Enemy of Entropy

Color Clues, or Why Four Blue Sweaters Isn’t Enough

6 November 2007, 8:09 am. Comments Off. Filed under Art.

“Another blue sweater? You have four of those. Why not get some­thing dif­fer­ent for a change?”

“No, I have navy, corn­flower, Williams­burg, and baby blue sweaters. This one is royal blue. That’s totally different!”

Okay guys, I know that you thought women were mak­ing up some of the color names we use. Char­treuse? Why not say green? And gar­net — that’s red, right? What’s this about plum, amethyst, grape, vio­let, mauve, and fuschia all being dif­fer­ent? They’re all pur­ple, aren’t they?

No, really, they aren’t. We don’t make them up just to vex you. They’re all very, very dif­fer­ent, which is why we would never con­sider wear­ing brick red lip­stick with a cherry red sweater. Ick!

Now there’s help for you. Free help, even! Read on…

Stitching Bloggers’ Question of the Week: Fabric Organization?

16 August 2006, 6:58 pm. Comments Off. Filed under Needlework, SBQ.

I’ve been wait­ing eagerly for this week’s SBQ. I don’t know why, I just have. They some­times remind me of stash I don’t think about often enough.

Do you have an orga­ni­za­tional sys­tem for your fab­ric? If so, what is it? If not, what do you store your fab­ric in?

How do peo­ple store their fab­ric, espe­cially those small but poten­tially usable pieces? Do they sort by count? How do they label it or oth­er­wise know what each piece is?

I never really thought about label­ing them. I’ll start doing that in the future. I’m usu­ally so excited when I buy mate­r­ial for a project, though, that I can’t resist start­ing on it right away. It’s only the much older stuff that needs labeling!


I can tell what most are just by look­ing at them. I’ve got a nifty lit­tle ruler for thread counts if I have any trou­ble deter­min­ing that visu­ally. Any­thing that isn’t a neu­tral color has been pur­chased for a spe­cific project, so I know imme­di­ately, for instance, “oh, that’s for the sec­ond set of the Amaryl­lis Art­works man­dalas” (yes, I love those so much I intend to stitch them again).

Almost all of my cloth is even­weave, but there’s some linen and even a lit­tle bit of aida and hardan­ger that dates back to my teen years when I started stitch­ing. (I gave away most of that old stuff via Freecy­cle last year, then found more!)

All of it is stored in a set of plas­tic draw­ers with some cedar balls tossed in. We don’t have a prob­lem with moths, but I don’t want to take any chances and I do love the scent.

No pic­ture this time — things are all topsy-​​turvy and I can’t get to my draw­ers to get a photo.

I couldn’t stand it. I had to do photos.

 

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