My yarn

Ha!  Sounds like I have an actual interesting story to tell, but this is a yarn about my yarn.  As in my yarn stash.   My storage system (buncha boxes piled on top of each other) has caused me grief over the years.  I'd have to move all the boxes to get to the one I wanted, or search them ALL because the ball I wanted wasn't there.  Of course I'd never actually put stuff away where it belonged because (see the previous  sentence.)

So there I was, ready to work on Roger's felted slippers for Christmas, but I couldn't find 2 of the balls I purchased for the project.  I ripped the place to shreds looking for them, snort snort, no luck.  With MUCH aggravation I start a different pattern, a lunch bag, because his old one is disgusting.  Then right at the end I ran out of yarn anyway!  I found something mighty close to finish up, and he got an actual surprise present to open on Christmas day.  But Christmas eve, what did I find?  Well of course!, the missing 2 balls.    

See how the flap has a slightly different color and texture?

Roger just said "you don't need to get my tired haggard face in there"  and I hugged him because I KNOW!  Every time I see my picture I think how dreadfully tired and old I look!  For the record though, I think he's still handsome as ever.

So!!  Here' Ricks Christmas slippers halfway felted.  One of these things is not like the other.  Apparently I had grabbed something that wasn't wool to finish up one of the slippers.  I trimmed off the offending parts, and trimmed the good one to match (gotta love felted wool) but then I had to look with a jaundiced eye at all the rest of the black balls I had gathered up to make Brandon's slippers with.  After much burning of fibers (acrylic melts- peee you! and wool turns to ash and smells like burning hair) and making of swatches to felt, I got that all sorted out. 

But enough is enough, and that certainly was enough, and here's the result:

Organized by fiber, easily accessed,  and tidy.  Success!  I need to put some paper in the front of each drawer to block the sun. 

Here's another shot.  I like how the humble yarn balances out all the high tech on the desk. Yin, yang and good chi!