YAYAYAYAY
This is my amazing secret swap from the Woolaholics forum.
It's soooo nice
It was a kitchen swap, and whoever my swappee was did their homework!



I got some beautiful things.....




Here you can see them in action - knitted tea cosy and cup cosies, crocheted teapot trivet and cup trivets! AND some yummy green tea!

In case you didn't know - I have a thing for tea. And teapots. And tea cosies. And matching sets.

SO thankyou secret swapper - you just hit all my buttons at once!!!

Yes indeed.

Got a little sick of the current state of the sewing room. And since the advent of the new knitting machine I haven't used the bond, nor the bond table, for a while. So I packed the whole lot up and pulled it out of the cramped space it was in.

Then I hauled out the rest of the plastic bags of yarn that were jammed into various corners, and boxed them up in the plastic shoeboxes of joy.

Now it's not all my stash. Its not even a quarter of it. But it is the tidiest bit in my craft room! And I can see what I've got. It also means there's a lot more light and space in here. Which is soooo much nicer.

Only Lucretia could probably tell you what it looked like before, if she wasn't so bedazzled by the enormous piles of fabric on every other surface in here (which of course are still there - but you have to start somewhere, right??)

Hmm, i will have to find the camera and take a pic of the tidy part soon!

SO I have 30 plastic shoeboxes full of yarn, set up in one of those grid shelving units.

*bliss*


Now the question I have is, what am I going to actually do with all the novelty yarn i found in my clean-up? I think I have a small problem. It's some kind of colour/texture addiction. I walk into spotlight/bigw/any place that sells yarn - and i head to the clearance tables - and I just buy a ball of this one, and a ball of that one, and 10 balls of the other coz it's only $10 for 500g!!!!

Then I collect it all in a corner somewhere, and have no CLUE what I'm going to use it for.

I will have to search for patterns for feathers yarn.