More Fiber Storage

Office shelf My two "front" rooms used to be living and dining, and are now office and living rooms. They are separted by a large arch and no door. I put 8' shelves above the arch on both sides and they are the perfect depth for those 12x15" office storage boxes. All of these boxes are filled with yarn - mostly sock yarn! Two boxes on the living room side hold dishcloth cotton and two on the office side hold 1lb acrylic skeins, but the rest really are filled with sock yarns.

Living Room Shelf

I even have stacks of bins in the kitchen in front of the (non-working) oven. Next to the neat stack of bins and boxes is a pretty haphazard stack of plastic bags with mostly alpaca, llama and some wool. These are the smaller amounts that wont fill a bin by themselves, but don't seem to have found a better home. Maybe someday.

ACK! I've been tagged - I'm IT!

HUH? How did this happen? I'm part of a game I never knew existed. Anyway, I've been tagged by Judy (who must be a woman of rare intelect since she was able to tell right away that I'm "an awesome spinner." Heh.

Here are THE RULES:Each player of this game starts with the ‘6 weird things about you.’ People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says ‘you are tagged’ in their comments and tell them to read your blog.”

I'm not sure I "know" 6 other bloggers, since I've been doing this for such a short time, but I can probably think of a lot more than 6 weird things about me.

1.) I put myself thru a bit of high school and most of college shooting pool. This was way back in the (mumblty-mumble) decade.

2.) My asthma recue inhaler makes my breathing worse instead of better.

3.) I loathe cilantro. It tastes just like bar soap to me. Weird, huh?

4.) Bell peppers give me hordendous heartburn (lasts for weeks) but chili peppers don't.

5.) Until the age of 13, I *was* a horse. Then puberty hit and I found myself with only 2 legs and the only hair I had was on my head. I *miss* my tail - keeps the flies off, doncha know?

6.) I am a native Californian, and have lived here most of my life. The only time I've ever been out of the country (USA) was back in 2003 when I went to NZ and AU. Hard to get farther away than that.

You readers will have to decide if you think any of the above is really weird, but I can attest to the fact that all of my friends and acquaintances have, at one time or another, told me I'm weird.

Now to pick my victims. Hmmm, these people are gonna be REALLY suprised, since I'm pretty sure they haven't a clue who I am.

Teresa The Keyboard Biologist - A smart woman who recognizes the balance knitting gives to the technical life.

Joyce The Reluctant Penguin - I love her blog - one of the first I read. I go back whenever there's a new entry.

Stitchcounter - A fellow member of the Victorian Lace Today blog-a-long. No, wait, that can't be right - Knit-a-long!

Lenore - who has a brand new puppy and needs to think about something other than puppy training and frantickly knitting gifts.

Rochelle - a long time knitter of some skill who is a new spinner and has her first wheel on its way to her. She needs to share more, right?

June - who explains her blog thusly "Adventures of the only Japanese American handspinning knitter in Southeastern Minnesota!" I've "known" June on the lists for a few years and all I can say is that adventursome doesn't even begin to describe her.

I'd like to find out how to back trace the line of "tagees" before the gal who tagged me - I like knowing that I'm not the only weird one around.

Sande's Wool Room

Nobody ever believes me when I tell them I have bins of fleece, roving, fiber and yarn stacked from wall to wall and floor to ceiling. It is hard to get photos of this, but I tried. My "Wool Room" used to be the gym and, in fact, there is still a weight set in the middle of the room, taking up precious wool storage space. Gotta sell that thing! Below are two photos of the South Wall of the room. The west wall is hard to photograph due to door placement, gym in the middle of the room and the light on the ceiling fan. Trust me, the bins and boxes do go from wall to wall and floor to ceiling.

Back in 2003 I had the shelves installed just below the ceiling in all the rooms. Well, all the rooms but the kitchen and the bathroom. Fleece and rovings are not very heavy for their volume, but yarn is. The shelf in the bedroom fell down one night (before we went to bed!) and left gaping holes in the wall where the bolts pulled out. Those bins are still sitting on the floor in the bedroom, making it really hard to get around.

Above is the North wall of the wool room and on the right the North wall of the "office." Actually, every room but the bathroom has wool in it, even the kitchen. I have a room in the back of the house with 2 floor looms and 2 bookcases full of coned yarn, and a PG Supercard and 2 sergers and a sewing machine. My rigid heddle loom lives there, too, when I'm not weaving on it. No photos of that room - there isn't anywhere to stand to take them. :)

Ok, the next entry will have some photos of my spinning.