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7/6/2004 3:57:25 PM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
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Bets: your silk sweater is beautiful. My DH will not let me buy a machine. So I ordered 6 pairs of addis instead. Some circular, some straight, some big and some small. I will never catch up with you.
Shui Kuen
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7/6/2004 4:44:28 PM
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Libby
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Shui,
I`m glad that you ordered some needles and more yarn. Hopefully your DH will eventually "see the light"!
Libby
ps. I dont have one either but very much want one.
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7/6/2004 4:46:57 PM
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bets
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Hi!
Thanks for the compliments-I was thinking about you while I was working on the machine-I think you would be a good candidate for one.
Does that mean your DK is saying
"You can`t buy a machine THIS month"
"You can`t buy a machine now, because I want to buy you one as a gift later"
or
"No way, you don`t need a machine EVER"?????
(If no machine EVER is what he means, it might be time for him to start drinking REALLY cheap wine!! The kind with a SCREW top, no cork!)
I think I need to struggle to catch up to you! You get to do all these gorgeous wooly sweaters, and I wait around for the lightweight summer things to come in-and then have to balance work and home, and THEN knit!
Did you decide on a pattern for your cotton?
Bets
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7/7/2004 4:30:29 AM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
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Bets:I ordered almost 600 dollars knitting things (including 35 pieces of pewter buttons) in two days. My DH said that he can get 2 case of vintage wine, no problem.) No SCREW tops for him.
I think I like twin leavies pattern for my cotton sweater. I usually don`t follow patterns, I make it as it goes. That`s how my mother does her sweater.
Shui Kuen
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7/7/2004 9:06:53 PM
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bets
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Ah. I see his point. No machine for you AT THIS time!
The twin leaves was the pattern for the Mirto, wasn`t it? I liked it when I saw it, forgot about it, and looked all over for other patterns. Silly me-that was pretty much what you were looking for.
I usually start with a pattern-sometimes, I`ll wing out on my own, but usually, if I have a pattern, it`s a starting point, and I adjust from there.
b
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7/20/2004 5:23:21 PM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
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How is Benne?
Shui Kuen
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7/20/2004 5:44:45 PM
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bets
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Hi!
Much better, I think! I sent her a package Saturday, she got it yesterday, and she was very excited to see it! (She must have the best mail service in North America!) She wrote me last night, and she`s finally sleeping again, and just feeling a little bit better all the way around.
They had bad weather in her part of the country, so they had some wind and rain damage to Thom`s office, but they are essentially ok, and that is the important part.
What are you working on? What yarn did you make your top down with? I sent Benne some stuff that I bought on sale, and one in particular that I think would interest you-you could even make a Lion sweater with it. I`ll let her tell you about it-I only sent her a little bit-it was what I had left over from a project.
I am kind of in a slow period- I am trying to get some projects done so I can get cranking on a very big Christmas project for my mother in law-2 sweaters (I even have matching pants for the Bayou colored mohair!)
Bets
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7/20/2004 8:22:55 PM
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benne
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Much Better, Shui Kuen, thanks for thinking of me. A box of yarn from Bets really got me going! I emailed you yesterday and tonight. Did you get them? I`ll email you about my pressie from Bets. :-}
Benne
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7/21/2004 2:46:30 AM
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MacChick
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I`m glad to hear you`re alright... I was starting worry about you. It is very noticable around here when you are not up to your usual energy level!
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7/31/2004 10:09:55 AM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
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The taj wool is beautiful. It will be a beautiful baby blanket for a newborn boy. It is so silky and butter smooth. I swatched, 28st/4" with US size 4 (3 1/2mm). I didn`t knit at all yesterday and today. Thinking what will be the next project, between mille fine,Taj and zoom. I had been digesting the pingouin booklets. A lot of nice patterns.What are you going to do with yours?
Shui Kuen
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7/31/2004 1:06:06 PM
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bets
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Hi!
Oh, you are right-there isn`t a breath of itch in that yarn. It would be a beautiful blanket, but it`s far too expensive for that. Did you like the way it swatched up, color-wise? The only one I played with was the Bejeweled-and that`s so lively, you can barely tell Amanda`s cap is lacy!
Right now, I have a Diamond vest in Rio, boring Anouk, the sleeves to my silk sweater and a Pingouin bunny sweater at work as WIPs. (The bunny sweater is at work-I kept trying to knit lace on my lunch hour, and then people would come up and speak to me, and I kept getting lost!)
I wanted to make Magic Grid for my MIL-I have swatched it, and I must finish these things in progress. I bought two Pingouin books, and there are some marvelous patterns in mine. Which did you get?
I am SURE whatever you make will be absolutely beautiful, but I think you want something extra special for this yarn. I don`t know what would be "extra special" to a knitter with your high standards and excellent technique. (THAT is a puzzle!) Which magazines do you subscribe to? Maybe something will jump off the pages at you?
Betsy
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7/31/2004 2:23:41 PM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
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Bets:The only magazine I subscribe is Knitter`s. I started getting the magazine and pattern books since 2000. Now, I make a point, each time I order some yarn, I will order a book or two. So far,my collection is very limited. 1)B. Walker`s treasury one and two + top down.
2)Beverly Galeskas`s felted knits + fiber trends`s felted clog and felted baret. 3) Mary Thomas`s knitting book and knitting pattern. 4)Arans and Celtic by knitter`s. 5)The harmony guide of Aran and fair isle knitting 6)debbie bliss`s celtic knits and learn to knit . 7) some reference book, like big book of knitting. 8) Meg`s knitting. and some old booklets. Yesterday, I rec`d pingouin 20, 22A and spring leaflet.
All together, I have only one box of books and Magazine.
Bets, I am looking forward to see your magic grid and your silk sweater. I love magic grid, it is so pretty, isn`t it?
Shui Kuen
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7/31/2004 9:22:36 PM
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bets
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Hi Shui Kuen,
Do you know if you want cables or lace in this sweater? Give me an idea of what you want for this sweater!
I got SOOOO lucky on my Outback Mohair-I bought the Bayou color, the pretty dark green, and I have some glossy gold rayon mix to go with it. The big deal about that is that I found a pair of pants that EXACTLY coordinate with the yarn in my mother-in-law`s size, by a manufacturer she likes. This must be destiny!
Have you posted your mother`s vest to her? Does she live far?
Betsy
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8/1/2004 5:14:30 AM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
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Bets: my mother lives in LA,California.
Shui Kuen
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8/1/2004 9:40:24 AM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
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Bets: I like Pingouin 22A, the cover girl design. I will have enough for that. It said 1580 yard for 40" 23long. I have 185x9= 1665y.
Shui Kuen
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8/1/2004 5:21:57 PM
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bets
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I went to look at the pattern-I think it`s a great choice! I hope Ann gets more of that pattern back in stock-I really like it! Theresa and I were talking about how some patterns are outrageously expensive, and not very good quality, either. This leaflet seems like a very good buy!
I don`t have anything in particular in mind for mine, but the garments in this booklet are very nice! Do you plan to keep the sweater for yourself? (I HOPE so!)
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8/1/2004 6:02:32 PM
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benne
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I have that leaflet too and I like the patterns. I especially love the cover sweater. I was thinking about my luscious le fibre nobili for that too. :-}
Benne
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8/2/2004 5:09:07 AM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
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Yes. Bets.
SK
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8/18/2004 9:27:50 AM
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Shui Kuen Kozinski
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Bets: I was not born rich. In the early days, I was a poor student and a poor part time worker, was paid one dollar and sixty cents an hour at the university library ...., I was knitting some sort of itchy scratch from garage sale. The pieces I did I still have it and displaying it in my living room. I was happily knitting at those old days, no complain. Now, I am getting old, retired, and DH willing to let me buy whatever I want, so.....
I also remember when I first moved to Canada, I had no friends, I had no yarn, not many needles, not too much knitting experience, an old lady weaver sold me some weaving yarn, I happily made a multicolor vest for my husband - see my bio, with 15 balls of yarn in a mess tangle. It was an itch one also, my DH still proudly wears it very often.
I am so thankful for the internet, I can get things that I was unable to get or not affordable in that old day.
I am so thankful that I can chat here.
Bets, I work hard also, I garden, I weed, I pick berries, I made jam, I feed fish, I clean house, in the winter I help firewood. I pick up my knitting needles while taking a break. If I knit a vest for my mother, I am thinking about my mother. When I am knitting a vest for my sister-in-law, I am thinking about her......Yarn is just my hobby, not very expensive if you compare it with smoking or drinking.
Bets, please don`t send me to the shrink.
Shui Kuen
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8/18/2004 9:30:51 AM
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Les
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Oh, SK, you are too funny!! LOL
Les
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