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1. Tara said,

   January 14, 2011 @ 10:01 am

   I would love to have a central knitting area. I currently have things spread throughout the house: some in the family room; some in the guest room; a little next to my bed; and bins filled to overflowing in the basement! I think I might have a stashing problem.

2. Kristie said,

   January 14, 2011 @ 10:04 am

   I have multiple knitting zones- a three tier basket arrangement in the living room, a basket by the kitchen table, 2 huge wicker baskets in the family room, not to mention the stash in the guest room closet, two baskets on dressers in my bedroom and sock yarn decorated the bookshelves. I think “spreading it thin” definitely keeps the other house occupants from realizing the extent of my problem.

3. Lynn said,

   January 14, 2011 @ 10:11 am

   Of course, I have knitting stuff located throughout the house. You just never know when you might need to knit. Currently, I have yarn and needles in my bedroom closet, downstairs closet, basket in entryway and patterns in a spare bedroom. On the flip side, it would be so much better to have it all in one area and organized. I never can remember where I have stashed all my needles, patterns and yarn. Ugh, I get mad at the time wasted when I have to find these items. However, I do have my current project in a bag in the family room. At least, I know where it is.
   Lynn

4. Cindy said,

   January 14, 2011 @ 10:13 am

   I started off with a yarn cabinet in my living room. It’s just perfect. Two shelves and a drawer that I stuffed full of patterns and yarn. But then something happened and now I have two containers under my bed with yarn. But that’s it. Now I have to knit something to make room for more yarn rather than find new containers. And that is working out quite well because I keep making fun things and opening up more space!

5. Mary Beth said,

   January 14, 2011 @ 10:18 am

   My desk is where I have all my WIPs, under my bed I have my stash in plastic bins, and I have a craft table that has some more stash and patterns. So, I guess it’s pretty much everywhere. When my kids are older, I plan to make the toy room into my craft room.

6. Marcia said,

   January 14, 2011 @ 10:24 am

   STASH? Did someone say stash??? I have stashes here, stashes there, stashes everywhere… and not just of yarn. I have stashes of fabric, floss, floche, silk ribbon, beads, patterns galore… of everything! Books, magazines, on knitting, sewing, smocking… yes, and even macrame and I love it all. They are all a part of me… a part of who I am! ))

7. duckgirlterri said,

   January 14, 2011 @ 10:28 am

   We converted one of our bedrooms to an office and the closet is full of my yarns, supplies, fibers, etc. Did I mention it has now overflowed to the huge desk DH built in there so we’d have lots of room?

   My knitting area is my favorite chair with an ottoman that has a flip up top and storage underneath (again made by my wonderful DH). All my projects that are currently being worked on get kept in the ottoman. Next to that is my spinning wheel and stool.

   I’m going to show him the pic of your storage cabinet. Maybe he would build me one on a smaller scale.

8. Susan said,

   January 14, 2011 @ 10:28 am

   I have a corner in the family room that I have taken over with my knitting. We have a chase lounge that’s part of our sectional. I use it like a table with my knitting and tools books spread out. The end table has my light sock books and knit and spins. I have a dresser in my craftroom that is full of sock yarn and various bins in closets full of yarn.

9. Carla said,

   January 14, 2011 @ 10:29 am

   I have a former large closet/office
   it has a built in counter on one end where I have a sewing machine and desk chair- Ikea kitchen cabinet up on the wall above a shelf- the opposite end of the room is almost floor to ceiling plastic tubs- they are clear and labeled so I can see what is in them. Not fancy but it is what I have-

10. Kim said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:31 am

    Just this week I did a full, comprehensive stash toss and sort, in which i emptied out every yarn containing space in the whole house. It was amazing. I’ve now got everything sorted and put away where I can find it, in my office, which was a purpose-built space in the house we designed ourselves. I’m a writer, so I work at home, but I also needed room for my yarn, sewing machine, spinning wheel, and floor loom. Anyhow it’s all very nice now–the only yarn not in my office is in two project bags next to my corner of the couch, in the living room.

11. Marsha said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:31 am

    Despite my best efforts I have things all over the house. Yarn, needles and knitting books are stored in a guest room closet. WIPs can be found in the living room and family room. Dining room is blocking central since I can leave my blocking board on that table without interfering with regular family meals. A dedicated craft room would be great but I doubt I would confine my knitting to one place.

12. Paulette said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:32 am

    There are two knitters and one cat living in our house, so what does that tell you? Basically, the kitchen and bathroom (unless there is a FO in the sink soaking) is knitting central. The living room is where you knit, our individual bedrooms are where our personal stashes live. The dining room table is the blocking zone and the spare room has the computer and storage for things like the swift,ball winder, pattern binders, etc. Of course in the warmer months, the space is extended to the sunporch, that gives us an extra work table and knitting area. Unfortunately, even with the heater on, it’s too cold to stay out there long when it’s 18 degrees!

13. Patricia said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:34 am

    I have a craft room that is mostly yarn. The sock yarn I keep in a display curio that has a glass front so that I can admire it always and get ideas. I don’t knit in this room because there is no room for a comfortable chair. Hmmm I have a half day today, maybe I can put some thought into that. Thanks Sheri!!!!! I love when you give me ideas!

14. Kelli said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:35 am

    I too have multiple areas in my tiny house. I recently purchased a new living room set and the tables have cabinets which now contain many WIP. My deacon’s bench has a basket full of yarn on it and tonage inside. We receently adopted a kitten and he loves a good yarn party so everything has to be stored away!

15. mkg said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:35 am

    I’m a self-employed editor with a home office, and I have my entire stash with me in my office, as well as most of my favorite knitting books. As you can imagine, this can be distracting–but sometimes I need distraction. Sometimes I just need to get off the chair, away from the computer, and rifle through my stash. At the moment there are about fifteen skeins of yarn littering the top of my desk, with a large manuscript underneath.

16. Kay said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:36 am

    I have multiple areas for yarn and WIPs, but only one place for books and patterns. Most of it is out of sight.

17. Larissa said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:36 am

    I have one general area for books and stash, in my office. My WIPS are in a basket in the family room where we all hang out. It’s perfect.

18. Valerie said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:41 am

    Knitting stuff strewn all over the house. It tends to puddle and pool. If I spend a lot of time knitting on the upstairs couch listening to Brazillian music, then I wind up with a mess of needles and markers and scissors and a scale and contrast skeins right beside the couch. Or if I’ve been downstairs watching the Doctor Who and knitting a lot, there winds up being a mess of needles and measuring tapes and scraps and needle sizers down there. Or 6 skeins of yarn sitting by my computer because I was thinking of patterns while browsing ravelry.

19. Tiffany said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:41 am

    I have my stash in one room, but most of my WIPS are downstairs, taking over the coffee table in the living room. That’s also where I sit and knit.

20. Karenlynn said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:41 am

    Mine used to be all over the house, but recently I decided to organize a little. I gave away all the yarn I had “outgrown” and put the rest in Rubbermaid containers in my sewing room. I bought a huge African basket at Rhinebeck this past year and I keep all my WIP’s in it. I carry it around the house depending on where I’m knitting and the idea is that I can’t have anymore projects than what will fit in it. Did I mention that it’s a very big basket?

21. Angela said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:42 am

    Oh yeah! I work from home so my home office doubles as my craft room. It’s handy to be able to shut the door when needed since I have 2 cats and a 4 year old. I knit in there during the day when I have a long conference call or training sessions. The majority of my knitting time is in my recliner in our living room so I usually only have 1 project bag out there with me.

22. Allison said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:42 am

    I got an IKEA square 2×4 cubby shelf for our office/craft room. I’ve got my nice skeins and hanks in two open cubbies, and partially used yarn in two of the fabric pop out drawers. Needles and WIPs are in another drawer, blocking mats are in another cubby, a small drawer thing is in another cubby with notions, and fiberfill and other accessories are in another cubby!

23. marina said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:43 am

    i live in a small apartment, most of my yarn started in my living room but now has contagiously migrated/expanded/invaded to my bedroom. i still mostly sit in my living room to knit though since that’s where the best sunlight (and the tv) is

24. craftcow said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:43 am

    Ze’ yarns are tucked into a few bookcases as stash stores. Though there are times when I’d tuck in a couple of new pretty stashes by the bedside to greet me every morning My WIPS, however, are neatly packed into separate knitting bags. Love ‘em bags too! All of ‘em are hiding in one big corner of the bookcase.

25. Robin said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:44 am

    My stash corner is in my bedroom. I’ve a card catalog for my precious sock yarn, and a cubby and plastic drawers for the rest. I used to have the gorgeous yarns in my living room, but I have so many plants the bug problem got to be too much.

26. Word Lily said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:44 am

    My Knitting Central (where my WIPs mostly live and where I actually do most of my knitting) is an old sewing box by my TV chair. The second bedroom, however, is the Yarn Room, and stores my yarn and spinning fiber stash, with a large worktable suitable for blocking (among other tasks). One wall of the Yarn Room is covered with large open cubbies. Another has a glass-doored cabinet my husband built.

27. Kim said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:45 am

    I have knitting central…it’s housed amidst quilting central! ;o) I’m lucky to have a big sewing room, and the yarn is quickly adorning the space in baskets and wire display pieces. Love the color!

28. Jennifer said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:46 am

    I am more of the keep it all over the house so the hubby doesn’t really know how much I have. So, it’s in the storage room, kids playroom, their bedroom (they knit too), by the couch, and my current project bag hangs with the coats for ease of travel.

29. Jocelyn said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:50 am

    I wish I had a knitting corner in our house, somewhere I can sit and knit in peace, away from the usual household noise. But as such I have a corner in the bedroom where I pull in all the notions and supplies I need within arm’s reach and then knit away. Pretty okay though.

    One thing I would really REALLY like is a dyeing studio.

30. Amanda said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:51 am

    A bit of both for me. The largest room in our apartment is divided by a couch. In front of the couch = living room, behind the couch = office. I try to keep the yarn relegated to the back-of-the-couch side of the room, but it has a way of diffusing into the public side…and also the rest of the apartment.

31. Sarah said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:52 am

    No knitting central for me, although I almost always knit in my favorite chair in the living room, where all my books and patterns are. My needles and other supplies are mostly in the living room as well, but most of my yarn is in a closet upstairs and in the attic.

32. Crystal said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:54 am

    I have a couple different spots but, I am getting an entire room just for crafts In the next week or so and have been looking for ideas. That cabinet is fabulous!

33. Paula said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:54 am

    I have knitting books and yarn all over the house. Some is hidden/stored under beds and there are also totes in my closet . Then there are the WIPS – those can be found is numerous places. I’d love to have a knitting room and be able to display all the yarn and books.

34. JoAnn W. said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:56 am

    Oh to have a gorgeous cabinet like that!! Great find for you.
    My stash is a Rubbermaid bin in a closet. Current projects are around my knitting chair. Not very convenient, but it’s all I have right now.

35. barbara said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:56 am

    I have my stash all over the house but most in the basement. I keep my UFO’s in Oh Snap bags one in each bag. I have all different size Oh Snaps for the different size project that I have..

36. Em said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 10:57 am

    I have stuff all over the house. Right now there’s a spindle in the kitchen, my drum carder and two plastic tubs of fluff on the dining table (and fluff sorted on two chairs….). I’ll ignore the fact that it’s 20 mins until supper for now. My chair in the lounge has a spinning wheel to the right and one in front, and a basket of fluff. There’s knitting on the coffee table, and on my bedside table, and next to the computer.
    I think it may be a family trait, though – There are lego projects in the lounge and my son’s room, sketch books in every living area and bedroom, and lots and lots of origami ducks (eldest daughter) all over. Oh, ditto on paper airplane dragons (my son) and fairy paper doll clothes (second daughter).
    My hubby’s electronics notes are in the lounge and filed on the floor of our bedroom. I dare not vacuum. (Perfect excuse, see!?)
    The irony is that we tidy up every evening. We just keep doing stuff again the next day!

37. Emily said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:00 am

    The WIPs (of which there are generally no more than 2) live in the little nook between the armchair and the wall in their bags. The yarn stash (which isn’t too big, so that cabinet, while lovely, would be overkill) lives in a little sewing basket and a cedar lined trunk in the spacious laundry/sewing room.

38. Kristi ~ Ohio said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:00 am

    I have my yarn and books in most rooms of the house. I am currently remodeling the basement for my “knitting room”. The builder comes next week to install everything. I can’t wait. I love your cabinet. It would look great in my house.

39. tabitha said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:00 am

    I have eked out space in my bedroom for most of my knitting supplies. There is one corner where most of my knitting and designing occurs so most of the supplies and WiPs are there. The stash is in a dormer turned makeshift closet.

40. CJ in CO said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:00 am

    Love that big storage cabinet! I’d be in real trouble if I had that much space for my knitting stuff. My supplies are on shelves in a closet in the office, but I have a drawer in the coffee table of the living room where my daily knitting tools live, and my WIPs are kept on (or under) that coffee table – so just a few at any one time. Restricting my time going to the office storage/stash helps me keep to just those few at once!

41. Julie said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:01 am

    Knitting central for me is the family room couch and coffee table. I have a basket nearby where I keep the most commonly used needles and supplies. I like all of my WIP’s laid out on the coffee table so that I don’t get too many going at once. Now stash, that’s a bit different! It’s stored in extra closets, in the laundry room, and pretty much anywhere I can tuck it away!

42. Kendra said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:02 am

    I have a wall in my “office” that is dedicated to my yarn. It not only has knitting but also my weaving stuff. I really need to find something better for organizing these, though!

43. mellenknits said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:06 am

    Right now the yarn and knitting books/magazines are _mostly_ confined to a cabinet and 4-drawer cart in the office/spare room. There are 2 bins of yarn in that closet, too. I try not to let the yarn wander around the house. The real problem is the bags full of projects (both active and ufos), which seem to find their way into every corner…

44. Jessi said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:08 am

    My knitting central is upstairs on the couch- that’s where all the knitting gets done, but I try not to clutter the area with too much stuff. I have a basket under the end table that I try to remember to put projects in (just a few at a time).

    All my stash goes downstairs in my craft room in cubbies. Right now it’s pretty contained, but I have to be careful not to let it overflow. (The room is overflowing though- stamping, scrapbooking, and sewing all share the tiny space)

45. Theresa P. said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:10 am

    I have a beautiful black armoire in one of my guest bedrooms that is knitting central. It holds all of my stash (except the worsted weight yarns) — all of the sock yarn, all of the lace yarn, my secret stash of Wollmeise, 12 months’ worth of my self-imposed sock club baggies, all the leftover sock yarn which will someday become a sock yarn blanket, all of my needles/tools, and several knitting bags. And the best part — no one need be the wiser. I keep it closed up and the room always looks neat and tidy, but when I feel the need to do some yarn petting, I know right where to go. The knitting actually happens in another room, but I consider this piece of furniture to be “knitting central.” It’s where all the fun begins.

46. Nancy N said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:10 am

    I keep my knitting supplies in an extra bedroom which is occasionally called into service as a guest room. That is a welcome reason to organize things. But, as soon as the company leaves, the yarn, tools, projects, patterns, etc., all start to wander all over the house again. Which is nice!

47. Nichole said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:10 am

    I have a whole corner of the living room as my “knitting nock” of sorts…… but my stash takes over the entire house!

48. Diane said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:11 am

    Love the cabinet….I have 3 Central Locations for my knitting……I am trying to get down to 1….my 2011 project

49. Christine said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:12 am

    My wonderful husband converted a closet into a yarn storage area. That wasn’t enough! I still have four 77 gallon bins filled with wonderful wooly stuff which are currently in my bedroom closet. We are reorganizing this weekend so I think the bins are going to find a new home!

50. Patty V said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:13 am

    I’m proud to say that…. in December I organized all my knitting equipment. I have everything sorted and in order (including the patterns).

    I even told my husband who the yarn goes to if anything should happen to me! All my yarn in beautiful and I don’t want it to get tossed!

51. Alycia C said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:14 am

    My poor one bedroom apartment has yarn and knitting related items stuffed everywhere. There are bins under the bed, bags next to the bed, bags on and next to my desk, and my trusty project bag usually lives by the couch. Can’t wait to move to a bigger location soon and hope to someday have a project space all to my own.

52. Emily said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:14 am

    I have a knitting central at my house! My office got completely cleansed of trashy paperbacks and I moved in fabric bins filled mostly with yarn, but there’s also some fabric stash and sewing supplies as well. I even block my FO’s on the foam mats I spread on the floor in there!

53. kim in oregon said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:14 am

    About a year ago, I bought a cubby hole type system from Target and put it up (ok, DH put it up) in our guest room. So I now have a yarn wall which I love. It holds probably 80% of my yarn, and the cubby hole system comes with fabric ‘drawer’ type things to hold tools, patterns, etc. They can work as knititng bags too. I love it!

54. Beverly said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:15 am

    I definitely have a knitting zone! I’ve got a big comfy chair, a vintage TV tray with my laptop (for reading Loopy Ewe blog posts and checking Ravelry) and various knitting accessories on it, and then a big, giant tub next to me full of yarn. Since that doesn’t hold it all, it’s spilling over into a repurposed magazine basket and another basket that holds more accessories. Then, there’s a bookshelf that is full of knitting books! It’s messy, but I love my little corner.

55. Brigette said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:16 am

    We don’t have enough room for knitting central in our home. So I have some in the dining room as display, I have some in the living room as display and WIP’s, and I have some put away in our guest room.

56. Erica said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:16 am

    I don’t have much of a choice as to where I knit at home because I live in a studio apartment. I literally have a knitting corner with a coffee table, reference bookshelf, comfy chair, cedar chest, and iPod dock (for audiobooks!). Some of my very small stash sits in a handmade basket next to the bookshelf, and the rest is hidden away in the “midget closet” under the roof. How is it that my sweetie gets the whole garage for building an airplane?!?!

57. Joline said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:17 am

    When I moved away to go to university, my Dad took an old sideboard that once belonged to a dear friend of the family. It was one of the few pieces of furniture in his farm house. My Dad and I refinished it (ok, mostly my Dad but I helped a bit) and it has stayed with me ever since. When my husband and I purchased our first real bedroom set a few years ago, the sideboard was moved to our newly finished basement. It holds my stash as well as a pile of knitted gifts just waiting to be handed out.

58. Kim B. said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:19 am

    I am working on a central knitting area. Hopefully this 3-day weekend will give me time to accomplish my goals. My fingering weight yarns and a few DK skeins are in clear storage boxes with lids in two moveable closets with doors. I also just brought a bookcase/desk into the room and have books organized on the shelves, WIP bags on lower shelves and am using the desk area for binders to hold patterns. Not a lot to do yet, but enough to keep me busy this weekend.

59. Jody said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:21 am

    My knitting central has spread throughout 3 rooms. My WIP’s are in my family room, in various bags, along with all the tools needed in a basket by my chair (where I can look outside at the wildlife & scenery) and my knitting library is in the bookcase. My stash is in totes split between the living room and the third bedroom. I also have embroidery central in the 3rd bedroom. I need cubbies for my yarn, so that I can see the beautiful colors!! Your cabinet would be perfect!

60. Janie said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:22 am

    I have a little corner in our basement that has an elfa Storage System from The Container Store. On the elfa shelves, I have a bunch of plastic boxes organized by yarn weight to hold my stash. The shelves also hold all my books and magazines. And then in the family room by my favorite chair is my knitting bag with my current WIPs.

61. Linda said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:22 am

    My knitting central space was the dormer of our finished attic space with rolling elfa carts for yarn storage, shelves for books & pattern notebooks, rocker, & recliner. It was so great a space that DH decided he liked it too and “contaminated” my peace & quiet with HDTV. It has the greatest light & is still my favorite place when the TV is off!! I also found a small rolling cart at Joann’s intended for scrapbooking that has shallow plastic drawers that are great for storing needles that are not attached to projects so I can “file” them by size.

62. kathyd said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:23 am

    Thank you for providing the impetus to finish the fiber area!
    My weird arrangement:
    every WIP has its own zip loc which goes inside a real knitting/crocheting bag. I might have 3 or 4 WIPS in one bag. I can carry this bag to the bedroom, living room, etc and have 4 projects to fiddle with at any given time.
    I only have ONE zippered case for all notions, scissors, etc. I tried having 2 and lost both at any given time. I don’t lose one.

    I had all the fiber in my regular studio. DH reminded me the regular studio gets too messy for fiber work (and it is getting crowded), so I am moving it all to an area outside the studio proper-we call it “The Fiber Area”.
    This is a nice way of saying I have studio overflow and can only corral it.

63. Ardosa said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:24 am

    i have a knitting zone… my closet is knitting central for supplies(as organized as I’d like but thats one of my goals for the year)… and my projects are in individual tote along bags… very different bags so i know which is which without a fuss.

64. Jennifer said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:26 am

    My WH allowed me to take over an entire room when we moved into this house two years ago. He helped me claim a large bookshelf that was previously used in the kids’ playroom and built for me a wonderfully large table to spread out on with a set up in one corner the computer just so I can check Ravelry and hit refresh on Loopy Update days. The room came with an entire wall of built in bookshelves as well. Though I do have quite a few baskets that hide the stash outside the ‘yarn room’ but they are so lovely no one thinks to look inside. I really love the room as it has three beautifully large windows that face North. So what would be the coldest room is now the warmest with all the yarn. Multi-purposefully done!!

65. Alex said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:26 am

    The top shelf of one of my bookshelves is my central knitting spot. It holds all of my active projects, stash for the soon-to-be-started, needles, notions, etc. I do keep the knitting books and patterns across the room on another shelf just in case. One never knows what might happen if the two combine.

66. Kathy H said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:27 am

    I finally have the knitting room I’ve always dreamt of. I re-did a bedroom and made it into a knitting/spinnng/weaving room/guest room. I had shelves made for the closet so when I open the door I can see all my beautiful yarns and supplies. I also added a futon to the room for my guests when they want to spend the night. I love my quiet knitting room, it’s my space to get away and relax.

67. Allise Vicens said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:30 am

    My “den” is now known as the “knitting room”. In addition to all my yarn, needles, patterns, and wip’s, I also have a selection of hand creams including my Lavishea bars. Oh yeah, the tv is in there, too.

68. Shannan said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:31 am

    I have a room where I store my stash and spinning wheel. It also has a comfy chair for knitting. But I do tend to keep my current WIPs on the main floor of the house. So I guess for me, it’s a little of both.

69. Erika said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:33 am

    My knitting has taken over our love seat, and then one cushion on our sofa, so my bf and I have been slowly pushed over to the left side of the couch. If it takes over another cushion it might be time to look into some new storage options!

70. Linda said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:34 am

    We moved to a new house in November, and with the cold and Christmas activities, we are still unpacking boxes. a big bedroom is designated as a craft room. I have a desk/cabinet wall unit that we got for $45 when a business went under. I do my quilting and stash most of my fabric/yarn and patterns there. Altho it is a mess right now still finding things and wishing it wasn’t so darn cold in there. Lots of totes full of yarn – this is not working – I can’t find that yarn that was purchased a year ago, or I go thru totes amazed that I bought that and I should make something with that. Geez I have so much yarn, I could knit every day nonstop for the rest of my life and still not use it up!…but I love it all.

71. Helen said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:34 am

    I have all my Loopy Lite patterns and yarn in my desk. I also have some knitting supplies in it. The plan is to be able to locate everything not in use because it will be put away in this desk. I have all my knitting books and magazines in a bookcase around the corner from this desk and that is working out well. Other yarn is kept in storage containers.

72. Tammy said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:36 am

    I actually have a stash room in my basement, but I’m planning on this year making the basement into a knitter friendly zone and try to corral all my supplies in one general area.

73. Janelle said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:37 am

    I have many of my most-used tools in the living room, close to where I do most of my knitting. I’ve made felted boxes that are great for corralling sock needles in all sizes, small crochet books, interchangeable needle sets, tape measures, etc. I have a couple of baskets on the hearth with queued projects and spinning fiber, alongside my spinning wheel. I also have an antique legal bookcase (the kind with glass front doors that swing up) to hold my sock yarn stash. It is wonderful to be able to see it and be inspired by it all the time.

    But books are in another room, as are my less-frequently-used needles and my tubs of non-sock stash.

    And I have glass jars full of balls of leftover sock yarn stuck in several rooms in my house. It’s hard to use it all up and it looks so beautiful!

    Now that I think of it, my stash of fiber is in a different room still. So fiber stuff is in at least 5 rooms.

74. Sue H said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:37 am

    I took over the daughters room when she went to college. Right now it’s a mess with large plastic storage bins arranged by yarn weight and a couple project bins containing storage bags with the yarn and associated pattern. I have a craft computer (with printer) in there so I have internet access and a table with lamp (& magnifying light) but right now that’s so covered with stuff I can’t see the top of it (shame on me). There are shelves – but not enough so books and magazines are piled on the floor. Told DH I wanted more shelves – perhaps for my upcoming birthday??? So – for the most part I either knit sitting in the computer chair in my “craftroom” balancing pattern and yarn on the messy table or out in the livingroom curled up on the sofa with the dog! I do need help!

75. Erin said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:37 am

    I’ve got a Closetmaid unit with adjustable cubbies in our guest room, and it holds most of my stash. There’s a little bit of acrylic for toys in one of those hanging sweater shelves in the guest room closet. I keep a little folding basket next to the couch in the living room to hold my WIP(s), but I’m not always good about keeping everything in there, and it tends to migrate out to the end table, along with my knitting books. Eventually I want to take over the little “nook” off our master bedroom and set up a Knitting Central with a comfy chair, more storage, a good lamp, etc.

76. Sarah said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:39 am

    I have a bag next to our comfy chair in the living room that holds new yarn purchases and WIPs. Unfortunately, the yarn has spilled over and now I have a “knitting mound” in the corner. Most of my stash is kept in “creepy town” (aka the basement), which is why I continue to buy more yarn. Reading through the comments has inspired me to de-stash and donate what I can. Thank you!

77. Elaine said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:42 am

    My central knitting place is in our family room. I purchased a cabinet at World Market with a glass door that shows off my stash. It’s perfect for that. I still have two baskets beside my chair for assorted knitting items and I have a plastic bin with drawers for my needles, stitch markers, needle gauge, sissors, stitch holders, pens, note pads, etc. I finally purchased a book shelf for my knitting books, dvd’s and notebooks with patterns. The stash cabinet and the book shelf helped me organize this past year. Before my stash and books were spread all over the house, from my bedroom, kitchen table, to family room. Oh, and I have stash in three glass decorative containers near my fireplace…..because I got this wonderful suggestion from you!!! Remember when you posted your new glass container with lid???

78. Jeanne said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:42 am

    I recently purchased a shelf/cabinet from IKEA and use their square baskets to slide into the shelves. It’s very cute. And each basket holds a surprisingly large number of sock yarn skeins. But I’m still probably going to need another one!

79. Cindy B said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:44 am

    My knitting is spread out over three areas. I have a knitting corner in my living room with a love seat, end table and a nearby coat closet to keep my current projects away from my two cats at night. I store my yarn stash in two other closets of the house and my knitting books and patterns are in a bookcase in another room. Would love to have a dedicated knitting room someday!

80. Kelly S said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:44 am

    I don’t really have a space that is assigned to knitting stuff, but I definitely have areas. I do most of my knitting in my living room while surrounded by my 3 children. I have a couple of decorative boxes (meant to hold magazines I think) that house my knitting pattern books and magazines on my fireplace hearth. I also have a large shelf in my living room that mostly holds photo albums, but one cube of the shelf is set aside to hold my knitting needles and notions along with other knitting related books. My stash was occupying a corner in my living room, but it has been moved temporarily to make way for the baby’s swing. Hopefully, when my kids are older, I will be able to have a room for my knitting stuff that I can use as a retreat. For now, I need to be right in the midst of all of the action!

81. Rachel D. said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:44 am

    I have two plastic drawer sets in my closet that house my main stash, needles, and wool wash. I have one more small tub in the closet that I put all the left-over yarn from projects in. All of my WIPs sit by my nightstand for easy access. I would someday love to have a fireplace nook type area with a big comfy chair, possibly in a whole room dedicated to knitting/crafting.

82. Susan said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:45 am

    I have a yarn room upstairs in my house. It was originally the craft room but all I do is knit so it became the yarn room. I keep all my stash in a cabinet along with all my books and magazines. I do keep one rubbermaid tote in my living room that keeps all my WIPs safe from curious felines!

83. Jenn C. said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:45 am

    I have (mostly) one place where I keep my stash. Tools, books, WIPs all get scattered all over the house as I work on things all over the house. I have a master plan to create a crafting space in one of my rooms, and when I do,then it’ll be (mostly) contained, I think.

84. Nancy from Iowa said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:46 am

    Most of my stash is stored in plastic bins in my bedroom closet,…..but I also have baskets in other rooms displaying my latest acquisitions. Makes me feel happy to see them for awhile before they get stored for later fun with needles. I also have an apothecary jar with colorful left over balls of yarn inside and I also display wooden needles in pretty vases.

85. Carrie said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:47 am

    I have knitting things everywhere. You might never know when you need some yarn and needles so it is best to have them close at hand!

86. Michelle said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:49 am

    For the most part I have a central area for my knitting stuff. However, as I travel and stay between my parents home in Los Angeles and my boyfriend’s home in Orange county. So even though I have a central zone at my parent’s house I do spread my projects between the two locations. This does make it difficult to realize how many projects that need to be finished by the end of year and before the new year begins.

87. Allison said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:51 am

    I’m such an organizational freak that I have to have a knitting zone! Space is tight at the moment so I have my stash, needles, books & WIPs occupying one bookshelf & a few bins. I’m full up now so I can only add more stash as I clear other things out.

88. Marianne Y said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:51 am

    I’m glad this week is almost over, too. And hopefully, the weekend will be much better than the worry last weekend that my youngest son would get safely back to school in Michigan’s UP. (The roads were horrible, glare ice underneath fresh snow. He had to wait for about an hour on US 41, as emergency crews cleaned up a head-on collision wreck.) He did arrive safely, Saturday night, so I could finally breathe a sigh of relief. Yes, this weekend will be much better!

    My crocheting and knitting supplies are not well organized. But, they really aren’t. I do have my needles and crochet hooks in a translucent Rubbermaid storage box, with the exceptions of those that are in various WIP’s, lol. My stash is in a number of translucent Rubbermaid boxes, in several different places, though, so that is not very well organized. Hopefully sometime, I’ll get to that. But, alas, it’s time to start addressing our business taxes to go to the accountant, so I can then get to personal taxes for all of my family, sigh! Happy crocheting & knitting you all!

89. MicheleinMaine said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:53 am

    I have both a Knitting Central Zone and a Sewing Central Zone! KCZ is mostly a large bookcase with cubbies in it containing semi-organized yarn in plastic bags. Next to that is a bookcase for all my yarn and patterns. This is all in the living room for easy access.

    SCZ is a cool IKEA shelving unit in my studio with my fabric stash organized by color and theme. There are other baskets of yarn and WIP’s, as well as a few rubbermaid totes strategically placed around the house. It’s a textile friendly environment!

90. Melisssa said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:53 am

    I just have a knitting closet. I keep everything organized in the plastic drawer things they sell at Target. I think if it expanded out of the closet my husband wouldn’t be very happy.

91. Cyndy Harkins said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:57 am

    I have all of my yarn and patterns in my third bedroom along with a bookcase, ironing board and my seldom used sewing machine. One basket in the living room holds my current projects. I don’t have that big of a stash, so the yarn lives in clear tubs on shelves in the closet.

92. Cindy said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:58 am

    Knitting Central for me is mostly in our bedroom and the extra bedroom. I have two 5′ floating shelves on one wall in the bedroom where I pile up my favorite skeins, and it is like artwork to me! I also have a big chest of drawers that houses stash that is either super special or to be imminently used. Then the rest of the stash is sorted by worsted, sock, etc. and is in 5 rough totes in the extra bedroom. WIP’s tend to rest wherever I last worked on them. So there are some piles lying in various spots. Then there’s the stash of WIPs that are in time out in a basket… Someday I will have one room dedicated to this insanity!

93. Amanda said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 11:59 am

    I’m working on putting together my knitting central this year while DH is in Kuwait. I have a whole room to devote to crafts and my office so it should be fun!

94. MsVicki said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 12:02 pm

    I have all my yarn stored in what others might view as my “dining room” set – tallboy, low buffet, small buffet, plus one set of enclosed shelves. Then my “knitting nest” is in another room – two good lights, a comfy small loveseat, table, hassock, music stand for my patterns and little baskets of what-nots. My iPod sits right there, so I can listen to books on tape. RV is also nearby … for all those old movies.

95. Robin Lemke said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 12:02 pm

    Every time I think I have it corralled into a corner – it grows and takes over another corner. I have a lovely curio full of yarn by a black leather chair – I have a project bag next to the sofa – and I have the bottom drawer of my dresser filled with super, secret stash!

96. Abigail said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 12:04 pm

    More like zones….

    The stash has it’s own location in my back storage room. A majority of the yarn I own lives there but it’s crawled out of it’s bins and is trying to take over all of the rest of the apartment. I’m working on that this year.

    And there’s a chair in the livingroom where I pile the WIPs. They get spread out but ended up stacked in that chair again.

97. Eunice said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 12:05 pm

    Most of my yarn is put away in drawers and one big cupboard in my laundry/office. I like to knit in my recliner in my husband’s office. He doesn’t use this office anymore as his laptop can be with him in the TV room.

98. Castiron said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 12:07 pm

    My central storage area is my bedroom. I have a couple Ikea Expedit shelves that hold (some of) my yarn, needles and notions, most of my needlework books, and my magazines and patterns, plus my complete collection of DMC floss. (Ultimately I want to get my stash down to where it all fits on these shelves, but that’s going to take a while.) Another bookshelf holds the rest of my needlework books. A couple closet shelves have the yarn overflow and my weaving yarn, and my 22-inch loom is in one closet. WIP Central is a corner between the bed and the desk where the WIP bags all live; all the knitting and crochet WIPs are in that pile except for a couple that live on the desk, my bathroom sock, and whatever project I’m carrying along. (I used to have WIPs all over the house, but it’s amazing how much incentive a toddler gives you to keep things out of the way….)

99. Linda said,

    January 14, 2011 @ 12:08 pm

    While I tend to leave WIPs in the family room (where I do most of my knitting in front of the television), I recently began to store all my yarn, books and knitting tools in my son’s room when he applied for a driver’s license in another state and it occurred to me that he doesn’t plan to live here anymore At least he still visits, and meanwhile, his old Pinewood Derby cars and my knitting books are residing companionably on his old bookshelves. And instead of boxer shorts, there are many skeins of sock yarn in his old underwear drawer.

100. Brooke said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:08 pm

     My knitting area has to share space with my sewing area…which is a 5 foot tall cupboard and an overhead shelve. This is totally crampin’ my style!

101. Melanie Simmonds said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:09 pm

     My knitting kind of gets scattered around, but I have a “studio” which is a fancy name for a room full of crafty stuff. In my studio is an antique sewing rocker and my card catalog. It’s an actual old library piece, and the drawers are perfect for my yarn storage, with little labels for what is in each drawer (I organize by dyer so far but may have to switch to color at some point).

102. Sandi Oswalt said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:09 pm

     I have my knitting storage and my active knitting zone. My stash is in my office stored in drawers and bookshelves. But the active knitting zone is in my living room – next to my seat I have a table which houses my WIP bags (yes, I also love bags). I actually use a bread box on my table so that if I really want to I can hide all my WIP bags away (like that ever happens – its usually overflowing). Then I keep my knitting supply bag (with more WIPs) on the floor next to me and a basket with all my tools. My husband just lives with it. But I would just love that cabinet that you have, although my husband would want to hijack it for his stuff (I have no idea what that stuff is but he manages to have a lot of it. I live with it. We are obviously mutually compatible. It works)

103. Marylu said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:10 pm

     I have one main knitting area in my family room. I like to keep my stash and goodies in the one area just to make things a little neater (one can always try LOL!!)

104. Lilie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:13 pm

     I would love a knitting area but I currently share my craft room with the guest room. I also have a 3 drawer rolling tower that has most of my tools & some quick knits that I can grab before I go out the door. I have a rolling bin in a corner that holds most of my WIP.

105. Beth in Seattle said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:14 pm

     My knitting central is the sofa in the living room. Stash in the basement and a spare room. Just this week I have been gearing up to organize it all – it has been a couple of years and things are out of control. I just moved all of the yarn out of the corners of my living room. Too much knitting, too little time. Sheri – I share your love of bags!

106. Kathy Sue said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:14 pm

     I have several storage boxes in my bedroom closet, and a bag on the floor at the foot of my bed. But the important stuff is next to my chair in the living room. It consists of the newest yarns I have acquired, the ones I intend to use next, and pattern books, so that inspiration is nearby. Also, across the room by the computer (and printer !) is a stack of printed-out patterns that I just couldn’t not print out. I also have 1200 patterns queued in Ravelry!! I guess I will never run out of things to do!!

107. Lauren said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:14 pm

     I have a smaller, extra bedroom that is my craft room. My desk is in their along with sewing table, paper crafts, and I have one wall devoted to yarn & its accessories. Most of the yarn is stored in see-through bins, and then patterns, extra project bags, etc are organized on shelving. My favorite spot for active projects is in the living room, next to an oversize armchair I inherited from my grandmother – where she used to sit and work.

108. Kris said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:14 pm

     Its a little bit spread out, with my dining room as the main storage area. My fiber stash is in my grandfather’s secretary style desk. My yarn stash is contained in a built in hutch in my dining room. When I moved last year, I realized that my new apartment had the gift of a huge amount of kitchen storage – so much so that I couldn’t fill it all. I love that I was able to use that hutch for storage – I can see most of the stash through the glass doors and its all in one place. The rest – projects and things are scattered around, between my office and knitting spot in the living room.

109. Shana said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:15 pm

     I have a knitting “spot” in my living room. I have laid claim to the reclining chair. I have a table nearby and a small basket underneath the table that holds all my knitting notions. But then there’s the basket by the kitchen door full of yarn and WIPs and there is the tub under the bed and the two in the closet..oh! and there’s a bag in the closet too. Oh, wait! I also have two garbage bags of unspun alpaca fiber….So maybe things have gotten a little out of hand. I am on a yarn diet, but gift card purchases don’t count right?

110. Jen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:15 pm

     Our house has an area called The Knitting Chair. It has a side table for a drink and the tools that are most immediately needed. On the other side is my big box of stash and a smaller box of projects waiting for launch, as well as my books and bagged WIP’s.
     If my knitting outgrows this area, I am shamed into a yarn diet.

111. Melissa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:18 pm

     I don’t have a central knitting area. Most of my stash is in boxes in my closet, and I have a basket for WIPs in the living room.

112. Karin said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:19 pm

     If you ask my family, they would say that every room is the knitting room. This time of year my knitting space is the couch in the family room. When the weather is warmer I knit in the screen room. Stash is in bins in my closet, except for those exceptional skeins that are displayed on an antique shelf in my living room, with my knitting books.

113. Bonnie H. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:19 pm

     I have two knitting places. One is “my chair” in our living room. The chair has a matching ottoman and I have a Dazor magnifying light mounted in my chair-side table. (I do counted thread embroidery, too, and my eyes need the magnifier for that.)

     I also have a craft room that is triangular in shape with windows on two sides and a wood floor. There’s lots of light in there. I have a wicker chair with cushions and a little footstool my hubby made. The chair was a bargain from Pier One. It was supposed to have a rocker bottom on it but the rockers wouldn’t go on because of a flaw in the manufacturing. I told my husband I didn’t need it to rock. We got it for about a third of the original price. I have a window seat to hide…um…store things in and a large cabinet, too.

114. Cindy in Happy Valley said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:21 pm

     My knitting zone is wherever I am at any particular moment. I do have my Loopy stash in my knitting bags in the living room. Right at my fingertips!! And where I can look at it lovingly when the spirit moves me.

115. Natasha said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:25 pm

     My knitting zone is a converted bedroom. As soon as we had one fewer child than bedrooms, I claimed it as my space. It’s got my mom’s sewing machine and cabinet, her rocking chair, an OTT light, a leather chair and ottoman, bookcase with TV/DVD, and small closet for stash storage. The thing is, this room is tiny, so really there’s hardly room for me to turn around (I have to wind yarn at the kitchen table). But it has all my pretties and collections (knitting books and DVDs), and it makes me happy. It’s the place I go to concentrate, to watch what I want to watch, and to generally unwind and play with my yarn.

116. Dixie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:25 pm

     I have a corner where knitting bags go, under-bed storage for yarn, and a few secret places where overflow yarn goes. Because I knit everywhere, my Knitting Central is my bag — every project has a bag with yarn, supplies, pattern, etc. So many chibis. So many stitch markers. Plus my little “bag of tricks” (a clear TLE zipper pouch, of course!) that gets dropped into whatever knitting bag I have with me for the day.

     When I grow up, I will have a spare room with square shelves appropriate for yarn, drawers for notions, and shelves for books. For now, everything has to stay contained and portable…

117. BFF Liz said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:26 pm

     I have a yarn spot right now on my sun porch, but I keep the projects closer to the couch so I can grab one easily. (The yarn spot? Not so much a spot as a stack. Like up to the ceiling. In boxes.)

118. enidb said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:29 pm

     I have an office/studio where I keep my stash on shelves in canvas cubes, and in a cabinet. It’s a little overflowing but I do my best to keep it organized. What I need is a comfortable chair to lounge in and knit, but I usually take my projects to the living room to sit in front of the TV.

119. Mary T said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:29 pm

     Mine is all spread out. But, I would love to have a room for yarn and one for books too.

120. Michelle said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:30 pm

     I have whole room to myself (so lucky!) but since we just moved it still needs some work on the unpacking part. I also keep a bin out by the couch so I can pick up a project whenever. Someday I want to have little enough stash to not need a whole room anymore.

121. Ashley W said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:32 pm

     Right now I have some cloth baskets on a metal rack, but one day I would love to have a cabinet like that!

122. Janet said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:34 pm

     My stash has overtaken two closets, tubs in the basement, and space under beds, and drawers that should be used for clothes. The living room sofa has become Knitting Central with several in-progress projects stored on and around it. Really, I’m afraid you’ll see my face on Hoarders one of these days!

123. Nancy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:34 pm

     Oh how I wish I had a room to devote to all my knitting “stuff”. It is now tucked away all over the house and I can never find anything I am looking for. Totally frustrating.

124. Colleen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:38 pm

     I have an awesome 1950s mod steel linen cabinet from a local antique store. It holds a good part of my stash, but I’m outgrowing it quickly. In addition to that I’m moving into a bigger place and plan to have an office/yarn studio in the second bedroom. No one needs visitors anyway, right? I of course have my works-in-progress waiting for me on the couch, and it is a miracle my dog doesn’t get after them!

125. Lise said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:39 pm

     My knitting central is the living room. The first time one of my friends visited the house she cracked up because there is yarn on pretty much every (high) surface in the room! (Out of the reach of kids and cats.) Maybe when the kids fledge I’ll have a room in which I can attempt to contain it all…

126. Hattie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:47 pm

     I have three knitting zones. “Craft corner” in the lounge where I actually knit. Then a cupboard in my office where I keep needles and my ball winder and swift. And my stash is in the spare room in the attic.

127. lisa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:48 pm

     I have a knitting zone with my wips and wips in waiting. That’s easy for me since I only have 3 I know I’m weird! I’m having fun looking through the photo gallery for storage ideas.my stash is a separate area and it doesn’t count as a knitting zone.

128. Carolina said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:48 pm

     I have a yarn cabinet where I store all my sock yarn and some sweater quantities. BUT it doesn’t fit all the stash! I also have two large baskets, two plastic bins, and two bags full of yarn as well. Not to mention the yarn that doesn’t fit into all these places! This year I’m trying to get all the yarn to fit into where it’s supposed to. I don’t mind having yarn around (love it!) but I do mind it when it takes over my house.

129. Josiane said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:49 pm

     Well, when I moved in to this house, I thought one of the rooms might be perfect as a knitting spot, but then I’ve found another one to be pretty good too, and now… things are spread around a little! This might mean that the whole house is a good spot for me to knit.

130. Jen B said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:51 pm

     Well – technically my knitting supplies are kept nicely organized in bins under my sewing table (In my bedroom). Of course that means that the giant pile next to my bed does not exist nor do the little knitting supply colonies that seem to spring up near various couches and/or comfy chairs.

131. Sue said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:54 pm

     In theory, everything is centralized in the back/sewing/knitting/spare room, with one basket of WIPS next to the couch in the family room where I do most of my knitting. But things tend to spread – the winder and swift get set up and not taken down, a pile of yarn looks pretty on the coffee table in the living room, FOs get displayed. When the yarn and projects have finally taken over the entire house, I clean everything up and get back to the one room/one basket state and start over. It seems to work for us

132. Katie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:56 pm

     I have a storage cabinet made out of Target’s itso system (4-cubes’ worth) that houses MOST of my knitting stuff. I would love to someday have a large cabinet like you have. When my husband and I talk about our dream house, I make demands for my “yarn library” — you know, a library, but for yarn.

133. Patty L. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 12:58 pm

     Have way to much stuff…to have it all in one place..but I do love to sit at my computer… knitting/crocheting

134. Cherie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:06 pm

     Most of my stash yarn is in my closet in a couple of large bins along with WIPs that are not being worked on. Current WIPs are in a basket by the sofa where I knit.

135. Robbin said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:08 pm

     I have a bookshelf in my bedroom with a couple of picnic baskets with my needles. I also keep some of my yarn there and pattern books Then the top of my dresser has my wool from the Faroe Islands for my Winter Branches sweater that I have not started yet. Then there is a couple of totes in my closet with-you guessed it- yarn.
     On my end table on my side of the couch has more pattern books, my knitting notebook,more yarn. On the back of my side of the couch is my large bag that houses the current project I am working on-Cables Swing Poncho from Vogue and my NEW Loopy Groupie bag with all the yarn I bought with my Christmas money. I’m not done staring at it lovingly so it isn’t put on my shelf yet. Oh yes there is also a tote in the garage with more yarn.

136. Lynn Z said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:09 pm

     I have a stash closet, and only those friends who understand are allowed to take a peek. My main knitting zone is on the couch in front of the TV. I usually have a couple of projects within reach because as soon as I sit down on the couch, I have at least one cat (usually two or three) settling in on my lap.

137. Sharon said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:12 pm

     Although I call the room my office, it’s really my yarn room. I have a large shelving unit that takes up most of one wall. I have each project, both started and waiting to be started, in a clear plastic storage box that is labeled with the project name. I have boxes in 3 sizes for large, medium and small projects. The bottom shelves have knitting books and notebooks with loose patterns. I also usually take the thing that I’m currently working on and put it in a bag (I love them, too) and put that out by the couch. I keep a sock in a small bag in my purse, in case I get stuck somewhere. I love being able to see and find all my yarn and projects.

138. buttercup said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:17 pm

     I knit and spindle-spin on one end of the couch ,and I usually have a small pile of project bags in the area. My stash, tools, and books are in the Craft/Dog/Library room, a short distance away. Periodically, I do have to go through the house and pick up old projects, leftover yarn, the odd new stash item, notions, tape measures, swatches, tapestry needles, knitting needles, crochet hooks, drop spindles, fiber samples, hand cards, etc. and get them back into containment.
     When I wheel-spin, I sit on an ottoman and keep my fiber beside me in a basket, until one of the cats finds it.
     I guess my answer would be all over the place, except I do try to keep it contained to the couch corner for works in immediate progress and the room for all else.

139. turtle said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:18 pm

     Love that large piece of furniture…. now that all our overseas moving is done i could consider something like this, lol.

     I have 2 knitting zones like many folk here. One is my craft room. The room is dedicated to my crafts. Our last overseas move we downsized our house for 3 people down to 43 boxes (plus a keyboard and guitar). 17 were my crafts, and even hubby said i could not get rid of the essentials. So my craft room is mainly storage and other crafts. My main knitting spot is a huge comfy chair with an ottoman in front of the large bay window in the living room. I have a nice standing lamp as well for light and keep an old time knit basket and old wicker style lidded basket for storage. I really need to make a slipcover for this chair but that will come….

140. Terri said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:18 pm

     I have it in plastic bins in my craft closet; mind you the closet doesn’t have any doors on it. You get the idea.

141. Sarah F. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:23 pm

     I wish I could stay organized… but somehow my knitting ends up in the TV room, living room, bedroom, and even the car! Every so often I try to draw it all back in, but it spreads itself back out again in no time!

142. Anneh said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:23 pm

     I am so lucky to have a whole room for my knitting and other crafty pursuits. I have a huge suspended bookshelf for patterns and sock yarn, a high cabinet with doors for more yarn, a small closet for…more yarn! I have a great L-shaped desk with task lighting, and a tv and dvd player. I love it in there, but still some of my projects have snuck out to live by the main tv in the living room. Sadly, due to my procrastination, said “yarn room” often looks like a bomb has gone off in it. Thanks for the fun question!

143. Rachel said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:28 pm

     My knitting zone is our den – I do all my at home knitting on the couch. The coffee table usually has at least three works in progress on it, along with various needles, tape measures, and other tools. My stash is in a cabinet and shelves in the same room, with books, magazines and patterns on the shelves, too.

144. Mandi R said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:33 pm

     I really just have a big wooden storage chest that my hubby got me for Christmas a few years ago. Although, it doesn’t hold all my knitting/crochet stuff. So I have space on a bookshelf, in the closet, in the storage room…etc. I need to find a central location for most of it. Just so I don’t have to run around and search in 5 different places when I need something.

145. Laura said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:36 pm

     The stash lives in a decorative wicker cabinet in my bedroom…and in a big storage container in a closet. WIPs are *supposed* to be in bags in the bedroom. In reality, they are often on the couch in the living room or the chair in the bedroom. Or by the computer. (Or all of the above.)

146. Joanne said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:36 pm

     My stash is located in various places in my house, but my knitting central zone is on the chaise lounge of our sectional. I keep my current projects (and the bags I carry each of them around in) in two tote baskets next to “my chair” and that’s where I sit and knit each evening.

147. Simone said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:40 pm

     I try to keep my stash in one (huge) closet, but I hardly ever manage, cause new yarns need to be touched and admired for a while so there are some skeins in nearly any room. Not to forget the works in progress – there’s always more than one project on my needles and WIPs need to be everywhere in the house: you’ll never know when and where you’ll find some (extra) time for knitting.

148. Elaine said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:42 pm

     I have a knitting/dyeing/spinning area! Our dining room table is old and we never ate at it, in fact my husband used to use it as a computer desk! When he got a real desk, I got the table and turned the whole dining room (not very big – it’s a small apartment) in to my fibre area! I have spot for my yarn up against the wall, my table and dye stuff set up in a corner and a nice comfy chair with my spinning wheel. I do share the area with the cats, but it’s really nice to have my own separate space!

149. Allison C said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:43 pm

     I use a wine rack for my stash and it is prominently displayed in a corner of my living room with the rest of my knitting supplies and WIPs.

150. Kristin said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:44 pm

     Maybe when my 19 year old son moves out, I will have a central knitting spot, but for now my stuff is spread all over the house. Whenever I tell hubs “I need a craft room”, he retorts with “you have a craft HOUSE!”

151. JenL said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:44 pm

     I don’t have a knitting central zone. I have a closet with tubs of yarn. The small tub houses the sock yarn and the big tub houses everything else. But since I only buy sock yarn these days, the small tub is full and I will need to switch. And there may or may not be a collection in the trunk of my car from bringing new lovelies for show and tell with my friends.

152. Anita Cook said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:44 pm

     My stash is in our spare room. My in-progress knitting is all over our coffee table and side tables and floor and couch! lol

153. Nicole said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:45 pm

     My aunt’s old couch and my old college end tables are my active knitting area – but the stash is usually relegated to the closet.

154. Lahodges said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:45 pm

     I have a wall to wall closet in my house in what is our exercise room. We have a closet company come put organizers in just for my knitting supplies. I have yarn in there in containers in the bottom section, and the top shelf holds bags with projects in them across the top.

155. Kate Skipsey said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:45 pm

     We live in a very wee apartment, so all my knitting books, stash, and projects are in the same room. My swift and ballwinder live by my notions, needles, books, and current projects, and my stash lives atop my bookcases in four green boxes. That’s right, only four small boxes. So as I sit on my futon, project in hand, I’m never more than two steps from more yarn and more books. Also, mini-eggs.

156. Kata said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:46 pm

     I mostly keep my yarn together in a corner in my home office, in storage bins (and around/on top of storage bins/in tote bags around storage bins… DH made a rule, I’m not allowed to buy more storage bins. He never said ANYTHING about not buying more yarn…) but we (yes, he knits too!) mostly knit in our living room.

     But my absolute favourite place to knit isn’t in my house… its at our local Starbucks. The staff there are so friendly and entertaining, and a lot of them even ask us all about our knitting now… what are we working on, who is it for, etc. They’re super sweet, and we’ve had many random conversations with strangers about knitting. Its fun!

157. Mandy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:46 pm

     I have dreams of one day having a beautiful place for yarn and knitting supplies. Maybe after we finish the slog through grad school and finally….finally get to where we are going. For now I keep most of my smallish stash in my home office on one shelf. Supplies are in tubs and tucked here and there. Projects are in my purse, a few bags and in a basket in the living room. Not much space, but somehow it will work for now.

158. Manda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:46 pm

     I am lucky enough to have a dedicated spinning/knitting room for now. But we are adopting a child in the next year or so, so it will be taken over by the baby. I have to figure out where to stash it all before my dh finds out just how much I really have. LOL!

159. Betty Richardson said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:47 pm

     I have a craft room where an antique dresser holds all off my yarn, my WIP is in lovely baskets by my recliner and a bag ready “to go” is always close at hand,

160. Kathy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:47 pm

     knitting zone = couch cushion surrounded by cats, knitting supplies in a zipped, cat-proof tote and a shoebox-size plastic bin. Ilong for a cabinet like TLE’s and a sunny room w/Just Yarn in it.

161. Holly H said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:47 pm

     I can trip over 4 or 5 ‘knitting zones’ while walking from the kitchen to the living room to the bedroom. I think of those zones as ‘decor’.

162. Lisa Ferron said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:47 pm

     My “knitting central” is my home office. I work from home 75% of the time so I have my desk and computer (great for looking up/printing patterns), the closet which holds all my yarns, books, etc, a couch, rocker and tv. It also just happens to be the warmest room in the house — very cozy.

163. Melissa V said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:48 pm

     Well there is a knitting room. And a spare bedroom either knitting stuff stashed on the side of the bed. Then the hidden under bed containers. And a few secret stash places throughout the house. . . Someday I hope to organize it all in the one room tho.

164. Heather said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:50 pm

     I have stash stashed ALL over the house. I do have *some* displayed in a nice cube shelf hubby got me for Christmas. On top of it in clear vases are my straight needles and a crystal bowl full of tiny balls of sock yarn. In front is a basket of knitting books/patterns.

     Buuuut, I also have a small set of drawers full in the bedroom as well as several Rubbermaid tubs full under the stairs and BIG plastic storage bags (the kind huge comforters come in) behind the couch. Oh and a few baskets around my recliner as well as the multiple project bags that are either filled with WIPs or more yarn.

     My husband says I have a knitting bag problem. I agree….I don’t have nearly ENOUGH knitting bags!

165. Lisa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:50 pm

     I knit all over the house. There’s a pile by my bed, by the couch, by the easy chair in the living room, in the man cave (imagine that?), in the car. And mind you, these are not projects taken from room to room…nooooo, all different and all in play at the same time! Talk about multi tasking!

166. Aggie Hansen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:51 pm

     I do try to organize it all in a spare bedroom that we have, but it just seems to grow and migrate all over the house. I keep thinking that this is a good thing-lol

167. Karen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:52 pm

     I have a knitting wall in my apartment that is full of yarn and spinning fiber (I just uploaded the picture to Loopy, since it’s supplied with 99% Loopy Yarns/Fibers). I like to just sit and stare at it.

     My favorite place to knit, however, is not at home, too many distractions. I love to knit on the subway going back and forth to the office. I get on at the first stop, so I always have a seat and I get a good solid 1/2 hour to 45 minutes in every morning and night, longer if there is problems on the tracks (last week I sat on the train for 1 1/2 hours). Most people just sit and stare, especially the kids. A few people make comments, both good and bad. But the best part is when you are spotted by another knitter and you share a smile and an instant knitter’s bond is created.

168. Lauren said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:52 pm

     My knitting spot is my couch. Since I live alone I can spread out as much as I want. So my couch usually has at least one project on it but more likely two or three. My yarn and books are also stored nearby so I guess that would be my knitting central.

169. Diana K said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:52 pm

     I emptied out a walk in closet just to store all of my yarn and fabric stash. I also have a large wicker basket next to the couch where I keep works in progress, needles and supplies, and of course more yarn.

     My knitting zone is usually my couch, but every Tuesday evening it’s Tuesday Knit Nite with my knitting friends. We have potluck dinner, dessert, and of course always have chocolate on hand!

170. Tabby said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:52 pm

     I’ve got mini-stashes in several different spots around the house–some for knitting, others for spinning. More easily accessible that way

171. Heather N said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:52 pm

     My Desk, Podcasts on Laptop, and Coffee.

     If only I could get a lazy-boy-like chair verses my office chair.

172. Jen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:53 pm

     Well, I do have all of my yarn, fiber and knitting supplies all in one place, but it’s not a great spot for actually knitting. My favorite zone for knitting is on the couch, while my husband practices the piano. Auditory entertainment + knitting = win!

173. Karla said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:53 pm

     I love that piece of furniture! What a treasure! Until my dear daughter came along, I had an office at home and I had a craft room at home. Youngin has taken over both as playroom #1 and playroom #2, so I have carved out “knitting central” from one of the two coat closets. It is now full of plastic bins, so I have my eye on one of the two linen closets. I organize yarn by brand, then weight, so even having things put away I can generally find what I am looking for. Project bags are another category all together! I have two hanging on the bedpost right now, one on the doorknob to the living room, and one hanging on the china cabinet door – yes, all have a project in midstream inside them and yes, they are up away from the cats!

174. Vera said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:53 pm

     My favorite knitting place is in our spare bedroom, watching a movie. It makes me feel like it is a special pursuit, sitting in a cozy room that is rarely used for anything else. Good place to hide stash too!

175. paulab said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:53 pm

     I have my knitting “nest”. All the yarn is stored in open baskets. The yarn that doesn’t fit in the baskets is in bags on the floor in front of the baskets. Two shelves of books and then my chair which has low arms so it is a comfortable place to sit and knit – a table next to it with all the tools I need! It looks a mess, but I can get to everything!
     mostly…..

176. Gretchen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:54 pm

     Knitting actually happens in “the big red chair” in the living room, with supplies and books stashed in the bedroom and hallway shelves. Plans abound for total home takeover once the children move out… in 10-15 years…

     Not to push them out the door or anything…

177. Lise Trevino said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:55 pm

     I have a yarn bin in my sons closet. Oh how he loves that…..Not…..and yarn is stashed in a couple of bags in my room as well. My favorite yarn is on the book shelf with the ball winder, and the projects I am working on are located by the chair in the living room where I love to knit. And the project are usually tucked in Oh snap bag and then in the larger bag, just to corral them…..

178. Samantha said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:55 pm

     My corner of the couch is my knitting zone. My foot rest is a storage ottoman where the yarn goes. My end table has room for my yarn bowl, needle vase, and drink. The bottom shelf of the end table is my bookshelf, and the deadzone behind the end table is for the big bag of yarn that didn’t make the cut for the storage ottoman, and yet didn’t get regulated to the bin under the bed.

179. catspaw said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:56 pm

     I do have a room dedicated to knitting and spinning. My husband fitted it out with a wood slatted door so air and light gets in but the cats and dogs don’t. My very favorite place to knit is sitting on the deck of a cabin overlooking a lake in the Adirondacks. Heaven!

     Love your cabinet. I actually do have one mostly full of Wollmeise but it’s nowhere near as big as yours.

180. Jeannie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:56 pm

     My knitting zone is my combination office/craft studio. It is a small room, but I have utilized it well. My yarn is stored in slide out drawers that fit perfectly into cubicles on a shelf purchased at IKEA.

     My yarn is sorted by weight (sock, worsted, etc). All of my knitting gadgets (I love gadgets!!) are organized in plastic shoeboxes, and stored on the built-in shelving that is part of the closet system. Each shoebox is labeled with the contents, so I can grab what I want without much guesswork.

     I also have a small plastic rollaway drawer system right next to my computer desk with one drawer dedicated to those “use all the time” knitting items that I want at fingertips reach.

     I usually knit right at my computer desk, as the light is the best (OTT bulb in desklamp), and I can look up information on my computer easily when I have one of those “umm, how do you do that again???” moments.

181. Ann said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:57 pm

     My knitting zone is on the couch in the evenings. But my winter project this year is sorting out my yarn stashes and reorganizing them all in one place on shelves in one of my bedrooms. I look forward to working on this project every weekend. I’m digging little hidden stashes out of all kinds of places and getting where I can see it all at once. So satisfying!!

182. Jenn J. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:58 pm

     My HUGE stash is in my bedroom. But everything else is on the craft table, by my spinning wheel, coffee table, and the couch. I really need to organize this year.

183. katiedo said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 1:59 pm

     I have yarn strung out in various hiding places throughout the house & have several knitting fun spots. But my favorite is our bedroom – I have a nice comfy high back chair & ottoman (sometimes too comfy I find myself dozing off) with a big window next to it with big trees outside. Since it’s upstairs it feels like I’m sitting in a tree house. I have my stereo to listen to my books on tape & can knit away hours- life is good!

184. Rose A said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:01 pm

     I have two favorite places I like to knit at my house.
     Outside, I have a patio set, that I like to sit & knit,
     when the weather is nice. The second spot,
     is in my favorite recliner, & watching Law & order reruns.

185. Amy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:02 pm

     I have a knitting zone on “my” side of the couch. It’s where all of my public knitting stuff gathers. My guest room houses my stash, which means there’s not much room in there for the guest bed!

186. Beverly said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:02 pm

     I live in a one bedroom apt, so the corner of my bedroom near the window is the knitting zone. Unfortunately, my storage at the moment is banker’s boxes. The spinning wheel and projects on the needles are on the right hand side of the couch and coffe table……knitting and spinning central. Hopefully I will add a small table and chair to the bedroom which has a huge window looking outside and then I will have it all contained………

187. Betty said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:04 pm

     My knitting zone is all over the house. Can’t see the cuch for yarn, patterns, magazines, etc. Good thing we don’t do a lot of entertainbing!lol!!!

188. kelly-ann (on ravelry) said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:05 pm

     I would love a knitting zone. Alas, I just sit in the same corner on our leather sectional and cover myself with some comfy throws.

189. Nicole Ivey said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:06 pm

     In the guest bedroom I have a couple of large 4 drawer Rubbermaids that let me store like yarns together (by weight), and I can see through the fronts of the drawers so it’s like a muddled up stained glass window. I keep magazines, notions, wool washes and extras like fabric and such in some of these drawers as well. I love having my yarns visible, so I keep bright cottons in various old baskets that have been given to me, just looking at the baskets motivates me to get back on it!! My knitting spot is in the living room though with access to a tall adjustable lamp, a fold out table and access to an outlet for iPod charging! Feet up!
     Awesome contest, thanks for the chance to win! And I love that big beautiful cabinet of yours!

190. Holly B said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:06 pm

     I found two awesome literature display racks 2 years ago when an old building was being cleared out. They are clear lucite and each one has six large cubbies topped by three slanted magazine display shelves. I keep all my sock yarn in it arranged by color and the top slanted section holds patterns and yarn that I want to do next. I love and it always generates comments when someone enters my knitting loft. Generally amazement at how much yarn I have (non-knitters) to appreciation of the colors (knitters).

191. Bekki C said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:07 pm

     My knitting is corralled into 3 rooms of the house. Family room, storage room, spare bedroom. I have organized the yarn by the type of yarn it is – feltable wool, sock, sugar’n'cream, etc. The knitting bags of WIPs sit in the family room by my favorite knitting chair. I do wish I could have everything in one room though. It would make it easier to find everything!

192. Mary Ellen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:07 pm

     Try as I might, I have most of my wool yarn stacked in clear containers stashed behind my loveseat (aka known as my “throne”). I also have used a clear 3 drawer organizer to sort sock yarn, baby yarn, and novelty yarns for easy access. Many felted or canvas totes (also behind said throne…) hold different WIP. I also have managed to keep my knitting books, magazines and printed patterns confined to one small bookcase. OH and I must admit to some more vintage yarn being stored in a container or two in the basement……right now this works for me – out of sight means out of mind for me….thus I like having most of my working materials at my fingertips!

193. Sara S. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:07 pm

     All my yarn is currently heaped in a corner of my room, with my WIPs stacked on top of that. It’s… temporary, I hope.

194. Joni said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:07 pm

     Right now I have two favorite knitting spots in my house. One is in my living room, where I can knit while I watch TV, but the lighting isn’t the best there. My other favorite spot is in the family room, where I have my Ottlite and a nice end table for all my stuff — and the natural light is better. But is it cold in the family room in the winter, apparently they didn’t believe in good insulation in Texas in the 1990s when the house was built! I’m working on plans for my “dream house” that DH and I plan to retire to years and years from now and plans call for me to have my very own craft room, so I always have a look out for ideas for it — and I love that cabinet, Sheri. It would be perfect for one wall of my dream room

195. Melodie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:08 pm

     My sewing/quilt room has become my yarn room. So things are mostly organized in there although the new yarn usually lives on what used to be my cutting table for a while until I spend time putting it away when I can no longer find the table surface. I do most of my knitting sitting in a comfy chair in the living room area of our great room in front of the pellet stove in the winter. I don’t leave yarn laying around in case a beagle decides to get nosy and thinks it looks like a rope toy.

196. Alicia said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:08 pm

     I don’t really have a knitting zone…but I usually sit in the same place on the couch, and my yarn and books and needles are (mostly) contained in one area. I do have a nice place in my house where I could make one, but I’d need to clear the junk out of it first. Hey, there’s an idea……!

197. Karen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:08 pm

     I keep the stash on the top shelf of my closet (hopefully the husband has NO idea how much is up there). I do my knitting on the couch in the Living Room. I have a big bag that I keep my WIP contained in. Wish I could have a room devoted to knitting. Jealous!

198. Kristen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:08 pm

     I (finally!!!) have my own room designated as the “knitting zone”. There’s a wall that’s totally dominated by bookshelves which are filled with stash and books, a huge comfy chair and ottoman, a table for my ball winder and swift, and (most importantly) the closet which houses all the “overflow” of yarn and fiber.

199. Johanna said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:09 pm

     My knitting central is on one side of the couch in our living room. I have a basket on the floor beside the couch with my WIPs in, and a lamp over my head. I spend most evenings there – knitting on while my husband watches TV sitting next to me. The stash is in our guestroom in the basement.

200. Nancy DeMaio said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:13 pm

     I have a corner in the living room. I have the bay windows for light in addition to an Ott lamp. Yarm can be found on in plastic containers on a 2 shelf bookcase and in a wicker basket (additional stash is in plastic in a closet). The 5-shelf bookcase houses containers of supplies, my swift, all my knitting books and some more yarn. The chair on which I sit is very comfortable. I also use a tray table to place my stand for the pattern I currently am working on.

     I do a little knitting in bed too, but I just move the project from my corner to there and back again.

     My husband teases that I will eventually take over the living room as there are times projects do get scattered and I have one for each seat in the living room.

201. Jen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:13 pm

     I mostly knit while watching TV, so “my side” of the couch and the coffee table tend to be displaying the “project du jour”. I have a basket beside me, but usually my notions stay right in front for immediate usage. I store the rest of the yarn in some non-sexy bankers boxes in a closet, although lately my stash and needles have been spilling out into the room because there isn’t a lot of room. (But I’ll still happily win… haha)

202. Sidney said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:14 pm

     I just organized my stash and UFO/project bags in my guest room closet. It is still a work in progress. My ideal set up is to have small enough bins to have each weight and color family, in separate bins…I’m still looking for the best system-I’ll either need an addition on the house or have a MAJOR destash in order to accomplish that!

203. Jennifer said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:14 pm

     I keep all of my yarn and supplies in tupperware boxes. My knitting zone is on my back porch. We live in Florida and have a screened-in back porch located on a lake. I get a glass of wine and hang out on the porch working on my lates WIP. It’s very peaceful and relaxing. My cat likes to sit out there with me, it’s our evening routine.

204. Kay said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:14 pm

     My bedroom and also the spare bedroom are decorated in yarn & WIP stash. A cabinet like yours would be a wonderful addition to the decor! But my favorite knitting spot is outdoors sitting on my hammock with a cold drink nearby. Indoors I tend to settle in a big armchair in my living room with the pattern spread out on the matching hassock/in a pinch coffee table type object.

205. Carla Bell said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:14 pm

     My favorite knitting spot is in my chair in the living room, where I can look out the windows, and watch tv. But, that doesn’t mean my knitting stuff isn’t all over the place. I so have a sewing room to contain it all, but the project bags tend to collect near my chair.

206. Rebecca W. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:15 pm

     My yarn stash and circular needles live in the bedroom, along with my patterns, books, and magazines; my fiber stash, spindles and straight needles live a far wall in the kitchen where we have a “built-in” unit for my daughter’s arts supplies, extra file space for my husband’s work, and area that I’ve staked out for myself. My active projects “live” in a designated bag, and I carry them around to whatever location home (or outside) I want. Needless to say, there are always stray notions, pieces of fiber and yarn remnants to be found everywhere in our apartment!

207. KarenVR said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:16 pm

     I have most of my stash and WIP’s that are lingering in my spare bedroom that is yet to be organized. It goes on one big white shelf in clear storage containers. The things I am currently working on hide (sort-of) in a heap behind the ottoman beside my chair in the living room where I watch TV.

208. Ketz said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:16 pm

     I have my stashed contained in the guests bedroom closet. We are finishing the attic and soon my hubby’s office will be my knitting room. I”m looking into how cute I can organize my stash..maybe by color or by vendor… well, don’t know yet.. I’ll figure it out in about 2 weeks… after hubby is kicked out of his offcie . I also carry a project in my car, in his car and i carry one project with me… just in case. We knitters know how it is.

209. DebbieO said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:16 pm

     I do have a studio space, and it is FULL! Sewing occurs there, but not much knitting. My actual knitting occurs all over the house or wherever I happen to be.

210. Joan said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:16 pm

     I have several WIPS, each is stored in a zip-loc bag with photocopy of the pattern, needles, row counters, etc. So I can grab whatever I feel like working on and go wherever I need to with it. I am a knitting nomad, and am happy to be able to steal extra knitting time while waiting for appointments or while using public transport. With circular needles, it’s all good!

211. Michelle said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:16 pm

     My favorite place to knit (and crochet) is my rocking recliner. My DH laughs, but the rocking helps me concentrate! I, too have the TV on when needles are in hand.

212. Sarah said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:16 pm

     I’m always knitting while doing something else. So, I have a project basket in the bedroom for when I’m knitting and watching TV, one in the living room for when I’m knitting while the kids are playing, a sock stashed in the glove compartment just in case I get stuck waiting in a doctor’s office or outside of swim practice, a couple easy projects stashed in my desk drawer at work for when I go to meetings or when I’m reading . . .

     No knitting central here!

213. SwimSarah said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:16 pm

     I have a box!! It lives beside my bed with the bulk of my stash, needles, patterns etc. Of course there are WIP’s on my desk…on the other side of my bed….in my backpack….but as long as I have a comfy seat somewheres I will knit to my heart’s content.

214. Jenn said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:18 pm

     In my big nest chair, coffee on the windowsill, Cast On podcast in my headphones, Wollmeise on my needles. Nothing better.

215. Mikaiya said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:18 pm

     When I moved in with my husband, we agreed that the larger guest bedroom would become my craft room, since he already has an office on the first level. It doesn’t always stay as tidy as I’d like, but it’s a perfect space- I have room for one big wall of cubbies, my desk (for printer and sewing machine), another sewing machine cabinet, a good sized craft table, and a sofa. I sew up there a fair bit, but I have to admit it’s mostly used for storage- I do almost all my knitting on the couch downstairs next to the hubster!

216. sdz said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:19 pm

     I’ve tried to contain my stuff. I have the yarn in a shoe organizer behind the door to the guest room and my current stuff is in the living room in one of those hassocks with storage. I also have my current project in my backpack for the train and my needles and stuff are in the bedroom.

     I too wish I had a knitting central. I think I need a good yard sale for that to happen.

217. Brianna said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:19 pm

     I have a knitting corner in our living room! My yarn, books, and notions are in bookcases in the living room, and I have a knitting chair (a small reclining armchair from Ikea, perfectly my size) where I keep my WIPs and a bookstand to hold my patterns. Dyeing and blocking materials are in bookcases in the office, but I don’t use them as often.

     My DH and I dream of buying a house so we can set up our hobby spots- knitting for me, and brewing/woodworking (probably not together) for him. I have most of it already, I just need a table for dyeing/designing and a few more windows!

218. Lynne E. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:19 pm

     Had to download the BIG photo to preview the Baggu bags. When it comes to bags, resistence is useless! My stash is stored in tubs, all around the condo. When I retire, and convert my home office into a computer and crafts room, I will consolidate all of the yarn tubs there.

219. Natalie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:20 pm

     I turned the dining area of my l-d-k set-up into a studio, with my bookshelves, yarn and fiber cabinets and my wheel – so that is my central area. Then, I have a glass coffee table in my living room with a shelf underneath where I keep baskets for each of my current projects. That way they’re both decorative, and always to hand when I’m relaxing on the couch and ready to knit or spin.

220. Sandy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:21 pm

     My whole life is a knitting zone — except for the part that’s a weaving zone.

     Knitting stash is organized and stored in bins in the garage; weaving stash is organized and stored in the closet in the weaving studio. Knitting projects tend to congregate in the living room around the chairs my partner (also a knitter/crocheter) and I occupy. I also work from home and so usually have at least one WIP at my desk.

     Would love it if the room I use as a weaving studio were large enough to be a craft studio, but that’s not going to be. I would actually be happy to have space for a chair so my partner and I could be together when I’m weaving and she’s knitting.

221. Mary Jo said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:22 pm

     The children call the front room ‘mum’s knitting room’ which says it all. But I also have numerous niches through the house full of baskets with wool. It makes me feel happy!

222. Brittany said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:24 pm

     I have two different places- my main spot is in the “hobby room” as we call it. My husband and I share it, and half of it is mine for yarn and spinning. It’s where most of my stash resides.
     And then, the smaller spot, which is next to my couch. Makes sense, since this is where I do most of my knitting.

223. Ruth Martin said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:25 pm

     My Knitting/Fibre Central is a spare bedroom – no bed, but an easy chair, bookcases for yarn, fibre, and books, and good lighting (2 Ott lights, one for the knitting chair and one for the spinning corner) – that’s essential! Of course, that doesn’t include the knitting bag in the family room for TV knitting…As big as the stash is, there’s always room for an extra skein or two, haha. My collection of ceramic and stuffed sheep stands guard over it all.

224. April W said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:25 pm

     The living room couch so I can watch my kids while I knit!!

225. Kathryn said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:26 pm

     Well I started out with a nice little drawer about 7 years ago, moved to a three-drawer stand shortly afterwards and now–I have it everywhere! Baskets all over the house, bins of it in closets, and projects everywhere!

226. Emily W. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:30 pm

     I now have a “knitting room”. It’s also our guest room, but I prefer to call it my knitting room My dad built me a beautiful glass fronted cabinet with small cubbies for individual skeins of yarn that my sock yarn is stored in. The rest of my yarn and knitting books/magazines are in bookshelves. I also have a recliner and a tv set up, so I can go back there and knit in peace when my DH gets too involved in whatever sport is on the tv in the living room

227. Laura said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:31 pm

     I have a “central knitting area” aka craft room, but I never use it. I need to organize it, and get a comfy chair in there (rocking chair or recliner… maybe something that converts into a single bed for guests?). I also need some sort of tv/music thing because I can’t quite just sit and knit in the quiet.

     So, currently I have knitting projects spread all over the house. I’ve been working on my sweater upstairs in the TV room, I’ve got the cabled hat and Matter & Void downstairs in the living room for when we watch tv down there, and I even have cotton in the bedroom for potholders (easy before bedtime knitting). And I have socks in small bags that tend to wander around with me… sometimes around the house, sometimes I bring them to work.

228. Louise in Maryland said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:33 pm

     My stash and tools are in a cabinet/bins/boxes along one wall of the bedroom. I have a comfy rocking chair there, and a knitting stand that is basically a bowl with legs, and I can watch TV or listen to music. Sometimes, when my bad ankles are bothering me, I sit in bed with my feet up and knit. I have plenty of other places in the house where I like to knit, but that is where most of the “stuff” is stuffed.

229. Terri D. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:33 pm

     When I moved into my apartment last year, the moving guys were seriously concerned that I had so little furniture…”but dag Lady, you sure got a lot of wool!!!”. The apartment is teeny but fortunately has great storage; stash lives in the cabinets above the closets, although it tends to migrate. Knitting Central for current projects is a large basket next to the sofa that also houses the TV remote.

230. Oraxia said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:33 pm

     Well, my knit stuff is currently in a pile in my bedroom closet (I’m still a reasonably new knitter, but the stash has definitely grown to a size where I’m starting to think I shouldn’t buy too much more). I’ve got thoughts about what to do to organize the yarn, but there’s going to be a lot of organizing of my messy closet first!

     My actual knitting spot, however, is the right half of my sofa in the living room. I think this is because the best angle for my TV is right there, but it’s also a spot that gets some decent afternoon sun

231. Michelle said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:33 pm

     Well, I guess I’m spread out but still trying to contain myself. I have a three drawer plastic thingy that started it all, but it’s way past overflowing. I like to keep each project I’m working on in it’s own fabric bag, so I can take it with me. And then there’s the basket by the couch. Maybe I will re-do the living room bookshelves to be only yarn related? Maybe once the last kid is in college . . .

232. Terrib said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:36 pm

     Anywhere and everywhere!! I have a pillow that says “If I’m sittin’, I’m knittin’!” But my most favorite spot is a big comfy wingback chair that we brought back from Doha, Qatar years ago. It’s in the bedroom. I have the remote, something to drink and snack on nearby, and usually a 10 lb. ball of energy parked at my feet on top of the crocheted afghan. His name is Spartacus, and he’s a Chihuahua mix, and yes, I have knit him some sweaters!! As for the stash- it’s everywhere but my son’s and husband’s man caves.

233. Leigh Ann said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:36 pm

     I’m kind of spread out in two areas. I have a couple Itso cubes in the living room where my sock yarn and all my knitting books live, and that’s generally where I knit. I also have a couple tupperware containers up in my bedroom, but that’s more storage than anything else.

234. Susan K said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:37 pm

     I just moved mid-September and am still finding that perfect knitting spot in my place. Right now my yarn is all organized in bins but no perfect spot to knit — YET. I’m hoping once we clean out the accumulation of cleaning out stuff while we moved and rearranging some furniture I can put my lovely recliner in our little reading nook and that will be my knitting place!

235. lisa33 said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:37 pm

     I keep all of my yarn, books and accessories in a cubbyhole bookshelf in the guest room. Although we hardly ever have guests, so I call it the yarn room!

     My current WIP stays on the couch since that is where I do all of my knitting.

236. Cathy in VA said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:38 pm

     I have my stash and supplies neatly (as of last weekend) stored in a corner of the family room but my WIPs are scattered throughout the house!

237. Sally said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:38 pm

     My husband built me a small cabinet with shallow drawers for my knitting and crochet tools, and it sits in the living room. The current project bag sits on top when not in use. A small bookcase holds reference books. A large armoire nearby holds projects about to start, extra yarn, finished charity objects, books and magazines.

238. Louise in Maryland said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:38 pm

     My stash and tools are mostly in a cabinet, bins, boxes, and bags along one wall of the bedroom. My patterns and books are in the same room. I have a nice rocker and a knitting stand (basically, a bowl on legs) therean especially favorite retreat when the husband and kids are watching something on TV I don’t care for, and I can watch my own TV shows or listen to music while I knit. If my feet are bothering me, I can sit in bed and knit with my feet up.

     I do have one favorite tool, a needle case made for me by a dear friend, that I keep out on a table next to the living room seat where I knit, because I like to display it. The rest is in my private sanctuary.

239. Dana said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:38 pm

     I love that cabinet! It is so beautiful. I just have a wall of yarn and stuff in my basement, all kept in matching tuperware bins,

240. Ruth said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:38 pm

     I have a craft room that is overflowing with yarn, beads, books, fabric, ribbon, etc. The yarn is contained in plastic containers as is the fabric, ribbon and beads.
     When I’m not at one of the coffee shops/book stores with our local knitting group I prefer to knit while sitting on my bed. Hubby likes to watch certain shows that I do not care for so I go sit on my bed with my tv on something I prefer while I get comfortable and knit.

241. Lori said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:39 pm

     I have a general area (expands to the whole room it seems) that I keep my supplies, but I usually knit on the couch in my living room. My MIL recently gave me an old knitting bag with 4 legs that fold up (it is in a great, green 70s fabric) and I keep my current projects in that.

242. Jessica said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:40 pm

     I have two drawers for yarn, one for new skeins and one for left overs. My projects lay all over the house, but my husband says that okay because we don’t have room for a special project cabinet.

243. Shannon G said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:41 pm

     I do have a space set aside in the spare bedroom for all o my knitting things, but I rarely knit there.I love knitting at the beach, and being in Florida means your never too far from water. Sometimes when I am stressed I will throw my knitting in the car and go to the beach. It is so peaceful.

244. Rhian said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:41 pm

     I have a little crafty storage area in our bedroom: shelves and boxes, fairly pretty and organised. Then I have the corner of the sofa where all my current WIPs lurk, ready to be picked up and knitted at a moment’s notice!

245. Deborah VonBrutt said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:41 pm

     I kind of had a knitting corner in my basement. As I bought more and more books and yarn it spilled into my living room. Now it has moved onto the shelves in my kitchen. Let’s face it the house belongs to the knitting and I get to live here too.

246. Cathy in VA said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:41 pm

     My stash and supplies are neatly (as of last weekend) stored in a corner of the family room but me WIPs are all over the house!

247. iloveafarmer said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:41 pm

     I have a new-for-me-to-use craft room where I store my knitting supplies, but I don’t knit in there, at least not yet. I knit on the couch or in bed (!) or in the car. Someday I’ll get a comfy chair for my craft room, but then I might never leave it!

248. Erin said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:42 pm

     I currently have all my knitting things; yarn, needles, and notions, spread through multiple bags around my house. My darling husband bought a bookcase from Ikea for me recently to organize everything. I am so excited about that! I will have cubbies and drawers to sort it all. I will be taking over the walk-in closet in our master and turning it into my stash closet. Of course, I will still have at least one or two projects at my computer desk. I tend to do the bulk of my knitting curled up in my computer chair while watching streaming Netflix.

249. madonnaearth said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:42 pm

     I worked on consolidating all my yarn in one place, in zip lock bags and shoeboxes in my closet. Most of it is in there. The rest of it (including roving) is in a tote bag under my sewing machine, in a couple of baskets in my bedroom and in a couple of drawers. I hope to one day have knitted or crocheted it into enough finished objects that all the fiber I have is in the 16 storage shoeboxes. That will take a few more years, two at the most, I hope.

     How do you handle getting so many responses on your web site? I used to think I wanted that for my web site, but I don’t think I’d have time to read them all.

250. Angele said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:43 pm

     I have a favorite chair in my bedroom that has shelves attached to it that can be folded up or down. I’m also closer to my stash and needles. A perfect spot when the sun is coming in!

251. Ann said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:43 pm

     I’ve almost taken over a linen closet in our basement (it’s a finished basement – which is why there’s a linen closet in it) for yarn. Needles, hooks, tape measures, etc. reside in various knitting totes and those are all over the house. I’d love to say that my knitting/fiber related books are all organized on a shelf, but I ran out of shelf space so at least half of them are sitting on the floor next to the shelf. Note to self: need more bookshelves. I do have a big comfy chair that I like to sit in to knit, so there are WIP’s (yes, multiple) next to that chair. And in the bag that goes to work with me every day. And in the other bag that goes with me on road trips or to knit group. And probably in a couple of other places.

     I really need to get organized!!

252. Sherry said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:43 pm

     For the most part, my yarn & works in progress are kept in my office. But, that doesn’t mean there isn’t some yarn in the living room & the extra bedroom. Knitting books are in the living room & my bedroom.

     Wishing & hoping I’ll be more organized this year!

253. Elizabeth said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:43 pm

     My WIP knitting is kept by my chair in the family, but everything else is spread out (wool in the closet, books in the study, yarn swift and winder in the dining room), and then there are the projects that have been set aside for some reason or other, but we don’t talk about that!

254. Wannietta said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:44 pm

     The love seat in the upstairs living room is knitting central chez Prescod! My TV, laptop, current WIPs, recent magazines, yarn for upcoming projects & swatches make the love seat my knitting nest!!

255. Michelle H. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:45 pm

     I have my knitting cabinet in the living room full of my most favorite yarn(which is most of it) and then I have a craft corner in the basement that has other yarn and all my sewing stuff. I keep my current project in my knitting bag. I try to only have one project going at a time, sometimes it is two but not any more then that.

256. Jamie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:47 pm

     My knitting “box” has since morphed into a table in the dining room with my swift and winder and a beautiful ceramic bowl handmade by a friend to showcase the “pretty” yarns, plus various decorative storages boxes strategically placed to convince my loving fiance that things are not getting out of hand. My favorite thing is decorative vases on bookshelves filled with pretty needles!

257. Haifa A. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:50 pm

     At the moment my stash is in my closet and the basement bedroom. It has to be behind closed doors as I have four cats that love yarn. I made the mistake of leaving stuff in the open once, never again, that was a terrible sight. Even my works in progress stay in a my bag I got from the Loopy Lite kit, by the couch. I do have plans for a craft area; the basement bedroom. It would be my own area.

258. Tracey G said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:51 pm

     My fiber room (with wheels, loom, yarn and fiber storage bins, drum carder and sewing machine) is upstairs. But I all my knitting in a comfy chair in our living room. Next to it I have baskets with notions, shelves for projects, my Ott-Lite, and… my remote. My dogs keep me company there, too.

259. Jen T. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:51 pm

     I have an entire craft room to myself. I’ve found that by leaving projects out in sight, they are more likely to get finished – I’m usually horrible at getting the finishing details done. This week I’ve been on a finishing kick and eliminated almost an entire bookcase shelf full of almost dones. It makes me feel productive.

260. Andrea said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:53 pm

     I have projects all over the place, in the car , on the kitchen table, next to my bed., etc. My favorite place to knit is sitting on my bed with lots of pillows propped up behind me , listening to podcasts or watching some fun tv.

261. Leslie Burroughs said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:55 pm

     When my last child left home, I am turning the extra bedroom into knitting central. I love it. And it helps the empty nest syndrome!

262. Cindy K. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:55 pm

     I have a whole knitting room, although it is small and currently does not have a chair – hoping to remedy that soon. I have my yarns organized by weight in bins. My Wollmeise and Bugga! are housed in brand exclusive bins in hopes that they’ll spontaneously reproduce. lol. I love my little room even more when I can share it with a good knitting/spinning friend!

263. Julie B said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:57 pm

     My favorite place to knit is in my rocker, the one I used to nurse my babies in, in the living room watching my babies grow and play together. Most of my knitting stuff is in one spot, I have a chest for my stash that could work as a cascet, my Dad made me & then whatever project I’m working on at the moment is in a basket by my rocker.

264. Page said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:58 pm

     Well I long for a dedicated fiber area, but at the moment my stash and projects are strewn about the place in odd corners. With two small kids, there just isn’t room for a knitting zone.

265. Lisa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:58 pm

     I have yarn everywhere… I filled my grandmother’s old china cabinet in my living room with “some” of my stash. I get to look at it every time I walk into the house. It was supposed to be a reminder that I sure don’t need any more yarn… That totally didn’t work.

     On Halloween, a little boy peeked into the front door and said “Wow! You have a lot of Beanie Babies”… I said no, that’s yarn! I think he liked it better when he thought it was Beanie Babies…

     My favorite place to knit is in our family room right next to the toasty wood stove!

266. Robin F. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:59 pm

     My yarn and my quilt fabrics are mostly in plastic covered bins in my basement. My current knitting projects are each in their own tote bag. The bags are all piled up at my spot on the couch where I have my Ott lite set up. By having each in a separate bag with all its supplies I can grab and take any project with me to meetings, knit alongs, etc. The only I add to the tote is my Knit Kit (so I always have what I need). My quilt projects are in individual pizza boxes since they don’t travel.

267. gerri said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 2:59 pm

     I knit in the den by the TV so that I can be with my family. My favorite place to knit is with my knitting friends wherever we decide to be.

268. Johanna said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:00 pm

     I am in the process of reclaiming a room in my house to be my “crafting sanctuary” – just in the process of figuring out storage – would LOVE to find a shelf like this one with the drawers and cubbies!!!! Love the idea of having drawers for projects and tools and cubbies to display beautiful yarn fabric and paper!!! Thansk for all the photos of people’s storage areas – giving me a bunch of ideas

269. dana said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:01 pm

     While i have a dedicated space for quilting, i do not for knitting. partly because there just isn’t the space in the house, and partly because i like to knit during the evenings while i am spending time with my family.
     so my stuff is spread out. my books are (mostly) on a built-in bookshelf in the hall. my yarn is (mostly) in a spare closet dedicated to yarn and knitting paraphenalia. my needles are still in the quilting room. and there is an assortment of odd bits on the table next to where i like to sit for knitting. like stitch markers, small scissors, grafting needles, highlighter tape….

270. Wendy H. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:03 pm

     My husband has brought back many beautiful things on his trips to Japan. Since we have several inquisitive cats, I decorated my guest room with an Asian theme and displayed the pieces there so I could close the door on curious little paws. I fell in love with this room and, little by little, moved in my sewing machine and filled the closet with my stash.

     Last summer, I purchased from Ikea a black bookcase (5 cubes high by 5 cubes wide) and several storage bins. I store my future projects in the bins, the rest of my stash sits in the open cubes, while baskets of WIPs sit on top awaiting their turn. The guest bed provides the perfect surface to layout a sampler afghan or block finished pieces. I now think of this room as my studio, and hope that my guests enjoy it a much as I do.

271. Bronwyn said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:05 pm

     It’s so sad, but I really don’t have a “knitting area” for organized storage etc. I have my bins of yarn in one room and my notions, WIPs,pattern file on the couch next to were I sit in the living room and my knitting books in a different room! It’s all based on room at the time I had set things up. DH and are planning to revamp things and set me up a designated craft area, but it’s still in the planning stages.

     At home, I usually knit in my usual seat on the couch, but my ABSOLUTE favorite place to knit is in the passenger seat of my DH’s SUV when we’re on roadtrips. The lighting is always awesome, there is always conversation and we’re on our way to do something fun! So it’s my favorite… I even knit in the car when we just going shopping…I love the natural light!

272. Allison said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:07 pm

     I must say that I tend to have my knitting with me only in the family room, where we watch TV and where bambino G hangs out most of the time, HOWEVER, the past week or so I have enjoyed knitting in my BED with the electric blanket turned on, because it’s been so cold!!!

273. Alison said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:08 pm

     The living room is where my knitting stuff lives!

274. kimu said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:09 pm

     I have a corner in my bedroom, with a comfy chair, a light, and a spot to set my laptop to watch DVDs or browse ravelry while knitting!

275. Jennifer said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:09 pm

     I’ve got my stash all in a (admittedly large) dresser in the office. I like to knit in the livingroom and try to keep things that I’m working on in bins, but eventually it takes over the couch.

276. Jenn said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:10 pm

     I love knitting in our family room by the fireplace, but in reality I knit wherever in the house I can get a few minutes of spare time. This means that my WIP are spread all over. I do have a bookshelf in the office to store stash and books.

277. Debbie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:13 pm

     I do most of my knitting on the sofa in the family room, so most of my knitting supplies are in there. My swift is under the bookcase. A basket ( and some shelves ) hold balls of sock yarn along with knitting books. A large African basket by the fireplace holds some random balls and leftovers. But a great deal resides in plastic bins hidden(?) behind the sofa, sometimes covered with an afghan.

278. Shel said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:15 pm

     I do my knitting wherever I am… sofa, bed, out at dinner. I just bought an Expedit shelf from IKEA to put on my side of the bed to organize knitting books and some yarn. I have two huge glass bowls from garage sales on the fireplace with yarn in them, a basket by my computer desk and a wonderful storage chaise at the foot of the bed full of yarn!

279. Helene said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:15 pm

     yarn everywhere, behind, under, over, and in things. A few main boxes in my sewing room that are full, and then yarn everywhere. Did you know that yarn multiplies all by itself? That is the only way I can explain it.

280. Laura said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:19 pm

     Mostly it’s in a bedroom, on some shelves in a bookcase, and in boxes. I would love to have a craft room or a spare closet where I could corral all my knitting stuff together.

281. Karen S said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:20 pm

     The only other living thing I share my house with is my cat, so everywhere is a place for knitting. I have books in the living room, yarn in the garage and a craft/guest room that takes hours to get ready for a guest to stay there. My spinning wheel is in the dining room. Can’t wait until I move and have a place for all my yarnie things to live together in one place.

282. Mandy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:22 pm

     I have a designated spot in my living room, right next to my usual seat. My husband calls the space in between the couch, a chair, and my end table “the yarn pit”. I keep all of my WIPs, knitting tools, and 4 or 5 bags there (I love bags too!). When it gets out of hand I have different spots around the house for the stash, like under the bed, my closet, and a shelf in the bedroom.

283. Maria said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:23 pm

     Couch in the family room in front of TV!

284. Laurie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:28 pm

     I have an office that doubles as a guest bedroom. The room is furnished with an antique bedroom set which has 2 sets of dressers. Don’t let hubby know that those drawers are filled with yarn for sweaters. My patterns are in the file cabinet or bookcase. More yarn is stashed under the bed and in the closet and I have a huge basket of sock yarn. All WIP’s are in there own bags either hanging in the closet or on the floor. Yes- organized since I like to play with my yarn and move it around. Now my favorite place to knit is the screened in porch if weather permits.

285. Sara said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:33 pm

     I have a basket of patterns by the “big comfy chair” along with a basket of WIP behind the chair a basket on the ottoman with my current WIP, my “craft/office” has another chair with 3 basket of yarn not to mention the 2 huge tubs of yarn and more books and patterns and the crocks full of my bamboo needles and bags bags and more bags! love bags too!!

286. Kylene said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:34 pm

     I don’t have a knitting central zone. I have a plastic box (with a lid–I have two small children and a cat!) that I carry with me around the house. Only a few WIPs fit in the box, so it keeps me from working on too many things at once. My yarn stash in is my closet. Hopefully when we’re done finishing our basement, I’ll have a whole room there!

287. linda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:34 pm

     Let’s just say that knitting consumes 3 major areas in the house. Laundry room houses the stash. Dining room houses the woos. And living room keeps the most current woos at hand.

288. linda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:37 pm

     Woos should read WIPS. Why do phones think they know what we are trying to say.

289. Sharon said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:37 pm

     My bedroom is a knitting room with a bed in it. I have a 3 row, 8 cubbies cabinet filled with my yarn, roving and WIPs. My grandpa built it for me years ago to hold my daughters’ games and books. When we moved, somehow that cabinet ended up in my room and before I knew what happened I filled it with my yarn! smile…All my knitting books are in an Ikea cabinet in my family room. My spinning wheel is also in my bedroom. So virtually all my knitting fiber is in one place. Only my books are in another location.

290. Anna said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:37 pm

     On my love seat with kitties all around. And they all know not to touch Mom’s knitting.

291. Kay said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:38 pm

     Knitting Central? That would be most of my home! Patterns reside in the bookcases in the guest bedroom; yarn is in large totes in the smallest bedroom along with WIPs and the overflow patterns. Projects I’m currently in love with and actually working on are in the living room beside the couch. The ‘naughty’ basket is also in the living room at the end of the couch with the more current projects that need calm and great light to figure out what and where they went wrong!

292. Doris said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:38 pm

     I would love to have a “craft room”, but alas, myyoungest moved back home to go to grad school and my oldest is in the process of moving back home from out of state (and with his 75 pound dog…who sheds…ugh). I had the stash spread out, in some bins under the bed and in our finished basement, but my husband and son decided to “help” organize some things and whoops, they found it all. So now it is in some bins in a closet, with any wips in bags in one of two rooms. My spinning stash is in a different bin and my wheel is in my dining room (one reason I picked a mahogany finish on my Minstrel). Someday, when everyone is out of the house, I will get that craft room…although my husband has recent;y said that when that happens we might move our business into the house to save on the exorbitant amount of money that we are paying in office rent. I have a feeling that if I want to be realistic, I will never have a craft room.

293. Crystal said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:38 pm

     I have a “knitting room”. It has my computer, all my yarn, a rocking chair, my knitting books, my needles, candles, a few yarn friendly snacks (you know, the candy/snacks that you can eat while knitting and they won’t make your hands sticky or weird coloured). There’s also a space heater for the winter when I get really cold. It’s also the most unorganized room in the house. I majorly lack organizational skills.

     People think we’re crazy when we say that when it’s time to have kids, we need a bigger house (we’re currently in a 4 bedroom). But with our bedroom, my knitting room, he has his “office” and a spare room, there’s no place for kids!

294. Jessica Peled said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:39 pm

     I have a central spot next to the most comfortable chair in my living room!

295. Bev said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:40 pm

     I’ve seen your cabinet and it is indeed lovely and perfect. I converted my daughter’s bedroom when she moved out into my knitting and quilting central. I have bookshelves, cubbies, grandma’s dresser, her old dining room table and a comfy chair in the corner. Pretty much perfect. That doesn’t, however, keep things from creeping into other areas of the house.

296. Ashley Robinson said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:40 pm

     I have stuff scattered all over the house! It’s mostly in the living room and bed room, and the yarn is mostly in rubbermaid bins, but there are a few strays here and there! My whole house is knitting central!

297. kelly said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:42 pm

     It’s all over my house….

298. Caryl said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:44 pm

     I have a craft closet where mostly everything stays. I then have some yarn in crates on my shelves to add color to my living room and also to remind me of the pretties I have. I also keep a small basket on one of my end tables in the living room which houses many of my notions. That way when I’m knitting I only need reach in the basket for measuring tape or other sundries.

299. Cathy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:44 pm

     I try to keep most of my knitting stash and supplies up in one room, but it tends to sprawl all over several spots in that room. I did buy a couple sets of stacked drawers which have helped me organize. I also have a couple different spots downstairs where active knitting projects tend to accumulate.

     But, I almost always sit and knit in the same chair with all my little knitting supplies (scissors, tape measure, hand lotion, etc.) right next to me!

300. Emily said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:50 pm

     My knitting has taken over the guest bedroom — my stash is in plastic containers on the desk, and my WIPs plus various other patterns, books, and supplies, are spread across the bed. We haven’t had anyone come to stay with us for a while, but at some point I will have to do some major rearranging.

     The project(s) I am working on at this minute, however, are mostly “stored” in the family room on the coffee table. So far, my husband has not complained about this arrangement — which just makes me realize how lucky I am.

301. Bonney said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:52 pm

     Here’s my knitting room and stash:http://mochimochiland.com/2011/01/worlds-biggest-yarn-stash-update-and-interview/

302. Amanda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:53 pm

     Base camp for me is at my dining room table. Thanks to my apartment’s open floor plan, I’ve got access to my computer, the TV, whomever is in the kitchen, and the front door – great for when my yarn deliveries come in

303. pattie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:54 pm

     I have knitting at my chair in my bedroom and also at my chair in the living room. But I have knitting stuff in every closet (all 4 in my little house) and the stuff is out of control in the guest room. My perfect spot would be a room with space for all my knitting stuff, a desk for the computer and to work on patterns and such, and walls of drawers and shelves with glass doors. I would need more than one comfy-but-supportive chair so I can have knitting friends join me in Eden.

     I need a bigger house so I can make this room!!

304. Hollis said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:54 pm

     Let’s see: I have a basket in my living room (well 2) that hold WIPs (my rocking chair also tends to accumulate projects). My guest room closet has bins of yarn and fiber and my spinning wheel (side note: I can’t wait until I can keep that out but it’s too much temptation for my 3 year old!). In the basement is the rest of my stash in plastic containers. I wind yarn in my dining room; there is knitting on my bedside table; oh and another bin of yarn hanging out in the living room. Oof…now I’m feeling the need to get more organized. I’m sure my husband would like that too.

     I usually end up knitting in the same place, on my couch in the living room. But lately this winter, I’ve been cuddling up in my warm bed on really cold nights with my heated mattress pad!

305. Barbara said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:56 pm

     It is semi-centralized. Which means there is 1 bedroom that doesn’t have yarn in it – and the bathrooms are currently knitting free. I was going to say the kitchen is, but that’s not really true as there is yarn hanging in the laundry room and frequently there is a suitcase with project packed in them at the back door.

306. Janina Sturdivant said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:57 pm

     Knitting Central is wherever I am! I always have yarn and needles handy. At home, my stash is taking over the sitting room, but I keep a mini stash in my car, in my desk at work, and in my bag.

307. Carrie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 3:58 pm

     I have an antique armoire from my grandparents house that I keep most of my yarn in and thats in my spare bedroom. Although, things get scattered throughout my house and I tend to loose things, like darning needles. Somewhere, I have a huge cache of needles, just waiting to be found!

308. Susan M. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:00 pm

     I *thought* my stash lived neatly in 3 underbed plastic boxes, but recently I’ve realized that almost every room in the house has a few skeins sitting around… maybe I just finished winding them, or I was planning to knit with them soon, or it’s a project waiting to be blocked… there always seems to be a good reason but I wonder if my husband worries sometimes.

309. Linda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:00 pm

     Most of my knitting related stuff is in the half of the closet in my bedroom that used to be occupied by my ex-husband’s stuff. I like what’s in there now much better. There’s a jar of knitting needles on my nightstand, a spinning wheel in the corner, and two or three tote bags spread throughout the house with the current projects. I always have a tote bag with me with at least one project. For awhile, I even had the emergency dishcloth bag in my truck for those moments when I had absolutely nothing else to do. Actually not quite sure I took that out. I think I’ll have to restock that this evening.

310. nina said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:03 pm

     My supplies are in my ‘craft’ room, along with all my stamping and scrapbooking stuff. WIPs are all over the place though – I tried to keep them in one of those project stand thingies but that’s always overflowing!

311. Jan said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:03 pm

     Well, I have one place where the knitting happens, but the knitting stuff is to the side and behind that, and behind the other chair, and upstairs, and some books and mags are in the bedroom, and the computer and some books/mags/guild stuff are in another room ….

     I’m not too centralized!!!

     Oh, and there’s a dishcloth in every car, and the knitting that goes to work, too!

312. Orli said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:03 pm

     My knitting supplies and books live in a beautiful cabinet and bookshelf in my living room, but the place I actually knit the most is in my comfy computer chair in the bedroom, in front of the laptop. I’m accessible to kitties if they need a lap in a hurry and all the blog content in the world is at my fingertips! Plus, I can go three feet backwards and end up knitting in bed

313. Denise said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:07 pm

     I have an black IKEA shelving unit that has doors on two of the square cubbies, and four pullout baskets, in my spare bedroom. The same room has my circular sock machine, couch and tv, so it’s a nice place to escape to. The dresser has several stashes of sweater yarn – and is almost full. Guess I should finish a few things so I can start more and make more room – so I can buy more!

314. kuaikuai said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:07 pm

     My knitting stash is all over the house, but I do have an assigned place for active wips — a container of clear plastic drawers — 3 big, 3 small — in the family room. Ideally, there should be only one wip in each drawer. Realistically, it starts filling up with stray balls of yarn that need to be put away. This weekend I’m planning to clear it out again, and I think I need to do that once a month.

     p.s. my loopy yarn is in the highboy in the dining room, so I can easily sneak a peek at it.

315. Monkeygurl said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:08 pm

     I tried, I really did. I have a big cabinet full of stash, notions and wips, but somehow, it just leaks out and takes up residence next to my spot on the couch, behind the coffee table, in my carryall, etc., etc.

316. Nancy in IN said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:09 pm

     I wish I had a knitting zone. I have a large closet/small room that stores things and holds the yarn waiting to be knit. Most of my projects are scattered about.

     Husband recently suggested cleaning out the glass from my glass studio and making it my dedicated yarn space. But I’m afraid of mice because it is in our barn.

317. Mary Pat said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:09 pm

     Every time I try and put it in place it just seems to walk away and end up all over the house. I really do like to be surrounded by it.

318. Hannah B said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:11 pm

     I have a few knitting central areas on my house. My stash is stored in 2 of them, in plastic bins in my office closet and under my bed in bedroom. I just go to these when I’m picking out my yarn to knit for the monthly KALs.

     The biggest centralized knitting spot is in my living room next to my recliner. I have projects in progress there, and small plastic bins with FOs, WIPs, wound yarn, needles and notions. There’s also piles of patterns on my coffee table and in a nearby cabinet, along with books. Since I do most of my knitting downstairs while watching TV, this is a good spot!

319. TMTTYRR said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:12 pm

     Well, I have the beginnings of a Crafting Central area. If I could actually get it organized. Most of my stuff is down there, but I also have some things scattered about the house. Mama will be VERY happy when I can get the sewing machine out of the dining room. Though the cats really seem to like it.

320. Lisa H. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:13 pm

     I have most of my knitting things (books, needles, magazines) in a closet and I also have 2 sets of rolling drawers with all my yarn. I do have alot of WIPs that are in their own bag (I love bags too) and they are in the closet so I don’t see them — I probably should put them on display so I can remind myself of what I have started before I start something else

321. grace said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:15 pm

     I only knit in the living room, and there is quite a stash around my big comfy chair, but the bulk of my stash is in our bedroom, in an armoire, in the closet, on top of my armoire and hubbys in big plastic bags comforters come in and in a basket bin set up on my side of the bed

     I was very bad today, I renewed my Loopy Club membership and placed an order for some 3 Irish Girls yarn,with my granddaughter’s name Gwendolyn, Oh well its still ME-uary!!!

322. Dawne said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:16 pm

     I have a very nice craft ‘area’ that my husband help me set up. All of my projects, supplies, books and stash are stored there BUT I never knit there I always migrate to where the action is … knitting while sitting on my my daughter’s bed during a homework session or on the couch for a movie or in the car.

323. Monica said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:20 pm

     Small house so I can’t spread out too much but I have two bookcases of yarn in my room and an endtable right next to a good chair & light in the front room has become my project table. oh, leftovers are stored downstairs in bins.

324. Ann said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:22 pm

     Yarn is stashed in one room and most big project knitting goes on there. I keep a small project, usually a sock. near the TV and another easy project to grab for on the road.

325. Amy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:24 pm

     I am a lucky girl indeed. I have a craft ROOM. It has some large cubby shelves in it. My knitting is in some Itso brand storage tubs by yarn weight. The books are on the crafting bookshelf with my scrapbook albums. The rest of the room is tables with scrapbook stuff everywhere. There is sewing machine in there too, but it is in the corner and not on a table.

     I will see if I can get a picture up to the gallery.

326. Debra said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:26 pm

     Twenty years ago my two favorite yarn stores closed. I purchased almost every skein of yarn from one and then the store fixtures from the other. They were a fixture in my sewing room. Filled with projects and patterns, yarn and needles, all things crafty. We have recently downsized and the wool bins and storage cabinets had to go. They have been repurposed as storage in a local school’s art room. My yarn stash had to be severely culled and made to fit into one large wooden laundry basket. Some days it is full to overflowing and sothers just filled to the brim. At present my books and patterns are residing in a neat pile beside. I would love to have your beautiful cabinet. What a treaure.

327. Gina said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:29 pm

     lovely husband made me a nice knitting room! shelves, storage, bookcases, comfy chairs…..

328. Ruth said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:30 pm

     I have two spots. One very tiny in the living room. It’s a wicker foot stool with a padded top that opens. All the “must touch now” yarn is in there. The BIG stash, needle storage, knitting magazine storage, bag storage, etc. all lives in a loft above our bedroom. It’s not convenient at all. You have to climb up a ladder to get there and you can’t stand up once you are in the loft. However, my husband rarely if ever crawls up to see what I’ve got. LOL

329. Heather said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:30 pm

     At the moment, 95% of my yarn is hidden in wheeled boxes under the bed. It’s my attempt to to show the world I don’t have a problem, but it’s currently running out of space… one day when I actually have a house I’d love to give myself a craft room. we’ll see I suppose!

330. marianne said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:31 pm

     I try to keep my knitting things in one place, but it’s more like…two or three or four places. not quite everywhere, but pretty close.
     thanks for this contest! I would love to have a cabinet like that. maybe it would inspire me to be more organized.

331. marianne said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:32 pm

     (now that I’m re-reading my previous comment, it seems that I think the cabinet is the contest prize, haha! I really don’t! )

332. Sammy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:34 pm

     I pretty much have it spread around. Yarn here and there – bins in a closet, drawers in the living room, laundry basket (well – I guess it’s really a yarn basket) in the bedroom… Needles are organized and kept in a basket in the living room and then there is my bookself of knitting books. And of course there are always knitting bags here and there with my latest projects

333. SusanB-knits said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:34 pm

     I have a knitting room but of course my knitting spills over onto the dining room table and into the living room by my recliner, lol. I have a project I can work on no matter what room I’m in!

334. Robin in VA said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:35 pm

     Well….finally! My adult daughter moved out and I now have ‘MY FIBER ROOM”! It’s not just for knitting but also spinning, sewing and crafting. I do still knit on the couch in the living room but it’s so nice to have EVERYTHING in one room in it’s own corner! I’ll post up a picture shortly.

335. Sandy H. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:37 pm

     When our daughter married and moved out, her room became my craft room and is space shared by my knitting, cross-stitch and sewing goodies. Today the craft room is also a second bedroom with two toddler beds for my grandsons but lots of room left for my hobbies. The boys are outgrowing their beds so soon bunk beds will come into the room and that will free up wall space for some new storage. Wish I could find a lovely cabinet like you found!

336. Alicia said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:37 pm

     I have a knitting corner! I found a great old armchair on the side of the road that I took home. It’s squishy and broken in and perfect. Next to it is a basket full of WIPs and a footstool full of more WIPs (sometimes gift WIPs I am hiding from my boyfriend). In the other room I have an Ikea bookcase full of books and yarn squished on and around the books. I also have a set of plastic drawers where I keep needles and other equipment.

     I love my knitting corner.

337. kspeak said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:39 pm

     i always knit in the same chair in front of the TV, but my stash is spread out and tucked away. if my husband ever saw it all at once, he would probably faint.

338. Lise said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:46 pm

     I keep my stash under the basement stairs, in plastic bins, somewhat sorted into weight/content. I knit in my chair in the family room, listening to podcasts and audiobooks or sometimes just enjoying the peace and quiet of my little corner.

     Thanks for the chance to win.

339. Shelly said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:46 pm

     I have a craft room, but I tell my husband all of the time it is just not big enough. I keep telling him I need a separate studio, but no lottery winnings yet. I do keep most of my WIP in my room, but sometimes you can find one hanging out upstairs in the tv room, and I keep one spinning wheel on our sun porch.

340. Sarah said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:49 pm

     Definitely spread all over the house, much to my husband’s disappointment.

341. Kandice Force said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:50 pm

     I have a small “broom closet’ in my hall way that my boyfriend recently built shelves into to house my stash and such. I go grab something im working on and relax on my side of the couch and knit! Too bad I cant reach the closet from the couch, i wouldnt have to get up EVER!!!

342. Nancy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:53 pm

     My “knitting central’ storage was one side of a double closet in my spare bedroom. However, that is spilling over to bins in the room itself. I need to find time to get it moved into my basement. I knit on the sofa in my TV room, and that room has a lot of baskets with WIPs, and some stash…

343. Dottie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:56 pm

     I keep most of my in-use knitting supplies near a couch in my husband’s office. Most of my knitting time is after the kids got to bed, so I hang out with him and a glass of wine. Occasionally projects will venture up to my bedroom, but that’s usually when I need to hide something from my daughter’s eyes.

344. Beverly said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:57 pm

     I have my yarn here and there, tucked away from my husband’s eyes. Have to move it often to make room for guests in the spare bedroom – usually have lots of yarn in the dresser and in bags in the closet. more in the storage room, more in my closet. I don’t even know what I have at this point…or if I do I probably don’t know where to find it! Would LOVE to have a room all for myself where I can keep whatever I want to keep there.

345. Suzanne said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:58 pm

     What used to be my study gradually became my study-with-a-bookcase-full-of-yarn-and-needles. Then the bookcase was re-purposed to house the ever expanding collection of knitting books. And then the closet was emptied out to hold plastic bins of stash. There’s a comfy chair and ottoman and all the resources to imagine & knit all in one place — but I still scatter my stuff everywhere, and the dogs still chew on my dropped needles. I’m hopeless, I guess….

346. Grace said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:58 pm

     I have my knitting area, in it, my lazy chair, ott lamp, my dvr and tv (I have to have the tv on, while I knit), my table w/ball winders small and large,a swift, a small digital scale on the side of the table, on the other side two spice racks, the bottles are like test tubes (from target) with all my double point needles, each labled with the appropriate size, since I exclusively knit socks, (taking a breath) and a cork message board on the wall, to post important information that I need (knitting related). Yep, that’s my knitting area. Unfortunately, my yarn has to be kept in clear plastic bins, because I have four legged little ones that just love to cuddle up with wool, they always go for the expensive stuff.

347. Wasie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:59 pm

     My fav knitting spot is in my living room in the recliner. I would love it when my kitty, Marmalade, would curl up next to me and watch me knit. He never bothered my knitting either, just liked to watch it. Unfortunately, he disappeared one night about 8 months ago. I still like my chair, but it is not quite as cuddly without my kitty…..

348. Linda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 4:59 pm

     I don’t currently have a knitting central, but I do have a sewing room, which contains some of the yarn stash. Also, when my last child moved out, I quietly took over her enpty closet for yarn storage. After all, when your nest is empty, you need to have some comfort from somewhere. Yarn is good for that. : )

349. Mary said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:02 pm

     I have a yarn room for the stash, books, and patterns, but Knitting Central is a comfy chair, close to my laptop and remote control. The chair has a perfect imprint of my buns and it’s where I can sit and knit for hours and hours!

350. Marushka said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:03 pm

     My stash is in bins in a corner of my home office. The current projects are in a large knitting bag in the living room next to my favorite chair. I maintain possession of the chair by putting my knitting bag in the seat of it when I’m not there The spinning wheel, a recent addition, also stays in the living room near my chair. My husband commented it should have a “home” elsewhere in the house, but I pretended not to hear him.

351. Trish D. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:06 pm

     Oh my, I love that cabinet! I would love to have something like that for my yarn storage.

     My stash of yarn and fiber is upstairs in my bedroom, my knitting books and spinning wheel are in our craft/game closet and I have my own corner of the living room where I have my recliner, knitting cart, OttLight. I normally keep my projects altogether because I have a puppy and kids. The kids don’t mess with my knitting much anymore but our new puppy thinks everything is her toy. One of these days I hope to have my own craft room where keep my knitting, spinning and sewing stuff. A place I can go for peace and quiet.

352. Debbie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:08 pm

     I have most of my stash in large plastic bins. Current projects and stash that I need to fondle are kept on some shelves of a bookcase in my family room.

353. Dr. Jackie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:08 pm

     Naw…my stash is not so fancy. It’s in plastic tubs (yes, many plastic tubs) in my basement. With the yarn in ziplock baggies within the tubs, and some very nice lavender moth deterrant. I keep a small bin in my bedroom with the current fave WIPs. Knitting Central is either sitting on the couch with my doggies, or sitting on my bed wihout doggies. That’s it.

354. April said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:11 pm

     I have a wonderful craft room in my house! My knitting is a little spread out in the house (I like to say it colonizes in the living room and bedroom) but mostly is contained in my craft room. It’s brightly lit, comfortable, and quiet. I love it!

355. Erin said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:12 pm

     Most of my knitting stuff is in my bedroom. I started out with just one plastic storage bin, but I wanted to actually see my yarn, so I bought an IKEA 2×2 square bookcase that holds bags perfectly. And then I’ve got a couple of glass apothecary jars for my sock yarn that sit on top.

     That’s where my stuff is supposed to live. But I don’t tend to knit in my bedroom, so a lot of WIPs tend to migrate out to the living room (under the couch!) pretty frequently.

356. Bev said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:13 pm

     Well I have to say that the knitting and yarn is all over the house much to the frustration of my husband. I’m learning to do a little better because my puppy chewed up a project and the needles that went with it ONCE AGAIN. Serves me right.

357. Linda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:15 pm

     I would love to have a designated knitting zone! Right now, it is the area around my couch. But I would love a room with some wall storage and a big comfy chair as a knitting chair, some pin boards for ideas & swatches. Everything within reach – that would be ideal!

358. Theresa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:16 pm

     I have two primary knitting zones: In the basement I have a craft corner that has my stash (in plastic bins and zippered plastic bags), sewing machine and a worktable. But I keep several projects in projects hanging on some hooks next to my chair in the living room. This is where most of the knitting action happens. Finally, I keep a few items in my office, usually just one project that I can grab if I’m going to be on the phone for a long time. Oh! I almost forgot about my spinning wheel. That is in my dining room with a bag of fiber. So I guess I am all spread out. I’d love to have a real craft room with a cozy chair someday.

359. Lynn said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:18 pm

     I’m pretty much spread out but I do all of my knitting in one area – a comfy spot in the living room.

360. Michelle said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:19 pm

     Wish I had one place. I keep my current projects in a bag that goes with me from the bedroom to the living room. I do keep some essential tools on my nightstand.

     I would really love something with open cubbies, so I could see my yarn without digging into the boxes in my closet.

361. Cyndi J said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:20 pm

     I have all (well most) of my stash in shelves in my bedroom. Nothing says soothing sweet dreams like a wall of beautiful yarns! I have wip’s on a set of shelves in my living room and several bags on various tables that hold my “travel wip’s”.

362. Melissa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:20 pm

     My yarn stash lives in boxes in our master bedroom closet, my knitting books are in my office closet, and my WIP knitting bags reside on top of my dresser, or next to the couch in the living room. My husband thinks I should have my yarn in see-thru bins so that I can be inspired by it…to actually use it up!

363. Lieuvena said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:22 pm

     I would love to have a knitting area. I have a corner of the bedroom to store yarn in and I knit in a chair in the living room.

364. Kerry said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:22 pm

     The knitting love is spread all around the house. Including the kitchen and every now and again the bathroom too. LOL

365. Kathy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:22 pm

     Most of my time spent knitting is on the living room, and in better weather the deck or front porch. My best yarn is kept in a lingere chest, and the rest is various hatboxes in the spare bedroom.

366. Anna said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:28 pm

     I would dearly love a knitting central zone but my current living arrangements do not really permit it – most of my yarn lives in cardboard boxes in a wardrobe, though some is one shelves and I even keep a few balls in a big glass jar on my desk (admittedly more for aesthetics than for practicality!). I fantasise about a craft room though.

367. cindy m said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:28 pm

     My dream is to have a knitting/crafting room. As it is I have a small dresser and bins that are filled with yarn, tools and projects. The project I’m currently working on usually stays in a bag to grab and go when I leave the house.

368. Amy Mac said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:29 pm

     Most of my stash is in a shelving unit in my bedroom…which my inlaws saw when they stayed with the kids while we were out of town!

369. Lisa Smith said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:29 pm

     I mostly knit in the sun room, although one may find knitting in the tv room!

370. Jean said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:30 pm

     My knitting area is my son’s bedroom. When he went to college and got married. His room was mine……….!

371. Ann said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:33 pm

     Everywhere – including the oven and the freezer in the refrigerator.

372. Ginny said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:33 pm

     Living alone does have its advantages for a knitter. The second bedroom holds my yarn stash. It started in the large closet, has since overflowed from that to the built in bookcase and is starting to overflow from there. (I think I need to knit faster.) Downstairs in the living room/general room in the condo is where I sit and knit. I can see the TV, hear the radio or stereo or just look outside at the scene. I have multiple bags around my chair which hold the projects I’m working on, should be working on or at least thinking of working on.

373. Julie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:38 pm

     My Knitting Central is also my sewing room. I have bookshelves/storage on one side of the room with fabric and the other side with yarn, swift, etc. My knitting books are in a bookcase just outside the room on the landing. I have a comfy couch where I can knit and plan projects. This is where I knit if listening to an audiobook. If I want to watch t v, then I carry my project down to the family room and my lovely red chair.

374. Kate said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:39 pm

     We recently moved house and I am now choosing to be organised (have maintained it for 3 months). I have 3 little tubs
     1 – yarn with pattern, each in an individual ziploc bag
     2 – yarn without projects, various balls together to fill up each ziploc bag
     3 – scraps/acrylic amigurumi yarn/squares that I have been sent in my square swap, waiting for the end of the swap to sew together

     Then I have a small bag that has the current projects in it – limited to 3 or 4 at any time (cos that is all the bag fits!)

     All of this is in the study, with a little couch so sometimes I call it my “knitting room” even though the majority of the room is for other purposes.

     In contrast, before we moved house I had bags and baskets just scattered throughout our house, so I am enjoying my new zone!

375. Candice Harris said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:40 pm

     I do most of my knitting in the family room. I have a corner with a good light, soft chair and a small side table with my supplies. I keep my yarn in the closet of the sewing room. If I knit in the living room late at night I take my project with me. I thik that I have become a yarn hoarder.

376. Darci said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:40 pm

     I have yarn and books stashed in an Ikea cubby/bookshelf combination with some baskets and vases of needles on the side. I do have a project basket in the living room which keeps calling out to me.

377. Stacey B said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:41 pm

     I have a Yarn Room in my house with floor to ceiling cubbies on one whole wall along with the rest of the room to store my fiber related stuff.
     I usually have at least one knitting bag in the living room and or my current WIP is usually out on the table or couch so I can pick up where I left off as much as possible.

378. Julie S. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:41 pm

     My main knitting area is in my “craft room” in the basement. This is where the majority of my supplies are including yarn. But my WIP bags can be found almost anywhere – TV room, baseball bag, van, in a closet upstairs or even in the bedroom. About the only place you won’t find my knitting is the bathroom or kids’ rooms!

379. Barbara Penn said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:44 pm

     One side of my guest room closet houses my TBKY (To Be Knitted Yarn). I have used the deep plastic drawers that stack to “categorize” my yarn (sock yarn in bottom drawer, etc.) and the BIG miscellaneous stash is in big see-through plastic zip-up bags that new bedding came in. My WIPs are in the den. I have a roomy long basket (that previously housed a gourmet food gift) that is perfect for WIPs, all of which are in zippered plastic bags; it sits on the bottom “shelf” of the end table next to my chair & is out of sight. Whatever I am working on at the moment is normally on the coffee table. This is MY little corner of our world.

380. sherry said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:46 pm

     I do have an official :”knitting room” which I have a gorgeous armoire(not antique, antique looking). Nothing stays in there for long, but I do keep the door shut to keep the pets out.
     I do have a corner on the couch, by the light that is MINE!!!
     I keep my projects I am working on in a bag, to grab to take wherever I go, even 5min down the road, you never know when you will be sitting for hours, and need something to do.

381. Nora Brown said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:47 pm

     I have a craft room. It’s rather new. My youngest son moved out this summer and I took over his room. I moved a huge butcher block table in there that my winder is on and some baskets that I have my needles in.

     Then I also bought shelving at Ikea that is a 5×5 cube unit that I have all my yarn stash stored in.

     When I knit, I tend to sit on one end of the couch and I have a basket that all my WIPs are in. But very soon I’m getting a huge chair and a 1/2 from my boss and that will be my new spot to knit.

     I love my new knitting room!

382. Angelbis said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:47 pm

     I have an amoire that holds most of the stash (well that and also a big plastic bin). Stash that is currently being readied or in line for use is on a built in bookcase shelf in the living room (although sometimes new purchases live there for a while, too). my WIPs are mostly in the living room on the coffee table, although I do keep something at my desk and in the kitchen for those times when you just have to sit and wait for something…

383. Barbara O. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:49 pm

     My kids and dh like to call our guest room The Knitting Room. I wish! I just comandeered the closet for supplies and stash. I do have one knitting ‘station’ where my current project rests next to my chair. And another portion of another closet that has my wips. Um, I guess I just gave a long answer for – No, I do not have a central knitting area. As long as I have the time to knit, I’m happy!

384. sarah said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:49 pm

     My stuff is spread all over, but my main spot is a corner of my couch with a nice big side table for yarny things.

385. turtle said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:49 pm

     i have a second actual knitting spot. It is called Bakers Rock and is on the Cowlitz River. I have found the best nook with backrest and footrest. You will find me there for a few hours every weekend while hubby stands nearby fishing. The fisherman on boats just laugh and harass me “there’s no knitting in fishing!” but i sit on the rock enjoying the fish jumping, eagles flying overhead…. as long as it’s not 15 degrees out this is my favorite spot. If it is 15 degrees i have my toe warmers in my boots and a big jacket wrapped around my legs as well.

386. April said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:52 pm

     I keep my stash in a couple of baskets in the living room and bedroom. I keep a round sewing basket at my feet near my comfy spot on the couch for my WIPs and knitting notions. I have the Otto lamp there and I almost always knit there.

387. Patti said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:54 pm

     I have a comfy chair with one knitting bag with current project sitting next to it. Stash in the guest room closet. Yes, it takes up most of the closet. It’s a good thing I don’t have many guests.

388. Audrey said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:56 pm

     I love bags too! I used to buy them with the intention of using them as normal out and about bags, or as overnight bags when I travel, but many of them are now holding (sometimes multiple) wips and ufos so now I often buy bags (esp from 2nd hand shops) specifically as project bags

     my knitting spaces are the kitchen table (John and I each have a small area that can be cleared for mealtime) and the couch; stash lives under the kitchen table, couch and coffee table, as well as upstairs in the bedroom closet, and some older stash is in my “study”

     my knitting books are … in various bookshelves and stacked on chairs and tables … which is an improvement — there used to be stacks of ‘em under the bed!

389. Linda L said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:58 pm

     I do not have one central knitting zone, I basically have two of them. I have a big basket next to my chair in the living room with my current WIP, next to the chair is a small bookcase that has some knitting books and my knitting needles and on the other side is a end table that has a basket with all my knitting odds & ends (markers, sticky notes, stitch holders etc), this is zone one where I do all my knitting. In my extra bedroom (which has no bed in it) is my storage zone and I have a large shelf with all my stash which is in baskets, fabric bins, bags and one plastic tote box, also on the shelf are extra project bags, my blocking mats and ball winder. So most of my stuff is in the extra bedroom, but is is a small room so it is not just a knitting space, it also has my desk w/computer, exercise bike, treadmill (folded up) sewing machine and one small bookcase. I would love to have one whole room I could designate as my knitting room. For now I am happy with the area I have!

390. Nancy Skinner said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:58 pm

     Sure, I have a knitting area, a whole room, in fact. It was once our tiny family room, but when we built a family room in the basement, I took this room over. It’s right off the kitchen… so convenient for a cup of coffee. I have yarn in bags hanging from hooks. I have yarn decorating wall hangings, peeking out of bookcase crannys. And I use photo boxes to sort my sock yarn. I have one bookcase dedicated to those color-coded boxes, books and decor-colored notebooks full of patterns, along with two decorative trunks and a wicker cabinet full of yarn. And, I’ll let you in on my little secret place: I put detachable plastic drawers in a nearby unused shower. Yump, full of projects in the works.

391. Susan said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 5:59 pm

     I have a room in my home that is all about knitting. My stash is on open shelves, a table in the middle of the room with my WIP’s, swift and ball winder. Books are on a shelf under the window. Finished projects are in a basket with the stash. UFO’s are in a plastic 3-drawer container, along with knitting notebooks in the closet. It is my favorite room to knit in.

392. Lisa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:01 pm

     Knitting central in my house is a double wide closet in the game room that is off limits to everyone but me. I keep most of my stash and patterns there. I also have a knitting corner in the living room with a comfy chair and a basket filled with current and soon to be projects.

393. Carrie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:01 pm

     Oh wow–i have everything everywhere!! And it makes me a little crazy! I did recently purchase a Namaste Circular Case and it feels so good to have all my circulars (at least the ones i could find) in one place. I do almost always sit in the same spot on the couch when i do knit and have most of my “necessary” items on a little table that sits next to the couch.

394. janna said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:03 pm

     My bedroom closet, a hall closet, some storage tubs, a drawer in my desk…….Sigh.

395. Mary S. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:04 pm

     The largest quantity of my stash is located in totes in the basement, but my ‘favorite’ tens of thousands of yards of yarn and most of the patterns, books, needles, etc. are located in my spare bedroom. Then, of course, there are bags with projects scattered in most every room of the house : ) A knitter’s paradise LOL.

     Thanks for running this contest. I love having the hope of winning!

     Blessings,
     Mary

396. sue said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:04 pm

     I keep all of my stash and knitting paraphenalia in the spare bedroom, which is actually called the yarn room these days. However, I usually knit while sitting on the sofa or in an armchair right next to the sofa, so I have a basket that holds yarn that has made it to the top of the stash pile and puilled for possible knitting, along with the knitting odds and ends that I use on a regular basis. Periodically, I have to clean out the basket and put some of the yarn back in the yarn room, otherwise it gets out of control.

397. Monique G said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:04 pm

     I finally have an actual studio loft for my knitting (and sewing) acquisitions. We recently moved into a rural area and a smaller home. Lucky for me there is a loft with an awesome view of our acreage. My hubby built a floor to ceiling shelving unit to house all my yarn. He seriously thought I wouldn’t be able to fill it up…..aahh yes silly man!!!!

398. Tam said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:06 pm

     I have a central STORAGE area- an entire wall in my bedroom, floor to ceiling for about half the wall. I have plastic crates and those plastic units with drawers. My dresser is covered from one side to the other with magazine holders full of magazines and pattern leaflets. I also have plastic drawers for my needles and a small plastic drawer unit for my DPNs and my gadgets. It works but it is not NEARLY as wonderful as that hutch that you have. I wish I had a central area for actual knitting. I usually KIP or sitting in my recliner under my Ott light. I can’t leave anything there, though. Too many kids and guests. No telling what mischief would occur. It all goes into knitting bags and goes back in a drawer in my room when I’m not knitting.

399. Dawn said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:12 pm

     I have an area that houses a great big LL Bean signature bag for my stash. Another corner houses the 3 drawer tote for the scale, ball winder and accessories.

     My TV knitting is by my chair in the living room, while other WIP’s are in our hobby room.

     I try to keep it manageable.

400. Ruth in NJ said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:14 pm

     In my “den” I have a wall of closets, filled with stash. And. buttons; and ribbons, and some embroidery hoops and threads. Well, you get the idea. The bags full of leftovers are bigger than some people’s stash! Ten years ago I used to joke that I hoped I would live long enough to knit all my stash. Now, it is no longer a joke. Just have to knit faster!

401. Joann said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:14 pm

     A little of b

402. Betty said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:14 pm

     I have a small bedroom that is my stash room for all my craft supplies. I use the big tubs to keep my yarn & fiber in, up against one wall.

     I also keep a few things on a small table next to the couch for when I’m watching TV

     My portable stash is my big tote bag or backpack I take to work every day. There are usually 3 small projects and supplies stashed there also.

403. Joann said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:16 pm

     A little of both – stash in almost every closet (small mini stashes!) but I primarily knit in the living room where the kids hang out. I have a small basket that holds WIPs and extra stuff.

404. Robin said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:17 pm

     Well I have outgrown my stash chest. Now my stash is in tubs under the bed, in baskets on cabinets, and projects in several bags all over the place. I do have a small special room that gets plenty of sunshine that I like to knit in. I have a bookcase there with all my knitting books and my needle storage. But in all honesty my favorite place to knit is wherever my family is….kitchen, family room, dining room, car, outside….

405. Marsha said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:20 pm

     I always have projects all over the house. I’m working on assembling a special place just for it all, but…..it just keeps changing..sigh

     Going to Santa Fe to check out yarn stores and art tomorrow. I “collect” yarn stores whenever I travel, but nothing can beat TLE!

406. Emily said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:21 pm

     I stash supplies in various storage spaces throughout my smallish one bedroom apartment but my knitting mostly takes place on my futon. I sit sideways with a pillow wedged behind me and my legs sprawled out in front of me. I only sit elsewhere when I need more lamp light (like knitting teeny tiny cables on a Cookie A sock). Then it’s the recliner for me with its super bright reading lamp.

407. Cathy B said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:22 pm

     I was trying to confine my stash and books to one small bedroom – yarn in plastic containers and plastic bags and now a 5 tier tower has been added. The bookcase is overflowing. The more organized I become the more space I need!

408. Sunnyknitter said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:23 pm

     Well, it’s sort of contained! I have the things I’m working on by my chair in the living room and under that end table. The extra yarn is either in the hall closet or the basket beside it, aside from the few skeins I keep nearby the chair for petting, of course. Then the majority of the books are in book cases in the office, except for ones I may be perusing in the living room or one I’m working out of. Hmm, now it seems much less organized suddenly…

409. Jody O said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:23 pm

     I have most everything in what is known as ‘the sewing room’ because I used to sew clothes for the kids when they were little. I wish I had a cool cabinet like that in my room! Right now everything is in big ziploc bags, awaiting the day that I get things that are being temporarily stored in the room out and I can reorganize it all.

410. Marianne said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:27 pm

     I have a wonderfully organized Stash Corner in the dining room. I found a nice, sturdy shelf unit designed to hold 3 plastic bins (I think they’re 16 liter or so) in a row. Each shelf holds 3 bins across, two bins high, and there are 5 shelves. Um, unfortunately, the stash is outgrowing the nicey organized space!

     I usually sit in front of the TV, on the living room sofa, to knit; there I have a stack of 2 baskets, and the projects have a habit of sneaking out of their space, I’m afraid!

     I love my red Namaste bags–I think I have 2 sets!–courtesy of the Loopy Ewe–so wherever I go, a knitting project goes with me–in style!!! Hmmm—maybe it’s time for another set of bags…

411. Kate B said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:29 pm

     I have two spots. In the office/guest room I have my plastic storage bins with the stash. Near my favorite knitting spot in the living room, I have project bags with active projects in them – until company is coming. Then the project bags get hidden in the bedroom.

412. Jeanine said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:29 pm

     All my yarn and knitting books/magazines are in the office/reading room. Well, recently the yarn has crept into a bedroom closet as well. My current project always sits on the couch, just waiting for me.

413. Kathleen Deminski said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:31 pm

     Knitty central is on the family room sofa. I have a project bag next to it with my needles/notions and my current WIP on the side table along with my notebook. Yarn is stored in (2) very large opaque totes in my walk in closet. I do have a sewing room for all things quilty that houses my swift and ball winder. Oh and there is a WIP in my handbag as well because you never know when I might get a chance to knit.

414. Sandra said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:32 pm

     Since I have been taking care of my Mother for the last 2 years, my knitting is between 2 houses, with a large portion of it with me while I get my Mom’s house ready to sell. Now that its ready, I will move all back to my house & start re-arranging stuff there!

     At Mom’s, I have everything in one bedroom; projects in bags & hanging on rods in closet, unallocated yarn is in bins (2). Books, mags, and patterns are all together on a shelf. Needles & tools are in a specific bag, also in the closet. Its great because I canSoopen the closet door and see everything. I keep current WIPs in a basket that I can take from room to room and a car/purse project in the car.

     So….now that I’m going back home, I will need to re-evaluate my storage. There is a hutch at Mom’s that is similar in feel to yours, and I have been dreaming of taking it home as a focal point of my future craft area; I am even more determined to figure out a way to use it in my house after seeing yours!!

415. Sandra said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:35 pm

     Since I have been taking care of my Mother for the last 2 years, my knitting is between 2 houses, with a large portion of it with me while I get my Mom’s house ready to sell. Now that its ready, I will move all back to my house & start re-arranging stuff there!

     At Mom’s, I have everything in one bedroom; projects in bags & hanging on rods in closet, unallocated yarn is in bins (2). Books, mags, and patterns are all together on a shelf. Needles & tools are in a specific bag, also in the closet. Its great because I can open the closet door and see everything. I keep current WIPs in a basket that I can take from room to room and a car/purse project in the car.

     So….now that I’m going back home, I will need to re-evaluate my storage. There is a hutch at Mom’s that is similar in feel to yours, and I have been dreaming of taking it home as a focal point of my future craft area; I am even more determined to figure out a way to use it in my house after seeing yours!!

416. Deb said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:35 pm

     Hi to you all! My husband and I went looking for our retirement home 10 years ago and found the perfect place for us. It is a townhome with only one step to enter. I have a lot of health issues, and no I promise not to bore you with them. So went looking, we looked for no basement and in MN that is hard to find. Well, we found one with a den for computer work, a wonderful vaulted ceiling livingroom, no basement with steps or mold allergies, a nice size wash room and finally the BEST, a year round sun porch with lots of windows. I can see what I am knitting. I am still fussing with the stash in there. I have tried different shelving and my favourite are all the baskets I have purchased on our travels to remind us of where some of the yarn is purchased or just pretty. Isn’t that a nice place for yarn? … and the baskets are pretty filled with colours. I love, love this home and hope you all your home to be happy and filled with joy. Deb

417. Suzanne said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:37 pm

     My guest room closet is full, and I mean full of my yarn and tools. About once a month i pull it all out to see what I have and re-organize. I hope by looking at it all, it will slow down my yarn shopping habit, but that hasn’t seemed to be the case, so far! My projects in progress ( four today) are spread around the house, but mostly I knit at the kitchen counter where the light is good at night.

418. sue said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:41 pm

     I keep my main knitting stash in big plastic storage bins ( about 5) sorted by color – I have a big basket with WIP’s next to my chair in the tv room but I do most of my knitting in bed during the Today show in the morning and in the evening during my shows – so my current WIP’s are in plastic bags with yarn , books /patterns in the duffles I get from book clubs under my bed – my stash of knitting magazines are stored by year and my books are in the bookcase.

419. Molli Merriweather said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:44 pm

     My knitting is spread out all over the house. I just realized that I have yarn and WIP in about every room except the bathroom. Wow!! No wonder my husband says,”no more yarn.” Course we know that is impossble!!

420. Jean said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:46 pm

     My knitting is stored mostly in one place… My stash is in my cedar chest, and my sock yarn is in a wicker storage basket. And I have a few skeins in a cloth storage box. All my wips are stashed in various bags, and except for the wip-of-the-moment, they’re all crammed under the piano bench. LOL Luckily I never play anymore! All my various tools are stored in a clever little side table with a door in it. And it’s all confined to the living room!

421. Marcela said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:47 pm

     I used to have a place for yarn until baby #2 arrived – now I have it stashed in bins in our room.

422. Ptarmigan said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:47 pm

     When one of the kids grew up and moved out (Yay!) I took over his closet for my knitting stash and office supplies. The yarn has since crept out of the closet (shelves and no hanger bar) and out into the room in baskets, a 3-tiered basket with needles and other tools, WIPs on and under a table. Unfortunately, the best place to do the knitting is in the living room in the big armchair with the good light and the footstool. But probably it’s good for me to have to walk to the other end of the house for that next ball of yarn!

423. Julie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:48 pm

     A Knitting Central would be great! I have one little corner of our small living room for my WIPs, and a couple of small shoebox-size containers in a closet. The rest of my stash is in our storage unit (Temporary living quarters.)

424. Julia said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:48 pm

     I knit and spin on my living room couch by all yarn and tools are in my bedroom. It has about taken over my side of the room but my husband doesn’t complain. I too love bags!

425. Veronica said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:49 pm

     I have cubes from IKEA in my craft room that hold my stash and projects that are, ahem, resting. I also have a drawer in the table next to my knitting chair. That holds my needles and current project, as well as tape measure, stitch markers, etc.

426. HeatherB said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:49 pm

     When I bought my new house 4 1/2 years ago, I was fortunate enough to have a spare room that I could dedicate to “crafts” (which is primarily knitting, but could be other crafty interests). I rarely knit in there, but I do have a t.v. and a rocker recliner – just in case I want to. However, all my yarn and supplies and books are kept in there. I used to keep all my stash in plastic storage bins, but found I never knew what I had. I’ve since moved most of it to ziploc bags and mesh shelves, but alas, I must keep these in the closet in that room since I have two curious kitties (there is still some yarn that is not in ziplocs and one kitty likes to chew things she shouldn’t, so yarn and other string like objects need to be kept behind closed doors). I wish I could keep yarn out in some lovely Lantern Moon baskets that I have (purchased pre-kitties), but that would be too much risk – for yarn and fur baby.

427. Elizabeth said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:54 pm

     I keep some knitting stuff (needles, tools, WIPs, books) in my bedroom, and I keep stash in a spare bedroom. The spare bedroom is not full yet.

428. Stephanie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 6:55 pm

     I have taken over our sun room and declared it mine! I have a big comfy rocker/recliner where I can sit and watch birds in the summer or snow falling in the winter while I knit or spin away. I have two bookcases for my yarn and fiber storage. All yarn and fiber is kept in plastic shoe boxes that are labeled with the yarn contained. I have repurposed a quilt rack and now I tie my project bags around the bars. It looks so pretty! The cats enjoy sitting on the large window seat while I knot or spin, too.

429. Miranda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:02 pm

     I have most of my knitting stuff in a plastic clothes dresser with the accouterments of whatever I’m working on spread about the house like knitter’s breadcrumbs.

430. Melissa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:03 pm

     I wish I had a room where my knitting stuff could live but my house just isn’t that big. Instead I have yarn in two different places, needles all over, and at least four different project bags stashed around here and there.

431. marissa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:03 pm

     My ‘spot’ consists of a wide, comfy rocking chair, a very bright light, and an ottoman I use as a table to prop a pattern on. NOBODY messes with Mama’s ‘spot’! The yarn and related paraphernalia is squirreled about the house in dust-protected bins and bags, and it’s rotated into a Must Knit Immediately wooden cabinet next to The Spot for quick and easy access. I love it because it’s in the family room…but I hate it because it’s in the family room. You know what I mean!

432. Amber said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:05 pm

     Mine is next to my spot on the couch where I knit. A bookcase for patterns, books, yarn and a little tote with my needles, notions, current projects and yarn.

433. Kathryn in Minnesota said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:06 pm

     We have two Knitting Central zones. One is the stash zone, located in a built-in bookcase on the lower level of the house, and the other is the designated knitting zone, which does double duty as bed-for-humans, bed-for-dog, bed-for-cat, television-watching zone, and Green-Bay-Packer-cheering-headquarters depending on the time of day/year. The DKZ’s yarn/needle/accessory container is theoretically is limited to a basket on top of a nightstand, but it usually spills over onto the nightstand surface and/or the floor.

434. Diane said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:07 pm

     While I seem to have WIPs in every room of the house, my stash lives in a re-purposed farmhouse china cabinet in our family room. The cabinet is next to my corner of the couch and the end table where the Ott light and knitting notions live.

435. Ellen said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:09 pm

     I have all my yarn and supplies in the giant wall cabinet in my bedroom – on shelves that could be housing clothes but yarn is much lovelier to me. Then I have a bag that travels with me to another room or to knitting group or to wait to pick up my granddaughter. But my fave spot to nestle in and knit is on my second-hand floral couch that I have sitting just right to have a corner where the sun will stream in on me. Ah lovely!

436. Lynne said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:15 pm

     My favorite knitting spot is a condo in New Hampshire. I just love it there. It has a large window on the side of a mountain and a fireplace. I find knitting relaxing and knitting in NH makes it even more relaxing. I get a lot done in a short period of time. When I’m at home my favorite spot is a love seat in the living room. Not quite as relaxing as NH but it’s always pleasant to knit where ever you are.

437. Suzanne said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:20 pm

     Mine is somewhat spread out. I have all the books in the den. They aren’t all in one bookshelf but spread out amoung a few. My yarn buckets are all in the cellar. My needles are all in my bedroom in cases, baskets, etc. I am in the process of getting all the new acquired patterns (from the past few years) organized into the binders I have already. My father made me two bookcases for them.

438. Kristi said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:21 pm

     While the yarn resides in two rooms at my current location (in the house and a finished yarn room in the garage) and one at my mom’s (mostly the acrylics before any access to any better quality yarn), KCZ is my recliner, complete with storage in one of the arms.

     Now, if the recliner was just in Maine, it would be perfect.

439. Katy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:24 pm

     I hope and dream of someday being the kind of person who has a place for everything and actually puts everything in its place, but I just am not that kind of person now. Knitting stuff is everywhere. The only parts that look organized are the ones that got on my partner’s nerves so much that he put them in bins on shelves while I was out of town over the holidays…

440. Lisa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:25 pm

     While the stash is in tubs in the back bedroom and the basement, my knitting spot is either the papsan chair or one corner of the couch. Sitting between them is a big basket with all the various WIP’s (each in their own bag, because I love bags too) I have a full spectrum light that sits between the 2 spots, too, and can be easily turned to light whichever spot I’m in. The cats seem to like it better when I’m on the couch, since they all can fit on the rest of the couch, and the papsan chair only holds 2 of the 4.

441. Mary said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:25 pm

     My stash is totally stashed throughout the house! I would be thrilled to have the space and time to organize everything into a cozy cubby-holed & drawer-filled area, but for now, it’s everywhere. I do try to keep my WIPs in some kind of bag that I can close (snaps, zippers, whatever) because I have a couple of kitties who LOVE to chew through my yarn. I move my knitting spot to where ever there is sunlight coming in throughout the day and next to an Ott-light lightbulb when the sun is gone.

442. Anna said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:26 pm

     Don’t I wish I had one location that could hold it all! But, alas, I can barely get into the weaving room any more. Most of my stuff is in the dining room with a slight spill into the kitchen.

443. Rita said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:28 pm

     Our fourth bedroom is my yarn room. It has a shelf with six cubbies from Ikea for yarn (sorted by color), two Mutts prints (my favorite comics!), a comfy chair (that I bought and have yet to sit in), and all my favorite things like childhood dolls (CPK), wedding dress, etc. I don’t knit in the room because I would be so stressed from kitty cries and paws pounding down the door begging to be let in. I love having my own room, filled with all the stuff that is important and special to me.

444. Cori North said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:29 pm

     In our small Kansas house, the main yarn stash is kept in our bedroom and dubbed “The Great Wall of Yarn.” Two tall bookcases that used to hold art books now hold shelves of sock yarn buns (and maybe a few of those professional, art history library essentials at the bottom…) But then The Rest of the stash is in about 12/14 rubbermaid clear tubs, stacked up beside the shelves. Now, the projects i am Working On (dozens) are in baskets and little project bags of all sorts around the house, especially in kep spots as my corner of the sofa and by the door for quick get-aways!

445. Katie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:30 pm

     My stuff is very spread out, and one of my hopes this year is to get it better organized! I have a tote bag of yarn in the closet, several shoe boxes under the bed, a pile in the corner of the bedroom, and a stack of WIP’s next to a recliner in our living room. Next to the recliner is a piano bench filled with knitting books instead of music; that is where I often knit while watching tv with the family. But my favorite place to knit is at the kitchen table with my first cup of coffee as I wake up, with my husband next to me; we’re both early risers, and he likes to read the days headlines out loud while I knit. Sometimes I listen, sometimes I don’t, but it’ a soothing morning routine that I really like.

446. Amanda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:31 pm

     I wish I had a Knitting Nook, but, we don’t have that much room in our house. My “Nook” consists of an unorganized mass of tote bags full of yarn next to my couch with my current knitting projects and supplies taking up a section of the couch. One small WIP just made it’s way up to my bedside table. I also have a few totes full of yarn, so mine’s pretty much spread all over.

447. Molly said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:32 pm

     I knit in our family room pretty much exclusively…in front of the TV usually!

448. Marianna said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:34 pm

     Since I live in a dorm room, I don’t have much room to keep my stash. I have a large bag and a small basket beneath my bed and a bag full of needles and stuff. But I knit basically wherever I go and so I frequently have my current project (if it’s small) in my backpack and can be found knitting in the lounge or in friend’s rooms.

449. Jenny K said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:35 pm

     I’ve got a recliner right by the fireplace, with a couple of baskets filled with yarn and supplies.

450. Kim said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:36 pm

     My stash/needles/etc are stored in a closet in the office/guest bedroom. My current project is generally in a bag either on my desk in that room, on my person if I’m out, or occasionally in the living room. I knit on the couch in the living room at night when I take a break from studying or knock off for the night. Lately I’ve been getting a lot of knitting done in class.

451. april zvan said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:37 pm

     I have an oversized recliner in my living room where I do most of my knitting. My entire stash occupies the living room, too. No room on the couch. I need my yarn nearby in case I have the urge to start something new.

452. Becca said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:37 pm

     My knitting area is a combo of a strategic distribution of my meager yarn stash / works in progress and where ever I find myself with my work bag and a couple of minutes not being occupied with my kids. So mine is a r4oaming spot bordering on everywhere.

453. Jani said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:38 pm

     My knitting central spot is the comfy chair in my studio (oldest daughter’s former bedroom). My knitting books, bags & baskets are all there, along with the stash – it lives in the closet. It’s very cozy & I feel extremely lucky to have this space!

454. Janice said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:42 pm

     My intention is to have a central storage spot and to keep WIPs organized, yet easily accessible. But mostly, things are scattered around the house!

455. Diane said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:43 pm

     I knit in my living room on “my” most comfortable part of the sofa (it’s all in my mind – the entire sofa really does feel the same but you know how it goes). I just snuggle up with my shoes off and knit till the stress of the work day melts away and I feel a fibery calm come over me. I have 2 wicker market baskets in my living room – one holds patterns, knitting magazines and my circular needle cases and dpn case. The other basket has yarn for my current and next project in it. My yarn stash is stored in my bedroom. OK so it’s not a teddy bear – but nice to dream with my yarn stored near my bed

456. Jane said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:45 pm

     We just purchased a small house in Las Vegas to avoid Montana winters. My only complaint was no craft room or space. I’m in the process of remedying that by putting a wall bed in the guest room and outfitting the rest of the space with craft storage for both knitting and quilting. I also will have a tv where I can tape and watch my own (non-sporting) stuff. I’ll soon be a happy camper/knitter/quilter/weaver/stitcher.

457. Chelsey said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:52 pm

     I am a fairly new knitter. I have a few small projects and my Mom stashes them in a spare bedroom closet. Oh well, at least I know where they are.

458. Kim K. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:54 pm

     I wish I had an entire room dedicated to my knitting and spinning, sadly there aren’t enough rooms in our house. Right now I have a huge IKEA unit with lidded boxes that fit in to each cubbie. The boxes are Loopy red. I have yarn sorted by weight and all my pattern books/magazines sit on top as well as some of the recent TLE sock club kits that I have yet to start. All my knitting bags with WIP inside are stored in my hall closet. Interestingly enough, I was just thinking how I have a lot of bags for knitting but I still want more!!

459. Anyssa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:55 pm

     My favorite place to knit is in my family room in my IKEA chair, with all three of my dogs on the couch next to me with my husband. I especially like it when my husband snores sitting up, I had to make him a mitered covered pillow so he wouldn’t smack his head into the wall behind him when he does this…..

     The stash is “concentrated” in one of the spare bedrooms upstairs, that my husband now refers to as the “yarn room”, though, yarn and knitting supplies seem to barf up all over the house. Right now I have some yarn and a sock book on the kitchen island, I have a couple of patterns in the office, my needle case is in the family room along with my “blankie” project and all my little “skeinlet’s”…… My goal is to have a little bit of knitting in every room 8)

460. Beth said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:55 pm

     The guest bedroom also serves as my craft room. Last fall I caught the organization bug and bought some 3×3 cubbies to keep my yarn and fiber stash in order.

461. Linda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:57 pm

     In “my” corner of the living room, is a glider rocker. It’s surrounded by my needles, baskets, and a bright light. With my feet on a footstool, and my little poodle curled there too, its very relaxing. And productive.

462. Sarah said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 7:59 pm

     I have all my knitting in my bedroom next to my chair right now. Eventually I would love to have a crafting room with all my knitting supplies, a spinning wheel and a loom

463. ElizabethD said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:00 pm

     There’s a place in our living room that is my favorite spot for knitting from the end of October through mid-April; after that, when I’d rather be out on the porch with my knitting and coffee. But there’s knitting and yarn in every room except the kitchen and bathroom. I need to get it a little more consolidated, because other people live here too. . .

464. Becky said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:03 pm

     I have a desk that’s full of yarn. No room for any office supplies in there, but hey, I’d rather have it full of yarn anyway!

465. Cindy S said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:08 pm

     My yarn, books, and needles are all in a cabinet in the living room for maximum display impact, but I tend to make a little knitting nest in our family room in front of the TV. It’s a sunken living room, and my spot is right by the stairs, so it’s hard to go up or down the stairs without dragging a little yarn along behind you.

466. southparknitter said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:08 pm

     I actually knit in the recliner in the den (main studio). Knitting tools are in the end table drawer or on top of the end table. Ball winder and swift are attached to what was once sewing/cutting cabinet that is now the work/warping cabinet. I have a skein winder in my bedroom (small studio). Finished projects awaiting assembly/blocking are in the kitchen (finishing/queue room) Stash/spinning fiber/weaving yarn are in the stash room mostly–some queued kits are in the kitchen). So far I haven’t put anything in the bathroom. I live in a four-room fiber studio with cooking and sleeping areas.

467. Cheryl said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:08 pm

     No knitting central for me I’m afraid. Right now my yarn is stored in those hanging shelf things. I think they are really for sweaters and shoes. I have the bigger one in one closet and the shoe size in another. I also have a wicker clothes hamper with my WIPs next to the chair in my bedroom where I do most of my knitting.

468. kris said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:12 pm

     Knitting Central is located in my bedroom at this present time, I had it in my son’s room till he moved back home 4 years ago. I spent most of yesterday, reconfiguring where to put things, I admit I have some wip’s by my lazy boy in the living room , but most of my stash and books are in my bedroom , with my special chair there. I have to be care full with two cats who like yarn, they look at my stash like the Cat in Franklin Habit’s book “It Itches”. I have to remember that I should leave room for my hubby ,he would appreciate it.

469. Sara said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:13 pm

     Someday, I will have my own craft room! My plan is to take over one of the kids room, once I know that they will not be returning home. (Does that ever happen?) DD leaves for college next fall, so the end is in sight. Until then, I have projects in the family room, in the car and stash and overflow is stored in my cedar closet, which is in the back of my walk-in closet.

470. Elizabeth said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:14 pm

     I have two hanging canvas sweater cubbies full of yarn in the closet, along with a plastic drawer chest, a couple of baskets, and a box or two in the basement. There might still be some in the cedar chest too. I’m hoping we can refinish a lawyers’ bookcase so that I can use that for most of the yarn, so I can see it through the glass doors, maybe adding a large glass jar or two. I have a flowerpot that holds my straight needles and an embossed lebkuchen tin that holds the circular needles and other accessories.

471. Michele said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:17 pm

     I have a small den that I keep my knitting baskets in – and the baskets hold the current WIPs and some of my favourite yarns that I like to pick up and hold. That being said, knitting needles and their attached project can be found in most other tooms of the house.

472. MJ said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:21 pm

     I knit in my living room or if I need to really concentrate on a pattern, my kitchen table. Other than that, my wips are in bags piled on top of crates that hold knitting books and plastic bins that hold yarn in my bedroom. My husband hasn’t said anything about the overflow yet, but I have a feeling that’s coming soon.

473. Michelle L said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:25 pm

     Knitting central at our house is “my” chair in thecorner of the living room, with needles, notions, a few reference books, and a good light right there. I do, though, knit pretty much anywhere, and much to my husband’s dismay the stash is threatening to take over the downstairs. I placate him with socks.

474. Bev Adler said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:29 pm

     My stash is in different places. I have a ton of it in the weaving room in plastic crates with lids, that room also holds roving to be spun. Some in the hall in plastic containers in a bookcase, some downstairs in the den and some in my office where the 2nd loom is.

475. bunny said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:32 pm

     I have a chair in the living room I “camp and knit” in. Around it is my stash, hidden around the sofa is a wicker basket of projects I really want to get started on. My chair is definitely my knitting home.

476. Nebraska Knitter said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:35 pm

     I have three knitting zones in my home. Knitting Zone 1: I knit in the living room on the corner of a love seat beside an end table. I keep two bags with current projects beside the love seat. The table holds a small basket with sticky notes, measuring tape, pencils, small scissors and the dock for my ipod. The drawer underneath the table holds a half size loose leaf notebook where I record project specifications – yarn ball bands, gauge, needles, notes for each completed project and those in progress. I do have a Ravelry account but I started knitting way before Ravelry and so I keep this notebook. Knitting Zone 2, storage: I store yarn in bins in my sewing corner of the family room. Knitting Zone 3, More immediate storage: In my study, I have a large basket and a few bags which hold the extra yarn for the projects I’m currently knitting. I also have a basket for circular needles and a homely but sentimental fabric case for straights and DPN’s that my grandmother made for me years ago.

477. Mimi said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:36 pm

     We have spent the last two years building our house. My DH (darling man!) insisted to our architect that we build a knitting room for me. So I now have a large room with three closets (one of which is a walk-in) for my stash, two bookcases for all my knitting books, a loveseat, and a television. All I need now is a desk for my computer and sewing machine.

478. Stephanie R said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:36 pm

     I have a small sewing room and one corner is stuffed with my yarn. Of course there is more by my chair in front of the tv and under beds and in closets!!!

479. Karen Lauterwasser said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:36 pm

     I have several knitting zones. Most of the books and gadgets are near the chair in the living room. Some of the yarn and other bits are in bins in the dining room. Upstairs are more of the ubiquitous plastic tubs of yarn. I printed full page signs that tell what is in each one and that I can read through the side of the bin – they say things like “Sock” and “Garment” – that way I don’t have to look in every single one to find some long remembered yarn. I could definitely use more space and more organization, but 5 other people live here (and one dog) and somehow all their stuff has to fit in as well.

480. Linda said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:38 pm

     My knitting area is the couch in the living room, and the rest of the house stores my yarn (which I said I would never have a “stach” HA!HA!), books, needles, and yes even in the freezer! How can things get out of hand so quickly! Would love a large cabinet and a room large enough to hold everything in one place.

481. Trish said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:42 pm

     I kind of have stuff everywhere, but my favorite spot is a comfortable wing chair in the bedroom where I can escape if only for a few minutes.

482. lisa batton. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:43 pm

     i have a bedroom that is the knitting room. there are built in bookshelves for my books and cupboards under them doe yarn. then i had the closet cedar lined and it is full of elfa baskets that are FULL of yarn. there is a TV and couch in there. i can go up there and just disappear!!!!

483. Wendy McD said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:45 pm

     Everything is scattered in the 2 main places where I sit. There’s markers, gauges etc at each place and then a massive closet holds all my needles, tools and some roving and yarn. The rest of my SABLE is in the garage in totes. I wish I could have it all round me buy my nemesis (read moth) is prevalent here in the country and we are forever coming up with new traps for him. Bruewhuhahaha!

484. Rose-Marie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:48 pm

     I have most of my knitting stuff in the living-room in a designated corner, a corner that has spilled onto a side board
     Sometimes things migrate to our guest-room where my computer resides most of the time though.

485. CarrieM (Caam) said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:49 pm

     I WISH I had a central area! My knitting stash/supplies are spread all throughout the house and it drives my husband nuts. Did I mention that it’s everywhere?? I really need to get organized. I need a system….I should use my Rav account to organize it but I get so lazy about taking the pictures and uploading.

486. OHSue said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:49 pm

     The yarn is all over the place, but sock yarn lives together in one place under my bed. But the WIP are next to ‘my chair’ in the living room. The books and patterns are all in one place in a book shelf. Of course they seem to hang around everywhere before they get to the bookshelf.

487. Rachelle Crosbie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:54 pm

     My knitting area runs down the central spine of the house. It starts in my sewing room and the main bedroom wardrobe, then runs down the cupboard at the side of the hall, a couple of containers in the lounge through to the conservatory. It’s sharing the space with my spinning and sewing stashes as well. There might be a couple of items hiding in the dining room too.

488. Jade said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:57 pm

     I don’t have a knitting central at the moment, but in three months we’re moving and I’ve already designated one of the bedrooms as my knitting room. Can’t wait!

489. Vicki Heidy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:58 pm

     Knitting central in my house is my guest bedroom. No room left in there for any guests tho! The armoire, the closet, all the shelving, and baskets of yarn covering the floor. The bed holds wip’s and plans for the next project. Of course, every room in the house has at least one decorative basket of yarn. My favorite knitting area is the recliner in front of the TV, because the best knitting is done in front of football!

490. Stephanie H. said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 8:59 pm

     My stuff is all around the house. I’m in desperate need of some organization.

491. Angela said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:01 pm

     I’m lucky enough to have an entire room in my house devoted to knitting … well it also has my computer and desk too. When we bought a house (our first house) I wanted to make sure I had a room for crafting. Later we added another cat to the family and found out that she destroys yarn … so its a good thing all my stuff is locked up in its own room. I learned really fast I can’t even leave out dirty socks or sweaters … I have to hide those too!

492. nannyjean said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:01 pm

     I have a glider rocker which I sit in to do my knitting in the living room while I watch TV and I have 5 baskets sitting around my chair with my knitting projects in. I like to work on a different projects each night not just one until it is done. My stash is stored in my den with my patterns and knitting books and my felted knitting bag which I made to take with me in the car with another project to work on where ever I go. I am never without a knitting project to work on.
     nannyjean

493. Kat Gatzke said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:01 pm

     My stash lives in my bedroom closet, but my WIPs are in several places – the closet, dresser drawers, on the bookshelf in the living room, always one or two in a bag ready to go with me. I almost always knit in my Ikea Poang chair in the living room. Of course I have to fend off the 2 kitties, but usually end up giving in to the old girl who just curls up in my lap while I knit uncomfortably around her!

494. Carrie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:02 pm

     I have a small space/room in the basement that is my knitting/sewing room (although I don’t really sew much at the moment). I set my knitting room up to feel like a knitting shop so that when it’s time to start a new project I can go “shop” my stash. It’s basically a random collection of reject furniture (dresser, desk, bookcase) that has found a new purpose in life – and a grand purpose it is! Otherwise, all my knitting projects are at right next to me at the end of the couch. I also have something in my purse at pretty much all times, just in case…

495. Agatha said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:21 pm

     Sheri, I love your cabinet. My great-grandfather ran a general store and I can imagine him having walls lined with those. It is my aspiration to one day have a corner of a room with one or two old, gorgeous wooden cabinets like that. For now, things are terribly disorganized around here. I’ve moved 5 times in 5 years, all over the country, and my stash has definitely suffered. It’s in boxes – some nice, some cardboard, unsorted for the most part. The boxes are in the basement in the catch all “stuff we haven’t unpacked or found a home for yet” room, since we recently moved again. I have a baby boy, so for the foreseeable future my furniture budget will be going to him and his future siblings, but one day when they’re all settled into their respective rooms I hope to do something grand and amazing for my yarn.

496. Ann said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:28 pm

     I have 1 central zone and a emergency zone.

     My central knitting spot in next to the couch in the tv room. (It’s actually a beautiful sunroom that my husband cluttered with a tv.) That’s where I knit the most. Then the emergency zone is next to my bed. If I’m sick or have the occasional bout of insomnia I don’t have to bug anybody to get my knitting.

497. Debbie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:31 pm

     I have my yarn stash in an old oak steamer trunk, in my bedroom. In our guest room (we have a wall bed) a.k.a, “my craft room” I have an “idea board”. When I start getting anxious to start a new project I do a gauge switch and pin it up with the pattern on my board, it keeps me from starting the whole project until I have one done. But, there are always WIP and I have put each project in a different bag that I have collected over the years. I attach a luggage tag on each bag with the project name and have them hanging on a purse hanger in the closet. I pull a bag/project out and knit in the TV room. There is always a project next to my chair, in my car and in my luggage when I travel. Knitting 365.

498. Lanafactrix said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:39 pm

     My stash is (mostly) under the bed, and I’m desperately trying to knit it down–I physically can’t fit any more yarn in my house! Knitting central is in front of the computer.

499. Lani said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:53 pm

     My stash is located upstairs in the unused bedroom. My books (3 shelves worth) are in the living room bookcase. My knitting place is on the small couch facing the large picture windows. When it’s light outside the view is spectacular (it get’s dark at 4:30 right now). There is an overhead light just above where I sit and two skylights for more day light. Good lighting seems to be my more valuable tool.

500. Barbara Andrews said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:54 pm

     I didn’t think that I had as much as other knitters but when this question came up I went to see what I did have and what I have seems to have amounted to a lot A basket by my chair to what TV with cardigan half finished. A ‘little’ basket by the bed with a half finished pair of gloves.
     A knitting bag in the kitchen with 1 sock to be finished in it.
     The car also doesn’t get left out as there is a bag in the with one unfinished sock to match the one in the kitchen, just ready to be knitted while I ‘wait’
     OH!! and the caravan has it own bag with dolls clothes to be knitted. Just little projects top take when we are travelling..

     Also there is a spare room with all the wool, in fact lots of wool, needles, books and patterns for just about everything

501. Christel said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:56 pm

     Mostly I knit in my big comfy recliner in the living room. The problem is this chair is so comfortable I tend to fall asleep!! But it is still the perfect place to knit. Room for the yarn bowl, the pattern/book and even the cat can join me from time to time.

502. Melissa said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:58 pm

     I live in a studio apartment, so the whole place is pretty much Knitting Central! That said, I try to keep it a bit contained since I have so little space, but the supplies and projects do have a way of taking over…

503. Judy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 9:59 pm

     I mostly knit on the couch in the family room, but I always take knitting in the car when I’m not driving. My yarn stash is mostly tucked away in two bedrooms, one of which is used for sewing and computing. All my knitting books are in the sewing room too. And then there’s the bags…..lots of projects in various stages in lots of places. This year’s goal is to get them done!

504. Ambie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 10:01 pm

     My stash moves between our guest bedroom and the living room. The living room is where I keep my current WIPs (since I knit on the couch), while the bedroom is mainly storage.

505. Cindy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 10:06 pm

     I keep my stash in 6 or 7 large plastic bins in my basement which is consumed by not only yarn but art supplies as well. My knitting space is a corner in my bedroom in my favorite chair in front of the TV surrounded by several projects in the works and a stack of books under the chair. Hubby and like different programs so I can sit quietly and engross myself in a pattern without interruption. A cup of hot tea completes the scene.

506. Jenny said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 10:07 pm

     would LOVE to have that cabinet – I have a little bit of a knitting central, but mostly scattered all throughout the house!

507. ava reddick said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 10:21 pm

     Well, from an earlier post, i have a small stash of yarn, needles and various acutrements
     needed for knitting including small WIP’s like chemo caps, and such stuff cause if I run out of the house without a project and I’m at the Doctor, I can go in the trunk and pull something out. Usually, I can get at least 2-3 premie caps done and just drop them off at Children’s after a dr.’s visit or when I have to sit and wait for tests.

     As far as the house; well my main stash is stored in the basement, all packaged in plastic bags in copier paper boxes (free) that are coded and noted with the color stored inside. There are about 350 boxes of yarn and at least the same amout each for needlepoint, sewing, beads,ribbons, patterns and all sorts of trinkets for all different types of crafts. The basement also has space for my sewing area and my parents old kitchen table which i use for blocking project and have my wool winder and swift attached to.

     Also , the basement has an area that I enclosed for a cold storage/cedar closet for my furs and wool items. The whole main beam holds all my clothing from one end to the other end of the house. Cabinets for shoe and handbag and suitcase storage too!

     Then my bedroom, I sleep with my yarn…….yeah, go ahead and laugh, but I’m a single lady in a California King bed with my laptop and notepads, chart paper, colored pencils and all the things I need to create and write patterns. All of my needles, from metal (addis, inox, etc.), woods(exotics, maple, walnut, rosewood, ebony, birch) and bamboo (hiya hiya, addi, clover, inknit, etc) are there too so i can just grab whatever I need to start what ever I want as the spirit hits me! Big screeen TV , DVD, VHS, and a whole cabinet of favorite movies and Lucy Neatby and EZ’s Video’s and dvd’s are there too!! Nice size bookshelf too, for my very extensive knitting library.

     And the yarn takes up the space of a human being section off in beautiful baskets from lace to extra bulky and roving in case I decide to sit in the wing chair and do some spining!! Wheel by chair and baskets full of various types of spindles. My part of the house is like a mother-in law suite. I can shut myself off from the rest of the house and not be bothered by anybody!!!

508. Ana said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 10:22 pm

     In our current apartment, I have a sewing table and chest of drawers that holds all of my sewing things in the storage room, my spinning wheel as a decorative and useful piece in the living room, a bookshelf housing the “pretty” yarns, and a closet for all of my other craft things. WIPs live in a basket that can easily be taken out of the closet.

     I can’t wait to move to get my own office/craft room!

509. Meghann said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 10:31 pm

     Well, m y stash lives upstairs. Then downstairs I have a little corner where my knitting and my wips live.

510. Robyn said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 10:32 pm

     I have a couple of places, I recently got more organized in the closet.

511. Stacey said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 10:34 pm

     Most of my stash is in bins in the basement but I often find skeins and hanks squirreled away in the most inconspicuous places. . I am just thankful my husband loves me for all my quirky disorganization.

512. Kym Hretz said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 10:44 pm

     I have knitting stuff hiding all over the house, much of it in plain sight!

513. Grace said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 10:49 pm

     My stuff is all over the place. I knit in the family room on the comfy couch, wash my new knits in the kitchen, and block them in the master bedroom. Yarn is stored mainly in the master bedroom, but some of it has wandered into the family room and kitchen. Fortunately my family is used to it!

514. Carol said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 11:09 pm

     We’re in tight quarters right now, so all my knitting is in one spot! I went on a bag buying spree this past fall – it was time to replace my old, worn out knitting bags. I ended up with two Namaste (a red Monroe, the largest bag in tan), a Dela Q messenger, and so on. I also finnaly bought a variety of sizes of smaller bags for storing knitting stuff. I found that these bags (variety of brands) are also great in my purse = first time my purse has ever been organized. I love my new bags! I’ve found that projects in nice bags with a “Knit Kit” in with every large project seems to work well. I do use a Namaste Buddy for my stitch markers, small scissors, etc. which I store in a place I can easily get to. I also love my Lantern Moon bag that is woven on the bottom, silk fabic on top that pulls into a closed top – wonderful for projects like Wendy’s small shawls.

515. Windy said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 11:11 pm

     Well I guess that my Knitting Zone would be the cabinet where all yarn is stashed with no organization. I really should organize it one of these days.

516. Susan G said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 11:18 pm

     I have knitting pretty much all over the house. But it is concentrated in two main places, in the bedroom and in the den. these are the two place where I knit the most.

517. Kerri said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 11:18 pm

     well… I’m currently in my dorm so I have to keep my knitting rather contained. I keep my yarn in two clear storage boxes and a storage ottoman (the ottoman also houses my needles and notions) and I keep yarn for wip’s in baskets. Surprisingly, it all remains rather organized.

518. Abby said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 11:20 pm

     If the room I had my yarn stored in had heat – I would knit there. But the owners of my house (I rent) added on the room & didn’t put heat in it (?!?), but I think for storage it works nicely.

     I keep most of my yarn in/on bookshelves. It’s the first thing I see when I come through the door

     Usually my notions, WIPs and project bags end up littered through out the house. I just finished the back of a sweater while sitting in bed. I was working on a cowl in front of my desk & computer on Tuesday, and Wednesday I spent the evening in my living room chair -big and comfy – knitting & watching TV.

519. 29ways said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 11:27 pm

     I have a small house and purchased a handmade pine cabinet that is stuffed FULL of various yarns, embroidery floss, cross stitch kits and silks. I am lucky that my single car garage has a loft – there are at least 8 storage bins and copy paper boxes stuffed full of yarns (mostly sock yarns). My living room table has piles of knotting books not I keep meaning to put them away but I love looking at them for inspiration.

     Tammy

520. Bonnie said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 11:32 pm

     what used to be my son’s room is now my home office. However, that translated to the real work at hand– knitting. That is my knitting spot, with baskets and shelves of yarn and WIP and needles everywhere.

521. Sarah said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 11:33 pm

     Our spare bedroom is knitting central. Well, yes, there is a project bag on the dining room chair and some yarn in baskets and jars in the sun room but books, needles, stash, wips? – spare bedroom.

522. Dee said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 11:41 pm

     The main room in my apartment is the knitting central. My dog loves the smell of wool and every now and then a ball of yarn comes tumbling down and she is in heaven. She grabs the fallen ball and runs all over the room, unwinding the yarn. Knitting central is dog heaven! Now if it would just rain dog treats!

523. danielle said,

     January 14, 2011 @ 11:51 pm

     Wow – I love your cabinet!
     I keep trying to make a central knitting place – use to have one and then a daughter moved back in, and then another one…..so am working on trying to reorganize one room into a central knitting room but life keeps interfering. So at this point – one bedroom, another closet, another closet, a chest of drawers in another room, around my bed, around my chair downstairs……..sigh…..

524. Linda Y said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:00 am

     My fiber is restricted to the upstairs of our split-level house. “Knitting Central” is one of the small bedrooms which has been turned into our TV/fiber room. Five shelves of one bookcase are devoted to knitting patterns/knitting & spinning books/needles. Stash lives in six plastic storage totes and four bags in half of the closet. WIPs are in about three bags which can (and often do) hold more than one project. Of course this doesn’t count the two spinning wheels in the living room, the various fleeces in said closet, and in a basket and two bags next to the spinning wheels…Or the knitting that occasionally migrates to the living room (but always migrates back!). My husband knits too, he says “in self defense”, but I think I’m winning the stash wars!

525. Barb said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:08 am

     I recently moved into a house with a “bonus” room in the lower level. Although I let my son have most of the lower level (self-preservation on my part….) I claimed that room. It has all my knitting and crafting supplies. All it needs is a good table….and a comfy chair.

526. Jaye said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:10 am

     In my sewing/craft room I have a dresser that has 2 drawers devoted to storing knitting supplies & needles, and a place on top for all my patterns. But stash is a whole nuther matter, it has lots of places in the house and my knitting bags (love knitting bags too) all have at least one project, sometimes more depending on how big it is. Never know what I’m going to feel like working on, and then I can grab a knitting bag and head for either my favorite chair in the living room or my comfy bed where I’ve made sure I have good light and a place to set my coffee or tea.

527. Beverly Tilton said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:11 am

     I live in a very small apartment. I have what I call my knitting nest. The center is my motorized lift chair, with a Seraphina Shawl draped over the back so I can pull it over me. The side pocket of the chair contains remotes and a pouch of knitting accessories (scissors, various kinds of stitchmarkers, a crochet hook, yarn needles, etc). The right side of the chair has 2 side-by-side book cases. One is top to bottom with craft books, binders and magazines. The other bookcase is the nerve center of my world. The bottom shelf holds a multitude of cords and power strips. Next shelf up holds my laptop, camera, cellphone and all chargers. (A coaster is nestled in there for my tea cup.) The top 3 shelves hold yarn for my planned projects. The very top of the bookcase, displays my spindles and my button collection. On the side of the bookcase, I have attached hooks to hold an assortment of project bags with WIPs for quick access. Next to that is the spinning wheel. On the left side of my lift chair is a project basket to work out of, my Namaste needle binder and my lap desk leans there at the ready. I have to admit that there is a closet full of yarn and fiber storage too, but let’s not go there.

528. Jeanne said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:14 am

     My knitting stuff is “supposed” to be in the guest room, but it’s spread everywhere… the guest room doubles as my craft room, but mainly looks like a cra* room.

529. sarah said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:15 am

     Well, most of the yarn is stored in plastic pins. Except for the stray skeins that end up in tote bags! I’m trying to work on just one project at a time, and so I usually keep that out. It’s suppose to be in a bag…..

530. Emma said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:29 am

     I turned our spare bedroom into an office/craft room and my stash is kept there in bins for now. I just got a cabinet which will house the yarn as soon as I assemble it. Ofcourse I also keep one tv watching project in the living room and another in the bedroom. My ultimate goal is to turn the entire attic space into a craft room.

531. Christine said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:33 am

     YES I DO!!! it’s on the left side of the sofa, with a small table for knitty stuff, food, water and an Ott Lamp and a blanket..cuz it’s cold in the house!

     wait a min…then there’s the pile next to my side of the bed..hmmmm…..and that’s always there as I like to knit when I awake (although this morning I was so sleepy, kept making mistakes) and before going to sleep..it’s the way I fall asleep, like reading a book before bed.

532. Jeanie said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:49 am

     The front room is knitting/spinning central! I just put in a nice new drawer/table thing (lol) it is holding all the ready to spin fiber and two clean fleeces. I’m planning on adding some shelving/cubbies on top to hold WIPs and queued projects that are waiting to be cast-on. Hopefully I’ll be able to find pretty baskets or boxes to hold them
     I really love that huge general store cabinet you have, that’s what I would love ! Only maybe not *quite* so BIG

533. Linda M said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 1:03 am

     I like to knit in my living room that has a lot of great natural light. The consequence is that at any given time there are knitting supplies, patterns, projects on needles all over the furniture

534. Rae said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 1:33 am

     I have 2 knitting spots at home one is in my bedroom but my favorite is the livingroom I have a nice big comfy chair to sit in by the window.

535. Meg said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 1:47 am

     I love my arrangement! Somehow, in our 800 sq ft condo I am fortunate enough to have half a room with craft table, bookcase and cabinets for yarn and supplies, and a little sitting area. I also have my “satellite location” in front of the TV, with a basket by the couch. I will admit that even with this, one of my favorite knitting fantasies is envisioning a whole room to myself someday when we have a house.

536. RichelleCK said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 1:53 am

     I’m supposed to have a main yarn/knitting storage area and it mostly stays there, but it sends out its minions from time to time to the rest of the house until I can beat it all back in there again.

537. Ellen said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 1:59 am

     My knitting spot is spread all over the house. That way i can see beautiful “wooly things” in every room of my house! I find that delightful! I do have a favorite comfy chair where i do much of my knitting. That way I can be surrounded by my dog and 2 cats who are very helpful.

538. Rhonda said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 2:04 am

     I have plastic bins, wicker baskets, cardboard boxes… I’m definitely an all-over-the-house girl. Especially if you factor in the weaving, quilting, and sewing, on top of the knitting. Not enough hours in the day, if you ask me.

539. mklee said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 3:16 am

     is it wrong that i have both? my “central stash” is in my library in both fabric boxes and large glass jars from crate and barrel:
     http://www.crateandbarrel.com/kitchen-and-food/food-containers-storage/two-gallon-glass-jar-with-lid/s483834

     and i have tons of skeins around the house — and if they aren’t part of an already started project, i consider these skeins as “decoration”

540. valerie said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 4:35 am

     i have a knitting room where most of my supplies are. it’s been under construction for the last couple years. i don’t knit in it, though.

     i knit on the couch. i have two popcorn tins in which i keep wips (and put the tins on the couch when i’m not there as anti-dog-on-couch devices). i also have an amazing wooden “toolbox” that my hb made for me a couple years ago for yarn that must be kept at hand and all my dpns. needless to say, it’s overflowing….

541. Lois said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 4:41 am

     I knit wherever. I used to do most of my knitting on the way back and forth to work as my husband drove me. Now, I don’t have that luxury time, so I do most of my knitting in my recliner in front of the fireplace. Right now, I have about 6 or 7 wips under the table next to my recliner. I was thinking yesterday, do we have all these wips because we are all suffering from ADD? Mind working faster than our hands can keep up with. LOL

542. Pia Lauridsen said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 5:13 am

     I have all my yarn stash in baskets and big heavy-duty plastic bags, stacked next to my knitting chair, so everything is within reach. My knitting chair is an old-fashioned recliner that my parents bought the year before they had me – the covers are pretty worn, so me and my mother will be replacing them next month. I’m going to have an issue with yarn stash, because I’ve just taken over a few pounds of my mum’s leftovers – I’ve got plans for all of it, but space?….eh…well…..

543. Lena said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 5:31 am

     I have a small basket that used to hold all my knitting stuff, but now that’s only where I store my needles and some scrap yarns. My knitting is all over the place. My stash is in a plastic bin in my bedroom and I have projects stuffed into almost all my shelves, in the living room and in my bedroom, plus a couple right next to my bed and under the sofa and one in the bag I take to work. All this while I keep thinking I’m pretty good at finishing what I’ve started and not casting on several projects at once…

544. Michelle said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 6:08 am

     My knitting central used to be my living room; this included yarn storage. I usually had multiple projects on the go – sometimes as many as 7 or 8, all in big ziploc bags that I hauled around.

     Now, I knit in my living room, and sometimes my bedroom. I store yarn in bins and these go wherever; knitting books are stored on bookshelves in my bedroom. I use Ravelry to stash and keep me inspired, and go through the bins physically now and again to get that loving feeling I still have 7 or 8 ufos at one time, but carry one or two in a project bag, and leave the rest at home to work on as I have time.

545. Sarah said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 7:05 am

     I have a big basement which is divided up into desk area, pool table, TV area and fiber central. The fiber area includes 3 sewing machines, accessories, stackable cubbies, a ton of yarn and fabric stash, patterns, books, needles-anything you need for knitting or sewing. It is a great place because I can work on projects and don’t have to put them all away at the end of the day. I have a small(er) basket by the couch that my working knitting projects live in. Perfect!

546. aknitontheside said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 7:19 am

     I have a small knitting area set aside in the living room. Essential for its access to the movies I watch whilst I knit. A cast off leather chair from my husband has a colourful shawl draped over the back of it for warmth. A small area on my left to hold the essentials – Laptop, ott lamp, knitting tools. Window to the right to let in light and the sill holds my beverage, also a small stand with a stack of reading material, my scales and a bowl to hold my current wip. Tucked down the side of the chair is my camera and knitpicks needle binder. In the same room is a bookcase with my knitting library and extra needles and tools. Also in the room, my 2 bins of sock stash because it is my most precious and sometimes I just need to take it out and play with it. All other stash is in my bedroom so as not to upset all the muggles in the house.

     I love knitting bags too and have many prepared for future projects. The yarn, needles and patterns sit patiently waiting for me. They live in both places and I’d love to get the volume down only because it will make it alot easier to gather everything together on the day I take yearly stash photo’s. I gather everything at the bottom of the stairs and stand overhead to take a photo (only way of getting everything in one shot without a wide angle lens!). Last year, the wip bags completely covered one side of every stair. This year and next, I vow to get that down to only a few steps. I gotta knit faster!

547. Jan Isaacs-Wade said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 7:34 am

     I have a really large bookcase in my bedroom and I have my yarn in sealed bags arranged on the shelves. I have an underbed storage case for my stash, as well. My Hornshaw swift and ball winder are under the bed and my knitting needles and accessories are in a Lantern Moon rollup in a totebag are within arm’s reach. I have fibromyalgia so my favorite place to knit is in my bed with everything I need within short range. I also have an OTT floor lamp that is wonderful for knitting, reading and working on my laptop! This is not the fanciest set-up on the planet, but it works for me! This is my little nest and it makes me happy!

548. Liz McReynolds said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 7:42 am

     I have a spot in my family room (the knitting throne). There are two cabinets holding yarn and projects and a third for books and patterns. The ott light is behind my seat, the coffee table is large with recessed trays that hold anything I am working on. It’s perfect, everything is in my reach while I sit there to create and imagine!

549. Gail said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 7:46 am

     We live in a small Cape Cod style house. My stash of yarn, fabric and cross stitch supplies has grown to the point where it has taken over one of the two rooms in the attic! My goal for 2011 is to knit my way through an entire plastic bin of yarn. Of course, that doesn’t preclude replenishing along the way!

     Can’t wait to see the new bags on Monday’s update….I love bags

550. phoenixfire said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 7:50 am

     Several years ago, when we renovated our 150 year old mill house, we enclosed a small side entry porch. The porch opens out into my rose garden. I got a floor to ceiling three foot wide bookshelf and filled it with my knitting books and storage baskets of yarn. Next to it is a one-armed chaise chair that I got for my birthday from ikea. I sit in that chair and knit as much as possible. In the spring and summer, I look out onto my roses while I knit, and in the winter, I look over at my stash! The porch is just long enough to house my spinning wheel on the other side of the door, and I have my fiber stash hanging on the wall beside it. It’s a knitter’s dream, and my favorite room in the house.

551. Rochonne said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 7:59 am

     I started my crafting with quilting and spent 2 years establishing a fabric stash etc. But it didn’t move me the way knitting does and so my room above the garage has 2 “zones”… knitting and quilting. My stash in this room is all in totes, and I have started my 2011 resolution of putting all my stash on Ravelry. I have completed my needle inventory (woo hoo!) The rest of my knitting things (current WIP’s, recent stash aquisitions, books and patterns) is in a walk in closet off my bedroom. I have several baskets on shelves in there and depending on what I’m in the mood to work on I grab a basket and head to the family room. I have loved reading all the posts here because I am getting ready to rennovate a bedroom into a craft room. I am taking a que from Jasmine of the Knitmore Girls and 2011 is my year to stash bust and get organized!

552. Pat said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 8:00 am

     We just built our retirement home. I had one of the extra bedrooms set up for knitting and spinning. We put in a murphy bed to free up floor space for the spinning wheel. It has bookcases on both sides to store all the knitting and spinning books. We had window seat storage built for storing Roving etc. Finally I had half the closet set up as a yarn wall/storage just in case all the yarn stores disapprear:). I lined all the shelves with cedar shelf liner,

553. Amanda said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 8:16 am

     Yarn has quickly taken over my hutch in the kitchen.

554. Karen said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 8:31 am

     I do have a designated fiber room (I knit and quilt), but projects keep escaping and projects can often be found in other rooms….

     I look forward to the bags going up in the “What’s New” section on Monday!

555. Barb in MA said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 8:40 am

     My yarn is in plastic tubs in the living room, dining room, bedroom, hallways, but I have a little den where I do my knitting. I can knit while I watch TV, or browse my favorite Internet spots, or, in he evenings, watching TV series on you tube. Those are easy, I can pause when I need to, for my yarn needs, or the dishes , or snacks. Then there is the advantage of knitting where I can refresh the pages to see what is new at the Loopy Groopies Ravelry page.

556. Sharilyn said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 8:46 am

     Oh, my stash is all over. Under beds in those flatish plastic bins are my current favorite stashing place. THanks for asking!

557. Mujercita said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 8:48 am

     I live in a one-bedroom apartment by myself. Currently, I share my bedroom with my knitting supplies, but they’re also all over the rest of the apartment. I dream of having a knitting room one day!

558. ELAINE said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 8:50 am

     I do most of my knitting in the living room in my favorite chair, and have a basket right beside the chair always.
     The rest is in the closet for my future knitting projects.

559. Mari said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 8:52 am

     My work area is a corner of the couch over which I’ve installed a goose-neck type lamp so I don’t go blind. I keep many of my WIP’s, books, and frequently used tools in the table next to the couch. The bulk of the stash though, is in giant ziplocs and a rolling storage cart with drawers. I got the brilliant idea (copied from someone else of course) to have my queued projects in the storage cart with one in each drawer and then when I was ready to cast on I could just reach in the drawer and have everything I need. However, my queue has grown exponentially since then and I tend to just cast on everything at once.

560. Julie said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 8:57 am

     I have two shelves of a big built-in bookcase in the family room, where I keep my bins for my stash, my blocking board, and other knitting supplies. I also have a pretty pottery bowl on another bookcase where I display some of my sock yarn. My favorite place to knit is on the love seat on the other side of the room—so I can keep an eye on my stash!

561. Julie said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:02 am

     My whole house is knitting central. Current project is on the table next to my chair in the Family Room. Basket of WIPs is across the room. Spinning wheel and fleece are next to the book case. Stash is in the Living Room, spare bedroom and in Grandma’s cedar chest in the powder room. Books are mostly in my quilting studio. Fleeces are stored on shelves in the garage. More stash and the dyeing studio are in the basement. Hubby is very understanding about my obsession!

562. Laura said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:10 am

     I am blessed to have a craft room in my home that has a ceiling to floor bookshelf on one wall; this is where I have some of my yarn in clear bags labeled with yarn type, weight and “intended” project. I always buy my yarn with a specific project in mind….However, it doesnt’ always work ou that way I also have the same sized shelf just outside my craftroom (upstairs landing) that has most of my knitting books and my yarn in clear bins with lids, labeled by fiber type and weight . I also have a WH who allowed me to decorate my family room with a “yarn theme”. My border is a “Faith, Hope, Love, stars, sheep and yarn heme. I have “sheep decorations through out; along with a quilt shelf that has color coordinated skeins hanging from it and wooden sock blockers. In this room I have several baskets with projects and books sitting around. YES, yarn and sheep have invaded the very core of my life and I am a better person because of it Less money, but happy LOL

563. Vicki said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:10 am

     I am lucky to have a 4th bedroom as my sewing/yarn stash room. Most of my yarn is sorted by weight and fiber content into storage bins. My knitting work area is an overstuffed chair and ottoman in the family room. It is usually surrounded with yarn, project bags, magazines, books, knitting needles, etc. (except when I know company is coming).

564. Heather Shelton said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:17 am

     I have a yarn room that I share as a bedroom with my husband. (He doesn’t get much besides half the bed!). One wall is a huge shelf of yarn, needles and patterns. Another shelf houses my books and there are a few bins of wool for spinning.
     Unfortunately, for the family, I have taken over a corner of the living room as well with spinning wheels, carder and wool. I feel like I have central spaces but the rest of the family would say I am all spread out. It’s all how you look at it!!:)

565. Valerie said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:24 am

     Let’s see – CKZ – fun concept. Let’s just say I’m a “diffused” knitter. I knit in my chair in the living room, have a basket, a small drawer in a side table, a small chest with straight needles, a bookcase with notebooks and magazines. From there I go to my bedroom for an occasional knit in the bed while I watch a movie. I have a bookcase in the BR dedicated to knit books. On a shelf is my custom built swift, a gift from my hubby. In my office I have a small table with odds and ends – weird knit books, estate sale needles displayed along with a fiber comb and darning egg. Also in the office closet, my ball winder and a stash of projects/yarn I was sure I was about to begin/finish. And a file box of sleeved patterns for reference. Also my bag that is supposed to be the central location for the circular needles storage notebook and the DPNS bag. Also my shoulder bag that becomes my stow away for projects while traveling. Ah, then we go to the basement, where I have the luxury of a huge storeroom lined with shelves. I have several large plastic containers for storage of yarn – sock, lace, self striping, baby, cotton, etc, etc. I’m sure I’ve overlooked some knit/yarn presence in my house but I think I’ve presented ample evidence to show that I do NOT have a CKZ. )

566. Lynn said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:25 am

     I was able to make a room into my craft room. I went to the Brimfield antique show and picked up some great old pieces of furniture to store my stash- an old ice chest and an old oak armoire are my favorites. When I am not knitting in there, I have a favorite chair in the family room surrounded by baskets of knitting projects and next to a bookcase that holds many of my knitting books.

567. Jen said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:36 am

     I have two main areas for all of my yarn — downstairs in the basement in a large dresser (totally full). Above that I have shelves for all books and magazines (also totally full).
     Upstairs in the sunroom, I keep all of my wip, and another bin of yarn. I try to keep everything I am currently working on here but some things get moved arond to other sections of the house and then I have to regroup and reorganize to keep things in order.

568. Syd said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:37 am

     My guest room is well insulated with a wall of yarn. I bought wire mesh cubes and they go from the floor to the ceiling and the length of the entire wall, and it is filled beyond it’s capacity. So I am rethinking my storage. I like having it so I can see what I have and not in a yarn closet (ask me how I know what a yarn closet/closets is) Now wondering if guests could sleep on the living-room couch because getting rid of the bed opens up and entire second wall!

569. Carolyn said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:49 am

     I knit in the living room, but I like my projects in my huge collection of longaberger baskets. I like my projects I am working on to be very handy and organized.I also love the oh snap bags they are great organizational tools.

570. Candace said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:56 am

     Alas, no central location nor organization at my house. I am scattered from room to room, closet to closet and everywhere in between. I spend way too much knitting time looking for those 6 dpn’s or that pair of 7 bamboos. I can only wish for a lovely area where I have everything organized and in one place. That does not stop me, however, from ever adding to my stash!

571. Nancy said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 10:02 am

     I turned my sons old room into my craft room. There is a built in bookshelf where I have all of my knitting books. I have several baskets full of yarn in there. My projects that I’m working on are in a bag in the family room. I also have a 3 drawer storage unit that is full and several bags I use for my projects in the closet.

572. Tracy A. said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 10:04 am

     Just is Rubbermaid bins and ziploc bags right now, I’m afraid.

     My plan is for a nice, deep bookshelf w/bins or baskets right next to a big, comfy knitting chair. I tell myself that having a dedicated “knitting/crafts zone” will keep me from leaving yarn in random places around the house and also from periodically dumping out all of my bins and resorting them just to see what I’ve got.

     That’s what I tell myself, anyway. (:

573. Robin May said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 10:09 am

     The theory is that my knitting is in my studio/sewing room. The truth is that’s where it’s home is, but I usually have several tote bags of projects all around my chair in the family room. The cats appreciate my leaving those lovely tempting toys out for them!

574. LittleWit said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 10:11 am

     Umm I have one of those cloth closets that is full of fiber on one side of the couch in the basement. On the other side of the couch is a sizable cube shelving unit of yarn. When people come into the basement they often say, wow you have a lot of yarn. Although those are mostly the non knitters. The knitters generally make that comment about the fiber!

575. Margie said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 10:13 am

     OK – I hate to brag but I’m going to….my lovely little cottage actually has a workroom already created in it. When I looked at this house over a year ago (my very first house, indentally!) and walked into this room, I cried. The owners had taken the two very tiny bedrooms and knocked down the connecting wall and made it into a workroom. One of the owners was a graphic artist and worked from home. It has counters, cupboards and bookcases built in. It also has three nice sized windows and is sunny and bright. I’ve turned one of the two closets into shelves (behine the doors) and that’s where my WIPs live….very handy to get to but not staring me in the face! There is so much room that I actually still have empty cupboards!!! I have my computer and “office” at one end and my sewing machine at the other, looking out a window into the front garden. It’s just heaven. Honestly, it’s exactly what I wrote in my “house” journal years ago as the perfect place. OK…I’m done bragging!!!!!

576. Shauna said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 10:17 am

     I have an awesome chaise in m living room and that’s where I knit, I have a couple knitting bags tucked under the end table and behind my chair, and the rest goes up in my craft room.

577. Sue A said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 10:18 am

     One bedroom in my home is a “hobby room” with collapsible crates for yarn and fiber storage, a worktable with cubbies for quilting and two closets for the extra stuff. My dining room is my loom room and the china cabinet is full of knitting, weaving and spinning books. Plus I have a few baskets scattered in the living areas full of yarn as you never know when the urge to work on something might occur!

578. lynn said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 10:23 am

     I have wire shelving in my craft room where I’ve sorted my yarn by fiber. I love, love, love that cabinet at Loopy!

579. Joyce said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 10:23 am

     I have most of my yarn stored in plastic bins under the guest bed and some stored in the guest closet. My knitting books are also in that room in a neat table that was made by my husband’s uncle years and years ago…my FO are in my dresser and wash stand in that room – the furniture in there is over 100 years old (my husband’s grandmother & grandfather’s set. So, I guess I could say I am centralized – except for my work in progress which is in the Family Room where I usually sit and knit, oh and 1 sweater stored in a chest in the exercise room., sort of organized, huh…..

580. Alisa said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 10:28 am

     I like to knit in the living room with my family. It isn’t always perfect for knitting, but I like to spent time with everyone. (:

581. Rebecca Traum said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 11:00 am

     I either curl up at the end of the couch or sit in my glider. Either of these spots allow me to keep an eye on what’s going on, but are comfy and relaxing. And my knitting/spinning stash and tools are stored throughout the house, as to not attract attention to it’s size.

582. Maureen L said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 11:01 am

     I WANT to have a knitting central and am slowly working towards that in a bedroom that an older son once occupied. The shelving right now is too small for it all, so my resolution is to work on the stash so that it fits nicely into the shelving. I keep WIP in baskets so I can cart them wherever I go in the house.

583. Suzanne said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 11:09 am

     I knit everywhere in the house and that is where my yarn is stashed.baskets,tubs,bags..anyplace I can hide a skein it is there. I love to spin sitting at the end of my bed. There is a bench it is comfortable to sit on and very quiet and I can relax while I spin.

584. Leslie C said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 11:20 am

     My stuff is all around the house but mainly in three areas. I share space in my husband’s office for storing yarn. I’ve got five shelves for bins of stash. One corner of the bedroom has needles and supplies for WIPs and a big basket in the den holds
     current active projects and patterns. Sometimes this is tidy but most often it’s just total exploding chaos, especially when I’ve got a bad case of startitis.

585. Alicia said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 11:24 am

     I’d love to have an organized, centralized knitting area (or fiber-arts area). At the moment, though, everything’s mostly stored in plastic bins. The new dog thinks it’s cool to run off with yarn, so I can’t really leave things out in baskets, which is what I like to do with the (way too many) WIPs.

586. Shin Ae said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 11:28 am

     I have my very own spot on the couch. I’ve got a teeny tiny house, so there is not enough space for a dedicated knitting room. Still, everyone knows that spot on the couch is mine!

     Stash lives in my bedroom. That way it is the first thing I see when I wake up in the morning!

587. Christine said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 11:39 am

     I currently have most of everything in a bedroom closest and dressers while my husband is finishing our basement and building me a craft room there. Hopefully it will be done this year.

588. Rasa said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:00 pm

     I have a knitting corner of the living room. This space is packed with clear plastic bins with much yanr; binders with patterns and WIP’s. My living room chair is right on the edge of this space…easy reach for anything I may need:)

589. Mary Anne said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:02 pm

     It’s MY living room (even though 3 other people and 2 dogs share the house) cause I’m the Mom. So, it’s okay that my knitting stuff is spread all over the room.

590. Lael said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:05 pm

     What an awesome cabinet! I’m jealous – of course, I have no idea where I would put it.

     My “knitting space” – well, most of my WIP’s hang in their respective knitting bags on the back of my dining room chair. A habit I really need to break. Yarn and wool stash are really all over. In boxes, bags, drawers, foot lockers. I am starting to organize the stash in plastic tubs, though, so am making some progress! I think I even have an old fleece (which I will never spin, so should discard), “hidden” under our 125 gallon fish tank!

591. diane said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:09 pm

     I would love to have some sort of centralized craft area, but don’t have it yet. Most of my yarn is stored in a couple of cedar-lined drawers in the dresser in the guest room; WIP’s are in various tote bags around the house. I can’t leave them out due to curious cats. Most of my actual knitting occurs in my Shaker rocker in the living room.

592. Beth Gray said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:27 pm

     I have a whole bedroom dedicated as my “craft room”. Unfortunately, it is currently in a horrible state of disrepair and looks like a bomb went off in there. It has lots of Ikea furniture in it, which works great for keeping things in line when you have time to work at it a little. Maybe that needs to be my goal for this next week…..

593. Ronni said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:29 pm

     For a brief and shining period of time I had my very own fiber studio (well and computer workspace for working at home but let’s face it, as far as I was really concerned it was my fiber studio) and then there was some upheaval and my mom had to move into our house and I had to give up sole tenancy of the room. Now it is sort of the family room, and I share the space with my hubby and daughter. (Mum doesn’t like our tv choices and vice versa so she doesn’t join us.) But I still have some yarn stored in there. And I have a nest on the chaise part of the couch that moved in making the loom have to be sold that is my knitting stuff. Plus I have boxes out in the hall that had to leave the room, and etc.

     So it’s not as organized as I would like but I do at least still get to knit. And now everything is on one floor so there’s no more having to stop the tv show while I run upstairs to get the project I want to work on because it isn’t downstairs.

594. tony said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:30 pm

     our home has 3 bedroom, one to sleep in, one that is my husbands office and one that is ALL MINE. i use mine as a guest room when company comes and stays and it has a HUGE walk-in closet. the closet is all yarn, and bins and bins of my yarn. my husband calls it the yarn vault.

595. One Sheep said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:38 pm

     I have one area for all things kntterly, which is in the living room near the fireplace, surrounding the cozy couch. My stash is temporarily under control, so it is all nearby as well.

596. Jan said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:38 pm

     I keep one project out in a basket in the “parlor” where I can catch a few rows while enjoying the last rays of rosey sunshine before the sun dips behind Long’s Peak in these late winter afternoons. I try to keep this room neat and inviting, a little victorian repose, reminescent of my great aunt’s parlor, where she tatted lace and crocheted doilies. I keep one of her doilies on the coffee table for inspiration.

597. Cath said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:49 pm

     I do have a cabinet where I keep my knitting supplies. But I also have scattered baskets with things I might need and ottoman storage cubes where I can hide my wips.

598. Melissa said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 12:55 pm

     My yarn/book/bag/fiber storage is in my converted attic/office. Of course it spills out into other areas of the house, just because I like looking at it!

599. Sue said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 1:20 pm

     I have a closet that I keep my stash in. It is organized by weights in big plastic bins inside the closet. My WIP are near my rocking chair in my bedroom where I sit and watch tv and knit. Sometimes they are on the bed. Oh and I do have a couple of baskets around the room with yarn in them that I am using for a special project like scarves for our knitting ministry.

600. Emily said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 1:25 pm

     I have a little corner with a bookshelf and an old cubbyhole piece. I keep most of my yarn, books, magazines, and needles there. Of course with plenty scattered throughout the house cause I’m so disorganized!

601. Andrea King said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 1:30 pm

     In my bedroom, I have a Loopy Groupy bag with skeins of yarn and some plastic shoe boxes with balls of yarn (ready to knit!). Every morning as I leave for work, I give a longing look at my Loopy Groupy bag and wish I could stay home, wind the yarn and cast on. Knitting supplies are in my bedroom, on the dining room table and in my purse.

602. Angeliner Mediner said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 1:39 pm

     I have an entire bookshelf dedicated to my crafting books. The top shelf is reserved for the most current project(s) I’m working on and I love it!

603. Dedie said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 2:07 pm

     The problem with any needlework is that there are always so many tools, books, yarns, patterns, accessories, and related stuff, that there’s no one place for it all. My new Christmas gift (knitting bag) sits here on the floor in my family room next to the sofa, there’s an antique Singer treadle sewing machine across the room, my “Sewing Room” is a complete disaster with a sewing table taking up a lot of room, DMC cabinets full of sewing/knitting notions, needles, tools, and sewing machine and serger gear. There’s a closet packed with books, some fabric, laces, threads, and hoops. My grandchildren don’t even go in the room. There is a 6 ft tall glass curio case filled with more books, a few dolls in smocked dresses, antique pattern books of all kinds and even a child’s antique toy Singer sewing machine. Most of my yarn stash is in the closet in the bathroom next to the sewing room. There is also an antique wooden file cabinet filled with heirloom sewing patterns and a dresser with lots of stuff for sewing, smocking, and knitting. Did I mention the basket in the family room with some yarns and roving in it? My 7 foot kitchen bookcase house a fair number of knitting books; no sewing stuff allowed down here !! The coffee table always has something related to knitting- magazines or catalogs- on it at all times. You never know when you might have 5 minutes to yourself. We want to downsize in the near future, but how? A girl’s stuff is so important, not to be trifled with !!

604. Jenny said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 2:14 pm

     My knitting central tends to move around the house, depending on what is going on at the time. But all of the yarn, needles and such tend to live on a little desk in my bedroom.

605. Natalie said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 2:19 pm

     My living room is currently covered in knitting books and knitting projects are tucked into the shelves of the bookshelf next to the comfy chair. Of course this will all have to be tidied up on the weekend, as our house is going on the market next week & the photographer’s coming by.

606. Cindy said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 3:00 pm

     I just reclaimed my knitting space today. It was used as gift/wrapping paper/box/bag storage during Christmas. I’m so happy! No more knitting in front of endless football, hockey, baseball games or fighting over the seat by the lamp. My knitting room is mine once again. (follow the above link to get a peek) Now if only the Wollmeise and SkinnyBugga! in their bins would spontaneously reproduce, everything would be perfect – knitting-wise at least!

607. Maria said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 3:08 pm

     I try to keep supplies in the spare room, but my actual knitting is mostly in the living room, after toddler goes to sleep.

     By the way, I can see why you love that cabinet. I’m a sucker for those old store display pieces. I adore them!

608. Kim said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 3:40 pm

     Well … stash is usually in one place (“craft room”) but of course there must be WIPs all over the house — or at least in places where i might be sitting (bedroom, living room & dining room-which is where the laptop usually lives). No telling when i might need to pick something up & knit.

     (And oh yes — almost forgot – i have to keep a project or two in my office at work. And ALWAYS in my purse/tote too…)

609. Paulette said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 3:57 pm

     I keep my stash in our daughter’s former bedroom, but when home I knit in our den. I think it’s a good idea that it’s out of sight—my husband doesn’t really know how much there is,,,,,

610. Carol said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 4:24 pm

     I have 2 Knitting Centrals in my house. The Knitting Central Major is in my “office.” My office is my combination writing/craft/book/etc., room. The room itself is in a state of flux at the moment. Knitting Central Minor is in the living room at my end of the sofa. I have a picnic basket-sized basked there with the 1-2 projects that I have going at any one time, a couple of knitting books, knitting magazines, and my knitter’s tool kit.

     I love love love your cabinet! What an incredibly awesome score!

     Many Blessings,
     Carol

611. Candace said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 4:31 pm

     I have STUFF all over the house. I live alone. There is a 6X6 closet that USED to be neat and tidy with knitting and sewing stash. Now I can’t walk in. There is a basket beside the sofa that has become a pile of projects. Current projects are always ON the sofa so I can “pick up and knit” whenever I sit down. Other bits and bobs scattered around too numerous to mention! I could really use another bag. Just sayin.

612. Karen said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 4:31 pm

     We have two extra bedrooms that could be turned into my private area for my stash and maybe a chair and my music. However right now everthing is around my “spot” in the family room with stash in a nearby closet. I think I haven’t made the move because I like being near my husband in the evenings. However after looking st some of the “stash” picutres I may not have that big of a problem yet…

613. Geraldine Scott said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 4:41 pm

     So far all my knitting stash fits in one tub…but it is packed full. I guess I need to clean out the closet and make room for another tub!

614. slavicdiva said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 4:46 pm

     Stash theoretically lives in tubs in the dining room. WIPs are all over – the bag I take to work & sometimes work on at home lives by my purse, so I don’t forget. Int-front-of-the-TV WIPs live in the basket by the couch (which is overflowing). There’s probably some others lurking somewhere else…

615. VickiB said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 4:53 pm

     Well, I had a craft room, everything contained in there. Made it just how I wanted it. Then my son got divorced and came back home. Guess where he’s sleeping.

616. Leah said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 5:22 pm

     I’m a teacher in a state with budget cuts and knitting is my passion, my hobby, my sanity. It’s my stress reliever as a 26 year old woman who lives with her parents. I’ve just started my own knitting blog and my knitting stash is in my room, but my knitting corner is a different story. It is also in my bedroom, but it’s in the corner by the window in a vintage 50′s chair that I bought at a flea market for $5. I always know I can take a deep breath, sit down, pick up my needles, and watch Gilmore Girls. All is right with the world.

617. Kate said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 5:58 pm

     My stash is in a small bedroom on the first floor of our house. I use an IKEA expedit 5X5 shelf to hold all my stash, supplies and notions. Works great.

618. Pamela said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 6:32 pm

     I am definitely a spread-all-over-the-house-knitter who definitely wishes she had a central location of awesomeness to organize everything. One day maybe!

619. Conchita Newman said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 6:39 pm

     Yes! I actually have a little freestanding building outside about 100 square feet that houses all of my crafty stuff. Although, even with that I still have a bunch of stuff spread all over the house, lol!!

620. McKath said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 6:41 pm

     Part of my pantry is devoted to Knitting Central: I’ve got my needle binder, notions box, blocking mats, scale, winder,etc., and three large tubs of yarn along one of the upper shelves. My knitting books, on the other hand, are shelved on bookshelves in the office and living room; and WIPs tend to migrate around the house (following me reproachfully from room to room).

621. Brenda said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 7:00 pm

     My spot is one end of the sofa in the family room. My basket, notions, and project bags live under the end table. The coffee table holds magazines, and books.
     Works for me!

622. meginal said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 7:06 pm

     My favorite place to knit is outdoors with a cool breeze flowing through the screen porch in the warmer weather. During the winter and at night I have a knitting chair that is in the library. I have a remote for the ceiling fan, a remote for the radio, and a remote for the heater. (I don’t have to get up unless I want to!) Oh! I sit next to a floor lamp and the telephone with a kit bag on the floor all the possible knitting items I might need, including scissors and a knitting help book.

623. Annette said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 7:33 pm

     My stash is kept in the spare room that we use as an office and I do most of my knitting on the couch in the family room. I would love to have my own knitting room that would house all of my supplies and would have a comfy couch or chair to knit in. Someday!

624. Crystal said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:00 pm

     My stash is literally all over my house!

     In my living room, I have 4 decorative baskets full of yarn. My favorite piece in this room is a wine bottle holder that is mounted on the wall. This holds my Wollmeise (though not all of it). I also have a wine holder made of antique wine barrels that has yarn in it.

     In my hallway, I have a decorative wine basket also filled with yarn.

     In my office/craft room…… well we won’t go in there. There’s so much yarn and such in there that I’m afraid multiplies when I’m not looking! :0)

625. Kelly Pratt said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:00 pm

     I have a central spot in my formal living room. I have a table which houses my interchangeable needles, patterns, and camera for those project photos. I also have one of those picnic basket looking totes that are all the rage nearby with my current project, pattern, and notions. I also have my three wheels behind the couch and my loom there also. The loom has a current project on in and one wheel I am spinning up 2 lbs of sw merino for a sweater so that is a work in progress.

626. Dana said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:15 pm

     My stash lives in bins in our study but my WIPS are scattered everywhere. My favorite knitting spot is on the part of my couch with a chaise ottomon, under my full spectrum lamp and right in front of the TV. I think it is my favorite spot in the whole house!

627. Shirley said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:23 pm

     When Son #1 left the house for good, I took over his room. It has a big walk-in closet and I’ve added shelf units to store my books and yarn. It’s my mom-cave.

628. Iris said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 9:47 pm

     Well, there’s the picnic basket next to the bed that has a couple of projects stashed in it. Then there are the GoKnit bags parked on my desk so I can grab one as I dash out of the house to some (usually) child-related activity, so I can take something that I can actually work on at a given venue.

     Then there’s the closet in the guest room, which mostly has wire shelves in it, and has a variety of craft-related stuff stashed in it, and the Rubbermaid tubs on the floor that have a LOT of yarn and WIPs in them. Oh, and the one shelf in the office off the bedroom that has yarn that hasn’t made it into the guest room yet.

629. Carol said,

     January 15, 2011 @ 11:27 pm

     Last summer we finally bought some bookshelves from Ikea that go all the way to the ceiling in my studio in the basement. My dyes, paints, markers, etc. take up part of the space and the rest belongs to my yarn stash and other knitting-related supplies. There are large cubbies for works in progress, yarn with assigned patterns but not yet cast on, yarn bags with enough for a sweater, yarns to dye and a basket with lace weight yarn. I have three large plastic bins with sock yarn. In this process, I also uncovered forgotten yarn. But at least it’s all neatly stored now!!

630. PattiHN said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 12:12 am

     Dining room: some yarn and weaving equipment and yarn cones in a wooden bench, some knitting/weaving equipment in the hutch, 3 neatly stacked covered plastic bins; corner shelving unit devoted to knitting and weaving books and marudai. Living room: 3 neatly stacked covered plastic bins, plus floor loom. Master bedroom: more stacked covered plastic bins (do you see a theme?), plus table and rigid heddle looms and spinning wheel.

     We actually still use those rooms for their intended uses (i.e., dining, living and sleeping). So, it’s out of control. I’m delusional if I think that spreading it out means that it looks smaller!!!

631. Cheryl M. said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 12:24 am

     I do have a Knitting Central room. Once I realized that there was no point in having a guest room when we rarely have overnight guests, it was a short jump to moving all the yarns, books, magazines & paraphenalia to it’s very own room.

     I rarely come out…

632. GinkgoKnits said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 1:23 am

     I have a couple of areas for my knitting tools projects but my house is too small to have a knitting only area. The yarn that’s not being immediately used is stored in the closet and the rest of it has to stay pretty organized. I wish I lived somewhere that I could have a knitting nook but I think it’s lucky that I have the closet space for yarn at all so I really can’t complain.

633. Lisa E said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 1:39 am

     I definitely have a Knitting Central; we live in a city with high rent for small spaces, so space is at a premium. I have a bookshelf right behind the couch where I work all day and knit in the evening, which houses all my knitting and sewing books, plus lots of yarn and misc supplies. Underneath the couch are 4 soft-sided underbed storage bins, which house the ‘not in the immediate future’ yarns. And that’s pretty much it, except for my blocking mats which hide behind another chair.

634. Princess Di said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 6:45 am

     My fiber habit is all over my house, living room, bedroom, closets, etc. Recently my niece lived with me in a spare bedroom, she has since moved. I am getting a YARN room. My dad and I are painting, cleaning the carpet, washing curtains. I am so STOKED! I get to handpick ANYTHING for that room. I picked out a light fixture. I am buying two leather chairs at HOME GOODS. It is going to be my oasis. I lay in bed at night designing it before I fall asleep!

635. Shelley said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 7:58 am

     Technically knitting central is my basement wher my craft room is. Bt in this house it’s too cold and there is o tv down there. So all the actual knitting happens in my family room.

636. Tammy said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 8:01 am

     My “project” Central, has it is crochet and knitting is the side of my bed. I work on most projects on my bed, as it’s the warmest room in the house in winter and the only room with ac in the summer. The rest of my projects, needle felting, beading, cross stitching are based in the spare room, but I bring them into the bedroom to work on….

     I LOVE bags and buy them constantly!

637. Arlin said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 8:36 am

     I don’t have a KCZ yet, but I do have a dedicated cabinet for my stash. I’d love to have a HobbyRoom/Library when we move to our new house, with beanbags and soft cushions and big windows towards the backyard to allow for natural lighting.
     Right now I knit almost everywhere: on the couch in the living room, on the bed while watching DVDs, in the car while waiting for traffic…

638. Christine said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 10:34 am

     I have my yarns organized in bins in the basement, but they’re in the process of being moved to my “office” where I had scrapboooking supplies. This is a slow process, but as I move more into digital scrapbooking, precious storage spaces are being converted to storing yarn! I do have a space where I like to call my Knitting Area until everything is moved into the office. I’ll go upload the pic into the gallery now.

639. elizabeth said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 10:44 am

     I have my yarn stored in covered totes-some are in the basement & some are stored in my walk in closet in my bedroom. That need a little more organization
     I have a large canvas bag that holds my current WIP. I have the most comfortable chair in the family room for knitting. It is my all time favorite place to be. You can see it in my ravatar on Ravelry (muffinknits). In the photo, my daughter is curled up in the chair reading (we love to share that spot!)

640. Rica said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 12:02 pm

     I once sold my stash and donated parts of my stash. I tried. I really did, but somehow a new stash has appeared as large, if not larger, than before. I have it stashed in a closet, in a “cedar” type chest at the end of my bed, some in the family room (usually the projects I’m working on, and any place else I can find a spot that the cats won’t since they admire my stash too for a different reason. Just remember the stash holder who dies with the largest stash wins!

641. Brenna said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 12:33 pm

     I have a craft/guest bedroom which has a wall yarn. However, I don’t knit in there. I spread out all over the house I tend to knit anywhere I can really.

642. Melissa said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 12:42 pm

     I have an office/yarn room in my house (aka the third bedroom), but I do my knitting in the family room if I want to watch TV or the living room if I want to listen to music. The family room does house some knitting chaos, but I don’t leave any knitting stuff in the living room…..well, my brand-new Ashford Joy wheel is there now, but it is pretty enough to be furniture.

643. Robin said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 12:49 pm

     My stash is spread throughout my house–in closets, in platic bins under my bed, and under the bed in the guest room. I have a bookcase from Ikea that I use to store my “new arrival” yarn and patterns.

644. Susan aka paintermom said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 12:56 pm

     While I have a main place for my knitting stuff to live (the study/guest room upstairs), I also have several other “way stations” on the first floor. I always want to have something near at hand.

645. Claire D said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 1:02 pm

     I don’t really have a storage method. I keep everything spread out. I find it’s easier to come up with ideas when I have everything right in front of me. I also tend to leave my knitting all over the house, but it’s much easier for me to pick it right back up and start knitting again when it’s nearby.

646. Kitten With A Whiplash said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 1:08 pm

     My main stash is shelved in the hallway, but there’s yarn in every room except the bathroom and kitchen. Books and mags have overflowed from shelves to drawers and now to stacks in the open. UFOs are in three piles in two rooms, and I sometimes feel that I have nowhere left to simply sit and knit. So I took some supplies and stash over to Mom’s and set up a little corner in her livingroom. She used to smile when I came to visit. SIgh.

647. Liz said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 1:49 pm

     I have a knitting central zone – it’s called ‘my apartment’

648. Christy said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 1:57 pm

     I have three places I keep my yarn. Any yarn that I probably won’t use for a long time lives in a drawer in my closet. Since there isn’t much of that, the drawer us sufficient! The rest of my yarn lives in one of two places currently in my living room. One is an old plastic dresser thing that I got way back in college. On top of that is a basket with current projects, either free in the basket or in one of two bags that can be quickly picked up taken on a field trip. The rest of my yarn is in an old tack trunk left over from my horseback riding days. That’s an interesting place, because the smell of saddle soap that has seeped into the wood combines with the yarn in a very odd way!

649. Michelle said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 2:17 pm

     I try. I have a room with storage bins for yarn, a bookshelf for all my books, a corner for the spinning wheels and four baskets that I use to hold WIPs and other stuff. The neat thing is that most of the baskets will fit in the table and TV bench I got at IKEA so it doesn’t look like I have everything out in the open (even when I do)

650. Glenna said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 2:24 pm

     Well…I do have yarn all over the house, and have attempted many times to contain it to one space…but until I can knit faster than I acquire the explosion of yarny goodness will live on. I have an IKEA bookshelf unit across one of the walls in our playroom that houses my normal books and knitting books – that’s the upper half – there are cupboards in the lower portion that contain a good bit of my stash. On the top of the unit are many knitting bags full of more WIP than I want to admit. If I could knit my way through my stash to ONLY use this space my family would be very happy. At this point however I have bins in the kids rooms and in our home office…and because I generally knit at the kitchen table, my ‘active’ knitting bag lives in the breakfast nook.
     I guess my knitting central zone is more of a global zone!

651. Suzanne said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 2:25 pm

     I have a craft room where I keep my yarn, needles, patterns and supplies. As for where I knit, I knit everywhere. Pretty much any room in the house (except the bathroom) is part of my knitting zone. Wherever I happen to be, my needles are usually within arms reach

652. Lyn said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 2:36 pm

     I have my knitting stash contained to one area and then I allow a little space in the bedroom for needed supplies for when I am watching TV and knitting.

653. Michelle said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 2:45 pm

     I like to think of my stash as organized chaos! it is Basically centralized but many wips are spread around… hey a few stitches here and there and eventually it all will get done,.///right? I also carry 3 wips with me at ALL times a little knitter’s ADHD… never hurt anyone right?

654. Marianna said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 2:48 pm

     I TRY to keep my stash under control in my loft area but sometimes it escapes!

655. Joan said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 4:04 pm

     All the knitting books, magazines, books, etc., are in a corner of our bedroom, in the corner portion of a wall shelving/drawer unit that takes up most of that wall. It’s kind of already outgrown, as I’ve been trying to keep the actual yarn there as well. I love having everything visibly accessible, but I may have to think about relocating the yarn to the bedroom closet.

     There’s a storage bench running along under the windows of the abutting wall to the shelf unit that hasn’t been used yet that yarn *could* go into, if I had proper boxes. It’s somewhat drafty in there, so my concern is weather elements possibly reaching anything like paper or yarn I put in there. Maybe I’ll try out one container of yarn, and see how that goes.

     Projects, on the other hand, are spread liberally around, as I always have multiple objects OTNs….

656. Nancy said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 4:10 pm

     Wow..if you let it the stash will take over the world…and it has. I can’t help it! there are always so many “beautious” things I just HAVE to have. My son came to my rescue!! He got me lots of nifty zippered mesh bags. Voila! each yarn has it’s own bag and it’s easy to see what’s in the bag since they’re mesh. (These wonderful items are from the Dollar Store!) Next came a great 3 drawer plastic cabinet on wheels. I knit at my kitchen table. The cabinet is right there with all my “stuff” and it’s easy to wheel out of the room when I need the space for something else..like eating!

657. Phyllis said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 4:53 pm

     My favorite knitting zone is my chair in the living room near the window with my laptop near at hand; never know when you might need to go to Ravelry or The Loopy Ewe.

     WIP’s generally stay upstairs, but most of stash is in extra bedroom/closet in the basement. I try to contain it there… somethimes that’s tough.

658. Denise said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 5:00 pm

     My stash is in two, wait, no, three.. well actually four places. Current projects are in the family room in a basket or the coffee table that is a cedar chest. Nice stuff and soon to be projects are in the hall closet or upstairs near the wheel and loom. Odds and ends, and leftovers are with the older needles and patterns in the den closet. All un-spun fiber and weaving yarns are with the nice stuff in the craft loft.

     It really is a good thing that both of my children do not live at home much anymore.

659. Andrea said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 5:22 pm

     I sort of have two places in my house – upstairs on the couch next to the end table (which incidentally is where I keep most of my wip’s) and in my “knitting room” in the basement.

660. geal said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 6:29 pm

     I have things strung out all over and then there is the corner of or living room with bags filled with stashed yarn. Projects stay in bags unless they are UFOs that i forget about. Ugh I hate UFOs!

661. Teresa Wertz said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 6:34 pm

     Up until the end of 2010 I had my yarn stash anywhere I could put it [that is, except within reach of my Basenji who loves to tangle my stash]…but as I began to fall in love with Namaste bags, they began to be my stashing places as the bags were technically too large for me to carry unless going out of town and needed to have everything for my current project on hand.

     Anyway…as one may expect even those began to fill…so one day I found a 4 drawer Rubbermaid or Sterlite cabinet with wheels…perfect I said!! I loaded ONLY my current projects or near future projects and everything else stayed in the bags..the wheeled cart fits perfectly tucked into my sewing room! It has see-through drawers so I can see those lovely yarns calling out to me everytime I walk into my sewing room.

662. Jan Hamby said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 6:50 pm

     I have stuff pretty much all around our townhouse, BUT we are in the process of building our forever house and in it I have a dedicated design studio that spans almost a third of the second floor. Great views, wonderful light, lots of space and a separate office tucked in back. I am going to be SO spoiled!!!!

663. Jardee Worcester said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 7:10 pm

     I have a spare room converted to a knitting room. I bought a kitchen table at Ikea, and a couple of bookcases with glass doors (also Ikea) and set up a crafting room. I stash the yarn and knitting books in book cases, and the doors keep the yarn in and cats out. The swift and ball winder are set up on the table at all times, and I can easily pull out the knitting machine on the table when I have the urge. My friends are all jealous!

664. Melissa said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 7:11 pm

     I have my “shrine” as my family of men (one husband and two sons) call it. It’s a spot tucked under a skylight window where I keep my collection of knitting books, my yarn swift and winder and my WIP’s in baskets. There’s my rocking chair piled with a few cushions and an afghan thrown over the back. There’s a large basket with a cushion in it just waiting for my cat (the only other female of the house) to join me. The only drawback is I don’t have enough room to keep my stash (that’s in one of my closets) but it still happens to be one of my favorite places!

665. Amanda in St Louis said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 7:57 pm

     I think this is such a great contest because I just had so much fun reading over 600 different ways people store their knitting supplies. Awesome ideas, ladies and gents. I am SO jealous of so many of them.

     I have a walk-in closet just off my family room (where I do most of my knitting while watching TV with hubby) that I am converting from “Family Books” to “Amanda’s Knitting”. It is really going to be pretty cool to have everything in one place. My needles are currently in a two-drawer sewing table that dates to the early-1800′s. It was a college graduation gift from my parents. When I get in and out of it I feel very connected to all the women who owned and used it before me.

666. shadkitty said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 8:09 pm

     My room is very small, and my stash is vast. I have my sock yarns displayed in a silk-lined (okay…it’s just a swatch of silk) basket in between my book shelves. Then I have a stackable shoe rack purchased from Target that is stuffed with yarn. Supposedly it’s yarn I plan on using soon. But that may be a fib. It used to be color coordinated, however my youngest son has reorganized the yarn to his liking. (On a side note, I recently took said son to a yarn store where he proceeded to plant his face in a large cubby full of alpaca yarn. Can’t say I blame him). Most of this is under my bed, which makes more sense if I mention that my bed is 4 feet off the ground.

     The bulk of my stash is stored in plastic tubs in our loft area. It’s not lonely though, there are also tubs of spinning fiber and fabric. There may be a nice wooden chest in the garage that still has some yarn in it. Then I have random project bags all over the house. Usually one or two in my closet, one under my bed, one beside the couch. My finished projects that have no home are in a basket on top of my drawers. So the house is pretty much littered with my knitting habit. It’s organized chaos though and nobody complains much. Here is a picture before I unpacked the yarn. And some more

667. Jeannie said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 8:19 pm

     Current projects are in our tv room. Books are I’m a pie safe and stacked by my bed. Stash is in a bind under spare bed and in a closet.

668. Ellen said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 8:54 pm

     Well, I have always had a sewing room which was slowly taken over by yarn and knitting “stuff” so now it’s a combination of both hobbies. I can close the door when necessary! I do have an old wooden chicken crate (about 3′ x 2′ x 2′) that I have layered yarn in and thought that would contain all my yarn……silly me!

669. Catherine Ristola Bass said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 10:43 pm

     Current projects and Loopy yarn is in a bag in the basement family room, inherited grandma stuff is in a bag in the closet for occasional forays. Needles are in the buffet.

670. Terri D. said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 11:32 pm

     I keep wip’s in my car, the basement, and the living room. The stash, well most of it, no, wait! some of it, okay, it’s in several locations around the house.

671. theprissysister said,

     January 16, 2011 @ 11:39 pm

     I too love bags…and baskets. I started with storing yarn in my larger Longaberger baskets that sit in cubbies (meant for LPs) and on shelves in my office/studio, but then expanded to stacking plastic drawers…and baskets on top of the large curio cabinet in the gallery…and bags in front of the plastic drawers…and containers under the work table. Books and patterns (all in sleeves in categorized 3-ring binders) are in the office/studio, straight needles are in the living room in a basket meant to hold a wine bottle, circulars in a flat basket and DPNs in fabric cases somewhere in the house. My half-implemented plan was to keep each project in a basket that could be carried downstairs, then put away each night when I went to bed. The system might actually work if the office/studio weren’t also home to stashes for bobbin lace, beading, needlework. I keep rearranging and trying to squeeze more in, bit it’s not working!

672. Tamara said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 12:04 am

     We bought a house in June of 2010. One of the biggest selling points for me was the “retreat” room right off our master bedroom. It became MY room instantly because out of a family of five I am the only female and need MY space. This room also has a fireplace and it’s my place to watch my favorite crime shows, knit and be super cozy next to my fire. I keep everything in this room since leaving my knitting anywhere else means that a certain little five year old might get ahold of it and either unravel the yarn or god forbid take the wip off the needles which has happened a number of times before.

673. Juana said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 12:09 am

     I am a very lucky person and have a craft with a closet and several cabinets with glass doors to keep my books and craft material: yarn, needles, wip, etc. Against a wall there is a large kitchen table littered with patterns and little bags with my notions, swift and winder. My yarn is in ziplock bags inside plastic totes in the closet. Hanging on the cabinets knobs always have a couple of knit pouches with easy projects to take with me on the way out. I used to quilt but not anymore, kept all the material, rotary cutters, rulers and buttons because they are useful in knitting too. When I go there in the afternoon is like entering a world where nobody can break my peace, love it.

674. Theresa said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 2:28 am

     I’ve got knitting all around my desk (I work mostly from home), and then visible all around my side of the bed. Yarn is stored in under-bed storage, though it has been spilling into the walk-in closet, too, and only in part because I’ve been too, um, busy to put it away neatly into the storage bins.

675. Kim said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 6:09 am

     Last year we built a new house and I treated myself to my very own “craft room”. Of course, the only “craft” is knitting so it is filled with yarn. It’s a great room to go into when I need a pick me up!

676. Shenoka said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 7:23 am

     I am in the process of building one. I just bought some unit from IKEA. I am hoping I picked the right ones. I was going to go for the ones with the drawers and instead got all shelving. I hope it turns out as nice as your piece or close.

677. Barbara said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 7:24 am

     I have converted our third bedroom into what everyone refers to as” Mom’s craft room”. My craft of passion right now is knitting so I have baskets, boxes and huge storage totes full of my stash yarn. My pattern books are kept on an old cutting table from my quilting days and my needles are kept in a decorated flip-top box I found at the craft store. All my knitting is done on the couch we moved into the room and I watch tv as I knit- as long as the pattern isn’t too complicated.

678. Connie G. said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 8:06 am

     Only two rooms, generally: the family room and a guest bedroom (luckily, we have another guest bedroom for the few times we have guests). The guest bedroom closet is where I store my hibernating projects and my yarn. The WIP are in the family room, though, for me to flit to whenever I have a notion.
     I would love to re-do the guest bedroom — even removing the bed so as to make it more workable, but haven’t come up with a viable design and solution for that as yet.

679. Tiffany said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 8:31 am

     All of my knitting stuff is in the bedroom. My husband and I have a bed with three big storage drawers on each side…I’ve put all my yarns tucked away in my three drawers. The drawer closest to the head has half of it’s space free, for the WIP’s. I also have a drawer in a tall dresser (a deep drawer) for all my needles, stitch markers, etc. There may also be a WIP in there…
     In addition I have a canvas bag with my more inexpensive, low quality yarn (that I am more likely to use to teach someone, or to make a little toy with). And yes, there is a WIP in there as well.
     In the closet I have built in shelving…perfect space for all my knitting books, and the skeins I have yet to roll into balls. Also, on the floor of the closet is a big clear case of the foam pieces kids put on the floor. They interlock and have ABC’s and 123′s on them. I use those in my blocking (straight pins being in the dresser).

     So it’s all in one room…it just takes over the room. However it’s all tucked out of sight, so no one notices my addiction.
     My husband has opened the yarn drawers and said the rainbow pops out at him. But it works.

680. Carol in Zion, IL said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 9:03 am

     I have turned my living room into my storage area. I’ve purchased several cubical shelves (9 cubes – 12″ ea) and stacked them on top of each other. Each cube contains either a basket or a cloth box, that holds my yarn storage or a WIP–lately, it seems more WIPS than yarn! The baskets help to keep it tidy.

681. Karey said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 10:31 am

     I would love a piece of furniture like that for my knitting area. Right now, I have 12 circular tubes covered in polka dot contact paper that has my stash yarn and WIPS. I just wish I had more time to work on my knitting .

682. Jeannette said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 10:36 am

     My knitting space is where I am. I’ve got little stashes of knitting all over the place. By my bed, by the chair in the living room, in my purse…

683. Carrie said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 10:56 am

     I have both. My central knitting area is all over the house (mostly in the living room). I try to keep it confined, but having projects in bags, and putting the bags away when I am not home during the week. As this room also serves as our main hangout place, a mini greenhouse, my mom’s crafting space (rug hooking, knitting & rug braiding), and dog play area, I try not to over take it with knitting.

     My central stash area has a permanent place- my bed room. I use a variety of storing methods. Wool lives in metal, lidded containers (thank you Ikea) with plenty of cedar balls next to a bookcase that has all my knitting books. I appropriated a three level side table to house my acrylic in the middle, plants on top, and a bin of crochet yarn. I figure if the plants get overwatered a few times, it’s just acrylic. Then the is the bag and basket methods. They house the cotton, special (OMG I can never knit those), alpaca, and projects that have many many skeins. I think my favorite is the rocking chair. It is really comfy to knit in, but when I’m not doing that it has the big basket of sock yarn, the bowl of sock-yarn-in-waiting-projects, and many notions. I keep current WIPS is a series of 5 cloth bags, that I can easily pick up, relocate and knit with. With a small room and cramped space, this helps me keep my stash reasonable. Plus, the other crafts (cross stitch, needlework, rug hooking and rug braiding) are always looking for openings in which to sneak through and take over.

684. Barbara-Kay said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 11:02 am

     LOL, my house IS knitting central! I’ve taken over everything except DH’s office, and that is threatened.

685. Lisa said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 11:09 am

     My knitting stuff is all over the house, but I do keep my stash contained in one room (the spare bedroom).

686. Stacey said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 12:18 pm

     There are two knitters in the house right now, so our ‘stash’ is pretty much spread all over the house. It doesn’t help that we knit almost everywhere we go, too, so there’s an emergency ‘something to work on just in case we end up waiting somewhere’ stash in each of our cars, too!

     Does anyone else have yarn spread along the back of their couch?

687. Cynthia said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 12:41 pm

     I have yarn in every room in the house except kitchen and bath. I knit in the living room, it has the most comfy chairs!

688. Robin said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 12:47 pm

     My husband says there is yarn everywhere in the house. I can think of at least three rooms that don’t have any. I usually just sit on the couch and knit. I would love to have my own little space one day.

689. Denise D said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 1:07 pm

     While the stash is contained in a closet (OK, OK – TWO closets), I only knit in one spot. I have feline assistants that feel all yarn needs to be rolled around in to determine softness and dragged throughout the house to determine durability. My Feline QA Crew also likes to “test” out knitting needles – all of my bamboo ones have little kitty chaw marks up and down them. With that being said, I have one of those plastic 3-drawer bins on rollers that sits next to my recliner in the family room. The project du jour (and the project in waiting) are in the drawers so that the MEW CREW will leave them alone!

690. Rachel said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 1:13 pm

     I usually sit on my bed and watch Mad Men. The pets find me and snuggle on my legs or lap if I don’t have my tv tray up. My daughter will be leaving for college soon, so I think I will stash my yarn over there instead of in my bedroom closet. We’ll see. My other daughter might have other ideas.

691. Tami T said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 1:13 pm

     I love that cabinet. I don’t have any space big enough for it either, but I’d be happy to renavate to accomidate it. My stash is kinda everywhere. It’s organized, sorta. I can usually find what I need, but I have 2 project baskets that are overflowing. My yarn is in my walk in closet. It’s not like I use it for clothes. And I have an office/organizer room that is totally out of controll cause things generally get thrown in there till I find a home for them.
     I keep telling DH that it’s not out of control until theres yarn in the bathroom. I’m still safe.

692. Jeanne Ramella said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 1:44 pm

     I am in the process of getting my very own She-Cave! My DH is presently renovating the basement (minus his man-cave room) just for me. I’ve picked the paint and carpet and now just need to move stuff into it. Presently, I have most of my knitting semi-organized in my closet with six 3″ binders of patterns in the computer room. My knitting books are also in the computer room on a shelf. Added into this mess is paper crafting supplies such as a Cricut and four bins of yarn. This doesn’t take into account the three or four WIP that are stashed next to my recliner!

693. Vismajor said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 2:02 pm

     I have two Knitting Central Zones in my house: one’s in our basement, and one’s on the first floor. The basement zone has my main stash organized in plastic bins with the bins residing on an industrial-sized shelf while the upstairs zone has my books, notions, needles, projects, and the inspiration & luxury yarns contained within a lovely wooden armoire. I suppose since I always have a pair of in-progress socks in my purse, I create a traveling KCZ anywhere I go.

694. Heather said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 2:19 pm

     Wow, my stuff is aaaaaaall over the house! I’ve got a corner in the living room that’s buried in WIPs, and there’s stash pretty much everywhere. One area would be lovely, but my stash is just too big for this tiny apartment. Someday, though, when I get my old farmhouse…

695. Andrea said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 3:22 pm

     I have knitting projects and yarn stashed all over the house. My favorite place to knit is in my big comfortable chair with a favorite tv show or movie on. Usually with at least one cat on my lap.

696. Alyssa said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 3:25 pm

     Yarn, projects, needles, patterns, bags everywhere! I’d like to be more organized, but then I might have a heart attack when I see it all in one place!

697. Rona said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 3:28 pm

     My knitting has its own room, and sometimes, the yarn gets out of hand and takes over, sometimes it stays where I put it. But I know each skein communicates with the rest on what will happen next and who gets to be knitted next. Sometimes it scares me, but then I fondle everything and it quiets down.

698. Julie said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 3:52 pm

     Love the cabinet that was a great find! I’m very lucky we built a new home just over two years ago and I have a wonderful space of 600 feet where I have divided the room into a space for my knitting, a space for all my sewing and quilting. I also have a area with nice chairs and a couch for my knitting group. But I still have several baskets around the house for those projects that I’m working on.

699. Jenny said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 4:22 pm

     I have a couple baskets by the couch with my works in progress as well as several Tupperware bins full of yarn.

700. Linda said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 4:22 pm

     Last year I took a bedroom that had be used as a guestroom, office, storeage area, and make it my fiber workshop. I have all of my yarn and batts and wheel in there, along with knitting, spinning and weaving books. Now, that does not mean that I don’t have knitting in the living room, dinning room, bedroom, etc, just that I have a place that they all go back to.

701. Linda said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 6:49 pm

     I have everything everywhere!!! I wish I had time to get organized but really cannot. LOL!! I have some in my bedroom next to my bed; down in the kitchen near my chair; and some in a spare bedroom. I have total chaos!!

702. Helen said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 6:55 pm

     When we lived in a big old house in Vermont, I had a whole room attached to our bedroom that we called the “knitting room”. It had cubbies for yarn and books and a big comfortable easy chair. Years later here I am with much bigger stash and half the square footage in a city condo. The stash lives in three huge Rubbermaid containers in my bedroom closet. Books are downstairs in the “library” or in my bedside table. Anything I happen to be working on sits on the coffee table, the side table, the dining room table–anywhere in the living room it happens to fall….and rarely in the official knitting basket next to the tv. If I’m blocking something, there goes the guest bed!

703. Cathy-Cate said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 7:48 pm

     I don’t really have a Knitting Central. Knitting tends to happen tucked up in the corner of the couch. Knitting supplies are everywhere!

704. Cheryl said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 7:55 pm

     I tend to stash my stuff in Longaberger baskets that sit next to “my” chair in our family area/kitchen where I have a nice fireplace and small TV that are close to the teapot/coffepot and unfortunately close to munchies, too. That’s all WIPS. The yarn gets hidden in more baskets in my bedroom.

     This is one beautiful chest/cubby.

705. Gini said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 10:06 pm

     I like to put my knitting in strategic places around the house, my recliner, my bedside table, kitchen table etc. I like a good supply of candy, coffee, wine,
     cupcakes, etc. also so as to be comfortable in one spot. What a wonderful life!!!

706. Kathleen said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 10:07 pm

     I keep all my knitting supplies in our guest room and I usually knit in the living room.

707. Kathy said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 10:18 pm

     Most of my stash is in my studio space in the basement. But I just bought the paint today to start transforming an upstairs bedroom into my “aerie” studio… bright sunny yellow!

708. DebbieD said,

     January 17, 2011 @ 10:30 pm

     I am lucky enough to have my own sewing room – and the yarn. is everywhere!

709. doreen said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 2:04 am

     I have a main area, my living room that has my comfy nursing rocker by the fire place and book cases with all of my knitting books and printed patterns. This faces the entry way to my home where I’ve placed a tall curio that dh gifted me for our 10 year anniversary, for yarn stash, and a cedar chest, for my fiber stash. My wheels and loom move around to various places in our home depending on use, and other factors. But mostly I spin and weave the living room. It is my Central fibery zone.

710. Miggsie said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 2:13 am

     I do have a central spot in our downstairs rec room with an overstuffed chair and a shelving unit that contains most of my stash and my knitting books, needles, notions, etc. There is also a basket there for UFO’s. My actual WIP’s, however, migrate all over the house and tend to show up on various table surfaces most often (coffee table, entry table, dining room table, bedside table, etc.). I love your cabinet!!!

711. Michelle said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 2:59 am

     The right hand corner of my new comfy green couch, I love to knit there, and the light is right above me!

712. Michele (BlueMoonArtistry) said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 9:08 am

     I recently commandeered our small 11 x 11 den and made it my craft room. It holds most of my sewing, fiber, and art supplies and it makes me very happy! You can see photos and all the details on my blog: http://busyhsmom.blogspot.com/2011/01/place-of-my-own.html

     Otherwise, my knitting happens wherever I’m at, living room, bed, car, etc.

713. Catherine said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 9:58 am

     I have a loft in my apartment that is used as my closet and craft studio. I have a bookshelf for my craft books, a desk for my sewing machine and serger and bins, bins, bins full of yarn. As for knitting, I actually do that on my couch while watching mindless tv or listening to music.

714. Alice said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 10:01 am

     Most of my knitting supplies are contained to what I call my yarn closet. It is what would be a coat closet/hall closet/cleaning closet(wish it was a walk-in closet…hehehe). Probably 90% is contained within the yarn closet. My chair in the living room seems to have a constant halo of knitting stuff around it which would probably account for the other 10%.

715. Jennifer said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 10:04 am

     I kinda have my stuff all over the place, but I’m working (as the New years resolution) on making my craft stuff fit in a 6 foot wire shelving unit in my living room.

716. LouLou said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 11:13 am

     This is the one time that I’m blessed to live on my own (other than my 2 cats), so I can “afford” to leave things all over!

717. Shalanda said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 11:51 am

     I placed my yarn and most of my WIPs in the cupboard under the stairs (harry potter style). However, I have some WIPs in my bedroom closet and near the sofa downstairs. I keep a blanket WIP near the sofa so I can work on it while watching television. The projects in my closet are kept there so I can have something to knit in my bedroom while listening to my podcasts or audiobooks.

718. Jennifer said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 11:55 am

     My stash is all over the place. I’ve taken over half of our dresser, bins under the bed and some will be creeping into out spare room, soon. I really need to get organized! Maybe this will be the year!

719. Adrienne said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 1:46 pm

     My stash is protected (mostly) in my mother’s cedar chest (now I guess it’s my cedar chest), and I knit almost exclusively on the left side of my sofa with knitting accessories and waste yarn stored in the nearest side table. I also use some yarn for decoration in a few wall displays.

720. Toni said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 2:01 pm

     My stash is all over my bedroom and in my closet and is now creeping into the computer room. My projects are lined up against the bedroom walls and I sit on my rocking chair in my room in the evening to knit and watch tv or listen to the radio. I’m happy.

721. Nancy W said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 2:17 pm

     I have yarn, needles and bags all in one location but knit everywhere. I wish I had a place for all my stuff but not in this house!

722. Tania said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 4:49 pm

     No one place focused on knitting here yet, though I do have a few baskets of projects, fiber and yarn in the living room by the couch, and that’s where I sit and knit, mostly.

723. Gwen said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 4:58 pm

     Stash is organized mostly sharing space in my sewing room. One entertainment center holds most of my patterns in binders, sorted by type, and most of my books. Knitting zones, however, are all over the house. (Also: the Emergency Knitting bag – supplies for two hats and a pair of socks – goes with me every time I leave the house – never know when I’ll find knitting time!)

     I’m in danger of needing TWO craft rooms in my “dream house.”

724. Janet Duff said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 4:59 pm

     I keep most of my tools and yarn in a favorite Vera Bradley bag that my husband bought me. I also have a couple of baskets that I store things in. “Someday” I’ll get organized.

725. Terry said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 5:27 pm

     All my knitting wip’s are right in front of the tv, on my couch/nest (as my husband calls it). I also spin and my spinning wheel is nearby. I always knit or spin while I watch tv and I love to see the colorful yarn in the basket by my feet. I work from home doing sewing and alterations so my 2nd bedroom is now my studio and is filled with yarn and roving of very color!

726. Judy M said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 6:23 pm

     My knitting/spinning supplies are in the living room and the den.I would have them everywhere but this is a condo and the husband and cats have claimed some space too.
     Hope to win so I can add to the stash or ever growing number of patterns.

727. Carol said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 7:34 pm

     I have a fiber room that houses my sewing machine, knitting books, fabric, yarn, and fiber stash. Of course, there is plenty of spill-over into other areas of the house too, especially in the family room where its easy to pick up knitting or spinning in the evening.

728. Petunia said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 7:53 pm

     I have a spare bedroom (the kids are grown and gone!) and it’s where the stash is housed. But most knitting/spinning is done in the living room, so there’s some “spillage” out here. Two spinning wheels, each with a project on them, two tote bags with WIPs inside, a basket of spinning accessories and another basket of knitting goodies – and speakers for the iPod and headphones, and, uh, 5 or 6 needles on the coffee table. And several knitting books. And a decorative chest full of fiber. And…..

729. betsy said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 8:25 pm

     Ou place is too small for a “knitting zone” so I just have project bags that get piled in a corner (and still astonish my husband with all the yarn).

730. Christy said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 8:59 pm

     My favorite place to knit is the recliner in the living room. The chair is comfy, the lighting is good, my kids are nearby … That said, I knit everywhere. The park, the car when waiting to pick up the kids, the backyard. One of my favorite things about knitting is that it’s so portable. my projects are on the pass through counter, upstairs in our bedroom, in the car and in the living room. The husband is not impressed.

731. Lisha said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 9:35 pm

     my stash is kept in built in cabinets in my living room. It’s expanding though so I may have to start using the cabinet space above it too… Actually knitting gets done on the couch in the living room, in front of the TV

732. Kathrin said,

     January 18, 2011 @ 9:42 pm

     Absolutely – I have a central area in my study – a IKEA cabinet with large box drawers. But in addition, I have projects in the living room, ready to pick-up for movie watching. And the best: we added a window bench in the other study and it has a large storage area under the bench which my generous DH let me use for my other part of my stash.

733. Kelly said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 6:11 am

     I have a bedroom upstairs filled with plastic totes and organizing furniture (curios, bookshelves) that have many crafty projects in progress or waiting to start. Of course the room is off limits to my three dogs (door is always closed) so I also have crafty projects throughout the house so I can look at them and pick them up on a whim. My husband is very patient with all of the fiber, yarn, tools, books, patterns, etc that are placed in many rooms of the house. He understands my pleasure in the looking as well as the working on those projects.
     Happy crafting! Kelly (wvkelly on Ravelry)

734. Leslye E said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 6:33 am

     I used to have stashes in baskets throughout the house, but now that we’ve moved we have an extra bedroom for storing everything. I even found an old chifferobe that I’m going to clean up and use to store my yarn!

735. Barb T. said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 7:32 am

     My house looks like a “knitting hurricane” hit it; I have things scattered everywhere. My places for knitting are in my kitchen office (where I have knitting books, patterns, pamplets, etc) in front o myf computer and Netflix, and my other spot is my comfy living room chair in front of the TV.

736. diane said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 11:01 am

     My yarn stash and books are in my bedroom. Maybe after the last child leaves the house I will take over one of their bedrooms and turn it into my knitting haven… For now I knit in front of the tv in the family room mostly, or while on conference calls at work.

737. Jean said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 12:43 pm

     My DH turned our youngest daughter’s room into my knitting room last spring–she had moved out 2 years ago and then got married in October. He put in new sheetrock and a garden window. It’s painted my favorite color, a medium Caribbean blue, with new flooring and teal throw rugs. I have lots and lots of drawers in there, and my “knitting command center” comfy recliner where I can knit, watch TV or use my knitting computer, look one way to see a freshwater aquarium, and the other way to see a saltwater reef aquarium. I also have a small sink and hot pot so I can have make tea. I keep all of my knitting stuff in there except for one WIP in the living room. Needless to say, I feel very spoiled!

738. Denise said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 12:54 pm

     My Knitting Central is in a corner of a dead hall. (DH did a little home remodel so I have a hallway leading to a storage closet and no where else.) I keep that door closed so it doesn’t get visited by the cat. I can visit my yarn and select what I need. Patterns are stored on my laptop. It’s isn’t pretty, but it is functional. And in need of a bit of organization.
     Maybe that is just my LYSU (local yarn storage unit), and my Knitting Central is where ever I happen to be with yarn and needles.

739. Clara said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 2:48 pm

     My yarn, patterns, books and magazines are spread out in 4 different rooms (2 bedrooms, living room and dining room). Nothing is organized. Boy howdy, I’d love a cabinet like that to start organizing myself.

     I always knit in front of the TV unless I go to several of the LYSs and knit there; plus I knit at work during my lunch break. I’M OBSESSED WITH KNITTING!!!!

740. NutmegOwl said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 2:54 pm

     As the mother of a toddler who wants desperately to knit, I most definitely have a KCZ. There is Owl’s knitting chair – a chair-and-a-half with ottoman and end table that holds a cookie jar full off necessities needed within an arm’s length. Also in the living room, the wicker chest large enough to stash a corpse, or in my case, winder, swift and too many projects to name. All knitting objects stay in the KCZ when not in my hands.

741. Savannagal said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 2:58 pm

     I do not have a central location for my knitting and crafts. Our house is just too small to convert a single space to crafts. I do try to keep my knitting neat and tidy though, so I can find what I need when I need it. Thanks for the contest.

742. Sara said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 3:12 pm

     My boyfriend and I live in a two-bedroom apartment. The second bedroom is referred to as the crafty room. It holds our desks and computers as well as all of the modeling supplies for building our toy armies (my other big hobby is minature painting), my yarn stash, the sewing machine, and such. That said, my knitting is everywhere in the apartment. The best chair for knitting is in the living room (it has good lumbar support), but it doesn’t have a good view of the tv, so there’s also some by the couch. When the weather’s nice I like to sit on the porch and knit. And, when the dog’s being uppity, I sit at the dining room table and knit so my pup can’t reach the ball of yarn and make off with it. I also can knit in the dark, so there’s usually something simple bedside in case I have trouble getting to sleep, or wake up early…

743. Candra said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 3:58 pm

     When I first began knitting I had everything that involved knitting in a storage container with a few drawers and wheels… years later I’ve centralized to my bedroom where I house half of my stash (in half of my closet), books taking up 3 shelves of a 5 shelf book case, and my notions, needles, soak etc is in a chest of drawers that I thought would house jewelry, make up etc. Now I mentioned that half my stash is in my room. The other half resides in a rec/computer room and Woodie (my spinning wheel) is in the living room.

744. Karen said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 5:15 pm

     I have two zones, a knitting zone and a storage zone. My knitting zone has a basket for my prettiest yarns and current projects, and an Ott Lite so I can see what I am doing. My storage area is a cedar chest stuffed to the top with lots and lots of sock yarn!

745. Kim said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 9:24 pm

     I moved to China from Iowa this summer so I had to go through my yarn stash. OMG! I might be in need of a 12 step program. I shipped most of it with me. I know I brought more than I can knit into finished projects in the next 3 years, but I’m going to give it my all:o) I have great built-in storage in our apartment in Beijing. I have it all organized now. It’s much easier when you have it spread around the house…you don’t realize how much yarn you have.

746. Diana Durham said,

     January 19, 2011 @ 9:58 pm

     I work from home, and I’ve been working with two computers on card tables, placed against a wall of my dining area. I decided to install a built-in desk with shelves, as a more permanent and attractive work space. However, as I started to organize the new space, it morphed into a stash and knitting area–perfect for when I need a flat surface to work on (like lace and beaded knitting projects). I’m going to try and upload a photo to the gallery. (Brandywhine on Ravelry).

747. april said,

     January 20, 2011 @ 10:41 pm

     I HAVE a zone designated for knitting, in a small den off my bedroom. My stash is there, as is all my sewing supplies and machinery, and a comfy chair to knit in.

     However, usually I transport the current project to not be in the knitting zone, but to the couch in front of the TV. Partially because the den is very cold this time of year, and has so many windows that no matter how much heat is on, it won’t warm up and partially because I just like to watch TV. Heh.

748. Sheri at The Loopy Ewe » Snow, Cookies, and Contest Winners! said,

     January 21, 2011 @ 3:10 pm

     [...] really enjoyed reading all of your comments about your Knitting Central Zone (or lack thereof) in this month’s Blog Contest. I have some thoughts about it, but I will save those for another post. In the meantime, I wanted to [...]

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