Crafty Herbal Knitter

 This may not be very original but it is something that I have been up to lately in attempts to get myself a little more organized in the knitting department. I am notorious for probing the internet looking for knitting patterns and then printing them out and leaving them in various locations such as favorite knitting books, magazines, or even with my yarn stashed away in a closet. I finally had enough with trying to remember where I had put a particular pattern when it came time to needing it. Or even worse, I would forget about the pattern entirely. So, about a month or so ago, I came up with a system to help me wrangle up all of these stray patterns.

I bought a pretty simple 3 ring binder, some dividers, and some page protectors. I them proceeded to categorize all the different patterns into groups such as lace, socks, sweaters, diaper soakers, etc. Each category got its own divider and all the patterns went into their own separate page protectors. I like having the patterns in their own page protector because it keeps them nice and it is great for when I use the pattern. I just take the pattern out page protector and all and it doesn’t get coffee spilt on it or crumbled up accidently, you get the idea.  A few patterns are ones that I had purchased online that are PDF files. These are pretty nice patterns and I am thinking of printing them out on cardstock and them putting them in a page protector. I think that would be a great way of keeping them nice.

Like I had said, probably not very original of me, but I am rather pleased with it!

And because it’s just not as much fun without a picture, here is a picture of a view from my house a couple days back.

Filed under: Knitting, Ramblings on February 11th, 2008