New Storage Space?

So my boyfriend and our housemate were starting to get annoyed with my yarn being everywhere, even if it was only in "Craft Corner", which was a small space between the arm of the sofa and the wall. I had no storage there, just an Asda bag with my yarn in!

So our housemate had a new cello delivered! It's very swanky and electric :) Anyway, it arrived in a massive box, that my boyfriend decided was good enough to play in:

If you follow me on Instagram (@TheCornerofCraft) then you would have already seen this photo.

We won't discuss the onesie... let's just leave it be. Yes. Anyway, after he was done with the box, and while I was at work on Saturday, he decided to fashion some shelves out of the box to store my yarn in! Ah we're such a creative couple. And lo, the makeshift shelving unit was born:

The top shelf is storing my current WIPs, like gloves, my crochet mood blanket. The middle and bottom shelves are for storing my yarn stash! It looks so small when it's crammed into shelves! I guess we're just too cheap to buy actual shelves... Or too thrifty!

Let me know if you have any makeshift storage ideas that you use!

Crochet Mood Blanket 2014: January

So I decided that a weekly update of my blanket would get very repetitive, very quickly. I thought it would be much better to write a monthly update of my blanket was a lot more manageable and maybe a more-pleasant read.

I thought I was going to struggle a lot more with making one square a day than I actually did! Yes, sometimes I was up to a week behind, but I was soon able to catch up on the squares I'd missed. Because I was sometimes making 6 or 7 squares in bulk, this means the "mood" aspect of the blanket no longer exists. You knew I wasn't assigning set colours to moods as I was stash-busting, but before I was finding a colour from my stash that reflected my mood. Now I'm just going randomly with whatever colours I feel like. I love how it's turning out!

I have had a couple of annoying squares! Because I am stash-busting, I have found myself running out of yarn to close to the end of a square! I've had to do a bit of "creative" patching... These squares just have more character... *cough*

This square is my favourite so far. The yarn I used for the middle of the square was such a small amount, I found yarns in my stash that I matched to the colours in the centre :)

I'm using Attic24's "join as you go" technique and I'm so glad I am! I can't imagine making all these squares and have to sew them together individually! It would definitely put me off making the blanket! Here are some lovely pictures to show you how January looked! I don't think it had hit me how large this blanket was going to be! It's going to be massive; I'm so excited!! :D