Ah. So here we have it, then.

It's not finished, and you can't see everything, including the pile of unsorted stuff that I kept moving as I shot different parts of this tiny bedroom/now office. But it's SO improved, I wanted to show off a little bit.


My personal stash fills up the bottom half of the cabinet, minus one cubby. The bottom left is a box of single oddballs with which to make weird scarves at holiday time.

You want to know what's that top center cubby?

That's where the stuff I've written goes. :-) In there is Big Girl Knits, my copies of Knit Wit, Knitting Yarns and Spinning Tales [I've got an essay in there] and Darling Blythe, which features a hat I designed for the little big-eyed dollies. There's plenty of room for future books. The empty spools are just space holders.


To the left of the wall of cubbies, the music center. And grandma's needles.


This is a vintage table that I frankensteinized. The top was sound, but the wooden legs were quite skanky. So I pulled the legs off an Ikea table that was too big to fit in this room after the last time I rearranged things, and blammo. Very functional work table. Note swift and ballwinder. And one of my favorite vintage finds -- a neat hat rack that I use for hanging up my precious skeins of special stuff. Under the table, my spinning wheel and case. It's an Ashford Joy DT and it's practically virginal. One thing at a time.


And this teeny table is my desk. Really. That red blob is the big swatch for the Tuscany shawl. A Melissa Walters handspun/handknit bunny sits in the corner of my desk, watching over me as I work.

To the right of my desk is another vintage find -- an old letter sorter. Standard 1950s office supply stock. Below it, another treasure -- a perfectly aged stool painted in my favorite soft blue. I couldn't have made it look that good if I tried. Years of age, people. Okay, I did wax it, to protect the finish. On it, my pens and a brand new Moleskine waiting to be used for no sheep. To the right of that, my big bookcase with knitting mags, books and office stuff.

So there you have it. My wee office, made noticeably more manageable after two days' work and a lot of sore muscles. I won't think about the other corner that's still a disaster area. That's for next weekend.

I'm going to knit now.