Where were you when I lived in a very small apartment and had boxes and bags of yarn all over the place? My husband was an artist and would complain all the time that there was no room for his easel but I managed to have knitting and needlework all over the place.
He would have loved that explanation.
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Well, so I am not alone in my train fetish, eh? This is where my husband took me on our honeymoon:
My eyesight isn't up to Z gauge. However, I am just getting past the planning and early experimentation stages for a 1:76 scale (00 gauge) L-shaped layout (3 feet deep, 20 feet long, 8 feet wide) in the attic; I'm using Templot software to design the layout and intend to build all the track myself using rail, sleepers & chairs from a variety of UK sources including the ScaleFour Society. My grandfather was a signalman in the Great Central (later LNER) railway so you can guess the bias that the layout will have
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Oh, it was a BLAST! If we didn't have 63,437-1/2 other things to do, we would probably join the society and help restore the cars.
Thank you; I never thought of that! Guess it'll be much more colorful once I get them all in transparent plastic bins (one of these days/weeks/months....)
-- Carey in MA
Wonder if this comes in the proper size?
Wow... much fancier than the one currently above my lab's sink. Same concept, but in wood: Holes are drilled at an angle into a board, pegs are stuck into the holes. Since my lab was unoccupied for a while before I moved in last November, you can imagine how many of the pegs still remain. ;-)
--Mickey Edmonton, AB (with a heat wave of 30 C...)
Well that stinks. Sort of like when I went on maternity and everyone "borrowed" my IC books.
I can just see cones of yarn arranged as it pleased the arranger on pegs hanging from the wall. Rainbows, color wheels, mosiacs
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Nah, it's not that bad, since my project focuses on the more theoretical aspects of chemistry. Not doing wet chemistry cuts way down on the need to constantly wash glassware, so there's little need for an intact drying rack.
I completely agree. It seems like it would be a nice way to store lots of spools in not too much space, while still having the ability to fondle. Plus you could rearrange the colors to suit your mood (or if we're being practical, suit your current project) quite easily. Plus it would add color.
--Mickey Edmonton, AB (where's it down to a much more reasonable 15 C - in something like 6 hours!)
Those look like a good idea for spools of Kreinik metallics. I have actually toyed with the idea of getting/making yarn trees, like these:
-- Carey in MA
That would work and look so cool!
Gee how did that happen? Cheryl
Yes to both - one section for projects, the rest for display and fondle. C
Which very soon gets both dusty and faded. What little extra yarn I have (I try not to buy too far ahead) is kept in closed containers such as my cedar chest.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
And that's why mine needs to be moved into plastic boxes: one of the fur-balls has decided he likes to check and scratch on cardboard; he'll eventually get into the boxes, and he's another one that puts everything in his mouth. Fur is bad enought, but I really don't want to take a trip to the vet for a string-type problem(nor have him go through it, either).
-- Carey in MA
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Uh, that was supposed to be "chew and scratch" on the boxes, though I'm sure he also checks to see if there are new ones in the pile, as well. (Luckily, I don't think there's anything else he likes to do to the boxes, and I sure hope the other two don't think of something, either!) Sheesh. You'd think I woudl be able to type what I was trying to say when the word was so simple.
-- Carey in MA
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