Spring Cleaning a Wool House......Mar 3, 2005

Is It Spring Yet??

I am soooooo ready for Spring, but looking at the 4-5 foot snowbanks in my yard, it feels like Spring is not a happening thing here in the mountains any time too soon.  This little Robin sits atop my computer screen.  She has been sitting there for many years and always brings a smile to my face come this time of year. Nestled with her in the snow are a few skeins of Lorna Laces sock yarn .........I couldn't resist the Spring color of Crocuses.  It will still be many a week before we even see a hint of Snowdrops or Crocuses poking their noses out

Spring Cleaning

Yesterday after looking at Julia's blog, I went around the house taking pictures, thinking yup.......I too live in a wool house.

What you see here is the little nook between my office desk and my file cabinet.......a huge stash catch-all! 

Believe it or not, my office shredder is hiding behind there, but you could break your neck just trying to reach it.

What A Mess This Wool House is Becoming!!!

On to the living room.......this is where I spend the bulk of my spinning and knitting time and boy, does it show.  Where my computer/loom room is my "stash" room, the living room is , well.........a lived in room...<grin>......can you tell?

Piles in every blessed corner in that living room.....God forbid I might have to get up to reach for another project.

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Then we move onto the hallway.  We live in an old New England Farm house with a pretty large front hallway, that no one really uses, except to go upstairs.........another perfect spot for stashes galore

HOLEY MOSES.................How did I let this happen???

After looking at those pictures, I decided that I needed to pretend it was Spring and do some heavy duty cleaning out.  Being stuck inside this winter has made me a careless housekeeper........eeekkkk!

Hey........you can see my shredder.  The rovings in that basket were all labeled and put into plastic bags. Any roving that I didn't think I would use, went into a basket for a future sale.

All of the various yarns, also were bagged and labeled and put into a large plastic bin next to the loom. 

I have decided that I need to finish up my various knitting projects before I dress the loom again, so I cleaned and oiled the loom and folded both beams, tucking my sheepskin covered bench in tight next to the treadles. 

Next it was onto the living room.  My DH likes to refer to this chair as my throne...LOL  This is usually where my piles tend to accumulate.  See.........no piles!!  Tucked in the far corner is a basket with the few works in progress and another small basket with empty spinning bobbins. 

My stool has storage under the lid and that is where my knitting needles live.  The X and O vest is sitting ready to be worked on.  More about that in my next post...ggrrrrr.  No new un-commissioned projects until it is finished!

The living room spinning wheels all found their personal corners. All dusted and polished.

(That nasty paneling is going as soon as the kitchen is finished)

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And the hallway, that houses my big Antique Canadian wheel is once again, just a hallway.

My large triangle loom hiding behind the wheel is going to be taken apart and stored until it is time for a project to go onto it.

Whew!!  Thanks Julia................I probably never would have accomplished all of this today, if your blog hadn't inspired me to start taking pictures!    Flylady would surely be proud of me!  Look for a big stash sale this Spring........

Comments

[julia fc]

I'm with you on this. simplification, ebay here I come, although I wonder how interested people might be in buying yarn from a woman with an avowed moth problem. Your house looks like home to me. Plastic bags and all.

[Annie]

Can I come over to your house to play? Looks so fun with the wheels, loom, knitting all over! How many wheels do you have?!?

[Anne]

Of course, you ARE going to let fellow bunny moms know before you post your sale list to the general public.... right... right!?! :)

[June]

Wow, look at all of the wheels...! I see a... is that a Robin wheel? What is behind it - a Lendrum production? Then there's a regular knock down Lendrum, the Canadian with iron treadle (is that a Merlin wheel?)... I'm loving it!

[Margene]

I knew it would be contagious! Looking good around there and doesn't if feel good, too. We're all ready, ready, ready for spring now.

[Liz]

Wow, that's inspiring! I need to work on stash organization and categorization. :) My stash is all confined to bins and boxes, but not very organized. I'll work on that over Easter weekend I think. I'm up to 2 wheels, and should have a third within a few weeks! :)

[vi]

I don't dare even begin to clean my house, I would find out that I have to move to a larger house.... preferably with actual closets then
vi
who's antique house was build before closets were common

[Norma]

I don't know how it happened, but after the great stash documentation, my house is more untidy than it was before! I have to do something about that....

[Judy]

I don't know if seeing that we all are suffering from the 'wool house' syndrome or just counting your wheels made me feel a whole lot better. How do youlike the Lendrum production wheel?

[Jane]

Wow! You were really busy (& inspired). I got as far as making an inventory of a couple boxes and two bins of yarn - I'm up to 74 skeins & 340 ounces, mostly worsted weight. And I still have a couple bins, boxes and bags to go through. We won't even talk about the quilting corner which one friend said should be a *store* (g)

Jane
http://plainjaneknits.blogspot.com/