Category: stash reduction

  just some of the bags of the rayon chenille yarn being donated for the stash busting sale at the guild next month… We spent some time today clearing off one shelving unit of rayon chenille, bagging it up after sorting into the 3 ‘sizes’ represented there. and labelling the bags of yarn with the…

  gaping ‘holes’ on the shelves because most of it is packed up for the craft fair/guild room sales Given my conundrum – running ‘low’ on 2/16 cotton, can’t decide what colour(s) to buy to keep going with the towel weaving, I spent some quality time with my yarn stash.  It took a while, but…

  The state of my stash has been weighing on me – heavily.  These are just two shelves of my current stash.  To be fair, I have gotten rid of or woven a large part of my previous stash, but still…pounds and pounds and pounds of stuff.   It is beginning to feel less of inspiration…

  As part of the Zoom presentation tomorrow on stash management, I realized one cannot consider how one manages one’s stash without addressing the space one has in which TO manage it. So I did a series of photos of my studio on Jan. 1, 2024.  No effort was made to ‘prettify’ my space, other…

  inventory ready for sale In Grade 12 I took Office Practices which went beyond mere typing to teaching other things like double entry bookkeeping, filing, project planning and so on.  As part of my mark for one semester, the teacher wrote that my mark would have been higher if my desk wasn’t always so…

  It feels like I have been working on stash reduction for the last 10 years.  At least.  But while I continued to teach and write, I needed more than just the yarns I wanted to work with – I needed yarns for workshops and for projects designed for publication. Once I stopped doing craft…

  How it started (sort of) How it’s going… The four bins in the top photo are some of the 2/20 mercerized cotton that I began with – there are actually more cones on a shelf that are even older than these tubes, but they are a mixed bag of colours and since they are…

  Some of the tubes of 2/16 cotton yarn that I sorted the other day. Normally I store the tubes of cotton standing up on their end, but these are small enough that they don’t want to stand, so they lay flat.  As such, they tend to take up space and roll around. There are…

  Looking through Facebook ‘memories’ I see a lot of weaving happened over the years.  Yes, even on holidays.  Because when your work is something you love to do, you do it every day you can. Yesterday I continued with the tea towel warp and cleaned off a bunch more tubes.  Most of the first…