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Work in Progress Wednesday: Natural Dyeing, organization and new fleece!

Ok! Well I had so much fun posting yesterday's theme post I decided to do one today too!
Organization is a big deal for me. I live in a small house but I have big crafty area needs! 
I need areas to dye , to store fiber, yarn , to blend fibers and card, to spin, to occasionally sew, to make and store soaps .. and on and on! 

Dyeing is done now on my back porch and green house. 
I have a stove, stainless steel work table , shelving and screens. Picking and drying fleece also takes place there. Solar dyeing saves time and energy too! Only certain plants will successfully dye this way though.
This works well! Gets the dyeing components out of my house kitchen! And gives me a large area to spread out and do several things at once.

Organizing work in progress projects has been a challenge until now!
No fiber person I know only has one project going at a time. It can get messy and confusing! I try to limit myself to 4 crochet ( or knitting) projects at once.
I come up with this way to keep them in order.
A large basket that holds 4 smaller project bags. In each project bag is the pattern, the hook or needles used, and of course the yarn used.

I do a similar system with my spinning projects.
This has helped tremendously to keep my projects organized, to keep patterns from getting lost or the whole project misplaced! 

The organization of raw fleeces! To avoid the mountain of raw fleece that's impossible to work through I used to have I am trying to do what's best for the fleece...
I know that sounds funny! But in order to avoid fleece taking over my house or office or garage which it easily can do I sort through saving only the cleanest fleece for home processing or sale raw.
No one wants a dirty fleece! I certainly don't have time for them. The small mills do such a great job with getting the fleece clean and making excellent roving and yarns for small fiber farms. Yarn and roving is easier to store and organize. 
Win/win ! No big dirty time consuming fleeces to store and beautiful clean yarn and roving to use or sale.

Those are a few of my work in progresses and what I have come up with to help me manage my creative chaos! 

Till next time! Many Blessings! 

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