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11/20/2004 1:02:41 PM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
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MacChick: I love your mittens, nice cheerful color, good job.
Shui Kuen
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11/20/2004 1:25:48 PM
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Sandra D
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What beautiful mittens, love the motifs and the color!
Am impressed that even the thumb has fair isle work!
Sandra
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11/20/2004 2:56:16 PM
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Jamie
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Michelle, Yes, beautiful! Lovely just to look at if you don`t need to wear them for warmth. You knit such very gorgeous items! Jamie
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11/20/2004 9:48:00 PM
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MacChick
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Bets, yes, that`s where the motifs came from! No, they aren`t for Anne; they are grown-up size... headed for charity; somebody who hasn`t much will really love the HW and having warm mittens!
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11/21/2004 7:10:31 AM
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benne
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MacChick,
You never cease to amaze me with your skills and creativity. The mittens are beautiful and whoever wears them will be blessed with beautiful mittens and good thoughts.
Benne
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1/14/2005 11:35:45 AM
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Guest
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I`m so sorry I missed wishing you a most Happy Birthday the other day.
I hope you had a wonderful day!!
Happy belated Birthday!!!
Heather
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1/14/2005 11:25:58 PM
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MacChick
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Thanks! :)
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7/19/2005 11:47:33 AM
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Daryl
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Hey, we haven`t heard from you in awhile. Are you off cavorting with the Chicklet, or convalescing and feeding her tonsil-less throat ice cream? Daryl
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7/19/2005 12:35:39 PM
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Libby
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I have a sneeky feeling that they are off reading the latest installment of Harry Potter! I know what addicts they are....(and I have to include myself in that lot as well).
Anyway we miss you two.
Libby
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7/22/2005 10:45:09 PM
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MacChick
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Thanks for asking. We are all o.k., just a bit busy. More Dr. appointments, but looks like tonsilectomy will not happen now until Sep-Oct. HMO red-tape, nothing to worry about. Yes, HP book was great!
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10/28/2005 6:45:50 AM
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I really appreciate your taking the time to send me the Lace Poncho info. I am sorry I have not acknowledged the reply before now. I have not been ignoring you; I put the poncho up for a few days to enjoy a visit from my one and only grandchild. He will probably be back during the Holidays but we don’t get to see him very often.
Now that I am working on it again I have another question. How do you transition from the English Mesh Lace to the Horseshoe Lace? Do you take from the stitches in queue to make the multiple of 10 and for the rest of the pattern knit across the ones you don’t need? If I understand correctly you stop the increases when you reach 7-8 inches. I am at the 8 inches and don’t know what to do next.
I’ll be glad when I learn enough to be of value to the group and can stop being such a pest.
Thank you
Gloria Smith
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10/28/2005 8:10:45 AM
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This is a PS to the above message. My Lace Poncho question is to the group. I wrote MacChick in the subject line because I had not thanked her for her input to a previous question.
Gloria Smith
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10/28/2005 6:59:46 PM
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MacChick
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Hey you are not a pest! We all learn various stuff from each other; you have no idea how much your questions are helping somebody else, and all that.
To switch to horseshoe, you just... dive in! On your next plain knitting round, remove all the stitch markers (except the increase markers, never remove those). Now you`ll be working with groups of 10 sts, and you can raid the queue sts from English Mesh freely, they are all fair game now. On your first trip around in horseshoe Lace, you`ll put the leftovers into a queue, and it will have to grow to 10 sts to join the lace now.
Glad to hear you had some fun family time; it`s what the whole gig is all about, huh?
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12/7/2005 6:18:20 AM
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Libby
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I have a question. When working with lace, how much of an edge do you need so that the piece will not curl?
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12/7/2005 9:42:09 AM
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MacChick
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On the one hand, I am the WRONG person to ask, because I find some way or other to do everything in the round.
On the other hand, I seem to find that lace does not curl, for the most part. I f you are using a pattern with lots of plain stockinette in it, there will be some curl to it, but it mostly tends to lay pretty flat what with all those holes.
On yet another hand (or foot, I guess), you really have to block the heck out of it to even tell what it`s going to look like. You just cannot tell when it`s in the unblocked scrunched-up stage (well, a pattern that is heavy on the stockinette and knitted out of inelastic yarn such as cotton will sort of break that rule). And that process would eliminate any curling there was going to be anyway.
I truly think the few extra stitches on the edges of *most* lace patterns are there to avoid problematic things like starting or ending a row with a yarn-over. It`s hard to see a tidy, defined edge if you start/end a lot of the rows with holes.
But, hey, if you knit everything in the round, you don`t have to really won`t worry about all that (you`d be surprised how many things can be done in the round... I even do flat triangular shawls that way, and just cut them open after I`m done knitting, especially if they are Mohair, which wouldn`t unravel if you wanted it to).
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12/7/2005 9:47:26 AM
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Hi Libby,
I have always found that if you knit the first stitch and the last stitch on all rows, that this helps to stop the curling edge. As with any yarn, a swatch is always recommended, and that might help you decide if you need more stability at the edge.
Lorill
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12/7/2005 10:53:56 AM
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Libby
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Michelle,
How do you block your sweaters that are done in the round?
Libby
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12/8/2005 11:50:47 PM
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MacChick
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Same as ponchos... I do front and back layer as one. It`s really easy to get the lace patterns from both layers to line up perfectly. Then I pin them out like a shawl.
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3/15/2006 7:38:05 AM
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Chick-
I posted this below but it`s buried down there...
For the record, our Nano is a black boy named Nano (how original) according to DH. He`s young style, riding in a car seat or strapped to his dad. He got a new highchair that plugs into the wall, making feeding time so much easier. He used to get dropped on the floor or fall off his old perch. Recently, Nano has started to care about his appearance, which made it a great thing that Amy sent him something with a little flava. It`s our fault because we`ve let him watch basketball practice with the girls DH coaches. Soon, he`ll want to sit next to the kind of Nanette girl you perfectly described. We`re thinking we`ll try him in private school in the fall since DH`s class is doing nothing for him. Maybe after that we`ll let him get a tat or earring. Kids these days!
LOL. We crack me up.
Bri
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