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If you're kookoo... forget it, I gotta run and check myself into a mental hospital RIGHT NOW.

Looks like my pattern stash, except I also have a huge number of patterns saved in my documents folders too, because you never know when you will want one of those patterns and I have so nicely organized them so they are totally diferent from all that junk my hisband has lying around here. ;-)

that's not kookoo that's *kewl* ;)

seriously, i did the same thing recently with my ik, rebecca, and phildar mag stash and it was yes a little sad and humbling, but mostly a very happy time for me! and i *can't* be crazy, so you can't be either.

you like my fuzzy logic?

oh lets hope you are not kookoo cause i have those issues and have a few more binders (had to look twice to make sure that was not my ottoman, hee hee. i like how you put it. they are options! if it makes you happy to keep 'em...hang on to them.

Well, if that is kookoo then I wish I were kookoo, too. You should see the pile of crap I have going on over here.

I should put down my needles for once and get some organizing done. Maybe then I'd be able to concentrate. Good for you.

If you are kookoo, then I am... and all I know who knit *lol* oh, and a few more, they just collect other things that knitting patterns and so on... :)

coucou, c'est moi! those pics turn me on!

Wow, I admire your tenacity, Beth. That takes a lot of work... it looks great. Yeah, you definitely have more patterns than me :)

Impressive! I like that you have sections for your loose patterns. I just have mine jammed in a file & a few mixed in with recipes on the coffee table. I am glad that you like the roving!

I too believe in options. No two ways about it. You keep doing what you're doing Miss Thang!

Wow, aren't you organized? I have yet to do that, but I can tell you, my magazine and pattern collection looks a lot like yours! Even if you only make one thing out of each magazine you buy, it's still worth it I think. And if you don't, oh well!

Glad to hear your son's doing better!

I just put all my vintage patterns in mylar sleeves in a binder ...organized alphabetically by publisher, then chronological when possible. So no, I don't think you are odd, but hey, a little mania does the girl good, right?

You wouldn't be on prednisone by any chance?

Sounds like a very full day. I did that recently with all my pattern books, all 246 of them and growing, if I actually knit all the patterns I like I wouldn't have time to do anything but knit, and I still wouldn't be done before I die. Oh well, it's good to have dreams.

Just think about how fast you'll be able to find "that one pattern" you printed out once upon a time. This means more knitting time in the long run! Its awesome. We should all be so organized.

No worries. If you came to my house you would find the same thing. The huge binders, the magazines, and the books. Yep, all there. Reading all of the other comments sounds like we are not alone. Just be glad that you have it all neat and organized.

I have lately taken to referring to your yarn room as Beth's Yarn Shrine.

Crazy? Nah.

we were seperated at birth - I do the same thing I use color coded post its I use pink for sweaters, blue for socks - etc. and no, I too will never get to all I want to do.

If your pattern stash is krazy then it sounds like we could fill an assylum. I feel like I have to have the latest magazine and I am always downloading and printing the latest free pattern. I like the exercise of thinking about all the possibilities just about as addicting as the actual knitting.

Your blog is called " B I G G E E K ", no?

I appreciate your desire to organize.

i think the general consensus is you are NOT kookoo :)

You ARE, however, super organized and I am envious.

Well, if that's INsane, I don't like the looks of sane much. Gimme loopy any day - it's a lot more fun!

I want to be that nuts. I can't find myself in all the piles of Finished Object Wannabees around here...

Having all of those designs you love around you helps to inspire. At least that's what I tell myself ;-)

I think we have a lot in common, I too have a pattern addiction only my patterns are not so nicely organized (although they were at one point). I just read your "81 things about me" and as much as I love asperagus, it makes my pee smell funny too.

if you are kookoo then so am i
i thought i was the only one with patterns in a binder. i even bought sheet protectors for mine.
and i have one 3"binder full of patterns. But i keep downloading/printing more.

take a look at the new knitty.com surprise for spring. the nursing top is my next project that i just printed.

You're all kookoo and I'm kookoo2!!! I'm even a bigger one .... I have not only the beautiful knitting patterns in binders, but also crochet, embroidery AND cross stitch. Never mind the 2 drawers full of KITS and my thread & yarn stash. The more I finish the more I start and the more I dream of all my options. Oh, THANK U ... I love having OPTIONS :)