Fall Craft Clean-up
Winter is on its way, and I, like perhaps many crafty people, am going to spend it indoors making all sorts of projects. But before that happens, I realized that I had to get better organized. My fabric was all unfolded and scattered in various cabinets, my yarn stash was one huge knot, and my project ideas were floating around in about 6 different notebooks, or just random pieces of paper thrown in a drawer!
So, yesterday I had an organizing frenzy. I put things where they needed to go, dug out my scissors from under the bed, put my knitting needles and crochet hooks all in one place, and sat down to my jumble of yarn. After a couple of hours, I had many neat and distinguishable balls of yarn, and about a billion ideas of things to do with them. I guess I haven’t spent that much time looking at my stash lately, (sometimes I would just rather ignore it) but taking that time to be absorbed in it sort-of re-acquainted me with what I had in there. I came to some pretty good conclusions about what I would probably use and what I wouldn’t, and just the tactile experience of unravelling got me really excited about using them in various projects.
The best part of getting organized was that I made my self a project notebook, which I entitled: A Craft Odyssey. I decorated the cover with a collage of magazine pictures that inspire me – whether project ideas or color combinations or patterns. The pictures were from pretty diverse sources such as National Geographic, 1988, and the current issue of Ready Made magazine. It was fun to do and now I have this beautiful 3-ring binder to hold my project ideas or patterns or instructions that I printed of the internet, or whatever. Organization can be fun, it turns out!
