Why knitting is good for those with OCD

I’m at home sick today. (stupid cold, stupid sinuses) The only bright spot is that it’s given me time to re-oganise my stash.  I was in the middle of taking the photos of the yarn, that are linked to the spreadsheet showing what I have, how much of it there is, and where it’s kept when I realised why I love my stash so much.

It’s the perfect play-thing for my OCD.

I can catalogue it in spreadsheets, I can reorganise it based on

• prospective project (all the jumper yarn over there, all the hat yarn here)
• colour (spectrum order, obviously,)
• weight, (cobweb through to Aran) and
• quantity.

And the whole time I’m doing that, I can think about what I’m going to make with it all, and therefore which organisation schema makes the most sense.

Of course, because I’m more of a visual person, no matter which schema makes sense, I always end up with it organised by colour. It just looks better that way.

But that explains why all my recent flickr photos are of yarn.