It occurs to me lately that if I’m going to make a real go of this housewife gig I need to hone my domestic skills a bit. With that in mind I bought a sewing machine on Monday. I’d been hinting for one around every gift-giving occasion for years, but Olof either didn’t get my drift or didn’t take me seriously, so finally I had to take matters into my own hands and just bought the best cheap one I could find. I haven’t had the chance even to take it out of the box yet, let alone actually learn how to use it, but Lydia’s already got a list of projects a mile long for me to get started on right away. I fear she is going to be sorely disappointed once she realizes that I’m the most amateur-ish of amateur seamstresses. I’m hoping that I can figure out at least the basics with a minimum of trouble, though, and if all else fails I can always wait until she learns how to use a sewing machine at school and she can teach me. Either way, we’re golden.<\/p>\n
Also on my housewifely to-do list is learning to knit. I’ve been saying for years, ever since I mastered the crochet hook, that I wanted to learn to knit, but so far I’ve been unsuccessful. I’ve given it a few half-hearted attempts, but I haven’t been able to get past the+casting-on stage. I’m inspired anew, however, after seeing Carrie’s<\/a> cuter-than-cute baby sweater. It would be so much fun to make little things like that for Petra. I guess that’s a bit ambitious, considering that it took me nearly three years to finish crocheting the baby afghan I started for Tage when I found out I was expecting him … maybe I’d better plan to knit cute baby things for my grandchildren instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It occurs to me lately that if I’m going to make a real go of this housewife gig I need to hone my domestic skills a bit. With that in mind I bought a sewing machine on Monday. I’d been hinting for one around every gift-giving occasion for years, but Olof either didn’t get my… Read More A Woman’s Work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}