I have been hemming and hawing for months over creating a studio or stricken-zimmer as M (short for mancake) calls it, out of one of our guest bedrooms. The other day, I felt this urge to just start moving things. I think it may have been a spring cleaning urge of some kind.

I took over the bookcase that was in this little room for all my knitting and related books and Marvin, the Martian.



I also separated all the yarn I have that is intended for designs and put these skeins up on the shelves as well. At one point in time these skeins inspired me and keeping this inspiration in front of me feels so important.


M helped me move a couple of bookcases into my new room and I started to organize all the yarn, while M watched in awe. When I would bring in yarn from other locations in the house, he would look at me puzzled and say, "Wait, is that more yarn?" or "Hey, where did that yarn come from?". Oh silly M.

I put together a cubby of just project bags and a couple of cubbies of currently used project bags.


I cleared off a table that we had placed in this room a while ago, so that I could pile up knitting realted items on it and try to find them from the pile. I set up my sewing machine on this table and now I can sew when I want without having to set up my machine each time and put it away after each use. This is huge, because the sewing mojo is easy to kill if access to the equipment is not easy.



I love my stricken-zimmer and having a room of my own to share with all the yarn, Madeline our silly dog, and M, when he wants to visit the yarn!

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