So my previous plan to put all my yarn away in organized bins seems to be giving way to a plan to just pile it all into precarious stacks.
May need to spend some precious crafting time getting re (re, re, re) organized.
Do you have any methods for keeping things tidied away? Or do things occasionally spin out of control for you, too?
Quite A Yarn 
I keep thinking I’m organised and then suddenly find I’m reorganising. We had guests coming so everything was crammed back in the wardrobe, now I’ve had the house to myself for a few days and I’ve pulled out wet felting, needlefelting stuff, there’s spinning stuff out and obviously my knitting! Oh and to put away some new acquisitions I had to pull out my dyeing stuff. Now I wonder how it all fit in before! I can feel another reorganisation coming later today as hubby, his brother and mother will be here for the weekend. Definitely not buying yarn next year to help stem the tide.
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The struggle is real! Especially for anyone with a couple of hobbies. I’m thinking a yarn diet for next year might be the thing as well.
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Mine are sort of organised chaos packed (rather tightly) into a single wardrobe in my spare room/office.
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Sounds like you have it pretty well under control!
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Haha – only partially! It’s usually okay until I go to find something. Invariably it will be in one of the last containers or boxes. 🙂
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Yup – that’s how it always goes!
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There is little organization in my life. My yarn is stored in large bins in the basement just willy nilly. I tried to put things by weight but my stash is too unbalanced for that. I have way more sock yarn but the worsted skeins are bigger plus the project bags and the UFOs. It’s just a mess.
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It is really difficult to organize!
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No ideas here! 🙂
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You’re probably all organized with your stuff 🙂
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I’m working to keep a lot less stuff. My hobbies is writing and reading and the gym which doesn’t require “stuff.” There are the cats though.
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True – your hobbies don’t require a lot of stuff.
And if you are reading mostly ebooks or library books, that keeps the book stuff from getting out of hand as well! I am trying to have less stuff, but somehow yarn is the exception. Though it shouldn’t be! Yes, the cats do need stuff! Mine too 🙂
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I used to collect cookbooks but I got rid of all but my absolute favorites. Most of the time I get a recipe on line anyway.
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Same here! I used to have a huge bookshelf full. Now I have a much smaller bookshelf, and it’s about half full.
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Occasionally I find myself with a mess, but it’s not with the yarn that I got organized into bins by weight:)
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I am always fighting the disaster in the stash. I bought a narrow 5 shelf metal unit at IKEA that I can stack my plastic bins on that really helps as I can slide the bins on and off the shelf easily and with labeled bins it is easier to grab what you want. The shelves allow exactly 4 bins each so I can sort the yarn by weight and color.
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Sounds like a pretty good system!
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I go through phases where I’m meticulously organized, then I buy one skein or move a project bag and it all falls apart. My knitting stuff is spread out around the house, mostly so my husband never notices how disorganized it really is.
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True – not only is it hard to get it organized, it’s also hard to keep it organized! That is a pretty good plan 🙂
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I usually buy only what i need for the current project. I used to keep a stash but found I needed to plan in my mind, not just buy pretty yarn! Lol.
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You are very disciplined! 🙂
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I found drawers or cubes in shelves works best for me. If I have to stack and unstack containers it all goes to pot. But being able to just open a drawer is much easier. Now, the stuff in the army trunk is another story. I hate opening that hunk of metal! But it has so much storage! I guess I need to put stuff in there I don’t get out often. Like Christmas decorations.
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That is a good use for something awkward to get into!
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