Dinner last Saturday was chicken with potatoes and mushrooms, spinach (creamed or raw, according to preference), and fresh bread (store-bought, unfortunately). It was quite picturesque. The reason I didn’t post this picture earlier was that I was waiting until I figured out how to make Linux work with my camera. I had tried a few [...]
This is my beautiful Elna Supermatic sewing machine. A few weeks ago I took her in for a tune-up, and boy, it was worth the $140. Quality machines like that will run forever if you take care of them. The real point of this post is: Lookee, pretty picture!
Yesterday Dorothea asked for raspberry recipes, and it just so happens that I’ve made a couple of raspberry pies or tarts in the last few days. Unfortunately, the recipes I used are in cookbooks, so all I can do is share references rather than the full recipes themselves. The first recipe I used was for [...]
This afternoon I learned to spin on a drop spindle! I had expected to try it once and never again, but I found that it’s much easier than one would have expected. At least it’s fairly easy to make thread that will stay together; it’s somewhat harder to make thread of an even thickness, but [...]
I made fresh pasta this afternoon, for the first time in my memory. I would say it’s the first time in my life, but Mom told me that I made pasta once when I was 4 or 5. It turned out okay; certainly it was passable for a first try. The dough was good and [...]
I have to write an RFP for my systems administration class, and it’s actually rather an interesting assignment. It’s a good exercise to have to do one hypothetically, before actually being thrown at the problem when a real system is on the line. Besides, I get to make up lots of details that weren’t in [...]
I feel that I should attempt an explanation of why I chose to name my crafty-knitting-sewing-stuff category Huswifery. It’s not because I’m renouncing my feminist beliefs, it’s because of a wonderful poem by Edward Taylor, a seventeenth-century American Puritan. I know the poem because the Mount Holyoke Glee Club sang a setting of it that [...]
It’s been a busy weekend, so I’m going to blog about it in installments. On Friday evening iKnit (the iSchool knitting club) had its first beginning knitter’s workshop. At least, Jenine (the organizer) called it a workshop, but the teaching was decentralized. We had five teachers and three learners, so people paired off one-on-one and [...]
Today Jeff and I invited my friend Alita to dinner. We had meant to get together over break, about a month ago, but it didn’t work out until now. The evening was all the more lovely for waiting.
On Friday Jeff and I didn’t want to cook, so we went to a splendid little restaurant in Wallingford called Au Bouchon. Jeff stopped there on his way home from UW, and I met him from the other direction. That way we arrived just before 6:30 in the evening, and that was a good thing, [...]