Our bedroom is an odd shape with the main part (sleeping area) being just big enough for a queen size bed up against the only wall with no windows and about 3 feet of space on each of the other 3 sides. The one and only closet (a non-walk-in sort of standard size with two bi-fold doors) is at the foot of the bed and off to one side a bit. The other part of our 'Master Bedroom' is sort of a sitting area that you have to walk through to get from the door to the bed. It is maybe about 8 x 10 feet. My dresser, a little antique writing desk, an end table or nightstand height antique radio, the radiator and its cover and The Stash occupy this 'room'. I use the quotation marks because as master bedrooms go there's not much master in it. Square footage wise I think the room Max and Carter share is probably the same or bigger (I know their closet is). As for the sitting area it isn't a seperate room at all. The room is just a really wierd shape.
The problem with The Stash is that it has taken over the entire sitting area, as well as the 3 feet of space on my side of the bed. It appears to be a living breathing entity. I think Addison beats it back when I am not looking. Some days it seems more subdued than others. I have beautiful cubby-hole type shelves, fabric drawers that fit in the cubby-holes, and a number of different baskets to store it all in. Plus, there are also a few under-the-bed clear plastic bins.
Then, there is the wonderful site,
Ravelry. It took me longer than most to join and I still have not really done anything on the site. Yes, I have found a few local people (Kathy from
Colonial Yarn, and Alice of
Altobish and also from Colonial Yarn in particular) and joined a few groups. Beyond that, nothing.
I like the idea of all of my knitting related stuff categorized all in one place. The problem with that is I don't know what all I have. I'm actually more than a little afraid to find out. It's one thing to have a plastic baggy with most of my sock needles in it and some in WIP's, and some burried or hidden here and there. It is something altogether different (and a definite needle purchasing inhibitor) to know that I have 304 circular needles in the 0 to 2 size range. I exagerate a little because I am afraid to even hazzard a guess. Do I really have to find out how many I have?
So, The Project is one of cleaning up the stash. More importantly it is one of photographing and identifying exactly WHAT (and how much) The Stash really is. A full documentation. With images.
Just for the record, The Project has commenced. I spent most of Wednesday photographing and winding into center-pull balls the few skeins that made up the "wool cubby". I have also just spent the better part of the last three hours getting my Flickr account linked to my Ravelry account, uploading all of the pictures I took Wednesday plus the yarn I dyed last week that
is for sale on Etsy plus pics of some of the sweaters I have made. This is going to take a while.
While working on all of this, I came across a yarn whose lineage is a complete mystery. I am not sure of the fiber content but think it is a superwash sock yarn blended with either silk or bamboo. It could just be plain superwash but I can't tell. It seems to have the slightest sheen. It is a 3 ply and is 25 wpi. I first thought it was a lace yarn because the wpi count seems too high for a sock yarn but I looked at some other lace weights and decided that if it were meant for lace it would only be a 2 ply and the wpi's would be higher accordingly. It is just a light fingering. It is a 100 g skein and I measured it to be in the area of 460 yds. It is tightly plied but doesn't have a lot of bounce or spring to the touch. I haven't tried knitting with it.
The colors are staggeringly gorgeous (if you are a fan of purple or pink or combinations of same). It also has a silvery sort of grey/lavender and a dark purplish brown. If you have seen this yarn, please let me know...I would love to call it by it's proper name when I gush over it.
