I’ve been reorganising the workroom yet again. I blame the cat.

You see, it all started when I finally got around to re-covering the sofa bed in the library that Slinky had shredded. While it was in the shop and out of the way we rearranged the bookshelves behind it. That led to a book re-shuffle. That led to us having the space and need for a tall, narrow bookcase. I had one in the workroom, and decided that I didn’t it in the workroom as much as I needed it in the library.

And that led to reorganising everything on the remaining shelving in the workroom.

What? Less storage in the workroom? Well, the bookcase was a single five-shelf Expedit unit sitting on top of two 4×4 units. It was full of books and magazines. But half of the books are now going into the library and the rest…

Well, the rest were craft books and magazines, of which most were about knitting. And since I’m avoiding hand knitting now thanks to RSI, there really wasn’t any point owning so many books on the subject. So I cut the collection down by half.

It was surprisingly easy. I was keeping a lot of books simple because I’d knit something out of them. Yet every time I made something I’d take a photocopy of the pages so I wouldn’t end up scrawling all over the book, so I had a record anyway. A lot of these garments I didn’t have any more, because they were now too small or I’d grown tired of them.

There were books I’d kept for sentimental reasons, like the Stitch’N Bitch book that was the first knitting book I bought after getting hooked again. There were books I’d never made anything from anyway. And there were books that failed to sell last time I’d had a big cull.

I didn’t cull all the books, though. One way I was getting around having less shelving was by storing things on top of the remaining units, but books don’t stand up without support so they had to move down onto shelves. That meant shuffling more of the shelving contents around, which led to an all-out clean-out.

Knitting tools and the folder of patterns I’ve made got thinned. Boxes of paper and card were culled and reorganised. Art materials, tools and books were shuffled so they fit better or were more accessible.

So that’s the linen press with it’s boxes of craft supplies, the wardrobe, the bag collection, the library and now the workroom culled and organised. To be fair, the last time I did a workroom reshuffle I didn’t have to touch these particular shelves, so they were due for it. Even so… I’m starting to wonder, what driving all this culling and tidying up? Is it part of some deeper itch to get a little order into my surroundings?

Whatever the reason, it’s had some unexpected benefits. I had barely touched any fibre craft in months, and suddenly I’m all inspired again. Which means blog posts with pics are coming up.