Moving Furniture, and Actual Knitting Content.

Two topics that go together so...okay, they have nothing in common, except that I sat my butt in this chair to write a blog post and those are the two things on my mind at the moment.

Moving Furniture. When I moved here back in November, the "guest bedroom" was the catchall for the things I moved without a clue about why I was moving them. For about six months, empty boxes filled the unused bathtub in the "guest bathroom." The movers placed the furniture according to my vague gestures, while I was focused on more important rooms. I was never happy with where stuff landed, but at least it landed. And then, of course, there are the tubs of yarn - an issue unto themselves.

I moved my mother's hope chest, and happily it wasn't a casualty of the move. I stuck it in the back bedroom, because I had no idea what to do with it - I moved it out of that sort of sentiment/guilt that leads us to keep things for which we have no particular use, but we can't bear to part with them, and...sigh. It also has bugged me for months that when you open the door to my apartment, you see a blank wall with a dog crate, and a coat rack with leashes and such. Welcome to the Bossy Doghouse, indeed.

Today I woke with a rare burst of "Screw THIS!" energy, and started dragging furniture around. Now, when you open my front door, you see this:



which is an improvement, and created entirely from things I already owned that were just sitting in the wrong places. The guest room is still in progress, but has been improved by getting that awkwardly placed hope chest out.

[Okay, let me try again with the knitting portion of this post, because Blogger suddenly was unable to save, and many intelligent thoughts were lost. Awesome. Sigh. You'll now have to settle for the reheated leftovers of those thoughts, which are NOT holding up as well as the original.]

Actual Knitting Content:

Damn that Jimmy Beans Wool and their new hand-dye catalog! I have a few favorite knit designers, and one of my personal favorites is Hannah Fettig. I like her sensibility - clean and comfortable but different and not boring. So when I flipped through the JBW catalog yesterday and two cardigans caught my eye and screamed at me to make them for next fall, I wasn't too surprised that they were both by HF. The Effortless Cardigan and the Calligraphy Cardigan both want to be mine.

Good thing I also found a local charity knitting group, so I can work my way through stash for a good cause and earn the right to buy yarn for the aforementioned. As part of my "getting the guest room ready" work for tomorrow, I will sort out yarn suited for charity projects (soft, washable) and dig in. I have my core favorite charity knitting patterns that will work perfectly and are also just right for TV knitting.