Before launching into the meat of this post, I wanted to take a moment to elucidate that here at Chez Yarn time and effort is always spent in finding just the right word (I will ignore those rolling eyes). Today that word is yuckiness. With that said, please do not hesitate to read on.
I'm one of those bizarro, arbitrarily obsessive neatniks, in that I can't work properly if things aren't "in their place." I think it's because I am an aspy.
One of the ways the syndrome manifests in me is that I am hard-wired to be extremely anxious if my world doesn't meet certain, and don't forget arbitrary, Feng shui-like requirements. Furniture and clutter most be controlled at all costs.
When I need to get a circular needle out of the bin pictured below, well, I may get ramped up to the point of a panic attack.
That thar is some craziness I don't know how to fix.
One of those really nice companies that sends me catalogs, even when I never buy a thing from them, Patternworks, sells tons of little items that could help me with this. As always there are impediments to their solutions: 1) As I've mentioned earlier, it'll take a small miracle to get me to buy via catalog, 2) I just don't have the 100 plus dollars to spend to organize all of my needles, and 3) none of their solutions would be storeable where I primarily knit. You see, I am lazy if nothing else, and when one is lazy and one needs a needle, and when one has a bunch of knitting and a dog in one's lap, well, the needles better be in arms reach. None of their solutions could probably be stored, to my spatial requirements, in arms reach.
Yet something, other than constant paralysis, must come from this predicament.
I'm one of those bizarro, arbitrarily obsessive neatniks, in that I can't work properly if things aren't "in their place." I think it's because I am an aspy.
One of the ways the syndrome manifests in me is that I am hard-wired to be extremely anxious if my world doesn't meet certain, and don't forget arbitrary, Feng shui-like requirements. Furniture and clutter most be controlled at all costs.
When I need to get a circular needle out of the bin pictured below, well, I may get ramped up to the point of a panic attack.
That thar is some craziness I don't know how to fix.
One of those really nice companies that sends me catalogs, even when I never buy a thing from them, Patternworks, sells tons of little items that could help me with this. As always there are impediments to their solutions: 1) As I've mentioned earlier, it'll take a small miracle to get me to buy via catalog, 2) I just don't have the 100 plus dollars to spend to organize all of my needles, and 3) none of their solutions would be storeable where I primarily knit. You see, I am lazy if nothing else, and when one is lazy and one needs a needle, and when one has a bunch of knitting and a dog in one's lap, well, the needles better be in arms reach. None of their solutions could probably be stored, to my spatial requirements, in arms reach.
Yet something, other than constant paralysis, must come from this predicament.
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Thanks,
M
like tracy, i keep my "good" circulars (my addis) in their original packaging. one thing i was thinking of though -- what if you put them in a 3 ring binder. buy some heavy duty ziploc bags -- punch holes in them and stick them in the binder. you can have a bag for each size or for each needle. and the binder is portable enough that you could carry it around with you and also store it like a book in a book shelf.
I think I would run into the same problem with my needles. I have tons of duplicates in the larger gauges.
Go to bassproshop.com and search on "binders". They sell for $19.99.
Thanks for the tip!