But first, I have a question:

I'm packing up most of my stuff so the house can be auctioned on September 10th. I (and the real estate agent) figured that we'd probably get a better price if people could see the rooms through the boxes of yarn and spinning wheels and stuff (and that was just the studio), so I've been doing this.

That's most of my studio packed away. If you don't count the other 4 boxes of fibre in the hall and a big box of half empty folders with knitting patterns in them.

But! We're probably going to be here for another 3 months yet and I'm worried I haven't left myself enough stuff to do.

I've got these books:

I'll be keeping the basics here including all 4 Barbara Walker stitch dictionaries, Wild Knitting and Knitting embellishments for hat adornment inspiration, my hat book because I'm obsessed with knitting hats, various books on designing and knitting lace, a few books I just bought that I haven't finished drooling over yet and lots of hat patterns and things with charts (for knitting into hats, of course).

Oh and the Sweater Workshop and Knitting in the Old Way because, even though I don't plan on knitting and jumpers in the next 3 months, I couldn't imagine packing away such fabulously useful and information packed volumes.

I'm also keeping this yarn:

The big bag of oddments on the left are for a blanky I'm going to knit on the Bond ISM (as can be seen by the ball of ack-rylic on top to be used for the waste yarn). Most of the rest is quite bulky oddments for hats, but there's also the 200gm of white laceweight wool that I bought at the sheep and wool show in July (That's going to be the Gladys Shawl from Australian Yarn Art), and some Artisan laceweight that hasn't arrived here yet that goes with the Inky Dinky Spider stole pattern from Fiddlesticks Knitting. And in the next photo you can see 500gm of dk weight wool that's going to be a simple lace shawl. Haven't decided which one yet. There's also a Lucy Learn to Knit kit from Hawthorne Cottage.

And finally, I'll be keeping some gadgets (including the Bond ISM, a spinning wheel and 1.2 kilos of finn wool that aren't in the photo).

That box is basically a bunch of spinning bits (lazy kate, skein winder etc, but also my knitting nancies so I can make some little people to put on hats. Sure you can make them just by knitting icord, but these are fun!

:-)

Am I going to run out of things to do before we move? Will homicidal boredom ensue? Stay Tuned...

Come to think of it, I see a problem alreeady. I've packed Foamy and her sister (my foam wig stands) and I won't have anyone to wear any hats for photo shoots for the next 3 months!

Nuts.

See this perfectly normal looking moggie?

See that face, all sweetness and innocence and adorableness?

Looks quite normal, doesn't he?

If you think that, you'd be very, very wrong. This is Frankenstein Blackenwight Overton, the only cat in town to have ever attended a funeral. I kid you not. My cat actually sauntered into church this weekend during a funeral, then sat in the open doorway (it was sunny outside) and listened to the the entire service. I'm thinking of hiding until the townspeople stop talking about it. At least he's not a heathen cat. He has been to church before...

I really, really hope the person who's funeral it was was an animal lover...