I like order in my life, and you wouldn’t think it by looking at my room. I’ve always been terrible with clothes because closets simply don’t work for me, but everything else in my life has a place that it belongs to and goes in.
Except my knitting.
And this is for several reasons:
- My room in my current house is only 10×10 and thus does not have room for much knitting storage once you add a full size bed, large desk w/ two computers, 7 foot tall (full) bookshelf, dresser, full length mirror, nightstand, and other pieces of furniture.
- I’ve been back into yarn for less than a year. I crocheted when I was younger, but I relied on my mom’s stash - which she somehow confined to a basket. No idea how that worked.
- I’m moving in August and want to wait until then to buy things to store my knitting paraphernalia.
So, as you can see, I have several good reasons for not storing my knitting in a way that makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I’ve also been looking around to see how other knitters manage their stash and knitting supplies before diving into a storage solution.
And then, I saw this:
And I’m officially jealous and trying to think of ways to fit this into my teeny tiny room. I don’t have nearly that much yarn, but I could probably fill up roughly one third of that bookcase without breaking a sweat or buying any new yarn.
Right now, I have yarn in bags in the top of my closet, in a giant plastic tub (with lid, to prevent kitty attacks), on my desk (mostly small wips), in the boxes they shipped in, or stored in other random places in my room. Half of the time, I can’t find the yarn I’m looking for, or even remember if I used it or not. I keep buying more yarn because my stash is not appealing. Looking at my stash does not make me want to knit, and that’s a huge problem for me because I end up going out and buying more yarn.
So it’s official. The list of things to buy now includes:
- Second generation iPhone
- Buffy and Angel collectors sets
- Knitting storage implement(s)
The only downside I could see to purchasing something fabulous to store my knitting in is the boyf. When I move in August, we’ll be living together, and while our room is much larger (and our apartment), I don’t think he’d be down for a giant ode to my knitting in our living room.
I wonder if I could convince the boys to let me put it in the living room in exchange for allowing them to use half of the garage for a driving range? They golf, I knit. It works. Kind of.