Like this:

So, I knit. I’ve been knitting off and on for years, but never really seriously. Just the occasional dishcloth or scarf. Sometimes I’d try something more challenging, but most of the time I just stick with what’s easy until I got bored, then I’d put down the needles for a while, then pick it up again when I saw a pattern on a messageboard I liked or when the weather got cold. I joined Ravelry back in Nov. in one of these jags, and I’ve been knitting more and more ever since. It’s a good feeling. I even went to a stitch ‘n bitch which I’ve never really felt like doing before and plan on going back.

Since I’ve been knitting again, I’ve been jonesing to buy yarn, but my budget simply doesn’t allow for it. So I’ve been trying to get all my yarn into one place just to see exactly what I have so I can figure out what projects I can do until I do have some cash. You see, I’m messy and my crafty stuff has ended up all over the house. I had it all organized upstairs, but everytime I did a project, I’d drag whatever I needed downstairs so I could work in the living room and then I would never bring it back up. So I thought I’d make my currently unoccupied downstairs bedroom my craft room and put everything into one place.

I skipped a class last night because of a headache, so I figured it was as good a time as any to start moving things around. I dismantled the Crafty Wall of Doom (wire shelving my ex had put up for me), dragged a large portion of it downstairs, reassembled it, and started gathering yarn for all areas of the house. The bookshelf in the living room, the basement, the bag on top of the china cabinet in the dining room, everywhere. It was surprising when I first started putting it away. Hey! There’s that ball of Lorna’s Laces that I bought with the intention to learn how to knit socks. And there’s that now-discontinued Noro I bought to make felted bags for Christmas presents. One major realization: I have way more fun fur than any lesbian really needs. Especially glittery pink and lavender fun fur.

It’s been therapeutic in a can’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been kind of way.   And I feel like if I want to make something, I don’t have to wait for a shipment from yarn.com or tangle.  I feel compelled to use up what I’ve got before I get more so I don’t move into SABLE.

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