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11/8/2008 11:43:28 AM
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Jultomtar
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He`s great, Jean.
I want to make a flock of sheep for DD`s website. I see now I must give them attitudes!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/8/2008 11:43:28 AM
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Jultomtar
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He`s great, Jean.
I want to make a flock of sheep for DD`s website. I see now I must give them attitudes!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/9/2008 9:35:31 AM
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Search for a bit of Feeling
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Billie, if you can`t get any bits, use any yarn that knits to the same gauge. A mohair blend can work very well for accents. Some of the Bohus-style yokes use an angora blend effectively.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/11/2008 8:46:07 PM
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Knitting term s.w.t = slip, wrap, turn
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The pattern is telling you to knit short rows.
Slip the next stitch purlwise onto the right needle, yarn forward, slip the same stitch back onto the left needle, yarn back (slipped stitch is wrapped), turn your work around and knit or purl back in the opposite direction.
When you come to the row where you knit past the wrapped stitch, knit the wrap together with the stitch.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/13/2008 9:24:58 AM
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Alan Dart Patterns
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The October issue of "Simply Knitting" (current on the magazine stands in bookstores here) includes a 20 page supplement of Alan Dart patterns. Theme is an Advent Tree but patterns include fruits, instruments, snowmen, santa, animals, elf, angel, etc which would be great for decorations, centrepieces, and the like even if you didn`t make the tree. 25 in total, really cute, and just think of all the scraps of yarn you would use up.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/13/2008 9:30:34 AM
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Marie-those miserable fractals
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It`s an interesting book, well worth taking a look. Benne, you have probably seen it at my house or the farmhouse. It even has a knitted boat.
We did the Scribble Lace from it at the June retreat when we did embellishments - some of you will remember the ribbon yarn and the thin thread.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/19/2008 9:29:45 AM
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Skype, anyone use it? OT
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I found connection from my computer to cell phone could be distorted when DD lived in Singapore, but other days it would be fine. Computer to computer or computer to land line is better.
If you are going to call cells and land lines, put money on your skype account - 10 Euros at a time (about $15CDN) lastsa very long time.
My niece in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico uses Skype all the time - connection to land line is very good for voice.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/20/2008 5:56:52 PM
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Does everyone have a good supply of candles ?- OT
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Benne, I`m so sorry. Keep knitting - this qualifies as a crisis.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/21/2008 9:42:06 AM
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a hat for your MIL
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Go for the hat, Les. Walk down 8th Avenue in Calgary in it just before Christmas and you`ll make heads turn!
Wedding hairdoes!!!!! I was dispatched off to the `young person` at the salon my mother patronized in Victoria. At that time I had very long hair but as fine as now. YP scoffed at the gadget I used to secure it in an up-position (little hooks joined by an elastic band)and just used pins. She got it up, then it all fell down, she dissolved into tears, and fled from the salon never to be seen again.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/22/2008 10:13:07 AM
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a hat for your MIL
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That`s it, Bets. Originally a cotton-wrapped elastic which slipped onto two hooks, one hook fastened into the hair, the elastic stretched around, and then the other hook attached and held it tight. After the first set of elastics, I used any elastic band. Wonder if I still have the hooks somewhere?
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/22/2008 10:15:44 AM
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Your candles have lit up Nic`s world and mine
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That`s great to hear. Now you rest too, Benne. She needs you to be well.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/28/2008 10:14:41 AM
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Who made cotton washcloths for HUGe last year?
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Blue washcloth was probably from me. Made a whole batch of them in various colours from stash. Just the antique rose ones left, so must start more when I finish the sock factory for this Christmas. DD tried on the Nora sock SG pair meant for her partner and didn`t take them off for three days, so knitted a different pair for him.
I had DD report on washing the SG socks - washed in the machine, dried one flat and put the other in the dryer. Very little difference, so can just be tossed in with other socks. They `shrunk` very slightly but that was good as I`d knitted them for Corey and his feet are bigger. I knitted 48 stitches on 3.25mm circular needles.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/30/2008 9:29:10 AM
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I`m going crazy
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How about a long hot bath? If you keep the tap running, you can pretend that you can`t hear anything outside the closed door.
Then knit, counting the stitches out aloud. Every knitter`s child, no matter how young, knows not to say anything whist Mommy is counting stitches.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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11/30/2008 9:39:26 AM
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A Thanksgiving Day to be thankful for
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Thank goodness Nic`s recovering now. You`ll want her to wear one of those baby monitors after this so that you can home in on her to check hourly!
Do take care of yourself, too. You need to be healthy for June!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
PS Juliet (big while cat) is pushing the mouse as I type this sending her positive thoughts, too.
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12/24/2008 11:16:20 AM
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Merry Christmas to the head Elannimals!
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Merry Christmas to everyone, and especially to Ann and Bob. This is white Christmas with a vengeance. Jamie, it looks just like your mountains should look!I`ve been housebound for 12 days now as there is too much snow for me to venture anywhere. DS is in line for the bus to the ferry in Vancouver, hoping to transfer to the little ferry and meet up with DD coming from Victoria. Neighbour`s son`s girlfriend should be on the same ferry, so he`ll go to meet it with his SUV and collect them all. We are just not accustomed to this - may become a crisis, so I had better knit on!
Best wishes
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/28/2008 10:36:42 AM
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I wonder if this would work?
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What would happen if you knitted the inner cuff with a non-felting yarn before you felted? Could be much easier than trying to pick up afterwards.
Eyelash and other `fancy` yarns are great for decorating the tops of felted slippers - the `slipper factory` people on Salt Spring who knit them for Dorcas use them for the edges with much success.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/31/2008 10:48:50 AM
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A gold find of a website
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It`s great! I`ve been flipping through the pages instead of working on my thesis.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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1/7/2009 9:01:29 AM
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HUGe group 1
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No sign of mine yet, maybe today. Our mail is so messed up by the storms and the lack of ice-care on the roads that it may be a few more days to get back to normal. Since yesterday, we`re into the big thaw. Warm and windy last last so snow banks just disappeared - our version of a chinook, Les.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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1/7/2009 5:35:53 PM
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HUGe group 1
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Mine has a slit. Can`t say any more or some of you will know.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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1/8/2009 8:14:59 AM
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HUGe Packages
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And me.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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