Moving Hands, Moving Boxes, Moving Houses

I'm in the process of a big move. That's a very tiny sentence expressing a very big change in my life. Details aren't extremely important at this time, but in less than 48 hours I'll be settling in a new (temporary) home, and soon settling in to a new job and life in a new city. (Of course, until yesterday I thought my flight was on the 26th, but it's actually on the 27th. confusion city! but all is sorted and I'm bound and determined to enjoy my extra day in Portland!)

I've been hesitant to talk too much about it on the blog because ... I don't really have a good reason. I am doing a sock design for a club themed "Made In Oregon" (put on by my friends at Pico Accuardi Dyeworks) and even I'm not in Oregon for much longer, the design is definitely made here, and exemplary of the wonderful experience I've had in this beautiful state. To learn any more about the design... well, you'll just have to sign up for the club, won't you? ;)

This is about all I've been able to handle in the last couple days, knitting-wise. Lots of boxes packed, some things distributed amongst friends for safe keeping until I can send for them, and now I'm sitting on my bed in a very empty room with nothing on the walls and a couple of suitcases waiting for their final items to jump inside.

Moving is always a strange process, especially when it's this big/final/whatever. I've had to not only touch most of my belongings, but decide their importance/worth to me. My credo has been "Do you need it? Do you love it? Does it make you money?" as I managed to pack only 16 boxes to ship. a good 1/4-1/3 of which contained yarn in some form. a couple of them just flat out being yarn. I guess it falls in to all three categories, eh? At least that's what I Decided. The fact of the matter is, if it fell in to the "Do you love it?" category, it means I would have paid anything to make sure it came with me.

This was going to be a really quick post, but I got to rambling... the point is, I'm off on an amazing adventure, which I will fill you in on in a later post, as well as presenting to you some more of my fall patterns :) Also, the knitting in the picture? I'm pretty sure it's going to become a free pattern before the end of may - so keep an eye out for that!

Lets just hope my needles get through TSA again... fingers crossed!