Some days, I'm almost Supermom

So far today, I have accomplished (in no particular order):
* cooked a hot breakfast for me and the kids (oatmeal plus applesauce, breakfast of champions)
* packed By's breakfast and lunch
* started laundry
* emptied and reloaded dishwasher
* hand-washed some stray stuff that doesn't go in the dishwasher
* over-dyed 4 skeins of terribly turquoise sock yarn with moss green icing dye, plus the leftover dab of green pigment dye from Dharma
* since that batch went well, I wound off about 4oz of undyed sock yarn from my big cone and tossed that in too
* there was still some oomph in the pot, so I added salt and urea and soda ash, and then tossed in a chunk of the cotton I've been using for doll stuff, some of the dolls can have green dresses

Next stop, setting up a rack on the front porch for these things to dry on, and maybe winding off one more skein of white yarn to see if it'll do. Graduated shades of the same green are a good thing.

After that, I need to get the crockpot out and start dinner--souped-up potato soup for a damp chilly night. I've got a leftover end of 2-day-old bread that needs used, so it'll get sliced, buttered and seasoned, and toasted into croutons. May do another batch of fresh bread, to make the house cozy.


The Sock Report: the first sock for Mother-in-Law is finished, except for the decorative flower ends on the ties. Will start the next one this afternoon.

Have started the Sooper Sekrit Sock Project, twice in fact. Because halfway down the leg the first time, I realized it was too big. It looks really good now though.

And once I get some of the gifting projects done, I'm starting some for me. Socks with a fine and fancy mosiac pattern, and maybe a nice hat. We'll see.

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Gav e in to the call of the dyepot and wound one more skein of undyed sock yarn, and tossed it in. Which would give me three graduated shades for a hat pattern I'm contemplating, so that's cool.

Its looked like there's rain coming all morning, but nothing yet. We could use some more. Otherwise, I'll have to go out in the cold and water trees tomorrow.

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Kids fed, dinner in crockpot, me fed and medicated (yuck!), kids down for nap, and last pieces out of dyebath.

Total for green dyebath:
* 4, 50-gm skeins of formerly terribly turquoise sock yarn
* 2, 120-gm (-ish, wasn't measuring closely) skeins of formerly undyed sock yarn from a cone
* 2 chunks of cotton fabric, formerly sheets, one about a yard square, the other about 40" x 15".

The yarns yielded three nicely graduated shades of green, which will work nicely in the hat I'm contemplating.

The fabric pieces both turned a rather modern minty green, but I can overdye them another time with tea or coffee to a shade that fits the dolls better.

And now I'm settling in for an quiet knitting and an interview with David Suchet, about playing Hercule Poirrot. Yay for good radio!