The cubby system is starting to get filled. I can already tell I have grossly miscalculated how much yarn I need in my life and how little space I need to store it. The top row is basically just one tub of lace weight yarn. I have at least another but believe, due to what I am not seeing in the grays and whites, there has to be 2 tubs. I have already moved the reserved for a specific project onto the Original Cubby System and these are just for shopping my stash.

Calypso is waning but still being worked upon in spurts. Now that I have missed the deadline I am no longer feeling like I must work on it diligently. Of course my knitting time is being taken up with playing with yarn which is an altogether different hobby.

I also realize that I have been suffering from a mild case of the blahs or, as my youngest puts it, Meh. I didn’t mention this before but the same weekend that my middle child moved into his new digs my eldest, who is expecting, brought up all the reasons she was concerned about parental units visiting. Which I read as don’t come.

So, of course, the need to finish Calypso in a hurry so that I could resume wee garment knitting was taken away. And the whole rush to finish wee garments so that they would be ready for Labor Day -literally due on Labor Day!- is also taken away since mailing instead of dropping off. What is a week or two wait to mail a package? Does that sound horrid? Well regardless there is a big difference in knitting 3-6 month old sized outfits to hand over upon birth and mailing 3-6 month sized outfits to arrive within 3 months of birth. At least in my mind.

Clearly my knitting mojo has been lost again. And my organizational mojo is currently more entertaining. I am shopping for desk chairs and knitting chairs and thinking about clear bins so I can see what I have vs organza bags to group together yarns for a project vs impossible to find locally purple bins that will maximize stuffing yarns into cubbies.

As an apparent digression, my mom, who lives in Miami, has been in Chicago for several months visiting my sister and I just received a call that they will drop by next weekend to visit. My moving a few items from one room to the next and deciding where it should go before gathering another item is now not cutting it. I am going to have to hyperdrive the supreme mess created by combining all of the items in my office/youngest child who visits a weekend here or there bedroom/yarn storage room with all of my middle child’s left behind stuff; a larger more comfy bed, a couple of nightstands, bookshelf; items he thought youngest child would appreciate into a, if nothing else, clean and semi-tidy room. My close friends know that I am not particularly neat and tidy although I do think I am clean given the confines of lots of yarn and books which require more picking up for dusting than I do to be actually ‘clean.’

All of this is to say there will probably be zero knitting content at all next week and probably no yarn organizing either. My tag line of the past 16+ years will most definitely not be happening at Casa de Elka. Doesn’t keep me from wishing you all:

yarny days and knitterly evenings~ Elka