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1/4/2005 8:35:17 AM
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Hey Amy, nice FB!
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Beautiful shawl, lovely color. Enjoy!
Marta
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1/4/2005 8:14:39 PM
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Wow-Marta`s sandbagging!
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Thank you all for your kind words. You are really encouraging...It was easier than you are giving me credit for, since I used simple patterns and big needles. The yarns were gorgeous, and that made a big difference.
I`m hoping that my WIP will turn out OK, it would be an affront to the Baby Cashmere if it doesn`t. But even after that one is finished, I will still be playing catch up to my original Christmas list...I`ll try to post pics as things get done (no hoarding here, Bri, that would be nice...).
Marta
P.S.: Benne, I checked my notes on the hat and they more thourough than I remembered. Do you want them?
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1/4/2005 10:10:05 PM
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I`m just sayin`....
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Jean, how true! I have looked at the works in the Archive - including yours - numerous times, and always feel inspired and pushed to try harder... As for the "models", awsome!
Marta
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1/4/2005 10:17:36 PM
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Help with moths
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Hi Rebecca,
I have just learned here about organic solutions I had never heard about, but for what it`s worth, my favorite all-purpose bug spray is SLA, which is made with pyrethrins (which are some plants` bug killers) and smells like cedar. It is also the only thing I know that kills spiders when they crawl over previously sprayed surfaces.
Good luck,
Marta
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1/5/2005 4:39:47 PM
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Oh Benne:
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Beautiful, Benne! Great color combination and overall effect. Lucky DD and DGD!
Marta
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1/5/2005 10:53:55 PM
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Wow-Marta`s sandbagging!
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Hi Annie,
I have seen "brioche" described on the net in several - similar - ways. I learned it many years ago from my aunts, who called it English Stitch. The way I do it is:
CO a multiple of 3 plus 2 for the edges. Both sides:
S1WYIF, *YO, S1 as if to purl, P2tog*, repeat* until one stitch is left, K1.
Hope this makes sense to you. I`m going to be away for about a week, but will be glad to clarify if needed when I come back.
Happy knitting,
Marta
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1/5/2005 11:01:42 PM
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Frustrated
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Libby,
So sorry to hear about your nasty surprise! I would say, follow the excellent advice already given here, and keep your spirits up. We are all rooting for you.
Marta
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1/5/2005 11:24:20 PM
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Wow-Marta`s sandbagging!
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Hi Jamie,
It does indeed look like a rib with a lot of volume to it. I haven`t seen EZ`s version, but mine is not complicated at all. See my answer to Annie. I`ll be glad to answer any further questions next week when I check back.
Happy knitting,
Marta
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1/13/2005 10:28:13 PM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHICKIE!!
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Happy Birthday! Almost too late, but we are on the same time zone, so I hope it still counts... Hope you had - are having - a very special day.
Marta
P.S.: DH and I just drove through Barstow on our way back from a visi to DD and DSIL in AZ (last minute change of itinerary because of the weather) and I kept thinking "MacChick, Chicklet and Gerlinde are somewhere around here"...wish there had been time to make any plans. Maybe next time...
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1/13/2005 10:32:21 PM
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Apologies to Marta
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No problem and thanks for sending them. Mail delivery has been so weird around here lately that if you had not "confessed", I would always think they had been lost in the mail...
Marta
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1/13/2005 10:37:13 PM
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Apologies to Marta
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None needed, but thanks anyway.
I`ve been scanning the site after a week-long absence, and WOW, your DGD is totally adorable, and has very intelligent eyes and a totally cute smile. Of course GM`s knitting deservedly shines on her...
Marta
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1/13/2005 11:21:24 PM
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Are our elannites in California safe ?
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Thanks for your concern, Benne. Northern CA has not been very affected this time, it has just rained and snowed a lot, but we need that for water in the summer. It`s Southern CA that has had the really bad stuff. I too hope that everyone here is OK.
Marta
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1/14/2005 3:10:07 PM
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Irish Hiking scarf by Patricia
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Patricia,
I can see why your DH would take it - that`s a beauty of a scarf!
Marta
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1/14/2005 3:22:19 PM
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Happy Birthday, Cheryl !
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Hope you are having a great day, and many more to come!
Marta
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1/15/2005 9:13:58 PM
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I got a compliment on my sweater! Well, I think I did
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Benne, that`s a good story...Did you think he was maybe, a closet knitter?...and one with class, too! I`m laughing my head off...
Marta
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1/22/2005 11:24:24 AM
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Cool Topsi
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That looks so comfy, Laura. And the ultimate compliment - a teenager wearing mom`s knitting!
Marta
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1/22/2005 11:27:55 AM
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WOW Eileen!!
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Gorgeous color and cable work! Another masterpiece, Eileen.
Marta
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1/22/2005 11:30:37 AM
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Bea and Carrie:
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Uh-oh! I knit continental, in a totally different way. Hopeless, I guess...lol
Marta
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1/22/2005 11:38:23 AM
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Patricia, beautiful start to shawl!
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Patricia, I nominate you - sight unseen - for "Mother Of The Groom Of The Year". Smashing!
Marta
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1/22/2005 11:55:04 AM
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Benne and Thom: Happy 30th wedding anniversary
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Have a great celebration! And many more!
Marta
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