Not a lot accomplished on my SIL’s Soft Pretzel socks this week, I’m afraid. Between getting the brioche scarf done and starting Dolores’ pumpkin outfit and other random chores, I haven’t had a lot of patience for them. But starting tomorrow night, I’m getting at them!
This evening I wound up doing a little stash wrangling. I haven’t been keeping up my yarn listings as well as I should, and I know things have come in and gone out of the stash without me documenting. So I’m going through my bins and accounting for everything as well as I can. The scrap bin is a a big box of yarn chaos, but everything else will be accounted for!
Do you organize your crafting stash, or just let it roam free? If so, what is your method?
Quite A Yarn 
My stash waits patiently while I knit new yarn.
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🙂 Mine does a lot of that too.
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I love having an organized stash. It’s done by weight now and is so much easier to use! Enjoy touching all the yarny goodness:)
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Mine is partially organized by weight, and partially by amount – sweater quantities are all together regardless of weight. I have been enjoying it, for the most part 🙂
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Mine is organized by weight, in clear pull drawers in an IKEA Expedit shelf unit. Every so often I have to go through the leftovers of my FOs to put needles away, stash remainder balls of yarn. Because usually I just toss them in the miscellaneous basket!
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Sounds like a good system! I do the same when I am done with projects – too eager to start on the next one 🙂
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I have never used the stash area of Ravelry, but I have a stash spreadsheet that I update about once a year with weight, color, and amount of each yarn in my stash as well as any patterns I have in mind for that yarn. And then I ignore that spreadsheet for another year, continually adding and removing yarn, so that when I decide I’m going to get organized (this time for real, I mean it!) I have to go through the stash again to update it. At this point I’ve mostly given up.
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I have been thinking about a stash spreadsheet as well! But I suspect I would have the same problem you are describing. Keeping up with it would be the tough part!
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It does make me feel really organized for about three days, which is really all I need.
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Well, I must admit with my buying being up this year I have not been good about putting it where it needs to go. So it is overflowing baskets and my storage cube system. And the fabric buying is causing a problem too!!! Plus, I haven’t been good about putting the leftovers away, so it’s all getting out of hand.
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I think it gets like that for everyone once in a while! It gets back in hand eventually though 🙂
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I tame my stash and then I get it all messy again. Green cables socks look great hope you get knit time. I need some too. My knit time evaporated with insurance phone calls again
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Stash maintenance – it’s an ongoing thing for sure. Hope you get more knit time! Insurance phone calls are the worst way to lose fun time, too.
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I tried to organize it into tubs by weight, but I’m not very strict about it. So mainly it roams free.
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It’s a process, that’s for sure 🙂
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