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| Kelie's Social Network Pair #2 |
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What's On Our Sticks:
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| Kelie's Opposite Pole |
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| Ethereal Shawl in handspun - yay! |
Travelling Sock KAL Update: East and West Coast teams are now getting competitive about which knitting circle is going to finish their socks first - ha! Both of our sets of toes are in Canada now - how exciting! I'll keep updating the blog with new socks that arrive.
Mystery Sock IV is underway! We launched Clue 1 last week and our KAL participants are producing toes like crazy :-) It's not too late to join at all... just Click Here to find the Clue 1 thread where the link to the pattern is posted. You only have to finish one sock to be eligible for the random prize drawing at the end of the KAL. Join us!
Paper Organization: We identified four categories of knitting paperwork that tends to pile up: books, magazines, patterns, and class handouts. The bottom line of our discussion is that when we want a pattern, we tend to browse Ravelry and purchase/download patterns from there rather than looking through our books or magazines. We also like the Ravelry download storage functionality. Consequently, neither of us are too keen on keeping pattern books and magazines anymore. Our thoughts on how to move forward include:
Kelie: Find a place to donate her magazines. She has spinning mags that feature techniques she would rather learn by taking a class, so those can go. And she doesn't feel she'll use the patterns in the knitting magazines, so those can go. Many of the knitting mags she has (or the patterns in them) are available electronically should she ever really need one of the patterns. Kelie would also like to thin out her book library, but isn't quite sure how to tackle that yet. She has her pattern printouts in a binder which she likes, and is thinking about scanning her class handouts to store as pdf files. In the future, she'll focus on buying patterns as downloads, and will purchase e-books rather than paper books.
Wendy: Wendy is happy with her books as most of them are technique or stitch library reference books rather than pattern books. She will be dropping her knitting magazines off at the local library for them to sell or give away. This will free up shelf space for her binders of pattern printouts that she can't seem to part with after making a project. She also decided to make scans of class handout materials rather than keep them in binders since she doesn't reference them very often. In the future, Wendy will likely buy patterns through Ravelry as pdfs to store in her Ravelry library.
Next week we'll talk about yarn organization, and hope to interview some of our Sock-aholic group members about different methods people use to store and organize their yarn.
Podcast Giveaway: For January, we'll be giving away another tote bag, so if you would like to be entered in the random drawing, just leave a comment below :-)
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Organization, What is this thing you speak of?
ReplyDeleteI would love to get organized!
ReplyDeleteAnother good podcast girls....
ReplyDeleteI would love to get organized, I am my worse enemy.... I have a walk in closet off the laundry room that is all mine... and I cannot keep it clean.... I think I need smaller tubs.... I have BIG tubs and they are just thrown in there. And then there is books and papers... that is a whole new story....
I keep hoping to win one of the red bags, may have to just buy one......
Can we please please have clue #2 now???????
good job girls....knitrsue
It's hard to have time to be organized when I have 14 pages in my Ravelry queue! Going now to listen to the podcast (I guess I could organize while I listen).
ReplyDeleteThoroughly enjoyed the discussion! I could definitely use some advice on stash storage, so I am really looking forward to the next episode. Also love the idea of Skype interviews :-)
ReplyDeleteBeing a SHE, I totally understand the paper issue. One of the things that really helped me about 13 years ago is that I moved into a tiny house and had all these books and magazines. I found homes for everything. Now I live in new house and am very particular what comes in the house. As a result one side of the garage is totally storage, and not that organized either. Of course, there is no incentive to organize it right now that it's 40* in the daytime in there.
ReplyDeleteQuite a few people bring their knitting magazines to our knitting group. Have you tried that?
Great idea!!! I'm going to take that advice and bring it up at my next group meeting.
DeleteYou are a much braver knitter than I am. That shawl is terrific, but just a little scary. Slippers, socks and scarves I can handle larger lace is still beyond my comfort level
ReplyDeleteYou guys have inspired me to organize my knitting books. I don't have many, but they could use an official place to hang out instead of leaning up against my TV.
ReplyDeleteGood idea to organize patterns! Will start tonite.
ReplyDeleteAwesome episode! Loved hearing all the organizing ideas. My yarn is organized really well - all my sock yarn is neatly stored in Ikea drawer units and all the larger/sweater quantities are stored in see-thru stacking tubs in a closet. I have a small select group of books. My problem area is ALL the saved magazines but they're all unseen and organized inside cabinets in another rarely used room.
ReplyDeleteMy stash is organized by color, a la Sally Melville. Except for my sock yarn, which is in its own bin. Yarn is stashed in a dresser and wardrobe in what used to by our daughter's room - she's married and living elsewhere...what better use for the empty dressers???? Oh, and a couple of plastic drawer units. I donated about half my stash to nursing homes after we moved a few years ago - now I keep in more manageable! Then I took up spinning.......
ReplyDeleteSince I'm not a big fan of working with worsted weight yarn, that I have collected I pass on to friends to make baby hats and afghans for the local hospital maternity wards. I'd say in the last year there has to be 50 babies who own hats and/or afghans with the yarns. Love that!
ReplyDeleteI spend my Friday mornings doing a paper route with my husband for exercise. Today was a snowy, cold, and very windy day and like every other Friday after the new pod cast is out, I listened to it.
ReplyDeleteThe description you gave of the new yarn makes me think of the powdery soft snow I was trudging through. Not so much the "awww... nertz, I gotta shovel that" but the joyfulness of a kid on their crazy carpets or the glinting sparkles of the sunlight reflecting off crystals. So I was thinking about calling it "Snow."
As for the magazines - take them to a women's shelter. If you want to destash yarn and knitting needles too, take them there as well. Those women often need something to hold onto, and yarn is a far better addiction to get hooked on than any drug. If not there, then a senior's centre, but always ask first before you donate.
I loved the podcast and I love the totebag giveaway. I don't really have that many magazines to get rid of but I do have a lot of books, both technique-type books and sock pattern books. Although I haven't really knit that many patterns from my books - I get most patterns from Ravelry - I still wouldn't want to get rid of them. I still love to browse through them.
ReplyDeleteI would LOVE to win the totebag! As far as organizing.. I have all of my yarn organized by wt in large floor-ceiling, Amish-built armoirs in our living room. No one knows that my yarn is in them and they are in the place when I knit the most. Also, there are shelves in them for all of my binders which contain my circs, crochet hooks, DPNs, and notions. I keep it altogether, but out of sight. :)
ReplyDeleteMy organization (lol) is a spare room with clear storage bins under the bed and an old 2 drawer dresser with cupboard on top...I'm sure Martha Stewart would have a 'bird' if she say the state of my organization!
ReplyDeletekjmcnamara
Love the red tote.
ReplyDeleteYes, I really need to organize my books, patterns, print outs, etc. But that takes away from knitting time! :)
ReplyDeleteloved the podcast! and so timely -- i have been organizing my yarn, patterns, books, mags, tools in my mother's keeping room hutch with baskets. it's great because some shelves are open, while others have doors; and it has drawers!
ReplyDeletei don't print patterns any more because i edit the pdf file with notes as i knit, and save it to dropbox so that it is accessible from anywhere.
i also scan any paper pattern i receive so that there's a good copy if the paper one is lost, ruined, etc.
i'm not buying any new books unless they are in electronic format.
i do love how you can search your library in ravelry--i have made more projects from my books because the pattern pops up in my search!
thanks for a great podcast to make my travel to and from work productive and joyous. I really do love a good organization of things but also of time. Scanning and not relying on paper is my new way to keep from moving paper, storing paper or just wondering what I will do with the paper. Any patterns I can put through the scan process is there. I do backup faithfully so if hard drive is lost, my patterns are not. thank you technology
ReplyDeleteI'm somewhat organized - patterns are in binders and books shelved. It's the yarn and magazines that I really need to improve. I'm looking forward to the next podcast for ideas for the stash. I'd love to win the totebag!
ReplyDeleteLinda MTknitter on Ravelry
I spend a good 40% of my time trying to get organized and the other 60% looking for stuff I've put up and can't remember where!
ReplyDeleteHello!!
ReplyDeleteI have to say I cracked up with Kellie's "you're it" trick and am so going to try that next time I have primary supervision!!!!
I added all my magazines and books to Ravelry and find it much easier to look at patterns by their search (though I am not sure if ALL the patterns from the magazines are in there...). I have 3 lg binders with page protectors for printouts and magazines where there were only a few patterns I liked and saved. I have one for crochet, knitting and the third is all other crafty stuff. It is my wool I would like to organize. The one lg tote is just not doing it for me anymore. Thinking of getting those plastic storage drawers.
Melanie (East Coast Knitters Rock!!! We need something to keep us going in the dead of winter!)
I just found your podcast. I loved it.
ReplyDeleteOrganized what is that? :)