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Friday night i picked up a rental carpet cleaner from the local grocery and lugged it home. While Christine was out walking our neighbor's dog, i started. I managed to forget to hook up the suction for the first section of the carpet, but with that error over, got the high traffic area of the living room done for the evening.
Yesterday i completed the house between doing research at Ancestry.com, where international immigration databases are free until midnight eastern tomorrow. I shared some in progress work with my mother (who rarely checks email) and my aunt, and my aunt immediately replied with some hints. Fate would have it that the hints was to look for Lars Larsson which went from too rare (Americanized, really) to quite common. The one other clue i have is a 1910 census in which my greatgrandfather says he arrived in 1880, when he was 6. I was able to find a couple families of Lars Larsson with son Lars emigrating in 1880. I've started tracking those families with the censuses: i don't know if it will be easy to find when Grandfather Lars quits being known as Lars Larsson and starts going by his middle (maybe?) name, Augustus.
Meanwhile, as i imagined what traveling in steerage with a 6 year old and a 6 month old would be like, the carpets dried. They don't look brilliant, but they look better -- and they don't call attention to themselves. To do the dining room, which has been Christine's office extension for a certain project since February or March, i folded the table from the two leaves for six to the tiny console size. Between shrinking the table and getting rid of the marshmallow couches, we now have lots of floor space. And, it seems, lots of chairs.
I did manage to do the carpets on a seemingly more humid weekend. Not dramatically so, but the one lingering dye project with the wheat paste faces the fact that the wheat pasted fabric no longer seems stiff and hard but more like paper. I hope to get to that this weekend, but i'm not sure i will. I'm not sure i'll get the bike hoists installed on the deck either.
On Friday evening, before i picked up the Rug Doctor, i stopped at the craft store. I had a housedress with missing buttons, and i found some fun daisy buttons that go with the daisy pattern on the fabric moderately well. I wandered the store in a consumer fog, "Stuff is on sale, surely you should Buy Stuff," propelling me down the isles. I ended up buying a knitting loom for a hat. I've promised Christine a hat and haven't quite managed yet. She has a taupe and cream crocheted hat that is too big, even with me gathering up the excess into a box pleat in the back. Now she has a loom knitted hat out of a peacock blue yard-sale acrylic yarn, a bit like a watch cap. I had first decided not to make a brim but two thirds way through the skein remainder, i finally read the instruction on making the brim, which was to double the fabric over.
I'm a little excited by the loom -- the idea of being able to make blocks of evenly knit fabric that i can then edge and embellish with crochet excites me -- on the other hand, it may all get down to gauge. The hat was easy and quick, but it's chunky yarn.
Must go on to my day: lots of social & Quaker stuff for today.
Yesterday i completed the house between doing research at Ancestry.com, where international immigration databases are free until midnight eastern tomorrow. I shared some in progress work with my mother (who rarely checks email) and my aunt, and my aunt immediately replied with some hints. Fate would have it that the hints was to look for Lars Larsson which went from too rare (Americanized, really) to quite common. The one other clue i have is a 1910 census in which my greatgrandfather says he arrived in 1880, when he was 6. I was able to find a couple families of Lars Larsson with son Lars emigrating in 1880. I've started tracking those families with the censuses: i don't know if it will be easy to find when Grandfather Lars quits being known as Lars Larsson and starts going by his middle (maybe?) name, Augustus.
Meanwhile, as i imagined what traveling in steerage with a 6 year old and a 6 month old would be like, the carpets dried. They don't look brilliant, but they look better -- and they don't call attention to themselves. To do the dining room, which has been Christine's office extension for a certain project since February or March, i folded the table from the two leaves for six to the tiny console size. Between shrinking the table and getting rid of the marshmallow couches, we now have lots of floor space. And, it seems, lots of chairs.
I did manage to do the carpets on a seemingly more humid weekend. Not dramatically so, but the one lingering dye project with the wheat paste faces the fact that the wheat pasted fabric no longer seems stiff and hard but more like paper. I hope to get to that this weekend, but i'm not sure i will. I'm not sure i'll get the bike hoists installed on the deck either.
On Friday evening, before i picked up the Rug Doctor, i stopped at the craft store. I had a housedress with missing buttons, and i found some fun daisy buttons that go with the daisy pattern on the fabric moderately well. I wandered the store in a consumer fog, "Stuff is on sale, surely you should Buy Stuff," propelling me down the isles. I ended up buying a knitting loom for a hat. I've promised Christine a hat and haven't quite managed yet. She has a taupe and cream crocheted hat that is too big, even with me gathering up the excess into a box pleat in the back. Now she has a loom knitted hat out of a peacock blue yard-sale acrylic yarn, a bit like a watch cap. I had first decided not to make a brim but two thirds way through the skein remainder, i finally read the instruction on making the brim, which was to double the fabric over.
I'm a little excited by the loom -- the idea of being able to make blocks of evenly knit fabric that i can then edge and embellish with crochet excites me -- on the other hand, it may all get down to gauge. The hat was easy and quick, but it's chunky yarn.
Must go on to my day: lots of social & Quaker stuff for today.
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