A few different updates today (most of the photos tomorrow)!

Knit

I have been working on the raglan jumper whenever some "grab it and go" mindless knitting is required and I'm up to the armholes already! I'll probably start a sleeve tonight and post a new progress pic when I have something a bit more interesting to show than just a tube. You have to love kid's jumpers for a quick knitting fix :-)

Spin

I have fnished the yarn for one of the hats for my book and have spun all of one of the plies for the other one. At first I was spinning yarn for two hats, then three, and now I'm back to two because I found the perfect yarn to use for the other one in my stash and will be using that instead. I can't wait to get the book finished and into the market. It's been such a long project but I know that incorporating what *was* going to be volume two into the second edition of volume one and making it a single volume was the right thing to do.

Shop

Much unpacking has been done and we came to the realisation yesterday that we desperately need more book cases. We have destashed several thousand books*, but since one book case was destroyed in the move from Victoria, we still don't have enough shelf space to keep all the books off the floor.

Squee!

So we took our limited budget and went op shopping, where we found four good bookcases (goddess I hope they're enough), and most of these:

I say "most" because I ordered Oma's Strickgeheimnisse from "Caryll Designs", where you get excellent service, even in the middle of Christmas!

:-)

I'll be putting the public domain stuff on the website one day (I have hundreds of booklets to put online, so "one day" is as definite a date as I'm willing to make), but the Burda insert is obviously not in the public domain and I doubt Kunststrick Muster #29 is either. I'll be researching the latter as much as I can, to make sure.

Well, that's it for today's exciting news! I'm off to find something to ply one of my hat singles with, and have some lunch.

* A conservative estimate...