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6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/19/2009 2:45:48 PM
Benne: Benne
A huge bunch of virtual wild roses to you - the pink, sweet smelling kind.
Hugs
Alice
Salt Spring Island
6/29/2009 2:57:09 PM
Fun pictures, Les! Nettles - leaves, stalks, flowers mixed together - give a light to medium yellowy-green. Mordant the yarn by simmering in alum and cream of tartar solution. Make the dye bath by bringing a big pot of chopped up nettles to the boil, simmer for an hour or so, let steep for at least an hour, and then strain through a J-cloth to get rid of the vegetable matter. A bit smelly but not too bad. Colour makes it all worthwhile. Wear heavy gloves when cuttig the nettles.

Great fun was had by all
Alice
Salt Spring Island
7/1/2009 4:54:44 PM
Fun pictures, Les! Formula for the alum-cream of tartar mordant is:
For 100 grams of yarn, dissolve 10 grams of alum and 7 grams of cream of tartar in a little boiling water in a measuring cup. Put the mixture and lots of water into a pot big enough to hold the yarn easily with room to stir it aound. For a kilo of yarn (20 skeins of 50 grams) you would need 100 grams of alum and 70 grams of cream of tartar - use the biggest pot you have and simmer the yarn in two batches if necessary. Simmer for 1 hour.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
7/3/2009 9:28:08 AM
Ole-Ole Eyelet-V raglan pullover sleeve question Hi Sue
I`ve printed out the pattern and hope I can help.
Chart shows every row. You start with the 10 stitches between the markers on Row 1. For Row 3 you need to move each marker over a stitch so that you have 12 sitches between them. [Move them on Row 2 and you`ll be set up for Row 3.] Row 5, you need 14 stitches between the markers, Row 7 will have 16 stitches. That`s what NG means by adding 2 center stitches in to the chart pattern every RS row.
The next line is the problem - it should read: When the chart INCREASES and the raglan decs collide, and the chart INCREASES can no longer be made, work decs on WS rows as follows instead of chart INCREASES - p1, p2tog, work to last 3 sts., p2tog-b [purl 2 together through back of loops], p1. When 4 sts remain . . . .
The point at which the incs and decs collide will be different for each size.
I think that if I were knitting this pullover, I`d knit all the pieces up to the start of the raglan, put all the stitches on a circular needle and knit in the round - saves all the bother of sewing in raglan sleeves AND everything matches up because you knit it all at the same time.
Norah Gaughan`s patterns are usually coldly logical but not necessarily intuitive. Once I took a step backward and looked at what she was intending to do, the error leapt off the page at me.
Hope this helps.
I`ll post a note about the correction in a new thread.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
7/3/2009 9:34:17 AM
ever feel like a shacker? check this out...... I agree with Benne, why? Why not attempt something original? I`ll skip that book even though Sheri (Watermark Books) may be naughty enough to order it in just to tease me.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
7/3/2009 11:00:05 AM
Ole-Ole Eyelet-V raglan pullover sleeve question Thanks, Angela, I was going to send you a message.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
7/10/2009 1:43:46 PM
Excited to see the Niebling designs on elann! Take care of yourself, Jamie. Summer bugs can be nasty.
I prescribe a dose of knitting followed by a siesta.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
7/11/2009 9:54:49 AM
FLORENCE BORDER CARDIGAN Hi Carmela
Row 6 - p2p - I think is just a typo and should read just p2. The start of the row, before the repeats begin, is p2, k1b, p2 which is also the end of the repeat.
The stitch count will vary from row to row as there are increases and decreases on different rows. Try knitting a small swatch and see if it comes right in the end. The pattern starts and ends with repeats of 6 stitches, so try 24 stitches + 5 and knit up the 16 rows. Save this swatch so that you can refer to it as you knit the border.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
7/16/2009 9:15:42 PM
Flashback Time - What Were You Doing? Mark and I were camping on Prince Edward Island (we were living in Montreal at the time). We stayed up late in the rec hut with the other campers but finally went back to our own tent and watched the landing on our little 7" tv sprawled out on our sleeping bags.It finally happened in the middle of the night as we were in Atlantic time zone.

Alice
Salt Spring Island
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