Notions Organized - Update!

Of course as you use things, sometimes you need to update the organization scheme.  This morning I did a little update on my notions tables.  I had my needle sets stowed in a typing table that my father and I made back when I was in high school.  I taught myself to type one summer on my Mom’s old IBM Selectric type writer (she had upgraded to one that had memory cards!).  This piece of furniture is sturdy (made of 3/4 inch plywood) and it sits behind my daybed to help keep it from shifting on the hardwood floor).

This is basically where the needle sets used to live.

The stitch marker tin basket moved to the top of the two drawer stack, and a few more stitch marker holders were stowed in it.  And where the stitch markers used to be, a box that holds most of my needle sets.  The top drawer holds my ChiaGoo sets, and the bottom drawer holds random loose needles.  Mostly from Jimmy Beans Wool Advent calendars.

Not all of them fit, hence the ones in the drawer, and if you go back to the first picture, there is a set stowed behind the lotions and wool wash basket on the left.  And to far right in the top photo you can just see the back of one of my looms, which also helps prevent my day bed from shifting.  More about that later.  And where, might you ask, are the darning needles?  Those live in a Jimmy Beans Wool mug commemorating 20 years of business on my coffee table.

More about the coffee table later.  Of course I have more knitting needles than are organized here, and those all live downstairs in my studio.

Tins of straight and double point knitting needles hang out with the bulk of my knitting books.  The circular needles that I have bought as individuals live in shoe boxes sorted by size and cable length.

Regular tip - mostly Addi.

Lace tip, plus my sock knitting needles from KnitPicks - my favorite method of knitting socks is on two 16” circular needles.

And the overflow box, of the larger sizes I almost never use, plus wooden needles (all the other ones are metal).