October is National Craft-Making Month!

My kids were extraordinarily on their school game today ( I tried a different approach today, and it seemed to work), and that meant I had time and energy to work on some more organizing.

Here's where I started today:



I got more embroidery stuff sorted --hoops,frames, kits, charts,and WIPs-- and put away.



I was hoping that the DMC boxes would be big enough to put all my plastic canvas sheets in, but the drawers are about 3/8" short. I will have to find another solution for those. I found some more floss: loose strands got wound on bobbins and put in the kid box, and the floss that I knew was DMC got entered into the spreadsheet and put away into the floss boxes. and unfortunately, there's a bunch of odd an ends of various things that need to go somewhere, but I'm not sure where yet, which means that they are all over my floor and desk. I've already identified a number of things that will be going out of my house (and maybe some of the O&E will join them).

Where I stopped:



Also, the DMC boxes I filled yesterday and today got put up on top of the shelves. (Yay, tall people!)

I had my weekly stitching zoom today, and I actually worked on my SaL cross stitch.

I guess that's the story of my posting all over...

Day 1:

As I stated in my intro post, much of NaCraMaMo for me will be organizing (or reorganizing?) my craft storage/storage room/office. I started this heraculean tasks couple of weeks ago, because I literally couldn't get into my office without tripping over something, and I've discovered that I can get more done if I start my day sitting in my office chair instead of my recliner. I rough- sorted everything into boxes, which moved out into the foyer and living room. I decided to start with my embroidery threads: getting them out of their bobbin boxes and plastic bags and baskets, inventorying everything into a spreadsheet (because I AM able to do that with the thread, and I'm tired of buying more of the same stuff because I don't know what I have; should I tell you how many skeins of 930 that I have? :), and then putting everything away into the DMC floss boxes I acquired more than a year ago. As of yesterday, I was almost done with the inventorying, with the exception of the random bits of J&P Coats and Anchor threads, some linen thread, and the tin of the new DMC Etoile thread that I got for my birthday a few days ago.

So for my task yesterday, I got through the linen thread, and then the Etoile thread, and got them tucked away in the drawers of the DMC floss boxes. Inventorying the Etoile floss was harder that it should hae been, because, of courst, my inventory sheet lists the thread in number order, but the floss in the tin was in color families order.

Etoile thread in their tin; photo does not do it justice...



Thread put away in the drawer; I'd even left room for it, knowing that I'd get it "someday."



I then proceeded to fall down a rabbit hole with regards to charts for J&P Coats and Anchor floss colors, and old vs. new, and finally called it for dinner.

And then, during a zoom chat, I sorted a couple more hundred perler beads from a jar of 20000 (I've been working on that all summer).