kismet09

i have SO MUCH PAPER. boxes and boxes of paper. zines, scrabble lists, scoresheets, knitting patterns, articles, recipes, ephemera... i wish i could get myself to get rid of it, but i love it so much. how do you keep your paper collections under control?

I've been saying that I was going to wax poetic about my sweaters. I finally brought my digital camera to school with me so that I could save all of the pictures more quickly to the web, and share them with you. Pulling out the big tupperwares full of winter clothes, I came upon sweater after sweater, until I had about 25 in front of me. I'm not sure how I ended up with that many - I didn't make a conscious effort to have enough sweaters to last for a month, but there they are. Most are cotton or acrylic, because I'm really, really picky about how itchy things are. I can feel the itchiness of wool even through a turtleneck. I'm trying to learn to wear wools better, especially since I know now, with my knitting addiction, the superiority of wool's properties, but there's something about chenille, or other ultra-soft fibers, that are much more comfortable to me. I do have a growing collection of cashmere... mmmm, cashmere... and a couple of silk/cashmere blends, that I could probably live in. Today, I'm wearing a wool/acrylic zip-up sweater coat over my t-shirt. It looks like three thin-weight yarns (orange, camel beige and olive brown) knitted together in a 4x4 rib. Very fallish. It's probably something I could've knitted myself, but it was also on sale for $15 at Nordstrom, so I couldn't pass it up (nor could I pass up its fraternal twin, in green-beige-dark yellow yarns). Plus, I'm not at all good at finishing in the sleeves, especially in ribbing, so just as well I bought it pre-made.

sweaters, pre-organization, piled on the bed

sweaters (minus the heaviest winter ones) organized in my bright yellow closet.
The three on the shelf are all zip-up (the bottom one is the one I'm wearing today). The top cubby is all cashmere or super-soft merino. Working down the stack, there are my cotton-blend ribbed light colored sweaters, a ribbed tweedy turtleneck, purple chenille, brown cotton that I bought in NYC about 8 years ago, cotton Old Navy from about the same time period, the heathery brown that I knitted myself, my brown and black Express sweaters from last season with bell sleeves and v-necks, and another Old Navy that looks a lot like the above-mentioned, except in grey, and much softer. Ialso have at least 3 cardigan-type sweaters, not pictured here (light green, grey, grey j jill with cool color squares along the edges - that one lives in my office), and I have at least three heavy winter sweaters that take up a lot of space, so they'll stay in storage a bit longer.