My Little Corner of the World...

So am I like the only person in blogland who DIDN'T go to Rhinebeck? Sheesh. Everywhere I turn there's pictures and stories and oh the fibre. I won't bother linking anything, just close your eyes and start typing and sooner or later, you'll land on someone's site where they've linked to a hundred and one other people they met at the festival. Note that none of those links link back to ME! Ack...I'm so going next year.

So this post is partly an attempt to encourage the powers that be around here (namely the constable and myself) to get a move on in creating a creative space for moi. Not a bathroom with showering capabilities in the house or a closed in living room to keep the heat from escaping at the moment, no...my biggest concern is a craft room. At the moment, the sum total of my crafting space consists of this...



This is my corner of the couch, don't even think about sitting here and besides, why would you want to when the possibility of being poked by various and sundry knitting accoutrements is a very distinct possibility. That's right, this is where the magic happens...all that knitty magic. Facinating, isn't it?



I've been feeling a might claustrophobic in my corner of late. My stash was getting a bit out of hand and was overtaking the space. Claming it for it's own. I get into spells of intense productivity (I happen to be in the throes of it at the moment) and inventiveness, and when I do, there is a bit of what I like to call a craft explosion. I quite literally take everything out and spread myself out all over the place.


Self-multiplying stash...I had nothing to do with it...

This is all well and good and a lot of fun for me, but the flip side is that I can't stand visual clutter. It drives me batty. And this being such a small space, it doesn't take long for me to get really quite irritable about the whole thing, despite it being entirely my own doing. So yesterday I figured it was about time that I spent a moment or too with my stash.



As it turns out, I have been in stash denial. Granted, I may not be as far gone as some, but it's all relative, and since I always thought of myself as a one project at a time purchaser of yarn, this surprised me a bit. I found a number of items that I had not exactly forgotten about, but certainly had purchased with no intended project in mind, like I usually do. There's a pile of Debbie Bliss cashmerino aran that, well, I just had to have and now, I haven't a clue what I could possibly create with it. Next to it we have a few skeins of gift and mystery fibre. Love the gifts, nothing thrills me more than being given yarn. It's like being given premission to not do anything other than sit and knit. Which, to be clear, if I haven't been up until now, is my favourite thing to do. The mystery fibre is a Fleece Artist mill end and I'm going to take it to Knit Nite to see if anyone there might have an idea or two as to what it might be. I'm afraid it's destined to be a pet skein...I so love the colour and the feel...it's really heavy and soft (if you can make it out, it's the pinky thing laying near the edge of the fouton. It's in my 'natural fibres' pile. In addition to crafting, my other hobby is organizing...I know, the geek factor just keeps adding onto itself).

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Where was I? Right, yarn...well, there's a lot of acrylic and wool in there and then there is my little pile of sock yarn. What is it with sock yarn anyway? Why is it so enchanting? I love it and fully acknowledge that I love it but have no clue why. It's a mystery. In any case, this is all just stuff I've accumulated since March, when we blew into town. None of this is what I brought with me. That tote was already full. Looks like a new tote might be in order. There were so many bags with yarn and projects on the go...



...that one actually escaped to the other couch.

After getting re-aquainted, I re-organized and re-bagged everything and put it all away again. A little tidier this time.



I still long for a craft room though. I'm dangerously close to setting up a make-shift one for the time being, as Christmas crafting is upon me and I have tonnes of ideas, a few of which involve sewing and weaving. Hmmm...yeah, I see that happening today actually.

Until later...