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7/20/2004 9:40:22 PM
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Just thinking of you and wondering how you are feeling. Been busy knitting?
Heather
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7/21/2004 3:20:46 AM
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Libby
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Heather,
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
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7/21/2004 10:16:34 AM
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I`m so sorry your hips are hurting. I can a remember a friend of mine when she was pregnant with her second child, watching her walk away from me and actually seeing her hips slip in there sockets. She had an easy birth though. So while they hurt now maybe it won`t be so bad when the baby comes. Have you picked out names yet? I didn`t until we had my DS. All the names I thought of before hand just didn`t seem to work.
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
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8/12/2004 9:51:21 AM
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Re-reading my message and everyone else`s on staying home - I want to make it clear that I don`t want you to feel bullied, and I`m sure the others don`t either, and whatever decision you make we will all support here. It is, at least on my part, and probably on all of ours, just an attempt to give you some information you can use when you want to sit down and think about what to do.
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
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8/12/2004 10:14:05 AM
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Libby,
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
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8/12/2004 1:11:37 PM
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Libby
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First of all I want to thank everyone here for their support.
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
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8/12/2004 1:58:22 PM
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Such a sweet message, Libby. They are lucky to have you taking care of them both!
T
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8/12/2004 3:44:34 PM
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Libby,
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
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10/1/2004 10:22:11 PM
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MacChick
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Sorry I didn`t get back to you sooner on the poncho question... yes, the increases on the center-front and center-back are made throughout the entire length of the poncho... that`s what creates the pointy shape.
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.
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10/3/2004 10:21:03 AM
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Libby
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Thanks Macchick
Also another question. How do you increase and still maintain the lacy stitch pattern?
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10/5/2004 2:59:29 PM
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ScullyKnits
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I can answer this one, as I`m in the middle of one now. But I can`t answer right now as I`m supposed to be working......So let me get back with you this evening.
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10/6/2004 3:13:29 AM
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MacChick
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Basic answer for incorporating increases is: use stitch markers to set off the newly increased stitches from the ones that are in the pattern, and when you get enough to make another repeat of the pattern drop the stitch markers and add the new sections to the pattern.
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.
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10/6/2004 3:23:42 AM
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MacChick
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Oh and... K2TBL is supposed to mean:
"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!
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10/6/2004 3:50:20 PM
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You know, until I read your 2nd post, it didn`t even look wrong to me. A much more economical way of writing it. :)
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10/7/2004 4:06:34 PM
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Libby
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Thanks Chickie! Eventually I`ll get to making my very own poncho.
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12/29/2004 10:12:26 PM
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jeanflores
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Hey Libby,
Tried to email you. Not sure I have the right address. Could you email me please?
danandjeanflores@aol.com
Peace,
Jean
Ansbach, Germany
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1/23/2005 6:28:15 AM
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Cate
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Hi Libby,
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
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1/23/2005 6:48:02 PM
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Libby
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Cate,
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
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1/23/2005 10:03:47 PM
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Cate
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Glad they made it. I thought the pattern was darling when I found it. Thought you could get some longer use out of them if you put them over other socks - sort of like slippers.
Cate
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7/13/2005 5:02:18 PM
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Well, look at you, lady. What a fantastic color and pattern for you! It makes all the work on the AV seem very rewarding. I am truly inspired! Great job! Bri
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