Yesterday I posted some books for sale. Monday and Tuesday, I spent all day cleaning our apartment. Moving items from one room to another and back again. I have two traditions at the end of the semester... first, get my hair cut; second, clean the apartment and reorganize lots of stuff. Things are much cleaner and nicer now. And most importantly, my yarn and books are out of semi-permanent storage and accessible again!!!

First I had to lay out the stash in order to organize it into its new home in a small Ikea closet that had previously held linens and towels (who needs those!).

I don't have a very big stash at all. The biggest portion is sock yarn. All the rest amounts to at best a small scarf or hat.

Then into the closet it went. I also sorted my books and reclaimed a bookcase for them.

Here are some close-ups:

I even typed up an inventory of the yarn as I was putting it into the closet since the computer was right there. Here's what's in there (more for my memory than anything else):

Shelf 1:

• 3.5 Skeins Patons Up Country in Off-White


• 3 Skeins Blizzard in Blue


• 4 Skeins + 1 ball Plymouth Encore in Dark Green (2), Light Green, Tan, Black Heathered

Shelf 2:

• Left over balls

Shelf 3:

• Chinese yarn 4 100g blue skeins, 2 50g blue skeins, 5 50g tan skeins, 3 lace weight (50g) blue, orange, green

Shelf 4:

• Needles and notions


• Glove pack

Shelf 5:

• Sock yarns

Shelf 6:

• 4 skeins plus 3+ skein worth ball Noro Kureyon in oranges


• 4 skeins Noro Kureyon in blues


• 2 skeins Louet KidLin in tan


• 2 skeins Louet Mohair in light and dark yellow


• 1 skein Blarney Woolen Mills in green

Shelf 7:

• 7 skeins Peruvian Highland Wool (4 tan; 3 purple)


• 1 skein Knit Picks Wool of Andes in Blue


• 2 ish skeins Knit Picks Cotlin in Coffee and Kohlrabi (green)


• 3 skeins Rowan All Seasons Cotton (2 pink, 1 white)


• 2 balls Debbie Bliss Cotton Angora in pink


• 1 ball Debbie Bliss Cathay in pink


• 3 ish skeins Knit Picks Palette in black, gray, pink


• 3 ish balls Rowan 4 Ply Cotton in white (1 ball purple)


• 2 skeins Valley Yarns Berkshire in purple


• 3 skeins Sugar and Cream (pink and white; red, white, blue; green, white, brown)


• 3 skeins Yarn for Sox (2 purple, 1 tan)


• 1 skein Butterfly Cotton in red


• 1 skein Berroco Touche in red


• 1 skein Jamieson and Smith Jumperweight in pink


• 1 skein Araucania Nature Wool Chunky in blue


• 1 skein Lamb's Pride Worsted in purple


• 1 skein Euroflax Linen in gray


• 1 ball Filatura di Crosa ZarOne in blue


• 1 ball Lana Grossa Basics in bright multi


• 1 random ball of something rayon