My last post was about missing knitted winter gear. Over the course of the last two weeks, my sweetie and I have been cleaning out closets and rearranging things. More him than me. He has had the past two weeks off, along with the kids on Christmas break from school. I, on the other had, have had to work those two weeks. Other than the obvious, Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, I worked my job, I am self-employed, but sometimes my boss (that would be me) if very mean. The problem comes in that if I am not working, money isn't being earned.
Anyway, in the course of our efforts, I found a pair of fingerless mittens, and an ear warmer. My missing winterwear. My ears and fingers are warmer for the finds, but the knitter wants matchy sets. The ear warmers are an adorable pink and gray, but I only had enough yarn to do the one item. The fingerless mitts had a matching ear warmer, two actually, but they were flawed. The first was too narrow to cover my ear effectively. The second had a flaw: the seam in the middle of my forehead. (I had since learned a technique to prevent.)
I had started the new set with a new yarn. I am almost finished with the new ear warmer. So now what? Should I make the fingerless mitts in the new yarn? Or should I make the new and improved design in the old yarn? I mean, I am eventually going to make both, but it was 27 degrees outside today, so the weather requires that I be as efficient as possible.
So what do I work on next?
The second consideration these days is the stash. My beloved knitting group, Knittervention, is having a stash exchange tomorrow night. Bring your unwanted yarn, and exchange with others with their unwanted yarns. One knitter's neglected yarn is another knitter's droolworthy treasure. I have a few things in the bin. Plus, for some reason three people have gifted with me with an elderly family member's stash. "Here is all Grandma's old yarn, some of it is decades old, can you use it?" So I have some of that, plus a few nicer things that we in my stash, but not as beautiful as other things in my stash.
Ironically, my sweetie and I spent Thursday cleaning out and rearranging the Foyer closet. He put some things in the new gun safe, and a few more things in the barn. He moved a set of shelves from a corner to closer to the door, and I used those shelves for kitchen pantry overflow. Those items had previously been in my room. My office/craft/workout room. Then I spent Friday cleaning out my room. I went through everything in that room. I went through the yarn. I went through the recipe books. I separated garage sale stack with kid toys and clothes that are nice enough to go to Once Upon a Child. I went through EVERYTHING. There is a lot more room in that room today.
Meanwhile, I have two bags of inherited yarn, plus one bin of my stash ready for the exchange. I have told my sweetie that the real challenge is not to come home with more yarn that I left. Or is it? I have so many exquisite skeins, but you can never have too much beautiful yarn. Am I right?
Today, it is all about the rearranging.
