Stash Flashing

It's nowhere near April 1st, but as I'm moving to Canberra next week, I've been forced to go through my stash and reorganise it, so the removalists don't get scared and run off when they see the jungle of yarn this house has become. This is what it was like before:



Admittedly, the black bag (a repurposed Apple Mac Classic bag. I don't know why I felt the need to mention that, but now you know.) was only half full, but never the less, it was still a surprisingly large stash, given that I've only been amassing it over 3 years, and on a uni student's income. After buying the biggest clear plastic tub I could find (which was surprisingly difficult task - it seems that the pink and blue transparent container fad had crept up on me unawares, and I hadn't managed to get the rest of my decor aligned with that trend in time), and sending what I could to the op shop, this is what I ended up with:



When I was taking the 'after' photo, I was doubtful that it was an improvement. Clearly I was deluded - the 'before' photo is hideous.

The downside of organising my stash is the realisation that I can't fit all of my yarn into a 110 litre container, a situation which doesn't lend itself to being able to justify buying more yarn. I never really intended to make 2007 a year of knitting from my stash, it looks like it's inadvertently going to be that way, or until such time as I can contain the stash in that tub.