Stash Reorganization
I joined Knit Wars today. For those of you familiar with Chore Wars, one of the creators of the Lime 'n Violet podcast started a party there for knitters. For those of you unfamiliar, Chore Wars is a site designed to encourage families/offices/communes/whomever to do their chores by rewarding them with experience points (XP) and gold pieces. These things have no meaning in real life (unless, of course, you choose to give them meaning by, say, relating gold pieces to allowances or whatever); it's just for fun and adds a bit of competition to the mundane. Anywho, in the knitting party, various tasks such as finishing a project, buying yarn or resisting the urge to buy yarn replace doing the dishes and taking out the garbage. If you're interested, here's the information on how to join.
Now, I am pretty competitive by nature. Perhaps this comes from being the second child (not that I blame my brother or parents in any way for my personal flaws, but moving on). Having a constantly-updated, ranked list of party members is pretty good incentive for me to actually do stuff when I come home from work, instead of phasing out in front of the TV and falling asleep on the couch. Hopefully, this will be enough of a push to be productive without leaning too much toward compulsive. We'll see.
So today, on my day off, I've read the Knit Wars rules (1XP), listened to the most recent Lime 'n Violet podcast (2XP), ripped out a sock-in-progress that wasn't to my liking (12XP), spent 5 more hours knitting on said sock (100XP), reorganized my yarn stash (10XP) and am currently blogging about it (5XP). And I've set goals for tomorrow to start a new project, try a new skill (bobbles) and hopefully finish the same project (it's going to be a small project). That'll be another 72XP, and I'll level up at 200XP! I've never been into role-playing games in the least, but this I can definitely dig.
Here's the majority:
Top Row: Wools and wool blends, in order of decreasing wool content from left to right
Second Row (first four): Cottons and cottons blends, in order of decreasing cotton content
Third Row (first five): Sock yarns in no particular order, except that the last box is remnants from already-completed socks
Bottom Row: Acrylics, in order from softest and fluffiest on the left to less so on the right, and continuing up to the two right-most boxes on the third and second rows
Then there's also the three-drawer rubbermaid thingie:
Top Drawer: Soft acrylic yarns, such as Caron Simply Soft, TLC Lustre, TLC Baby, etc
Middle Drawer: Novelty yarns
Bottom Drawer: Random balls of miscellaneous (i.e., unknown) yarns
And finally the icky acrylic in its own plastic comforter bag:
All of this had been organized before, but over the past few months, I've used some and added some. So it was in need of some rearranging.
Now, what else can I do before I go to bed?
x-posted to knitphomaniac
Now, I am pretty competitive by nature. Perhaps this comes from being the second child (not that I blame my brother or parents in any way for my personal flaws, but moving on). Having a constantly-updated, ranked list of party members is pretty good incentive for me to actually do stuff when I come home from work, instead of phasing out in front of the TV and falling asleep on the couch. Hopefully, this will be enough of a push to be productive without leaning too much toward compulsive. We'll see.
So today, on my day off, I've read the Knit Wars rules (1XP), listened to the most recent Lime 'n Violet podcast (2XP), ripped out a sock-in-progress that wasn't to my liking (12XP), spent 5 more hours knitting on said sock (100XP), reorganized my yarn stash (10XP) and am currently blogging about it (5XP). And I've set goals for tomorrow to start a new project, try a new skill (bobbles) and hopefully finish the same project (it's going to be a small project). That'll be another 72XP, and I'll level up at 200XP! I've never been into role-playing games in the least, but this I can definitely dig.
Here's the majority:
Top Row: Wools and wool blends, in order of decreasing wool content from left to right
Second Row (first four): Cottons and cottons blends, in order of decreasing cotton content
Third Row (first five): Sock yarns in no particular order, except that the last box is remnants from already-completed socks
Bottom Row: Acrylics, in order from softest and fluffiest on the left to less so on the right, and continuing up to the two right-most boxes on the third and second rows
Then there's also the three-drawer rubbermaid thingie:
Top Drawer: Soft acrylic yarns, such as Caron Simply Soft, TLC Lustre, TLC Baby, etc
Middle Drawer: Novelty yarns
Bottom Drawer: Random balls of miscellaneous (i.e., unknown) yarns
And finally the icky acrylic in its own plastic comforter bag:
All of this had been organized before, but over the past few months, I've used some and added some. So it was in need of some rearranging.
Now, what else can I do before I go to bed?
x-posted to knitphomaniac