Flash Your Stash

Doink! I forgot the link!

Double Doink!

I meant to say since Thursday. I guess I've lost a sense of what day it is and thought it was Sunday instead of Saturday.

Hesira

Hi Hesira,

First, I'm sorry to hear that you and the family have been sick with strep throat, now fun at all.

I can't take a picture of my stash as I'd have to unload at least a dozen huge containers and then I don't know where I'd put it in order to get it all in the picture. Maybe the next time I decide to rearrange the stash, I'll take one.

I did enjoy seeing yours.

Hugs,

Nora

Yes, I enjoyed seeing how you organized your stash, too. I know about Nora's containers, too :)

My stash is in three small baskets and one huge canvas laundry hamper, all scattered around my living room, but centred around the couch and CD player :) and the things I've made and not yet sold/given are in a giant suitcase in my dining room, unless they don't have tags attached, in which case they're currently residing on a bookcase in my living room, stacked in front of the books. Well, supposedly stacked, but they're rather crooked and falling-down types of stacks :) My hooks and wire crochet tools (pliers and wire cutters) are all on display in a fancy ceramic plant pot.

And I missed by two days the last day of Lewiscraft, where I meant to buy one of their large yarn block-type fixtures that they were selling, once empty, for $20. That would be sooo perfect, but I forgot to check and then they closed.

Let's not talk about my fabric stash.....

No photos; I haven't gotten my new camera yet.

Michelle

Doink!

Here's the link:

Higs, Katherine

Hesira! Sorry to hear that you and your family have all been sick with strep. Hope y'all are getting better quickly now.

I just recently went through only a small amount of my stash 'cause I was looking for specific yarn for socks I wanted to make for a friend, and I was shocked to realize all I have. When I stopped crocheting, I packed it all into plastic bags (by type) and then into Rubbermaid bins that I labeled and stacked in the basement. Little good the labels did me 'cause I couldn't remember what I meant in a lot of cases ... like "three skeins red leftover from Livie's baby dress" and I couldn't for the life of me remember the dress!! There are six or eight bins -- six I think that contain yarn, the other two I think are cords and string for macrame and there might be one whole bin of crochet cotton (#10) for the curtains I intended to make and then couldn't work.

I also found partially made items that I'd completely forgotten -- one really gorgeous afghan that's a combination of lace and ripple stitch. I'll never be able to finish it 'cause I can't crochet that much, but Bart put up some links that I think I can use (beautiful knitted patterns) and adapt to make a nice knitted afghan with the beautiful yarn. It's acrylic but very soft and the most gorgeous color of cream. I should also be able to make use of the crochet cotton that I'd considered giving away or selling 'cause I never knew knitting could be done to make lace! Bart lit up a whole new area of knitting for me that I never knew existed. !!!

Meantime, even though I know I've got all that down there just waiting for me, I still plan to go shoppin' tonight and get some yarn from Elann like Shelagh recommended. Bwahahahahaha!

Sending you hugs and chicken soup to feel better soon, Hesira! Eve :o)

Eve & Nora,

Thanks for the kind words about the strep. Today we're feeling much better. Yay for antibiotics! And thanks for the chicken soup!

Hesira

I have a fairly large stash, and will have some fun tomorrow taking a couple of pictures. When done, I'll provide a link to my Yahoo album (smile).

Shelagh

Here's only some of my stash. Right now my stash is very disorganized. I have approximately 12 totes full of yarn, plus bags on the bed in the guest room (I'm not showing that - it looks really bad), some in my computer room, some in the living room, some totes out on the porch. I didn't even bother with a picture of my magazines and books.... (sigh)

I've made a promise to myself that I'm going to re-organize it all.... that's why I want a rodent proof shed outside.(giggle)

Anyhow, follow the link and click on the pictures

Cripes, Shelagh! If this is what you consider disorganized, I could sure use you 'round here to DISorganize my mess! LOL

Funny how looking at my own stuff I can't decide what I shall make with it; but lookin' at your pics, I knew immediately what I'd wanna make with all of it. LOL Eve :o)

Hi

Gee your stash looks like my stash. Some of my stash is organized in tote boxes while some is also all over the apartment so I won't be taking pictures either.

Darlene in Toronto

Oh Eve, I didn't post some of the pictures of my so-called guest bedroom because it looks like a pig lives there. Right now it's crammed with plants that I brought in over the winter... I live in a mobile home with absolutely no storage. I'm saving up for an 8x10 storage shed that DH & I will rodent proof, then it's all going out there. I want to reclaim that bedroom! (laugh)

Okay - so tell me about some of what you'd like to make (smile).

Shelagh

heh,heh - I need to see what else I can cram into the totes to alleviate the "stash in bags" syndrome. It's also a good way to re-acquaint myself with what I do have. (giggle)

Shelagh

You're my kind of person Shelagh....LOL! I have stash everywhere too and I have a garage, walk in closets and attics...but I want it where I have easy access to it. Marie and the cats

Hi Hesira,

I don't have pictures, and I don't consider my stash to be amazing, but I have been working on stash reduction by making scrap afghans for friends for the past year.

I've really gotten it down and reorganized my acrylics by color, so they are in bags by colors.

I have a large bag of rug yarn in various colors that I got on closeout that I'm using to design summer slippers and the sandals I showed on my site under finished objects for this year.

I do have premium yarns, which tend to get grouped together in bags and then the bags shoved into either a corner of the closet I've claimed, or a tote I have outside to keep them more available. So I don't have nearly as much stash as I used to. My premium yarns include Brown Sheep Naturespun wool, which I'm going to use to make some felted slippers, a felted winter hat, and have already made myself some convertible mittens from. I also have some Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride that's being worked up into socks for me, but I'll still have skeins left to do something else, since my DH decided that he doesn't want that to be made into a hat and gloves for him (changed to the Woolease I had in the stash and is now gone). I have Regia sport and GGH fingering yarns for more socks. I have a nubbly wool yarn I got on closeout that I don't remember what it is that's been wound into balls and is waiting to become a soft fluffy scarf. I also have some Rowan and Cascade wool yarns to swatch for the aran sweater my DH wants that I'm designing for him. I told him that it won't go to waste, because any leftovers can be used as toes and heels for socks because it doesn't take that much. He wasn't sure which yarn he wanted to become his sweater, and I said I should get some of both so he can test how they feel in addition to seeing how they look with the pattern. He agreed, and if he doesn't like either of those, it'll be back to the LYS for more different brands of wool to swatch before his aran gets made, hopefully by next winter.

Leah

You are brave -- I am not sure I want to have pictures of my stash. I started out with a deep drawer and a cupboard for the patterns - that didn't last long. Then I bought some bins including a three drawer rolling one. Next came the zipper bags that bedspreads came in and finally assorted bags and boxes plus a couple of baskets. There is some good stuff - and a lot of bits and pieces. Fortunately most is in my finished basement craft and laundry room - DH doesn't go down there much. Only my WIPs make it up to the family room and the floor and table next to my part of the couch. I keep working on reducing it but it is pretty slow going as I keep getting tempted to add rather than subtract. Judy

Thinking of stash, summer and moths are coming. Most of my cedar "balls" were 3 or 4 years old last year, had lost their smell, and I had a few moths. So I put the cedar balls in ziplock bags with some inexpensive cedar oil, and let the cedar oil soak into the old cedar balls. Now those balls do smell like cedar.

Any guesses as to whether such cedar oil vapors will repel moths?

Does Lavender oil work?

Aaron

Hi Aaron,

Not sure about cedar, but I make my own soap and shampoo, and if you use the real oil (labeled pure essential oil) of lavender, and not fragrance oil, which is an artificial chemical mix made to smell like lavender, it will help repel moths.

In my soap recipe notes, I copied this from info I found online:

According to a chart that appeared in the Raindrop Messenger, edited by Dr. David Stewart, of the Center Of Aromatherapy Research And Education, bugs that do not like the scent of peppermint include: Ants, aphids, beetles, caterpillars, fleas, flies, gnats, lice, moths, plant lice, and spiders. According to the same chart, bugs that do not like the scent of lavender include: Chiggers, fleas, flies, mosquitos, moths, and ticks.

A lot of bugs also do not like citronella or eucalyptus. I do not like citronella either, as it's usually too strong and makes me sick (those awful stinking bug-repelling candles are what I'm referring to). Eucalyptus is a tricky thing. If you've got elderly adults and very young kids around, too much of the wrong kind of eucalyptus can be bad for them both. This, of course, refers to using it in a soap that's applied to the skin on a regular basis; it's used in many cough remedies to help ease breathing.

Leah