April seems like a long way off, but it isn't. Packing up takes a lot of time. Are you going to down-size? If you are, then now is the time to start packing and purging. Especially if you are going to be packing up a classroom that's a lot of stress too. My daughter had to pack up her classroom to move to another school - it took hours (days) with the 2 of us working on it.
It is great that you like hand work and knitting to fill the void. But I doubt there will be much void once you start the process. Also, it won't hurt to leave open a machine to do some work if you become so inclined. Not knowing your sewing room, it took me a couple weeks to go thru my stash and put it on comic book boards and then organize the fabric.
If you start now you won't be totally stressed and can make decisions a bit easier.