An empty yarn cabinet is not a likely occurrence in the craft room of an avid maker of things....but their pantry just might be a little bare because their priorities...yarn or food....yarn or food....yarn or food..... Oh who are they kidding you know yarn holds the priority over all other things. I am stocked up on yarn to keep my grand and great grand daughters, not likely to have any of those, busy with their needles and hooks for years to come. Those who craft with yarn are not likely to ever have an empty yarn cabinet ...and quilters are never without fabric....they may need more of a specific print or color but they will always have fabric and yarn. Speaking from experience on both....my kids will be able to buy a new car {or six) after selling my stashes of both.
My wife used to knit. She knitted sweaters for our two boys when they were young. They liked Fairisle designs. She was able to knit various styles, never needed a pattern. These are typical. She also knitted stuff for herself. If she saw another woman on a bus or in the street wearing something shop-bought she particularly liked, she'd make a mental note of the design and stitch and knit one for herself. She just liked to knit, usually whilst watching TV. She'd sometimes knit the whole back of a sweater for herself in a particular style of pattern, then decide she didn't like it, undo it and start again. She knitted this for me when I was in my late 20s. The pattern would have been out of her head. We were living in Marford in Wales at the time this would be 1969. The farmland behind our garden is now a huge housing estate, as far as the trees beyond the second field and the Chester/Wrexham main road. Wouldn't want that view now. She rarely knits, these days. When the kids were small it was an interest and not a particularly expensive one. She liked Sirdar wools, but they became hard to obtain locally. She's more interested in her decoupage card and costume jewellery making. However, if there's a new baby in the family, she's happy to knit one-off layette stuff like this for them. Back in her late twenties she made many of her own dresses. She also made them for our daughter.
I take what little creative skills I have to the kitchen. The entire town can dine from my freezer/refrigerator/pantry for a couple of months after I'm gone. Toni, I have fabric for quilts stashed. Quilting in Texas has a window of opportunity of about two months. Having a hoop quilt on your lap in Texas just doesn't work in July! Quilters have been known to pass out from heat exhaustion.
That's why we have a reallllllly good central air conditioner. Many of the quilts I made were for competitions so being picky about the time of year for quilting was not an option..
I'm sitting in my sewing/computer room. I have a small computer desk that holds my computer and monitor and a printer. The rest of the room is taken up with a sewing table that holds the sewing machine and a table for cutting fabric. There are four sets of shelves that are four shelves tall. Each one is filled up with fabric that I buy from St. Vincent DePaul's. We are thinking of moving across the country to where our oldest son resides with his family. What to do with all this fabric? I guess I'd better get busy and sew some more shopping bags which I give to bus drivers and people who ride the buses that we ride. We have no car so we do ride the buses almost every day. dooley
