Stuff

The bottom of the sweater ribbing is cast off.  Even bigger news, I picked up stitches for the collar. Yesterday was one of those days where  I felt like  I could knit for hours.  At the end of the day,  I tried to put it back in its bag and it simply would not fit.  I left it like this overnight.

  

I never do this.   Yarn and projects are always put away.   I am gong to find a bag that can hold the yarn I am not using so the sweater will fit in its long term storage tote.  There will be more knitting today, but first, I am attending to a task that I have needed to do for a long time.

This is my notions box.  It is a photo box sized about 4 x 6 inches and I have used it for years.    

It is a little small and over full and likes to pop open unannounced.  There are a lot of things in it that have better storage places, like dpns from finished socks and crochet hooks. They belong in the needle case.

 These are also places I keep knitting notions and bits and bobs that are sometimes useful.

This is where I keep the extras or the things that are too are big to fit in the photo box.  They seldom are used. What they are is excess.  They are stuff, that generic term that means I have no idea why I have them if I am not using them.  This is, of course, opposed to the things that others may see as stuff, like yarn and books and fabric and the vases of knitting needles or knitting books, but which are important to me.  

That is the thing about our stuff. What is really important to each of us, holds little or no meaning to someone else.  We might have an attachment to it but no one else understands or cares.  They have their own stuff that we don't understand. 

Then there is this.  It was a 'good deal' which means that I was able to rationalise why I 'needed' them.

It is helpful to have markers of different colours to remind me where certain things have to happen.  This last one is staying as is, but the other two hiding places are being cleaned and sorted and put where these items might get used, or they will go to a new home.

Step one.  

Things are sorted out and moved to a new, larger notions box that I will keep at hand.  There are things that don't need to be here but I will sort that out as I am going through the other stuff. (There is that word again.) That will be step two, three and four. And maybe five. At the end of the day, the goal is to have everything I use in one place and any useful extras in one, one other place that I also already actually use.  

I am not sure yet just where that is.  Funny, that.