I had an epiphany last night. I spent Saturday cleaning my closet and
pulling out my stash. Last fall I had organized my stash. I was
inspired by my Sock Summit’s purchases. As I laid everything out on the
living room floor, I pulled up Ravelry. 

I have been very slow catching on to the tools available to me in
Ravelry. I just learned how to search for projects based on the yarn
weight. I decided to see what I could find to use up my collection of
lace yarns. After clicking on the Patterns button on the main Ravelry
page, I put “lace weight yarn” in the Search block.

That’s when I realized that organizing my stash isn’t really the
challenge – it’s the assigning of projects that takes time and a lot of
consideration. Without a plan, my stash would go back into my closet
looking much more appealing but likely to sit there forgotten. A
terrible fate for yarns I love.

I still need to make notes in my Springpad system, but look what I found for my lace yarn collection.