Incoherent Scribblings

Headless Jane

Yesterday and today I worked on “Catch the Wind.” I realize at this point Jane is missing her head, but I intend to fix that tomorrow.

I think every blog I have ever read that has had CtW as a WIP has claimed that it is their favorite project at the time they have stitched it. Well, I second that opinion! I absolutely love this pattern! It has a lot of detail, but at the same time the detail doesn’t slow down the stitching. I am currently at 38 hours on this project and am nearly 1/3 of the way done. I can definitely see how if this is your first MLI pattern it would encourage you to stitch more of her designs.

And speaking of MLI designs… even though I had made a pledge not to buy any more stash until my birthday in May, I just so happened to see “Angel of Spring” on sale at my ONS yesterday so I snatched it up. Oops!

Organizational Skills

Welcome to Wednesday! This week’s SBQ is:

Do you have an organizational system for your patterns? If so, how do you organize them? If not, have you considered organizing them?

As you can probably imagine, as a librarian I am big on organizing things. However when it comes to my cross stitch patterns, I have only recently started to seriously organize them.

Over the last year and a half, I have bought a lot of patterns (And no not just when I was in the US either!) and they outgrew the basket that I had them in. I was also tired of having to unpack the basket every time I wanted to look through my patterns, so I finally decided to put some of my organizational skills to work.

As of now, my organizational system looks something like this: My patterns are divided into freebies, leaflets, booklets, kits, and magazines. The freebies are in three ring binders and are more or less alphabetized by designer. The magazines, booklets, and leaflets are in open magazine boxes and are displayed on a bookshelf. The leaflets are also more or less alphabetized by designer, but are also arranged depending on the size and shape of the leaflet (Mirabilias and MLIs come in odd-sized packages, don’t they?) and the kits remain in the stitching basket that also contains my fabric. And finally, I am in the process of putting everything into a spreadsheet (alphabetized by designer of course!) so I know what the heck I even have!