Just Nicky

No more room in the stash January 15, 2005

For ages I’d been keeping my yarn in a collection of plastic bags, baskets and plastic crates. All fine and dandy up to a point, but it’s difficult to tell what you’ve actually got and how much of it and things tend to get rather tangled as you rummage for that last ball which has worked its way to the bottom.

When I decided to get serious about my knitting I also decided that the stash needed a better place to live. Ideally, something with drawers so that I could divide yarn by colour, or type, or brand, or weight, or all of those, if I so desired. Most options of this type are, however, somewhat pricey, so I checked out what Ikea had to offer.

Lots of their options seemed pricey too, until I came across the Antonius range. For $55 I was able to get a frame and 6 baskets which held everything beautifully - until today.

After today’s trip to Lincraft I have too much yarn for my baskets! I can’t open one without another being pulled open by the yarn overflowing from the first.

I plan to reduce the load as quickly as I can. I’m trying to finish the loud rug, but it’s taking ages. And I’ve started a cotton jumper for Finn. And I’ve got other stuff planned. But I’ve bought more yarn online which will start turning up early next week and it may have to go in one of the plastic crates.

That may not seem all that bad to you, but I like have all that yarn stored where I can look at it all. It fires my imagination. Rummaging in a plastic crate just annoys me.

I wonder if I can justify another trip to Ikea…