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3/21/2008 9:13:02 AM
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Voyager Lace Stole
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Very Good! Well done Ann!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/21/2008 9:13:02 AM
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Voyager Lace Stole
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Very Good! Well done Ann!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/21/2008 9:24:39 AM
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Happy?? Good Friday everyone
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CBC radio had a `Good Friday` programme at 7am this morning originating out of Saskatchewan with interviews with people from that province who had accomplished good things - especially on Fridays. These ranged from freeing a woman from a burning car, talking a man who had just killed two RCMP officers into giving himself up (farm couple drove him to the police station), to a man who grew up on an isolated farm who now, with his wife, is living and working in Guatemala and fixing whatever needs to be fixed in a poor rural area (setting up lights in an `operating room` for an emergency C-section, giving a dentist`s suction machine a new lease on life, and the like) - just from what he learned to do on the farm!
Good way to honour the weekend.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/21/2008 9:27:22 AM
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OK, it`s tendonitis
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Try putting a pillow under your elbow when you knit - gives a little support. Use circular needles so that the weight is on your lap. You need to get into shape for June.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/25/2008 9:10:24 AM
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Shall I worry?
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I wouldn`t worry too much, Les. You needs to do all the usual careful things - especially keep money and electronics out of sight at all times, even in her room, and look around in a confident manner as she walks about.
You`ll survive this! I survived DD spending three weeks in Nepal trekking to the Annapurna Basecamp and back during the Maoist uprisings and then getting herself back to Singapore where she was working. The seven Americans backed out, so it was just DD and 2 Brits and 2 Aussies with the guides. Smaller group was probably safer, or so I told myself. She assured me afterwards that in Katmandu the terrorists were always at least a street away and that they never actually met any on the trails. Just don`t think about Dubai too much.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/25/2008 9:16:55 AM
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sock needle sizer
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I have several Tailorform metal ones. Canadian (British) and American sizes printed on one side, and metric on the other in 2.0, 2,25, 2.75, 3.0 mm up to 10mm (our 000, American 15), all in a six inch ruler with centimetres on the metric side and inches on the other side. Made in Taiwan, if that helps. Very useful.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/25/2008 5:53:55 PM
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Do you know what time it is at my house???
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I just pay my son to do them. It`s become an Easter Weekend tradition now. I knit and answer questions, he fills in the blanks on the programme. So they are done and zapped off electronically!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/26/2008 10:24:57 AM
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Shall I worry?
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Dubai is not going to kill North American tourists. Showing skin is a no-no, so she needs tops with sleeps, backs, and what you and I would consider to be a reasonable length - no bare mid-rift, no shoulders, no back showing. A large thin cotton scarf is probably useful to drape around her if she is somewhere where she notices that other women are more covered than she is, also useful in air-conditioning. From kids I have taught, the Emerites are more `liberal` than most of the other Middle eastern countries.
Lauren may find that her blond hair is patted by older women and children. Dani was furious at having her red head patted in Asia until she adjusted to the fact that people were just curious. Lots of smiles - to women and children - go a long way. As long as she can remember that life is `different` without judging right or wrong and that she is their guest, she`ll be fine. Being aware of her surroundings and the image she presents are probably the most important things. Maybe she should take some knitting - it helped Dani to talk to people in Singapore - it`s a universal language.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/29/2008 10:48:33 AM
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Whee! Fun sweater project (for me)
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Looks great! Top-down has the great advantage that you can keep trying the garment on as you go.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/29/2008 10:55:43 AM
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I knit up my sample skein of Soie Bambou
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I`m wimpering. My samples haven`t arrived yet. If I went to the top of a mountain on Salt Spring (high enough to see over the top of Galiano Island), I could see Tsawwassen where they come from. Don`t know why there was no mail Thursday, but yesterday it snowed - yes, here in Lotusland! - so nothing moved. Benne in the wilds of Tennessee almost always gets her samples before I do. Really want to knit up the sample for Tuesday - not that I need any more yarn, but . . . .
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/29/2008 11:09:41 AM
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Bets, Pattern Test
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Bets, are you enough ahead with life to pattern test the organic sweater? What would you like to knit it in? wool? cotton? or ? It can be any weight of yarn - it`s organic! I`ll put the money for the yarn on your elann account. Ann, have you any thoughts on what you would like knitted up?
Alice
Salt Spring Island
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/29/2008 11:18:36 AM
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Modular Shapes
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I`ve finished the hexagon scarf from Norah Gaughan`s Knitting Nature in some hand-dyed sock yarn I bought at Madrona. It`s a sample of what can be done with geometic shapes for the June retreats. It starts with the largest hexagon - 22 stitches on each side - knitted in 1x1 rib and moves down to the smallest one (15 later) by decreasing one stitch on each side. Because the side where you pick up the stitches for the next hexagon is off-set by one side (not straight across) the construction forms a spiral. This wraps around you neck and sits smoothly on the shoulders. If you have the book, take a look at it, it`s fun to knit.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/29/2008 3:56:57 PM
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Some expert advice please....
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Try picking up the stitches for the SIDE of the block with the colour of the new block. Then SSK or K2Tog (whichever looks better) as you come to the end of a right side row in the new block. Slip the first stitch on the wrong side. This usually makes a neat join.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/30/2008 10:13:50 AM
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Bets, Pattern Test
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That`s great! Will send after April 15th. I`m feeling so smug that my taxes are in early - was very painful getting receipts ready for DS, but now they`re done! ! ! !
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/31/2008 9:59:33 AM
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Finally. Knitting content from me but I need help
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Jean, I think you are going to need to knit a swatch of the edging - say 5 inches long. Measure the row count up one side for 4 inches, then compare it to the stitch count for four inches of what you are attaching it to. Remember to slip the first stitch on the row after the k2tog, but still count this as a row. For patterns that resemble stocking stitch counts, knitting 2, skipping 1 works remarkably often.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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4/5/2008 10:56:44 AM
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Before the sweater
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This is potentially a great summer job for university students. The daughter of the owner of Sunset Farm made very good money in the summers when she came home from the University of Guelph. She was often given the fleece, too, as owners just wanted their pets sheared. Now she`s at vet school in Australia so has her long holiday in the wrong time of year for her clients here.
Take up shearing and just think of the `free` wool!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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4/6/2008 10:19:35 AM
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Pam AllenFeather and Fan Cardigan in CEY Make it Modern Booklet
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I think it`s no ease for the bodice part or even negative ease, and then the lower part flares.
Luna is probably a little soft. Look for something in DK with linen in it, or a bit of substance from any plant fibre. What about Soie Bambou?
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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4/8/2008 5:44:46 PM
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Totally OT-
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I have a Whirlpool slide-in range with ceramic cooktop with the controls at the front on the same plane as the cooktop. No cracks anywhere so easy to clean. Temperature adjusts quite quickly and I can always slide a pot sideways off the heat. Front controls are much safer. Stepping over a dog snoozing on the kitchen floor, with a baby on one hip, stretching over a boiling-over pot to turn down the heat, just is not safe. I really like the ceramic. But, that said, I really like cooking on gas (propane here) and nearly went for propane for this house - except DH has left stove elements turned on for 40years, so isn`t likely to change.
My only recent experience with double ovens (in fact four ovens) was in the house for the Welsh Borders Retreat where I ended up cooking too. Great almost new stove - 7 gas burners on top, 4 electric ovens of various sizes below. But the ovens were a nightmare - turned themselves off without warning whenever they felt like it, no instruction book, and the manager of the properties was quite clueless (lived at home with her mother and thought all stoves were like that ie she did not cook). My advice would be to read the instruction book in the store, have all the controls demonstrated, and try out the ovens with weighted pots before you purchase. The `most reliable` of the 4 for me was 9 inches high which would have been alright, except that it was only 4 inches above the floor. It`s funny now, but the gymnastics entailed in `checking the oven` were a sight to behold.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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4/8/2008 5:44:46 PM
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Totally OT-
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I have a Whirlpool slide-in range with ceramic cooktop with the controls at the front on the same plane as the cooktop. No cracks anywhere so easy to clean. Temperature adjusts quite quickly and I can always slide a pot sideways off the heat. Front controls are much safer. Stepping over a dog snoozing on the kitchen floor, with a baby on one hip, stretching over a boiling-over pot to turn down the heat, just is not safe. I really like the ceramic. But, that said, I really like cooking on gas (propane here) and nearly went for propane for this house - except DH has left stove elements turned on for 40years, so isn`t likely to change.
My only recent experience with double ovens (in fact four ovens) was in the house for the Welsh Borders Retreat where I ended up cooking too. Great almost new stove - 7 gas burners on top, 4 electric ovens of various sizes below. But the ovens were a nightmare - turned themselves off without warning whenever they felt like it, no instruction book, and the manager of the properties was quite clueless (lived at home with her mother and thought all stoves were like that ie she did not cook). My advice would be to read the instruction book in the store, have all the controls demonstrated, and try out the ovens with weighted pots before you purchase. The `most reliable` of the 4 for me was 9 inches high which would have been alright, except that it was only 4 inches above the floor. It`s funny now, but the gymnastics entailed in `checking the oven` were a sight to behold.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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4/8/2008 5:44:46 PM
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Totally OT-
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I have a Whirlpool slide-in range with ceramic cooktop with the controls at the front on the same plane as the cooktop. No cracks anywhere so easy to clean. Temperature adjusts quite quickly and I can always slide a pot sideways off the heat. Front controls are much safer. Stepping over a dog snoozing on the kitchen floor, with a baby on one hip, stretching over a boiling-over pot to turn down the heat, just is not safe. I really like the ceramic. But, that said, I really like cooking on gas (propane here) and nearly went for propane for this house - except DH has left stove elements turned on for 40years, so isn`t likely to change.
My only recent experience with double ovens (in fact four ovens) was in the house for the Welsh Borders Retreat where I ended up cooking too. Great almost new stove - 7 gas burners on top, 4 electric ovens of various sizes below. But the ovens were a nightmare - turned themselves off without warning whenever they felt like it, no instruction book, and the manager of the properties was quite clueless (lived at home with her mother and thought all stoves were like that ie she did not cook). My advice would be to read the instruction book in the store, have all the controls demonstrated, and try out the ovens with weighted pots before you purchase. The `most reliable` of the 4 for me was 9 inches high which would have been alright, except that it was only 4 inches above the floor. It`s funny now, but the gymnastics entailed in `checking the oven` were a sight to behold.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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