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Filed under: Moi — Kristi at 2:08 pm on Thursday, July 24, 2008

Basil Cutting 2

This morning I ran soaker hoses for the garden and picked basil for pesto dinner tonight. I even went to the grocery store for some supplies to make dinner a bit healthier. The garden chores are always more fun with bright orange shoes and an orange herb cutter! :-)

I also inventoried worsted weight wools and some odds and ends that didn’t get sorted in the great haul out. I’m about out of cubes. I may have one or two left. Or, those two may become one for odds and end scrap yarns and one for undyed blank yarns… I haven’t decided yet.

Either way, my fiber stash isn’t going to fit in the tower of cubes. I’m pretty sure that will hold true even if I pull out sweater quantities of yarn from the other bins and put them in the zipper bags from linen purchases. So, anyone have brilliant ideas for fiber storage? I could stack a few more of the bins (assuming they have any left at the store) below my egress window between the towers and the desk. Though I was kind of hoping for a short bookshelf to fit there… I suppose I could maybe do some sort of flat-topped trunk and then have some books on top of that with bookends? It isn’t like I dig in my fiber stash that frequently. Any other great ideas??

8 Comments »

Comment by CindyCindy

July 24, 2008 @ 5:16 pm

Not a clue. I use those 3X size zipper lock bags and clear plastic bins. No help at all. I’m sorry.

Comment by Chris

July 25, 2008 @ 7:47 am

So color coordinated!

Sorry, my stash is hidden in my closet and exploding out of it…

Comment by Amnada

July 25, 2008 @ 8:41 am

I’m a huge fan of The Container Store, as you know. But, I’ve also found that Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel sometimes have nice baskets and bins for filling with goodies…like the ones we have downstairs between our living room and dining room. As far as finding some durable all purpose sort of canvas bins check out Pottery Barn Kids…they’re a little more stylish than what you might find at say Target. However, Target’s new line of Itso products is sort of neat. You might find something for under the egress window there.

Comment by JessaLu

July 26, 2008 @ 1:42 pm

I like your trunk idea. ;o)

Comment by Carrie K

July 26, 2008 @ 6:44 pm

I’m no help either. I’ve got my stash in two under-the-bed bins, several drawers of the dresser and the wardrobe chest…..in a bin in the closet…..

Comment by mrspao

July 27, 2008 @ 8:08 am

A windowseat would be pretty neat :) Sorry, not much help…

Comment by Debi

July 30, 2008 @ 9:39 pm

You had to know ORANGE would bring me running :)

And this color is very fitting for my SKA request for you! I’m sorry, I cannot find your email anywhere on here so would you be kind enough to email me so we can “chat”?

Comment by =Tamar

August 16, 2008 @ 9:42 pm

How about one of those Colonial style benches with the seat that lifts up for storage space? There’s a table version too; the table-top flips up to be a chairback and the base/ seat is the storage trunk. Put a piece of plywood across two stacks of boxes for a computer desk.
:-)

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