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.
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A day of varied domesticity

Garden: We have 4 enormous tubs, 3 large pots, and a couple of middling sized pots filled with potting mix and/or various vegetable matter. For the big tubs, I raked up a heap of leaf litter and filled them 1/3 with that, 1/3 with chopped lucerne, and 1/3 with organic potting mix. There’s more lucerne...

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...