woolen socks. Dumbledore is one smart guy. So how can 80 socks’ worth of yarn be wrong?

    Besides, it is wonderfully decorative!

  22. anne says

    May 20, 2007 at 11:51 pm

    that is a heck of a lot of sock yarn alright! now i don’t feel so bad about my sock yarn purchase over the last 2 months . . .

  23. catsmum says

    May 21, 2007 at 12:57 am

    Don’t you know that there’s a rule forbidding the counting of the skeins?
    verboten
    completely
    okay?

  24. Danielle says

    May 21, 2007 at 12:16 pm

    Does it make you happy? If so, then celebrate! It’s no different than collecting teapots or books or maps or Pez dispensers. In fact, it’s probably a bit more justifiable because you’ll eventually turn them into socks you can wear 🙂

  25. Laurie says

    May 23, 2007 at 3:47 am

    Spring cleaning at its best! You may have even more sock yarn than I do.

  26. Laurie says

    May 23, 2007 at 3:48 am

    Spring cleaning at its best! You may have even more sock yarn than I do.

  27. Laurie says

    May 23, 2007 at 3:49 am

    Spring cleaning at its best! You may have even more sock yarn than I do.

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