Earlier this past week, while M and I ate dinner one night, I looked over at an “extension” of our bar and sighed.\u00a0 The extension was an old TV cart made of contact paper covered particle board from my graduate school, single days.\u00a0 Liquor bottles covered the top (which could swivel!), a black plastic tool box holding M’s mandoline (for slicing not music) occupied the “VCR shelf,” and the small cabinet below was full of containers of loose tea.\u00a0 The cart was ugly, and both cart and all the bottles needed to be dusted before we hosted a dinner party on Saturday.\u00a0 If only I had a cabinet that I could put all the bottles in.\u00a0 Then I thought, I could buy a new cabinet.\u00a0 The next three evenings found M and me at three different stores, and Friday we hit pay dirt.\u00a0 We bought it, M assembled it, and I filled it.\u00a0 Neatness abounds.
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\nIt holds a lot of stuff (the Ficus tree next to it is about 7 ft high):
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\nSo now even the Original Bar is not so crowded (although there are still more liquor bottles in other containment elsewhere–we are well stocked):
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\nContainment is a good thing! Even for knitting projects. The funny thing is that for my three “large” WIPs, I have a matching project bag. Containment and Coordination!
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\nOn top is an Amish basket given to me by my only aunt (the Amish person is her neighbor in northern Wisconsin); it’s sitting on my Grandma Frances’s old picnic basket. To the right is a cherry blossom bag I got for my birthday; it’s from Janine King Designs<\/a>. I keep my pink mohair cardi project in there, as the cherry blossoms have the same pink in their detailing. In front, the Totally Autumn throw is kept in a bag with apples on it that one of the millions of my mother’s former English students made and sold. And my newest project, Career Check (Ravelry link<\/a>), a basket weave jacket by Kathy Zimmerman matches my newest bag, a Christmas gift, handmade by my friend Nancy.
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\nI feel very matchy-matchy. I only hope that if I start to knit a blue sweater, I’ll be able to refrain from purchasing a matching blue project bag or basket.<\/p>\n

With all this coordination and containment going on, M and I hope that next weekend we will have time to sit down, have a cocktail and write a blog post. Until then, it’s sobriety and knitting around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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