Christmas at the homestead
Dec. 25th, 2005 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsFor a while there, it looked like we wouldn't get to presents at all. First my parents went to church, then they came home and leisurely made lunch, and then leisurely nagged me about when I was going to throw dinner in the crock pot (big meal Christmas Eve; easy meal Christmas day) and then we finally got to the unwrapping, with several digressions.
In addition to enough help to get that rotting tree down in my front yard, I got Remington Steele S2, the Spamalot soundtrack (Mother wanted to hear it, and the minister's wife showed up right as Lancelot came out of the closet, natch!), and the Teaching Company's American Classic Literature (a staggering 7-part class).
I've also been reading up on leftover review books and having boring mental deliberations about handicrafts. My problem, I realize, is that I can come up with projects all the livelong day, but they're just going to join the pile of UFOs (unfinished objects) because in the long run, I'm only doing them as a timekiller, not because I care about the finished object. It's much easier to do these things when I need to get cards out or want to cut up fabric.
Thing is... none of my currently backed-up projects is really portable, which leaves me in the position of having to figure out what I need in my life that can be done with my hands during odd moments of STAT meetings, D&D games, and TV watching.
Hmm. Maybe I should make the squares for the pineapple quilt and hand-quilt them. Quilt-as-you-go seems to be the long-term solution to the handicraft problem, the can't-fit-under-the-feed-dogs problem and the backlogged quilting queue. Except, of course, that it requires a lot of setup work, and that's always an interest and possibility killer.
But on the other hand, it's better than a project just for a project's sake, something I don't inherently care about.
Guess I'm going to be doing a lot of sewing over the New Year's break.
In addition to enough help to get that rotting tree down in my front yard, I got Remington Steele S2, the Spamalot soundtrack (Mother wanted to hear it, and the minister's wife showed up right as Lancelot came out of the closet, natch!), and the Teaching Company's American Classic Literature (a staggering 7-part class).
I've also been reading up on leftover review books and having boring mental deliberations about handicrafts. My problem, I realize, is that I can come up with projects all the livelong day, but they're just going to join the pile of UFOs (unfinished objects) because in the long run, I'm only doing them as a timekiller, not because I care about the finished object. It's much easier to do these things when I need to get cards out or want to cut up fabric.
Thing is... none of my currently backed-up projects is really portable, which leaves me in the position of having to figure out what I need in my life that can be done with my hands during odd moments of STAT meetings, D&D games, and TV watching.
Hmm. Maybe I should make the squares for the pineapple quilt and hand-quilt them. Quilt-as-you-go seems to be the long-term solution to the handicraft problem, the can't-fit-under-the-feed-dogs problem and the backlogged quilting queue. Except, of course, that it requires a lot of setup work, and that's always an interest and possibility killer.
But on the other hand, it's better than a project just for a project's sake, something I don't inherently care about.
Guess I'm going to be doing a lot of sewing over the New Year's break.
