A couple of weekend projects.

First, I bought yet another bookshelf:


This was to house my history-related books but unfortunately only about 2/3 or so of them fit; I still have others scattered around the house.
There's a rough organization to the shelves; the top shelf is (generally) European history since about 1600 (but I also have my big copy of T.H. Lawrence's "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" - which, yes, I am going to read someday - on there). The second shelf is U.S. history, including Native American and including biographies of early Americans. (And I find I have three different biographies of Franklin). The third shelf is ancient history, including Greece and Rome and the Celts, but also Middle-Ages and early Renaissance. The bottom shelf is a mix: histories about a single topic (e.g., The "Amber Room") and biographies of non-early-Americans (my big biography of Bach, which I realize I will probably never read - it's like 700 pages of 10-point type and it's written in musicologist academese) are on there.

Even though not all the history books I own fit, it's still pleasing to me to have them reorganized. I think it's good, particularly in high-density-book-owning households, to rearrange the books from time to time, because you find things you might have forgotten about.

(For example: I find I have two copies of Martin Buber's "I and Thou." Anyone need this, like for a class? [I think he's still taught in some religion classes]. The copy I would set free is an older "Everyman's Library" paperback - it's a bit marked up, I bought it used. But if you need a reading copy, let me know. I'd pop it in a puffy envelope and send it off to you, free, if you can use it).

I also worked more on the tumbler quilt this afternoon:



I like how the colors are working out in it.

(And yes, that's a toy cat wearing an Irish step-dancing dress. The incongruity of it amused me.)

I've picked away at a few other projects this weekend: I'm now back up past the point where I had to start ripping the Magic socks (to take care of the dropped stitch). And I'm cruising away on the back of the Greek pullover.

Incidentally, I decided to make the 46" size on this after all; I will most often wear this over a turtleneck or other blouse so I decided I needed the ease.