Inquisitive Felines and Fibers

Who knew it could take this long? It feels as though I’ve been organizing myself forever here, okay, maybe only a few months, but still, I think that my surroundings should be in a little better shape. I have made progress, I will admit that, and my stashes are smaller…for all of my various hobbies, but there is still so much to do.

One idea that came to me in the past week, and it’s actually an idea I got from a woman I know who cross stitches. is to actually put yarn from my stash into bags with the patterns that I would like to use them to make. That will show me just how many projects I have in my future. It will also hopefully keep me from buying any more yarn, although with the Connecticut Sheep Breeders Wool Festival the end of this month it seems a stretch. It will also use up those lovely little handled bags I get in shops that I don’t want to toss out, but really aren’t much good for anything else. I can just picture them now sitting proudly in a row on the shelf just waiting to be grabbed and completed. The more I think about this idea, the more I like it. Now, to actually put it into action.

I have the week after next off for our school’s spring break. I’m very much looking forward to it, but I fear that once again my expectations will exceed my abilities. Weather permitting I will do some work in my flower beds,  preparing them for the dye plants I want to start this year. If the weather doesn’t permit that, well, then I’ll just trot upstairs and start bagging up my projects. Of course this will entail going through my pattern books and working out yardage and weights. Hmm, this could be how the distractions start….hours spent with pattern books. Do you find that you are easily lured into pattern books as well?