The great stash organization of 2011

Somewhere around a month to six weeks the totally awesome Peggy sent me an email about swapping yarn and cleaning out stashes or at least organizing.

This sparked a huge deal with the group. We have planned a swap of yarn and books.

I have this space off my master bath… you need to see it and of the moment I’m not inclined to add a photo of it…. (messy). The plan has always been to put shelves in it and make it into a bit more closet.

Peggy inspired me to decide to make it the “yarn shop”.

As all engineering projects it looks good on paper.

The space is 5’x12’. It has a window and a light. The ceiling is a lovely 12 feet!

Great! Right?

Put in shelves on the three sides from floor to ceiling!

WRONG!

If I go with 12” shelves I get a real issue in the two corners…. Not too big a deal, however, it makes the use of my Rubbermaid buckets null to use narrow shelves.

Ok, use all those Glad bags I bought. No. Well, yes, but….

Ok I buy from Ebay. I have this search that I do some times at the last moment of the work day. I pull up yarn; pound or more; $2.00 or less, free shipping, ending soonest…..

This works out less well these days than expected. I think some sellers are on to me since I find these not so much anymore, however, I have managed to score several weighty cones of industrial size yarn. The yarn size is fine and gossamer to some nice sport and even bulky weight. Putting the cones in my “baggies” isn’t an issue. It is the quantity that gets me in Dutch.

Leon, the son-in-law to be, started counting. He got to 25 and exclaimed “holy shit!”

Ok now I have a weight problem. I didn’t build all those buildings for nothing. I quickly calculated the bracing needed to support approximately 300 pounds of weight on the bottom shelf all the way around. No biggy.

That calculated, I might be able to fit all of them around the bottom. If it spills into the second shelf, well. Ok you figure some of them aren’t so big and only weigh a pound of less.

Now, for the rest of the yarn.

To make a long silly story short. It ain’t happenin.

With the luxury of the house being so big, the kids making the other end into a one bedroom apartment, and the elimination of all but one child; I am going to convert that small bedroom into the yarn shop instead. It’s 10’x 12’, has a closet and a half bath. Yeah, that ought to do. If not I still have the hall bath.