My daughter, Chloe Findlay-Harder,  has been organizing some things in her studio.
Bless her heart,
she gave me a couple more
of the fab wire baskets
that she made a few years ago.
Here’s one of the
new ones,
sitting on the
shelf that lives
on my knitting machine
table.
When I was
busy admiring
the new baskets,
I realized how  much
I love using baskets
for organizing studio
stuff, and that I have
baskets by the dozens.
(There’s another one of
Chloe’s baskets in this
pic, too)
So, I started taking
photos of some of
the baskets in
my studio,
and before long
I had taken
almost 50 photos….
I won’t bore you
with photos of
all the studio
baskets, but
there are a few
baskets that are
dear to my heart…..
The blue wicker …read more

I am in the middle of trying to re-configure my studio so that the spaces work better.
I want to be able to get at my yarn and tools quickly and  easily, but keep them away from mischevious cats and small wicked dogs (yarnaholic animal companions are a pain in the skein!).
I am blessed with a large studio that we heat with a wood burning stove in winter and big south facing windows.
This is great, but oh so dusty, so I can’t have my yarn displayed openly.
Having a big studio means we have a tiny bedroom. That’s mostly okay, as I …read more

I’ve been working hard to get my studio more organized, and have put up a shelf full of boxes. They hold roving and fleece that I will be spinning (eventually… I am deep into meeting deadlines on my new book, and I am not spinning yarn for it, so the roving has to wait).
Even though I don’t have time to get to it, I still like to know what’s where.   I bought some of these thingies a few years back [for some wooden boxes that I've since given away]:

I took the bolts out and measured half way up the box

and …read more

I’ve been posting about organizing yarn stashes
Here’s one of my most favorite book cases. It’s GREAT for storing yarn and stashes:

We found it at a garage sale. For FREE! The lady who owned it reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hated it. (I didn’t ask why).
On the second shelf, I have a heap of yarn in wire baskets from a retired freezer.
They came from another garage sale.
They are good in that I can see the yarns and colors, but tend to latch onto one another and launch themselves at me if I pull on one of them without anchoring the others. erg. There’s …read more