Thanksgiving

I'm thankful that I have the time to spend on thoughtfully reducing the clutter. I've slowly been chipping away-- books that didn't sell through Amazon online, I took to Powells books here in Portland. What a treasure we have there! So the stack there has been reduced quite a bit.

I've sold more yarn through Ravelry-- at a loss monetarily, but I know it goes to good homes and each sale gives me just a few more square inches of space back. It seems a win-win.

I've started a project for a friend and all the yarn is from the stash-- so that's great too. My son wanted to re-learn to knit and so started a scarf also from the stash. So it feels that things are finally going in the right direction.

I rearranged the studio/sun room again and for a couple of days, some of the plastic bins and bags of yarn and fabric stayed in the garage. The result was beautiful and calming. An inspiration. You could actually see the tools-- the loom and the knitting machines. All set up and "at the ready".

One thing I found is that the fabric has been left untended for so long and mostly hidden away. I think over the Christmas Holidays I'll spend some time going through and re-organizing that and I think it should all fit in better and feel more supportive of my creativity rather than overwhelming it.

I've also been dreaming of studio space that is more appropriately sized for the tools. Real room around the loom to work, real room around the knitting machines to work. Real working storage areas. More room for storing a variety of yarns for the business. So that's something else I will plan for my retirement from my "day job". A real working studio.