We did it!

Got everything where it is supposed to be, and it is SO MUCH NICER than it was before.

Now all my stuff is in one place, and I am tickled pink. You can click on the following photos to see all my crap labeled (when I said that I was tickled pink, it might have been a slight understatment — I think I am a little giddy about it, enough so to make goofy labeled photos of my craft/office room).

My shelves of stuff:

My desk:

My craft table:

My hubby’s desk is also in here, but it’s boring:

Overall, it’s a nice cozy space without being obscenely crowded (like it was before we moved), and I’ve got my sweing machine set up so that it can stay out and accessible — so it might actually get some use!

And in that vein, I got really brave and joined the sew? i knit! sewalong. I think that’s probably pretty ambitious, given that I’ve used my sewing machine all of about four times, and before Christmas I’d never even turned on a sewing machine (I’m the girl that took shop instead of home ec in junior high, and all my electives were sciences in high school), but I’m really hopeful. The current project is a bag. I like bags, and a bag seems less screw-up-able to me than a garment, so I decided to close my eyes and jump. I hope I don’t end up over my head. I really considered joining when they were doing skirts — in fact, I even bought a couple of skirt patterns. Silly me, though, didn’t pay enough attention and bought the WAY wrong size skirt pattern. That was enough indication for me that I probably out to sit that round out. Now, I’ve got to get it together enough to pick out a pattern and some fabric for a bag. I have some fabric that I really like, but I don’t know if something I want to use for a bag. I’m hoping to get a chance this weekend to head out to the fabric shop alone and see what I can find.

Oh, yeah, knitting?

This is supposed to be a knitting blog, right? Well, there has been knitting progress.

Rogue is still plugging along. I’m over halfway done with the hood now. I have no new pictures, because it looks not much different than it did before. After the hood, I have the applied I-cord to knit, then just the finishing — HA! Just the finishing. As in, sewing sleeves into a NOT flat opening and then installing a zipper. What was I thinking again, making this a cardi?

Hubby’s socks — well, progress being made there too. These are my “sitting at the computer desk” and my “going outside with Nate” project. You’d think that would mean there would be much progress, since I spent a fair amount of time both at my computer and outside with Nate. But really, there’s not — and there’s a reason for that. I had hubby try them on shortly after the last picture was taken. He said “They’re too small, I can’t get them over my heel.” Okay, I thought there might be a chance of that. So as I start to rip them out, he says “Well, that might be, though, because the needles are in the way.” Hmmmm. I decided to rip anyway and cast on with 4 more stitches. Disaster! The pretty, pretty spiral striping that I was getting turned into the god-awful-ugliest pooling that I’ve ever seen. Yuck! So I had him try these on, and he said “Way too big.”

Grrrrrrr.

So more ripping, and I’m back to 60 stitches. Back to pretty spiral striping. I’m pretty happy now, and they’re moving along pretty quickly. Which is good, since they’re going to have to be pretty big — a 10 inch foot just seems so huge to me!