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9/15/2008 1:48:14 PM
Counting Rows If the patterns are charted, copy the 56 row one once and the 8 row one 7 times - line-up and glue onto a piece of paper. Then enlarge so that it is easy to read. Slide final copy into one of those clear plastic covers - then you can mark off the rows with a washable marker as you finish them - wipe clean after 56 rows and begin again. Voila, no mistakes.

If the pattern is written out rather than charted, it is worth the time to chart before you begin.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
9/20/2008 11:17:33 AM
Bette, about that hat- Are all the colours used in each row? If it`s only 2 at a time as in fair isle, do give Bets suggestion of the Philosopher`s Wool technique a try. You knit the colour in your left hand Continental way and the one in your right right English. The video/instructions will tell you how to weave the two yarns together every other stitch - no strands on the back.
If it`s all 4 colours, then try using lengths of yarn - about 36" - with no bobbins. Much easier to pull a loose end out of a tangle than a bobbin. When you need more, just tie on another length. Weave in the ends as you knit using the Philosopher`s Wool technique.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
9/30/2008 9:30:01 AM
OT~ Drying leaves Try putting a few leaves between layers of paper towel and cooking them in the microwave. Check after a couple of minutes and then keep checking. I`ve done this more than once the night before school projects were due.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/1/2008 8:57:39 PM
What Temptation!! Too tempting to pass up.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/1/2008 9:00:49 PM
T - HUGe is in the mail!!! T, would you please e-mail me your address. It`s upstairs, so I can`t get to it yet.
truemana@telus.net

Many thanks
Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/2/2008 10:12:58 AM
Wow, Cara is a fast girl! That`s where the fresh Cream bounced off to! I went for some of the grey too to dye.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/3/2008 9:40:48 AM
Pretty Funny! That`s really funny!!!!!!!!!

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/8/2008 9:36:32 AM
hello Good to have you. Do chat.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/8/2008 9:36:32 AM
hello Good to have you. Do chat.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/8/2008 9:36:32 AM
Hello Good to have you. Do chat.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/8/2008 9:36:32 AM
Hello Good to have you. Do chat.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/8/2008 9:36:32 AM
Hello Good to have you. Do chat.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/8/2008 9:36:32 AM
Hello Good to have you. Do chat.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/8/2008 9:36:32 AM
Hello Good to have you. Do chat.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/11/2008 3:55:31 PM
Probably missed HUG-e deadline? I mailed mine by `Expediated Post` from the Big Island on Thursday as I thought it would be quicker than sending from Salt Spring - saves a ferry ride.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/11/2008 3:57:54 PM
Good morning Elannimals! Whatcha knitting for Christmas??? Socks, socks, socks!!!!!!!!

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/15/2008 9:35:53 AM
fanciful musings! Another thing to do is take along some mindless knitting and knit staring straight at the lecturer, leader, or whoever is holding forth.Works every time - you`ll be the only one appearing to pay such close attention. I once knitted a whole baby sweater for Dorcas whilst sitting through the `Food Safe` course. After the instuctor marked my test, she announced, "So you can do two things at once!"

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/16/2008 7:30:39 AM
More HUGe packages in the door! Great! That`s quicker than parcels or even letters get here from Seattle.
Let me know what I owe you and I`ll put it on your elann account - that enabling, isn`t it.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/16/2008 7:51:26 AM
new shawl pins T`s last year was much admired in Yucatan, Mexico - I wore it on my Wren for my niece`s book launching party in Merida.
My niece and her International Women`s Group are always on the lookout for home-based small industries for sustainability for women in the villages. They hadn`t thought of shawl pins. T you may have inspired a whole venture in Mayan designs! and financial stability for women trying to support their families. Every child we saw skipping off to school was well-scrubbed, hair neatly in place, clean school uniform with well-pressed sparkling white shirt. Cheerful, polite, well-mannered, and interested/aware of what was going on around them. They walked, took the combis, or the local buses with confidence and self-assurance.
Would the children on this island, with many times the family income (even the poorest), go off to school as clean and neatly dressed under their own steam. (Our neighbours drive their children to the school bus stop less than half a mile down the road and pick them up from there in the afternoon and we are not exactly an inner-city neighbourhood here.)
Enough rant!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
10/21/2008 11:35:12 AM
Minerva Try drawing the pattern as written onto the middle of a big sheet of graph paper. Then in another colour plot the dimensions you need. Stretch the shape of the original pattern to fit the second outline, draw in third colour. Increase stitch patterns, design element in proportion to the third outline and mark position on your graph paper. This gives you a chart to knit from.
Pay attention to length of repeats - stitches and rows. If a particular pattern has an 8 stitch, 16 row repeat, that section must be increased in multiples of 8stitches. Length needs to be increased in multiples of 16 rows, OR at a logical stop or start place.
Remember that parts of your body such as neck, wrists do not increase at the same rate as the middle. Vintage patterns tend to have very tight upper sleeves with short armholes. Today we are more active and want more ease for movement in this area than our mothers and grandmothers sipping cups of tea.
Knitting graph paper can be downloaded from various sites on the web.

Hope this helps. Post again for more suggestions.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
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