OK, let's get it out of the way:

!!!!!! Only 6 days until the last Harry Potter book is released !!!!!!

:-)

I promise to keep Knitting-and.com a spoiler free zone. In fact, as soon as the book is released I won't be online until I've finished reading it so no-one can spoil it for me.

And now to change the subject, "Look! More suffolk puff/yo-yo squares for my coverlet"

That makes 64 squares done, 36 to go and if I get another 4 finished today that'll put me another day ahead of schedule. I have two more light purple gingham squares to go and then on to the orange! I've promised myself that I'll do the mostly white puffs after that so that I have the dark pink and dark brown puffs to look forward to. Grey and yellow have been added to the multicolour oddment squares so that I have enough multicolour squares to scatter throughout the coverlet. I really didn't want the multicolour squares to look like an afterthought.

Oh, and I fixed the problem with the hole in my finger. Since it hurts like the bejeeses when I poke the end of a sewing needle in it I'm using it as a way to end my bad habit of pushing needles through my fabric with the tip of my finger. I do the same thing when I knit and it makes knitting lace with teeny tiny needles rather painful.

Finally an update on my hat book.

The manuscript is finished. The photography and cover art are finished. The layout is finished! Now for the difficult part...

I'll be purchasing my ISBNs soon and applying for a US tax id and registering to pay tax in the US. Yes ladies and gentlemen, four years ago I didn't earn enough to pay any tax, now I'll be paying it in two different countries. At least the tax I pay in the US will be taken into account when I pay my Aussie taxes. Which reminds me, I was going to do my taxes today and get them out of the way...

Anyway, the upshot of this is that after I get my ISBNs and register the publications I will be ordering copies of my books from lulu.com to check and if they're good they'll be up for sale! I'm hoping all this won't take more than two months and I have my fingers crossed that it will be a whole lot sooner than that.