Procrastinating

So, I have about 5 days left to pack up the rest of the house before the moving truck gets here. I’m not actually flying out to Wichita until the 18th, but sadly most everything needs to be in boxes by Saturday. Big, strong men, a.k.a Royal and friends, will be here Sunday to load up most everything. Fireball (Royal’s dad) will be here to help, and as his nickname is Fireball, I will spend the majority of the time trying to reign him in and stop him from throwing boxes all over the place and putting all my breakable stuff on the bottom of an 8 foot pile and then putting a couch on top of that. Because his life moto is to get it done as quickly as possible, there usually isn’t a whole lot of planning that goes into things.
So, while I should of been packing, I’ve been knitting instead. I figure if my hands are busy, then I don’t feel quite so bad about not packing. And it’s worked! Sadly though, I have just finished my last knitting project that I will ever do in our little house here, and I can’t start another because I’ve already packed up all my yarn. Guess that means more boxes and packing tape for me.

My last project is this new, cute little diaper bag. I’m hoping I can convince someone I know with a sewing machine to line it for me. :)

Here it is pre-felted, all loose, ginormous, and floppy.

Then I stuck it in the washing machine, and like magic about 20 mins later, I got this! Well, it wasn’t exactly magic. My handles were constantly tying themselves in knots, which have to be undone, or you get just big felted knots which will never come apart. Then, one of my handles got stuck under the middle part of the machine and ripped part of it off. Luckily it was just a small part of it, so I didn’t have to make another handle, which would of been bad because I used up all my green yarn. Now, all I have to dois wait for it to dry and I guess I can add it to my pile of things to put in boxes.