I am a domestic goddess

Or a really good fake.

In the oven right now is banana bread, mmmm, it smells good. We went down to the French Quarter Festival this morning and when we got home the bananas were looking a little worse for wear so I decided that banana bread was just what we needed for breakfast tomorrow and whipped some up.

I've been in domestic mode this weekend. I got a bunch of tea towels and have been stitching away.

Yes, the floorcloth in the kitchen is polka dotted.  It goes with the whole seriously retro kitchen theme.

This one is a little bit of yellow linen I had laying around.  I like the chickens.  It needs hemming next.  I think Wednesday is going to be sewing room day, unless we keep PeeWee home (keep reading for more on that)

More polka dots in the background!  This one is the traditional stem stitch, not as happy with it as with the backstitch I used for the others.  I think I would need to be stitching with much finer threads than I am using to get the effect I should be getting, so I abandoned that idea.

It's been fun and a nice change.  Being able to whip up something so simple which just makes me happy is a nice change of pace.  I've been trying to work up some patterns to use.  These towels I picked up are a really good size- 33 inches square and the patterns I keep coming across are a little on the small side.  I plan on adding more fruit to the last one, a work in progress.  PeeWee wants me to add a pineapple to it.  Thank goodness for water soluble ink!  I have some ideas for designs which run the whole hem, too.

I went to the book store Friday with a gift card and I picked up a books on redwork, pebble mosaics, household item softies, Hawaiian quilts and a general design book.  I think I have a touch of crafters ADD.  Maybe it's spring in the air.  Maybe it's me being incredibly adventurous.

I have my sock in the car for waiting around knitting.  I'd get a picture of it but I'm trying not to put anyone to sleep.  I will probably get it finished this week with several chances to wait in doctors' offices.  I get to go for my follow up to my physical, which to me is a silly waste of time since I have already gotten all the follow up information from her, except I've got this laryngitis thing so it's good to have the appointment lined up.  Thursday PeeWee has a cardiac catheter, a normal follow up for her general cardiac care.  I'll be so glad to get this test behind us, it will give us a bunch of answers we've been waiting for.  It also means several hours of sitting in a waiting room.  So I might do some light reading too.  (Like I said, all over the map these days.)