If you ever doubted my resolve to use the yarn I have here, you can put those doubts aside. I had ordered 16 – 18 quart Sterlite containers from Walmart and they arrived earlier in the week.
There was yarn everywhere! Both extra bedrooms had yarn, there were bags of yarn in our room. There’s still quite a few tubs of yarn in the sewing room but I just wanted to get everything in the house organized. Yesterday I filled 15 of the 16 containers.
Yarn Box #1
Some of the yarns have patterns already and some don’t.
Yarn Box 14
100% of the yarn is not organized yet but it’s way better than it was. I have a better idea of how much yarn I have and I know which yarns are matched to patterns and which yarns are free to be used for something else. If I see a pattern I want to make, I’ll go through and see which yarns would work and whether I want to make the pattern they’re already assigned to or whether I want to switch and make the new pattern . . but no new yarn.
Sheila Sanderson says
Only 14 boxes!!!!!!…..enough to keep you going until 100+ I should not talk as there is yarn here from way back…..70’s…like your idea of yarns with patterns, so now doing that Hope in a years time the boxes are down to single figures…….we can dream
JudyL says
Most of my sweater yarn has been purchased within the last couple of years but I’m sure there’s quite a bit of sock yarn as far back as about 2004, when I began knitting socks.
Karen says
That’s what I need to do – l’ve got yarn everywhere. My problem is I see a pattern, order yarn but by the time the yarn arrives I’ve forgotten which pattern goes with the yarn. My ‘after holidays’ project is to get yarn and patterns matched, sorted and put away. Right now I just need to put it all somewhere out of the way so my daughter and her family have a place to sleep!
JudyL says
I had done a fair job of listing the project in my queue on Ravelry as soon as I bought yarn so I wasn’t having to go figure out later what pattern went with which yarn. Like you, one of our extra beds was piled high with yarn and the other had enough yarn that it would have been impossible to use it as a bed without quite a bit of cleaning. All is good now. Good luck with getting yours organized and cleaned up.
Norma says
Way to go, Judy. I need to organize my yarn as well. Maybe I should get containers so I can have everything in one spot. Thanks for the inspiration. No buy? I hope so!
Gari says
Since I don’t have as much yarn as you I have gotten 2 gal plastic bags and am putting yarn and patterns together in them. I have an acrylic 3 shelf cabinet that the much of the yarn is in now but it soon will house one shelf of the filled bags. I recently reorganized my fabric so this is just the next logical step.
Gwen says
Is the yarn in the sewing room already sorted and stored this way?
Swooze says
Good for you! If you knit what you plan for 2015 how many boxes will you clear?
Linda Steller says
You are amazing!
Nann says
Keep up the good work, Judy! Did you find yarn you’d completely forgotten about acquiring?
JudyL says
I found one bag that had 11 skeins of Malabrigo Rios. I remembered buying it because I couldn’t decide between two colors. 11 skeins is a lot of yarn so I knew I had a project in mind when I bought it. I went back through my invoices and found when I bought it so I went back to the patterns I bought about that time and didn’t find anything. Went back through my emails with Amy and figured out a pattern we were talking about at the time but it was a pattern I had purchased in April so I guess my discussion with Amy caused me to decide to buy the yarn. So, it’s Amy’s fault! YAY! It wasn’t my fault! 🙂
Sheri says
I’m impressed with your yarn organization, Judy! I keep a list of my Wollmeise Stash and my Madelinetosh Stash in my phone, but that’s as far as I have gotten. Someday I’ll go through and list the rest in a way that’s easy for me to find and use it.