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6/5/2007 8:32:44 PM
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I`m Off to San Friancisco!
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Phone me when you get north of the 49th parallel and maybe we can arrange to meet.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/8/2007 9:04:05 AM
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Victoria FibreFest
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In a few minutes, I`m off to the Victoria FibreFest. There`s a dinner and fashion show tonight, yarn crawl and talk by the Yarn Harlot tomorrow and a Knit-Out in Saxe Point Park (Esquimalt) on Sunday. Naomi and Patti are coming up from Seattle so we`ll have lots of fun. We`re having a table in the market at the knit-out to advertise retreats - so pray for good weather for us. I`ve never done the market thing before, so should be interesting. If you go to FibreFest look for us. Also drop by the Stitches booth - it`s our LYS and quilt store here on the island.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/11/2007 10:23:02 AM
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Can`t decide?!?!?!
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Any possibility of half-time? Kindergarten for mornings only is certainly less stressful than all day.
Even though teaching is hard work, there is that sense of accomplishment. You`ll get bouyed up by the kids if you decide to go back. For full-time I`d go for grade 4 - the people are taller and can do much more for themselves. What is the worst that can happen if the test scores are low? The grade 4 teacher is not responsible for the foundation laid in K, 1, 2, 3.
In your heart do you want to go back? If so, say yes, and you`ll find you can manage.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
PS Can you tell that I was a department head and had to give everyone the confidence to go on, no matter what happened?
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6/11/2007 10:51:27 AM
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Victoria FibreFest was an `Experience`
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The dinner on Friday night and the Yarn Harlot`s talk on Saturday night were fine but then there was the knit-out. Saxe Point Park is a beautiful site on a point between Victoria and Esquimalt Harbours - on a sunny day - but is about the windiest spot in Victoria. Naomi and I arrived just after 9am to be assigned a space on the edge of the cliff down to the water. We set up our table in a `strong` wind, covered our chairs in clear plastic refuse bags, and tied a large plastic sheet that I had thought to purchase the night before over the display on the table. We put on our raincoats, opened the umbrellas, and were ready for business, feeling we might be a Mary Poppins act at any moment. We had to sit on the handouts to prevent them from blowing away. Then we realized that our pants were getting soaked by drips running off the plastic sheet. That probblem was solved when the rain stopped and the wind got stronger. Out came the blanket. Then Naomi`s coffee cup blew over and soaked her again. There were some intrepid knitters who did the rounds of the tables and tents - I`ve no idea about the number compared to other years, but there was no parking problem. We did meet some wonderful people. At some point after lunch Naomi`s umbrella blew from her hand. Then we decided to move across the field against a stone wall - the organizer was not too pleased with us, but agreed - so the wind was now on our backs rather than in our faces. We lasted until 3pm and then packed up. Naomi was a real trooper, I couldn`t have managed without her. It was an experience, and when our wind-burned faces heal, we`ll laugh at it.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/13/2007 3:38:48 PM
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HELP! I need ideas for....(totally off topic!)
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Diane, pause and take a deep breath. Housing at the Lister Centre at the University of Alberta is $39+tax
for a single room, $49+tax for a twin room (possible room-mate on the course?) in the dormitory section of the building. There`s a communal kitchen in each section. He`s a kid, he doesn`t need to have the `guest accommodation` for visitors (parents) coming to campus, he can share a washroom.
Go onto the University of Alberta site and look down for `Housing` and then follow along through the twists and turns til you get to the daily rate for dorms.
Also on the same site, type `off-campus housing` into `search`, and you`ll be able to find listings of people renting out bedrooms and suites. If you don`t have an Edmonton map, print out a GoogleMap of the area within walking distance of his course before you start going through the listings.
As you can tell, I`ve done this a few times. It takes perseverence but it does work and saves $$$.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
A good friend of mine whom I taught with for years is moving from Toronto to the University of Lethbridge to teach math methods in the Faculty of Education.
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6/15/2007 10:46:01 AM
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Wrenners-
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I thought the roll was part of the design. The roll makes the diagonal line on the front from the pin. On the under wrap I attached a piece of narrow ribbon, and another piece to the side seam. Tying these together counteracts most of the roll for that (hidden) front edge.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/15/2007 3:29:30 PM
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Wrenners-
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Another possibility is I-cord around the edge. Even double I-cord, with one in a coordinating yarn.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/15/2007 3:31:13 PM
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I can`t believe I ate the whole thing!
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What a struggle with your birthday treats, but I`m sure you enjoyed every minute of it.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/15/2007 3:32:18 PM
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*Peeking Head Around Door* Cough, Cough!
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Welcome back.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/16/2007 9:22:54 AM
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Help with Substituting Yarns (Devon vs Highland Silk)
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Try knitting a 4 inch by 4 inch swatch in the stitch and gauge you are going to use. Pull it out and measure the yarn. Draw a schematic of what you are going to knit, divide it into 4 inch squares, and multiply that number by the yardage per square. Err on the side of more rather than less. And voila! you have your amount.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/16/2007 9:34:46 AM
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Puppy update - OT
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Be brave, Benne, the terrible 2`s in puppyhood do pass, but all too soon.
Watch out for your dishwasher door. When my St. Bernard was a large puppy she backed into the open dishwasher door, and, trying to be good, she sat down. That was the end of that door and that dishwasher as the replacement cost was almost as much as a new dishwasher. She had a good healthy respect for yarn, though, and left it alone.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/16/2007 9:38:06 AM
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Wrenners-
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With short rows in seed stitch/moss stitch don`t bother about knitting up the wraps, they just disappear into the knitted fabric.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/16/2007 10:57:31 PM
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Looking for a Scarf Pattern - Help, Please
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Barbara, if you separate yarns of different weights with bands of mock-Turkish stitch (YO, K2tog), the whole scarf or shawl with lie flat. The mock-Turkish does all the adjusting for you.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/17/2007 12:22:11 PM
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Looking for a Scarf Pattern - Help, Please
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Use a smooth yarn in a colour that goes with all the fancy ones - a nice merino would be a good choice. Black alpaca works well if you have strong colours. Just needs to be a yarn that isn`t too hairy so that it can adjust to fit.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/21/2007 6:51:15 AM
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HUGe 07 Sign Up
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Count me in.
When is Columbus Day?
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/21/2007 6:56:37 AM
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DUH! Tools button at Elann
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Push all the buttons - you`ll find lots of things you just can`t live without. Do you use SEARCH?
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/29/2007 9:49:33 PM
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Needing some employment training!
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Billie, there are Canadian and American guild organizations. The American one is strong, publishes a magazine, gives courses, has national get-to-gethers. I believe that the Victoria BC guild is affiliated with the American organization. I`ve belonged to the Canadian one from time to time as an individual member, but it tends to go for a while, fade for a bit, and then resurface.
Some LYSs give a discount to guild members. Check to see if yours does.
You are going to have a great time!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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6/29/2007 9:53:32 PM
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Hey Alice, I found your yarn twisting gizmo!
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Many thanks Benne! I got your e-mail too. I`ll look into an order as soon as the retreat knitters leave (Sunday). They say HI to the rest of you.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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7/6/2007 9:19:53 AM
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Calling on all praying individuals!
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Thinking of you.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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7/6/2007 9:38:12 AM
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OT Alive
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Outdoor weddings should be limited to 20 minutes for the ceremony - maybe that should apply to all weddings. Same with photos of the bridal group in the garden - standing knee deep in irises that had been `freshened up` (soaked with the hose to make them glisten), trying to swat bugs gracefully between shots, led one father of the groom to lean over and whisper that he had stood there for so long he was growing roots.
A dramatic faint is in order on such occasions!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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