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It’s Monday…can I rest now?

Posted on | December 3, 2007 | 11 Comments

If your weekends are packed-full of fun and productivity, returning to work on Monday is *almost* a relief!  Okay, not really.  I’d rather be doing the fun stuff.  Scrubbing countertops?  Not so much.  During the month of December, Martha Stewart embeds herself into my brain and I CANNOT bring the Christmas tree home or put up one decoration until the house is CLEAN!  Not just straightened, but clean.  Which can mean hours and hours of scrubbing and tidying and sneezing fits brought on by dust allergies and the neverending question of WHY do I neglect my housework so?  If I just cleaned more often…

Yeah. Right!

I’ll spare you the drudgery and skip to the fun parts.  Grace came over Saturday and we dyed up some wool.  It was a lot of fun and she didn’t even care that I served her a blackened grilled cheese sandwich.  And she gave me cheese straws.  Pretty nice.

I think this is the prettiest thing I’ve dyed so far.  My crockpot dyeing came out a horrible purple-brown and I overdyed it to something somewhat tolerable:

It’s darker than it appears here, but it might spin up okay. 

Yesterday morning I made Monkey Bread, which I haven’t had in years.  I like fancy desserts as much as the next girl, but there’s something innately comforting in the simplicity of biscuits, butter, sugar and cinammon.

I followed my grandmother’s handwritten recipe.  I love using her recipes because she says things like “put the cookie dough in the ice box overnight.”  Ice box.  I know she means refrigerator and that she had a refrigerator when she wrote out the recipe, but in her head it was still called an ice box.  I miss my Grandma.  I miss that connection to the past, to my past.  Do me a favor, will ya?  If your grandma is still around, give her an extra-long hug the next time you see her.

Yum.

I also knit a sweeve (swatch + sleeve = sweeve). 

The yarn is Plymouth Tweed, which I ordered from Webs and was meh about when it arrived.  It wasn’t soft enough, I wasn’t crazy about the flecks of color, etc.  But I waited too long to send it back so yesterday I decided to swatch for a new sweater and started with a sweeve.  I’m almost finished with the sleeve cap, then I’ll wash and block it and see what happens, see if I want to continue.  If I do, then I’ll tell you what sweater it is.

Lest you think I’m willy-nilly casting on for new sweaters when others need to be finished, well, you’d be half right.  Notre Dame de Grace is DONE, I finished seaming and wove in all the ends last Thursday, so it officially is THE THREE WEEK SWEATER.  But I still need a button, so no FO shots till I get one.  I’m just not feeling the Stripey-Tweedy love, so that sweater is still on hiatus.  I’ll get back to it eventually.  Cushy tweedy yarn and size 9 needles were yelling louder, that’s all. 

I just wish my gift knitting yelled louder. 

 

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