The need to organize ...

A week ago we went to IKEA. It's been years since I was there. I like their products, but not the shopping experience. Anyway, after putting away Christmas decoration, I wanted to clean up the living room, which is mostly the room I'm working my fiber (magic). :o) In every corner there was a pile of books (and there still are some piles in need of a place on the book shelf). We walked in at IKEA and my son spotted this bookshelf in the first display they had there. I liked it too, so we walked through the whole store, still keeping lookout for a better one, but did not find one. We bought this narrow version, a CD stand, and the wider version of this book shelf. At home we realized that the wider version was a different color. I tried to kick myself, which looked real funny. Once again, I was too trusting. We asked a guy who works there, to find out the number for the wider book shelf, and I told him the color I wanted. He provided us with the number and we got the package. In the future I'll rip open the box to look inside, just to make sure. Anyway, as it turns out, my husband needed a book shelf in his home office as bad as I needed one in the living room. Color matched his other furniture, so all was well, except I was short one shelf.
According to IKEA, they have no idea when they will get new stock of the above mentioned shelf, because they are looking for a new manufacturer for these shelves. - Oooo.Kkkk. I'll wait. Sam the keeper of all my knitting books! That's right, this shelf is full of my knitting books, minus a few scattered around the house. If you come near it, you'll get frightened off by this ghostly face:

Biko's keeping an eye on the keeper. BTW - Biko is lying where the big book shelf was supposed to be.

I've also been knitting, but progress is slow. It's the never ending Feather & Fan Triangle Shawl from Folk Shawl byCheryl Oberle. It's going to be a comfort shawl for a family friend. I'm using Classic Yarns RY Cashsoft DK, which I got half prize ($ 12, now $ 6). Only this color was on sale. It's 57% extra fine merino, 33% microfibre, 10% cashmere. I'm not very impressed with this yarn. It is soft, yes, but there are white parts working loose while knitting, and it will pill tremendously. For the $ 12 for a 50g/142yds ball, I would never buy it. When I bought this yarn, I did not know what to do with it, but I knew it would come in handy, and so it did. I'm quite sure it will be a wonderful warm and soft comfort shawl for the person intended. Better get back to knitting, so I can send it off soon. I'm so looking forward to the feather & fan part.

I'm also spinning for my secret project. End in sight, thank God!

Have a wonderful weekend!