http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Elann Community Chat Center - Previous Website Chat - Libby - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:06:30 GMT Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:06:30 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
K is a 2T. Basically this means the following:

Chest: ~22 in
shoulder to underarm: 5 in
neck cutout: ~ 3 in

NOTE: you will have to add an opening in the back OR dont sew the shoulder seams and add buttons instead so that the monumentally sized head is able to fit through.

Libby]]> Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:06:30 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 As if you didn`t have anything else to do...would please give me some idea what size K. is? My knit test child is on vacation, and K. popped into my head. I am trying to figure out who my pink sweater will goto. It`s too small for either of my nieces (one would wear it despite out of pure love for Aunt B), so I need to figure out who should get it.

Thanks, Bri]]> Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:01:50 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:06:43 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
I`m currently working on DD`s cardi and I just finished the sleeves. However I casted on the front as well as the back and sleeves all at the same time so I dont have to go back and pick it all up when its all said and done. I`m hoping to make some significant progress on the rest of the body of the cardi tonight.

Ill post pics and how I did it when I`m done.

Now for the major decisions....is in a basic st st and I`m wondering if I should do a crocheted shell edge or a 1x1 rib? I just cant decide but I`m leaning on the crocheted shell.

Libby]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:51:39 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
She wears this every Friday (Red White & Blue Day at her school), and the design holds up well to active playground wear-and-tear. The "tuxedo" look that I was hesitant about is very pretty in real life. Once again, going with her "trust me Mom, it`s the look I want on this" turned out to be a good idea.

The yarn was a fine weight angora, so I should never have bothered with the eyelets, but I did; they don`t actually slow the knitting down much, and the pattern is easy enough to memorize, but they are nearly totally obscured by the yarn`s texture, so, in retrospect, I might go with my original hunch of not bothering with fancy stitchwork when the yarn is fuzzier than Santa`s beard.

Congrats on K walking... (today the living room, tomorrow the dance floor or the balance beam or the soccer field!)

(Sorry I didn`t respond earlier... haven`t had time to get on the computer all week.)]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:29:46 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 I rode the Steelers high yesterday and crashed last night. I think it`s starting to wear off a little, but that`s mostly because I go into post-season depression whenever football ends.

Hope you had a wonderful evening with DH and K. It looked really chilly in Michigan last night.

Bri]]> Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:56:45 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Sorry I missed you. I hope you have a great day! Are you coming down from your high yet?

Libby]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:03:18 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Have a great day! Bri]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:11:42 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Thanks soooo much for thinking of me! The first week was great and everyone there is really nice and easy to work with. I think that I am going to enjoy this position and am glad that I accepted the offer!

Libby]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:38:37 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 patw]]> Sat, 05 Nov 2005 03:55:44 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Have a great weekend!
Bri]]> Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:09:49 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:28:07 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
I`m thinking of doing the coat that is in the free pattern section but making it a short sleeve sweater/t-shirt instead.

did you get any of todays yarn?

Libby]]> Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:28:30 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:26:18 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:55:47 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
I got the email and copied it to my computer.....
Now you said that there was to be 2 more emails but this one looks to be complete?

Libby

THANKS a million Shui Kuen...you`re the best!]]> Sun, 11 Sep 2005 03:20:00 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Did you get my first email?
Shui Kuen]]> Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:16:24 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 It sounds like such a fun time. She`s about as old as my dear friends` baby in AL and I got to thinking about K. when I started a birthday gift for my friends. I love that she`s playing piano. I think that is a really good developmental sign (I taught onesies and toddlers for a year btwn undergrad and grad, so I got a fast education in `good markers`). You`ll have to let us all know when she takes her first step. Any thoughts on the first birthday? Sounds like you`d better have an ice cream cake!

Enjoy every minute, Bri]]> Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:10:37 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Thanks so much for asking and thinking of us. She is getting to be sooooooo big and talking up a storm. She is just very vocal (she takes after me!). Oh and she is definately having an attitude on her! and she gets mad at me easily when I tell her NO!!! I know its not funny for her but she is just soooo cute when she is pitching a fit.

Yesterday she wanted to play with my glasses. So she reached up and started to pull them off my face. Well I told her "no", so she took her little hand down, turned around, thought about it, and then looks at me with a grin on her face and reaches for the glasses again. So again I told her "no" in a stern voice. so what does the little stinker do? she scooches away from me and startes crying! So I went to her and told her that i still loved her but she cant play with mommys glasses and she was still crying and almost pushing me away.

Oh and she LOVES ice cream. She got mad one time when we got to the end of the bowl. She cried for a half hr over that one.

She is scooching all over the place. more of an army crawl really. And she is holding her bottle all by herself! She makes me soooo proud.

Ok I could go on and on and on but I`ll have to stop myself.

So thank you for asking and I`ll have to post pictures soon.

OH and she loves to play the piano with daddy and mommy. We just put her at it and she just bangs away. I call her my little Beethovan!

Libby]]> Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:24:05 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Yes its for Karolyn. However I messed up on the gauge but I have re-written the pattern so that the gauge is now correct as well as the sizing. I noticed that the sizing that I used (which was from the Readers Digest Sewing Book) is incorrect. So I did some research on the great WWW and found some sizing that looked more accurate. Now all I have to do is knit it!

Libby]]> Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:17:44 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Eileen.]]> Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:16:24 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:51:01 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 B2]]> Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:06:35 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:02:18 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Cate]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:03:47 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Not to worry everything got here in one piece! The socks are just darling. Thank you very much for them. Now I just have to wait until she gets a little bit bigger to fit into them.

Thanks
Libby]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:48:02 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 I was wondering if you got a package I sent you? I guessed at the postage & mailed it from my home maillbox so I am hoping it did not go astray.
Cate]]> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:28:15 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Tried to email you. Not sure I have the right address. Could you email me please?
danandjeanflores@aol.com

Peace,
Jean
Ansbach, Germany]]> Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:12:26 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:06:34 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:50:20 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
"knit 2 together through their back loops"


holy crap! I wrote that wrong... should have been K2togTBL.... oh, poor Corinna... I hope she figured It out... I m such a swinehead!]]> Wed, 06 Oct 2004 03:23:42 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Here it is in a more spelled-out way:

For this examle, we will say you are using the following lace pattern, which requires a multiple of 7 stitches + 3.... it is a modified Vine Lace (narrower Vine in relation to Lace parts and K2TBL instead of ssk) that I keep going back to, as it seems to be ideal for ponchos.

MacChick`s Modified Vine Lace
(Multiple of 7sts + 3 extra sts)

Round 1 & 3: knit
Round 2: K2, *yo, K1, K2TBL, K2tog, K1, yo, K1 [repeat from *] end with k1.
Round 4: K1, *yo, K1, K2TBL, K2tog, K1, yo, K1 [repeat from *] end with k2.

(Note that rows 2 & 4 are identical, just offset by one stitch)
Begin the pattern at the center front, and end at the center back. Then start over again at the center-back and end when you get back around to the center-front.

Count out how many stitches you have on half your poncho, find out how many you can put into the pattern ( for example if you have 50 stitches in each half, then you can put 45 of them into the pattern (7x6=42, +3=45), and you have 5 leftover. You will want to put a marker at the beginning and end of the stitches that are going to be in the lace pattern (I use a different color than for my center-front and center-back... e.g.: my ctr-frnt & cntr-back stitch markers are both white, my beginning-and-end-of-the-lace stitch markers are all red.

Divide the leftover stitches evenly... in this case you would have 3 leftover stitches at the beginning of your first half-of-the-poncho, and only two at the end, so on your first knit round, you will want to increase one at the center-back to make it three leftover stitches at each end of the half.

Note on symmetry: On the other half of this example, you would put the stitch markers so there are only two leftover stitches at the center-back and three at the center-front, so that the increase-one is symmetrical to the other half of your poncho, that is, they both happen at the center-back.

Knit the first round after you place the markers in just plain knitting, and make the increases required to make the leftover amounts of stitches all equal. Now call that round 1 of your lace pattern, and move on to round 2.

On rounds 1 & 3, where it is just plain knitting, you`ll always increase one after the center-front, increase one before and one after the center back, then increase one before the center-front. You can see how this keeps your front-and-back increase rounds going to maintain the poncho shaping without making a mess of the lace pattern.

When your "leftover stitches" sections (outside the red markers) grow to 7 stitches each, you can drop the red markers and add those leftover stitches to your lace pattern stitches. On your next increase round, you will add the red markers back again, and the leftover sections will each have just one stitch in them.

Every time the leftover sections get up to seven stitches each, you add them to the lace pattern.]]> Wed, 06 Oct 2004 03:13:29 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:59:29 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Also another question. How do you increase and still maintain the lacy stitch pattern?]]> Sun, 03 Oct 2004 10:21:03 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
If you don`t want the pointy shape, distribute the increases evenly around. Do twice as many and do them only once every four rows. That`ll make a rounded look... more like a swing coat that is all buttoned up (I like the look of those, but the down side is that you have to make armholes or else make the whole thing, including the front-back, no longer than wrist -length... although that is probably plenty long enough anyway).

If you don`t keep the increases going, you will get a straight tube-shape... a body-length cowl or something... a tube dress, I guess.]]> Fri, 01 Oct 2004 22:22:11 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 I am lucky enought to work for a very large company for 24 years now that has probably one of the best maternity leave progams there are. I got 1 year off with each child and didn`t loose any time. Luckily I worked around the corner from daycare and as they got older school. both my boys are in honors classes, my 15 yr old has had a part time job in a local supermarket for about 7 months now, even my 12 year old was working in the nursery across the street for a few hours a week. they are both smart, well adjusted, funny, really good kids. we read every night. I always went on a field trip each year with each of them, never missed a school concert, mothers day tea etc. I was team mom when they played football.
They have been parasailing, orr roading, white water rafting, and scuba diving, they are totally well rounded kids.
I had to go back to work since I had the insurance, dh is self employed, and living on long island is so freaking expensive. I wish I could have stayed home, but the year I took off I was going bonkers. So If your decision is to go back, don`t worry you just have to make the time you have with your kids extra special. It`s not easy you just have to be creative.
judy]]> Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:44:34 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 T]]> Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:58:22 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
So this is what I did. I told Jonnie (my boss who has no authority whatsoever because she now has my old job) and then I told Dave (her boss and my boss) about the cost savings. Dave said that he would open the account with the company and would take care of it. I originally told Lloyd (Dave`s equal in the chain of command) who also takes care of fixing the equipment and stuff of that nature. Our company is very small with approximately 25-30 employees and we all know everyone very well. The big boss (Jerry who owns the company) insists that we are a "family" and there is no "real chain of command" but we all know how that goes. I told Dave the same thing that I told Lloyd so he knew what was going on. Gosh what a soap we have going on over here!

I know what you all meant about either staying at home or not. It is a big decision. Ray and I were discussing who was going to take care of our baby when it came time to go back to work and I told him that we had to weigh in the fact that of course if I stay home I wont be bringing in an income but we would have to pay not only a babysitter but the Dr bills when the baby is sick every other day from catching something at the day care. And then staying up all night just to have her get sick the next day. I honestly dont think that its worth it. Ray and I decided that I would take as much time off as I needed and then we will see what happens next.

As far as this job is concerned, I`m sticking it out for the insurance. Then after the baby is born I can quit cuz the current insurance will cover the birth and then Ray`s insurance can then cover the baby and me after I loose my insurance.

I`m sure that everything will work out in the end. It always does that`s why I`m not to worried about it. I just want my baby and husband to be taken care of.

Again thanks for all of the support

Libby]]> Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:11:37 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 I agree with Theresa. I didn`t mean to make it sound like if you don`t stay home with your child your less than a mom. Far from it. My oldest and dearest friend has three children and she works 40+ hours a week and is still so very very involved with her kids. She jokes about wanting to stay home, but I don`t hink she really ever could. It would drive her nuts. Not the being around her kids, it would be the "staying home".
Whatever you decide to do is wonderful and is right for you and your family. I do think it`s bad if you have to stay with this company you work for now, if you are being overlooked. Sometimes I could just strangle some employers! They just don`t seem to get it.
Heather]]> Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:14:05 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Oh, and, by the way, in regard to your original question,if you point out several times to the boss that he can save a great deal of money, and he chooses not to, you have done your duty and are free to enjoy the thought that not only does what go around come around, but sometimes you even get to see it do so...
Theresa]]> Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:51:21 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
I hope you post pictures of the sweater, since you won`t post your bio, hint hint hint,lol. What yarn are you using for your sweater? Are you still working or are you staying home? I can`t imagine working on a fair isle and having to think of anything else like work. I know I would just lose my place or end up frogging a million times. I have been wanting to try a sweater in the round. My attempt at making a sweater with pieces isn`t turning out so well. I have knit socks and hats and scarves and bath mitts, but never a sweater. So earlier this summer I decided to try a tank/vest. I got one front side done.But since I altered it slightly, as I always do with patterns of any kind, I`m having troubles with the other front. Plus with all the turmoil that has been in my life I haven`t been able to sit and knit. So the other night I pulled out the top and held the two fronts up together,and wouldn`t you know it the side I am ready to bind off is slightly narrower than the side I finished. Big sigh and back in the basket it went. So now I can honestly say I have a UFO. Boy I must be a real knitter now,lol! I want to start on another top only this time in the round, so I won`t have those stupid pieces to worry about. But I just can`t settle on a pattern. Well listen to me be Miss Chatty Cathy!
I hope you can get some relief for your hips and POST pix soon!!;)
Heather]]> Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:16:34 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313
Thanks for your thoughts. Funny thing, I was thinking of you just yesterday and was wondering where you have been and if you didnt post today I was just gonna have to find you.

I feel fine except that my hips are hurting me something terrible. I think that they are trying to expand so that I can have this baby. As if my monumentally sized backside needs any more expanding!

Knitting has been going well and unexpectidly fast. I`m currently working on a fair isle sweater knitted in the round and in 4 more inches I get to start on the sleeves! I`m pretty excited about that as this si my very first knitted in the round sweater.

hoping everything is going great with you and DH and DS.
Libby]]> Wed, 21 Jul 2004 03:20:46 GMT http://www.elann.com/Commerce.web/forums/messages.aspx?TopicID=136313 Heather]]> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:40:22 GMT