Baby Steps

OK, so in a post a bit ago, I had decided it was time to reorganize my stash. To be perfectly honest, my entire sewing room was in complete disarray. There was garbage on the floor, nothing was put away, and the drawers for all of my crafts were a wreck.

I decided to tackle the giant. First, I got the room looking as if it was clean on the outside. Then, I decided to start small (the fabric stash just seems too much still!).

I realized that I had bags and bags of yarn and partially finished crocheting projects that needed to be dealt with if I ever want to achieve the perfection of a clean craft room. Time to attack the yarn. Here is what my yarn collection looked like before. I had to pull the drawer completely out of the chest because it was so bad!


I have never been a yarn "baller" always preferring to just leave it in the skeins it comes in. I never really saw the point in rolling the yarn into balls. Let me tell you, I get it now. Check out this ball of yarn's before and after pictures. The space saved is amazing!

Before:

After:

After I balled this first skein, I was sold. I methodically turned the rest of my yarn stash into tight little (or in some cases big) balls.


I am VERY proud of the final product!

A Bummer Wednesday

Well, this week, no one came to crafting night. Some just no showed, and others were dealing with last minute tax stuff. I was planning on using the down time to organize my fabrics, but I just can't seem to bring myself to deal with some of the ugly things I have managed to collect.

Like this beautiful fish print I got somewhere:


I mean, what do you even do with a fabric that looks like this? Suggestions anyone?

And then, there is the dilemma of the mess my fabrics have become. When I'm in the process of choosing for a quilt, or whenever I get some new fabrics, I have a really nasty habit of just tossing them in a pile 'to be sorted later.' Then the pile grows into a monster like this!


Maybe by next week, I'll be writing to say that I pulled myself together and actually got organized. Then I can show you a neat picture of all my organized drawers of fabric. (Yeah, I've been saying this for months now!)