Shoveling Out the Studio
Well, swapping out the cable modem didn’t fix our issue at all. That said, I was rather impressed with our service. We called after noon on Saturday to schedule for a technician to come out. I expected at that point we’d have to wait until Monday to get things fixed, but within about 4 hours we had a tech at the house trying to track down the problem. It ended up the outdoor connections just needed reseated and we were back in business - go figure.
But, I’ve remained absent for a good reason… We have one cable outlet in the entire house. It is in my studio (a pseudo spare room in the corner of the basement). It is in the yarn corner of my studio. My studio is the junk drawer of out house - someone is coming over at the last minute? Just shove it in the studio. So, in order for that tech to come out the studio needed exhumed. So, I got out bankers boxes and boxed up yarn accroding to fiber content and weight and put index cards on top so if I didn’t get stuff unboxed quickly I could still find what i needed. That said, uncovering carpet that hasn’t seen the light of day in who knows how long has energized me to get that room clean and functional once again. So, that is where I have been since the last post.
I got myself some collapsable cubes that fit inside my towers of metal cubes and I’ve been sorting and inventorying my stash. I got rid of two huge bags of yarn yesterday - mostly box store yarns with high acrylic content. They went to good homes so I feel good about that. I have all my fingering and sport weight yarns in 3 (out of 10) cubes and inventoried! This morning I need to sort the cottons as a friend is stopping by to see if she wants any of the cottons I wish to get rid of. What she doesn’t take will go to the same group the acrylic stuff went to next week.
On that note, I need to get sorting. With the busy summer and now this organizational binge I’m finding Plurk’s micro-blogging format to be much easier to squeeze in here and there. So head over there and look me up if you’re going through withdrawl ;-)
Oh, and I’m totally open to suggestions and tips on stash organization! My biggest question at the moment is how I want to deal with my circular needles. In a lot of cases I’m guessing I no longer have the original packaging.
