The Week in Domesticity
Posted by MANov 22
…Or something like that. It’s the week before Thanksgiving, and with the Christmas season bearing down on us, I’ve been trying to button stuff around here to get ready for it. We’ve actually finished our Christmas shopping for the immediate family, and now we don’t have that much extended family to buy for.
One thing I did get done this week is the stocking for my niece. There will be a post on that at a later time when I get the chance to take pictures of it. But it needed to get done, so it can hang on the mantle at my parents with everyone else’s. But I’m pleased it’s done, and my craft table has been put away again, so we are on schedule for putting the Christmas tree up on Saturday.
The sweater I’m working on is almost finished the body – I did the short rows in the chest today, and now there is just three more inches of body before I start the sleeves. I’m looking forward to that. Though – usually when I do a sweater – I do one sleeve first. But these should go easily. I am sort of apprehensive about steeking though. I’ve never done that before, and I’m going to have to bring up the sewing machine, but the whole thing makes me a bit apprehensive.
In the mean time, I need to find some yarn to make me a new hat. Found my winter coat for this year, and of course I need a hat to go with it. And I need to start planning my socks – got a new book I’ll talk about at some point. I need to keep the house clean too – we had a showing today, and there is one tomorrow as well. That can be a task in it’s self.
And cooking – today I made potato soup. It was very good, I just need to figure out what the nutritional values are. I’ll run it through a recipe generator on my iPhone, and maybe that will help. And I made bacon-wrapped chicken breasts – which were a big hit with the boys. And brownies. Geekadelphia had a party this week, and I made the brownies – with an HP logo on them.
And now – once this post is done – I need to check out the PS3 game Prince of Persia – that’s what came from Gamefly this week, and if I find the controls to hard, or just not my cup of tea, I need to send it back.
Have a good one. More from me later…
MA
One comment
Comment by Dani in NC on November 23, 2009 at 4:50 pm
It sounds like you have a lot going on, as usual. You can’t just sit still, can you?
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Steeking sounds scary to me, too. That’s why I’ve never done a sweater pattern that calls for it. Actually, I rarely stretch myself past knitting socks and baby sweaters. If you could see how big everyone in my family is, you would know that knitting a full-sized sweater would take a lot of work and yarn!