The Upside to Cleaning
Oct. 23rd, 2010 01:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
affrecaIs inspiration. Or at least when I clean/organize my craft room. Which is what I've been doing recently instead of working on my Viking dress the last two days (I should still have time to finish it in two weeks). Yesterday I acquired a second wire shelf, but failed to find any rubbermaid roughneck totes.
So this morning was the quest to acquire 18 gallon totes. None at Target. None at Ace Hardware. None at Wal-Mart. Apparently Sterilite has taken over the market for plastic boxes. Sadly, I find Sterilite brittle and shortlived. Rubbermaid or nothing (plus they fit better on the shelves. I headed home for lunch before brain turned off. I called VR for advice, but he had found the same problem. I googled, and eventually found out that Home Despot carried the totes I wanted. So I went to buy some. And only found 3 on the shelf. But I wanted more, so I stared wandering around the store until a poor orange apron asked if I needed help. Two more orange aprons and a forklift later, and I had 9 totes.
So the toybox got emptied of wool, and other totes reorganized to optimize space. Everything now put away.
So my mind was racing as I tried to fall asleep. Eventually my back brain gave me the answer of what to do with the extra warp on the loom. The weft is alternating between space dyed cotton flake (Lake colorway) and blue Mohair/nylon. It might be a bit busy, but it is turning out interesting. I don't have much spare warp, so it won't be wide. But I finally found a use for it, after I decided that I was just going to cut off the finished projects (as I plan to start on Christmas weaving after I finish the Viking dress).
Now sleepy.
So this morning was the quest to acquire 18 gallon totes. None at Target. None at Ace Hardware. None at Wal-Mart. Apparently Sterilite has taken over the market for plastic boxes. Sadly, I find Sterilite brittle and shortlived. Rubbermaid or nothing (plus they fit better on the shelves. I headed home for lunch before brain turned off. I called VR for advice, but he had found the same problem. I googled, and eventually found out that Home Despot carried the totes I wanted. So I went to buy some. And only found 3 on the shelf. But I wanted more, so I stared wandering around the store until a poor orange apron asked if I needed help. Two more orange aprons and a forklift later, and I had 9 totes.
So the toybox got emptied of wool, and other totes reorganized to optimize space. Everything now put away.
So my mind was racing as I tried to fall asleep. Eventually my back brain gave me the answer of what to do with the extra warp on the loom. The weft is alternating between space dyed cotton flake (Lake colorway) and blue Mohair/nylon. It might be a bit busy, but it is turning out interesting. I don't have much spare warp, so it won't be wide. But I finally found a use for it, after I decided that I was just going to cut off the finished projects (as I plan to start on Christmas weaving after I finish the Viking dress).
Now sleepy.
