Knitting & Crochet Blog Week: Tidy Mind, Tidy Stitches

PROMPT: How do you keep your yarn wrangling organised? 

My knitting organization style is different right now than it normally is, since I've only got part of my stash here with me in Mexico. However, I think I've grown to love this system more than my old one, and I think I'm going to keep it up when I go home. I've got a couple different systems working in glorious harmony with each other, but I'll just talk here about the big one.

The Stash

The hardest thing for me to organize is my stash. The idea is that I put yarn in zipper bags and store it in a box that fits on the shelf of my desk. But I ran out of zipper bags before I ran out of yarn, and so I had to put more than one kind of yarn in each bag. It was hard to decide how to organize that. Right now, my physical stash is organized by yarn weight, mostly for the convenience of having similarly sized skeins packaged together (I tend to buy several colorways of the same brand of yarn at the same time. Right now I'm trying to work through my Artyarns Ultramerino 4 stash.). But sometimes that doesn't make sense to me.
Because I change my mind about every week about what categorizations make the most sense, I'm really glad I have ravelry's stash page to help me out. I first put pictures with [most of] my yarns thinking that I would need something to reference when I asked my parents to mail me more yarn during the course of this year (no way I can ever carry enough yarn with me to last that long!). But it's helpful now, as I think more carefully about the exact specifications of a yarn I'm trying to match with a project. I like being able to quickly change sorting by color, by weight, by yardage, without actually having to dump my whole stash out on the bed and start over.

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