I am completely the opposite. While he generally stays out of my craft room (due to the overwhelming futility of it all), lately he has been helping me out. As a result, all of my fat quarters are now housed in plastic bins that were on sale 2 for 1 a few weeks ago at Zellers. In addition to things being neater, this seems to have freed up some space despite the bulkiness of the bins. We're also making a pile of stuff for a garage sale in the spring. Some under-loved cookbooks have gone in that pile. As a result of both of these initiatives, I've got more room.
And the latest project - find something to do with all of the bags, homemade and provided by well meaning stores instead of plastic. As an aside, while I have always been a reusable bag/container person at the grocery store, I don't really need every store providing me with a reusable bag. At least a plastic one is good for kitty litter. Who needs 50 reusable bags. And beside which, I want to be able to make some and actually enjoy them rather than feeling more cluttered. So stores - stop giving me reusable bags. I'll reuse the plastic for the kitty litter cleanup and will continue to use reusable containers whenever possible.
Anyway, these cute hooks were sourced from Home Hardware and the bags are behind the door. Off the shelves and much easier to grab on the go. The shelf they were previously living on is now freed up for a plastic bin full of fabric scraps. Now if I could just finish some projects. Imagine how much more room I would have.
On an unrelated note, I need to complain about skeins of yarn. I have a ball winder. I have a swift. And yet for every 3 skeins of yarn I easily make into a ball, I have one that gets so tangled I just want to throw the whole lot out the window to be used by birds for a very big nest. I don't know if I'm just skein challenged or if this happens to everyone.
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