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1/28/2004 7:16:27 PM
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Patricia
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First completed project, now if I could just get him to drape his pretty pink creation around his neck so I can snap a picture I will post it!!
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1/29/2004 3:19:37 AM
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bets
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Patricia,
I don`t know about your spouse, but mine always kids about someone knocking him down and stealing his lunch money. Didn`t he make that for DGD? She`ll be happy to model it...let him keep his pride, don`t scar him yet!!!!
Congrats on your new knitter!
B
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1/29/2004 6:35:38 AM
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benne
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Good for him and good for you. He is ahead of the rest of us, he`s finished his WIP.lol
Benne
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1/29/2004 7:21:41 AM
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FANTASTIC! Now, the question is, did he like doing it, and does he ever want to do another one, or has he "Conquered" knitting and ready to go on to something else?
In any of these events, congrats are due!
Theresa
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1/29/2004 7:49:57 AM
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MacChick
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That`s so cool! DO NOT make him model it... I agree with the idea that DGD should model it, and the caption might read "Knitted by..." then ASK HIM if he`d rather go with name or initials. You want to get him hooked, not embarrassed...
When I was a child, my Dad coached a college team, and one of those big macho guys showed up at our house once, a day late for training camp. My Dad was sending someone back from camp to fetch him, but in the meantime, he was to STAY PUT with us for the evening... and he seemed to savor the "down-time," knitting and telling us kids stories of his wild adventures all through the night.
He was making himself a stocking hat, long enough to reach the floor... and he was an enormously tall individual, too tall to sit in furniture correctly. But you know, by the end of the night, that knitting was winding around his huge feet in piles, and we all knew he`d be finished by morning. Yea, that guy could run fast and knit even faster!
Ever since, I`ve always thought men who knit are the coolest. In between the ferocity of all the he-man activities men are into, these are the ones who know how to thoroughly enjoy the present moment... they BASK in the "now!"
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1/29/2004 11:26:00 AM
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Patricia
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Theresa he truely enjoyed it.He finds it very relaxing and a real stress buster. Neither of us enjoy watching t.v., but the darn thing seems to be on all of the time(can`t miss any breaking news). So in the evening when I begin knitting to block out the t.v. he would do the same. He ordered a knitting board from qvc and plans to watch the video this week-end so that he can make flat objects. I`ve offered to teach him to use needles, but he said no, not yet.
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1/29/2004 1:09:27 PM
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benne
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Patricia,
What is that gorgeous child`s name(if it`s okay to ask)? She is a stunner! Not to mention that beautiful scarf she`s wearing. My girls called my dad "Papa" too. Sweet times.
Benne
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1/29/2004 3:12:57 PM
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Patricia
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Don`t mind at all! I was given the honor of naming her and she is Sydney Madison! She is only 5 (hard to believe),she towers over her twin sisters who are 6, and she is the apple of her "papa`s" eye cause she looks like him when he was young.
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1/29/2004 5:53:48 PM
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benne
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What a wonderful thing to have those three little girls to knit for and love. My dad, who died in 1992 three years after my mom, had saved a shirt my youngest DD had complimented him on when she was two. He was getting ready to go to work and my DD said to him, "Papa, that sure is a cute shirt you`re wearing." I found it in his things when I moved him in with me and asked him about it. Of course, it was hopelessly out of style by then but he said, "Nicole always liked that shirt so I kept it." And proceeded to put it in the keeper pile. Nothing to compare with those "papas" and their girls.
Benne
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