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How to Label Your Fiber Stash
Imagine looking at your clearly labeled fiber storage, knowing you’ll find just what you’re looking for. With these tips and a few supplies, you can make that a reality!
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Imagine looking at your clearly labeled fiber storage, knowing you’ll find just what you’re looking for. With these tips and a few supplies, you can make that a reality!
When a coworker asked for a photo of my fiber and yarn stash for National Pack Rat Day, I was sorry to disappoint her.
Spinner Devin Helmen ruminates on how stashes come to exist, how they tend to grow on their own when our backs are turned, and how to decide when it’s time to pare down.
Learn one method for blending fibers while retaining pure colors and no mud.
Discover the delight in plying together two or more different singles to create a yarn that's more than the sum of its parts!
Sabine loves her stash! And it provides her with endless inspiration. Here, she shares her tips for storing your fiber stash.
Heavenly shares her budget-friendly method for keeping your pocketbook happy and your wheel and spindles spinning.
Spinners accumulate a lot of fiber—not stash, but bits of surplus fiber from processing. Here are Heavenly’s tool-free tips for turning your leftovers into textured yarn.
I often hear people talking, half proudly and half guiltily, about their stashes of spinning fiber, but I celebrate my stash. To borrow a phrase from a global phenomenon, my stash sparks joy!
Devin offers tips for making space for spinning to suit any living situation, from a single spindle and a few ounces of fiber in a basket to a room filled with tools, a wheel, and fiber.
When I saw the Pinecliff Shawl pattern on Ravelry along with the call for pattern test knitters, I was immediately drawn to it. I also liked the pine cone and forest theme, and I thought about my plied skeins inspired by nature.
In the summer of 1996, I opened the door and welcomed temptation in. That was the first step toward building my giant yarn stash.
One of the ways I make myself feel better about the utter chaos that exists in parts of my life is to take excellent care of my fiber stash and related spinning tools.