A domestic miscellany

Home oeconomics: the science of managing a household. This is my domestic journal, an intermittent record of recipes, home improvements, and textile crafts.
Knitting

Knitting update

Wow, it’s been a long time since I updated this. Here are some of my recent knitting projects: This is a top-down hat knitting according to the recipe in Barbara Walker’s “Knitting From the Top Down”. Only I made it too big, so I just kept going and going until it came down to around...

WIP Wednesday

Apparently one is meant to post one’s knitting works in progress on Wednesdays, so here are mine. Purple waterfall scarf/sleeveless vest Gave up on this and ripped it out. I’ll never wear it because the wool’s a bit too scratchy. Plus it was too wide and chunky and I was getting bored with it. Instead...

The land where online shopping works

So here I am in San Francisco, part of that magical land where online shopping works. Last week I ordered a set of Knitpicks DPNs and some superwash merino for socks, and here are the socks in progress: Meanwhile I’ve found a room and will be moving in with the Librarian Avenger in about a...

Knitting WIPs and stash thoughts

Well, I set this thing up so I would have something to feed into Ravelry so I suppose I’d better begin. If you’re coming here from LiveJournal (or reading this here, since it’s crossposted) I should probably note that I’m widening my “oeconomist” remit to include crafts in general, so in addition to the cooking...