Things I did this weekend:

[eruthros]

1. Cooked! A lot. I made apple-pear crostada and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie and mashed yam with oranges and rum and pecans and salad and other things as well that I've forgotten. m_shell made kick-ass apple-cranberry-turkey sausage stuffing, and was responsible for cooking the turkey. (Turkey is scary.) It was all quite good, even if we did have a minor pie crisis (for unknown reasons, it took an hour to cook instead of thirty minutes -- baffling). Also, we then ate leftovers for days.

2. As a corollary to #1, I did a lot of dishes. Because I have only three mixing bowls, I washed them about every thirty seconds all day Thursday.

3. Taught m_shell to knit. Go me! She picked out some yarn and everything, and is knitting a hugemongous scarf, which she had time to practice because...

4. ... I watched the entirety of the 2005 series of Doctor Who since Friday. We'd both sit here with our knitting, and then I'd pause it to explain Daleks to m_shell, and then we'd agree that Daleks were creepy, and then we would watch more Doctor Who. Um. Yeah. It ... didn't feel like thirteen episodes?

5. Knit. A lot. (See #4.) I finished a scarf and am halfway through a purse made of sari silk.

6. Discovered that I live in a town where you can buy pony carts on craigslist and the police need to remind people to lock their doors when they leave for a month. A month. I cannot deal. It was a front-page story in the local paper: attention! lock your doors! Where is reality from here?

Comments

[havocthecat]

Sounds yummy! And like lots of fun. I started a hat for my nephew--easy stuff--and did a lot of cooking myself. One of these days, I may even post about it. ;) But I had fun reading about your adventures with both.

How do you like the sari silk yarn? I made a drawstring bag with half a skein, and oh, man, that stuff has no give in it, I feel.

[eruthros]

It was indeed yummy!

Re: the sari silk, I think it varies depending on how well it's spun and washed. It frequently comes unsoftened, and then it has no give at all and is very stiff, but it you wash it with softeners it'll loosen up. The stuff I'm knitting with right now is soft, and very flexible, but has only minimal stretch within the yarn itself, so it can be a little difficult to work with but knits up into a soft and flexible fabric. As long as I can keep the tension fairly loose, which is not always easy with yarn without much stretch. :)

[havocthecat]

I ended up making a gluten free tabbouleh with quinoah instead of wheat (several members of my family have a hereditary allergy to gluten), and panna cotta that we topped with cranberry sauce. My husband pouted at me for leaving half the panna cotta for my aunt as a Christmas gift, but luckily, it's easy enough to make, so I promised him more.

Hrm. I just grabbed a hank of it, wound it into a ball (with much cursing as I undid the knots), and started knitting. Maybe I'll unwind the half-skein I had left, and hand-wash it with some Woolite. Or maybe just some castile soap. I have no liquid fabric softener around, alas. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll give it a try when I get some spare time.