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6/11/2004 5:32:16 PM
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Patricia
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Oh my I sure do hope this is not going around again! I am going to frog my "not your mothers suit coat". I just am not happy with the way that it looks, too much bulk in the under arm. I am hoping to salvage my cherry tree hill yarn, but I know that the WB can not be saved. Also, planned on sewing together my cotton cardi today and realized that I had only made one sleeve (lol) and that one was about 2 inches too long.
Just thought that I would warn you that the frog bug may have returned, but I am hoping it isn`t so.
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6/11/2004 6:03:19 PM
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If the WB falls apart, I might be able to spin it.
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6/11/2004 6:03:34 PM
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If the WB falls apart, I might be able to spin it.
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6/11/2004 8:20:04 PM
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bets
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Oh, stomp on it, quickly!
B
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6/12/2004 9:39:52 AM
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MacChick
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Ouch! Now apparently stomping on a frog just turns it into a tink, because that`s what I just had to do last night to the lace I`d just finished... and by the time on your post, I`d say I was tinking just moments after you began stomping!
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6/12/2004 9:47:42 AM
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Patricia
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I can`t tink, I`d rather rip-it rip-it!
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6/12/2004 10:50:38 AM
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Melanie
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Okay, this subject finally turns the long-time lurker into an active participant! Patricia, you might be able to use the WB to make "felted" fabric. I`ve only seen it done with roving, but the result was really spectacular.
Pull the wool out very very thinly and place on a large section on bubble wrap. Keep the first layer all going in the same direction. Then take all those oddball snippits and lengths of leftover yarns and lay those on top in whatever design you like. Make another very thin layer of wool running perpendicular to the first layer. Pour hot water mixed with a bit of soap onto it, roll it up and give it a good massage. I`m told at some point it can be dyed too, but I don`t remember the specifics (I can find out if you`re interested).
Eventually it turns into an amamzing looking fabric. A member of our Stitch-n-Bitch knitting group made a beautiful purse out of it, very unusual and very pretty.
I have a bunch of roving I bought from Carolina Homespun & intend to actually try doing this myself (as opposed to just talking about it!) but my ever-expanding yarn stash keeps arguing that it needs more attention...
I might have a nightmare frogging ahead myself. I made JOMR`s Waterfall Camisole & it is way too big, but with the construction I don`t even know if it is possible, and just thinking about it depresses me beyond words. Jill teaches sometimes at my LYS & I hope I run into her someday so I can beg for help...!
Melanie
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6/12/2004 11:43:55 AM
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Patricia
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Thanks for the information Melanie. I don`t think that I could just "throw the WB away" so I`ll keep this in mind. Thanks again, and welcome to the chat center, we are a real friendly bunch.
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6/13/2004 6:39:13 AM
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benne
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Welcome Melanie,
Wow, I never would have thought about felting the WB the way you describe. I have lots of lovely WB but I sure hope not to have to frog it. It`s supposed to be "Not Your Mother`s Coats." I`ll certainly keep Patricia`s experience in mind when I make my coats.
What yarn did you use for your Waterfall Camisole? I shudder to think of frogging all your lovely work. If it would all have to be frogged, is there a possibility of trading it to one of your knitting buds for yarn (lots of yarn!)for you to make another for yourself? I know that`s not an ideal answer but I hate to think of you frogging all your lovely work. Or maybe you could trade it for one made for you by whoever needs the size you made. Anything but frogging the whole thing. You are fortunate to have access to Jill`s classes, I`m very jealous. ;-} I`ll hold out for the best option, that Jill can help you figure out how to fix it.
Anyway, regardless of the reason, I`m glad you posted. If you have to frog, we`ll be here for you all the way.
Benne
Benne
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6/14/2004 6:37:13 AM
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MacChick
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Oh, I have to toally agree with Benne... and I will frog at the drop of a hat, but if the whole top is done and its only problem is that it came out too big, I would definitely find somebody it will fit and give it to them, then just make a new one for yourself. If you measure it and post the size, a picture, and what kind of yarn you used (and how much yarn), you might find someone to trade yarn-for-top right here!
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6/14/2004 7:34:02 AM
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ecasey
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I`ve been frogging like mad all weekend - well more knit-a-bit-frog-a-bit! The pattern I have been in with this lace is that I`m fine when I`m sitting doing it, but if I leave it and come back, I am sure to do something odd that I have to come back and fix a few rows later... and tempting as it sounds, I don`t think knitting 24/7 without leaving it down is workable!
Yesterday evening I had to go back and frog the progress from yesterday afternoon - I had been watching the football and not the pattern! (That`s soccer to you lot - you probably don`t even realise, but the European Championships just started, the next biggest football tournament to the World Cup. England were playing France - the current holders - yesterday. People at home in Ireland have a strained relationship with England, but when it comes to football you generally have an interest because the international team has so many of the club teams that you watch - Ireland has no good football to speak of, even the players on the Irish internationl side play all their club matches in English leagues). HOWEVER, sometimes you still can`t help feeling a little gleeful when England gets beaten - blame it on Oliver Cromwell (if any of you know Irish history...). So, England scored in the first half and looked like they were going to win... then France came back and scored twice in the last 2 minutes! LOL
Me on the phone to Dad afterwards, as he was trying to stick up for England:
Dad: France were so lucky, I can`t believe it!
Me: They weren`t lucky, sure they looked like they were going to score the whole second half.
Dad: They did not, sure James (England Goalkeeper) didn`t make a save the whole second half!
Me: I know he didn`t... especially not in the last minute...
Dad: (silence)... I`ll put your Mum on.
Heeheehee
Eileen.
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the STARS!" (Oscar Wilde)
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6/14/2004 9:10:59 AM
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Melanie
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The Waterfall Cami was one of Jill`s kits in Ironstone Cotton, in shades of yellow and pink (much prettier in person than on the website). Have to laugh here - at one point I`d "lost" a ball of the yarn just before heading out on vacation. Emailed her, desperate for a replacement. Jill was kind enough to bring it to our LYS, but asked me to bring my work-in-progress as she hadn`t actually *seen* that particular colorway knit up! And my sure-fire method of finding a lost item is to purchase a replacement for it - the missing skein showed up the day after we returned from vacation...
Anyhow, the cami is very wide but too short so I`m considering adding another row of diamonds, and giving it to my friend who is more generously proportioned than I am. There is plenty of yarn left, but to complicate things further, I threw the darned thing into the wash (hot) and dried it (hot) in a futile attempt to shrink it, so now the new diamonds will probably be too big. <sigh>. On the good side I already bought a bunch of the stretchy Esprit to make another - and I plan on making it a good deal smaller!
Melanie
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6/14/2004 11:14:32 AM
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benne
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Be sure and let us know how it turns out on the Esprit. I bought enough for that project but, (toe-stubbing, head down), haven`t gotten around to it yet. ;-}
Benne
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