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5/5/2005 8:31:40 PM
Drastic Measures Needed!! While our household budget is in need of serious help due to my YAS, I found something earlier today that gives *some* perspective. The Knitting Wench blog (http://craftywench.typepad.com/knittingwench/) has a WIMs page, called Have Yarn, Will Knit (click on link in the left-hand column). She has 35, count `em, *35* projects for which she has yarn, only 2 or 3 of which came from Elann. Lots of Rowan! I`m not sure I could put together anything like 35 WIMs and their yarn out of all the yarn I have. LOL! Very pretty WIMs, though!! It`s a very different way to organize a stash, but it has its points.
5/6/2005 10:22:08 AM
Virtual Greeting Cards for Knitters Lion Brand has a neat new feature. You can send virtual greeting cards with pictures of knitters! There`s one large set with knitters from real paintings - or at least it looks like real paintings! Then there are a few cute ones with lion`s faces. I haven`t tried to send a card, but what a neat Mother`s Day card these would be. Here`s the link http://www.lionbrand.com/cards/Knitting.html
5/6/2005 6:56:18 PM
Barbara Thanks for the suggestions and the support. I LOVE the "Elanngelist"!! I do need to figure out a budget for yarn purchases. I`m retired, so there`s no paycheck, but I do remember doing something like your suggestion of building up a fund for things I wanted, back when I worked. This yarn withdrawal will be tough, but I know I can count on all you ladies.
5/6/2005 6:56:18 PM
Barbara Thanks for the suggestions and the support. I LOVE the "Elanngelist"!! I do need to figure out a budget for yarn purchases. I`m retired, so there`s no paycheck, but I do remember doing something like your suggestion of building up a fund for things I wanted, back when I worked. This yarn withdrawal will be tough, but I know I can count on all you ladies.
5/6/2005 6:58:28 PM
All my new stuff Glad you are pleased with your first Elann purchase. The yarns here are such excellent quality and the prices just cannot be beat. I`ll be looking forward to seeing your first machine-knit projects.
5/6/2005 10:21:29 PM
Barbara Thanks to you, Benne, and to Teresa, too! Since I`ve already achieved SABLE status - (Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy), I have enough yarns to knit for a long, long time! I`m thinking that over the next couple of weeks, I`m going to rearrange my stash, putting together yarns with the ideas or patterns that I bought the yarn for. That should give me a better idea of what fun projects are just waiting for me to start them. Conveniently, for putting the yarns and patterns in, I have all these nice plastic bags that Elann sends in those nice white boxes!! LOL. This project will probably also help me find all those needles that I`d swear I have, but can`t find!!

You Elannites are just great!! Thanks again.
5/6/2005 10:21:29 PM
Barbara Thanks to you, Benne, and to Teresa, too! Since I`ve already achieved SABLE status - (Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy), I have enough yarns to knit for a long, long time! I`m thinking that over the next couple of weeks, I`m going to rearrange my stash, putting together yarns with the ideas or patterns that I bought the yarn for. That should give me a better idea of what fun projects are just waiting for me to start them. Conveniently, for putting the yarns and patterns in, I have all these nice plastic bags that Elann sends in those nice white boxes!! LOL. This project will probably also help me find all those needles that I`d swear I have, but can`t find!!

You Elannites are just great!! Thanks again.
5/6/2005 10:26:29 PM
Hoarding The empties would be easier to hide under the bed or in the back of the closet if you collapse them. The ones I keep I put behind the door (nearly always standing open) in the room where my stash is.

I didn`t see Oprah, but I do come from a long line of packrats. It is tough to be a real packrat here in Burbank, where there are no basements and very small attics.
5/6/2005 10:31:32 PM
Happy Mother`s Day to All I`ll have my mom`s gift shawl done tonight so I can give it to her on Sunday. And I`m sure Midnight and Shadow will provide a few purrs for their "mom", even more if I give them tuna! (It`s hard for them to get a suitable greeting card. *grin*)

I hope your families will treat you to a nice breakfast in bed, a lunch or dinner out, or whatever will put a smile on your faces.
5/7/2005 2:12:47 PM
That is a FABULOUS new picture on the home page!!! I agree! A http://secure.elann.com/group/messages.asp?adminrecno=1
http://secure.elann.com/group/messages.asp?adminrecno=1terrific, warm-weather look.
5/7/2005 8:58:10 PM
Lara is back! For my information only - how is Endless Summer Lara different from the Sonata?
5/7/2005 8:58:10 PM
Lara is back! For my information only - how is Endless Summer Lara different from the Sonata?
5/7/2005 9:01:07 PM
That is a FABULOUS new picture on the home page!!! BTW. I have no idea what happened to my post; some computer gremlins, perhaps. I MEANT to say "It`s a terrific warm-weather look."

Dratted computers, anyway! I took the Adobe icon out of my pop-up menu and it seemed like I couldn`t open any of my pdf files. So I put it back and everything works. *sigh*
5/7/2005 9:04:04 PM
Sorry if I scared you! Patricia, I apologize for the flippant response. I didn`t understand that your DH has been away for a long time. I can only plead the inadvertent ignorance of a newbie to the chat center. Has he been in the Middle East?
5/8/2005 10:10:18 AM
Roll call question--Gardeners, what`s your favorite rose??? David Austins - Abraham Darby, a pink/peach/yellow, with a glorious fruity scent.

Floribundas - French Lace, a white with a faint bit of pink at the center; they have the most beautiful just-opened look and a lovely light fragrance.
5/8/2005 10:17:19 AM
Roll call question-if the yarn pixies came by.... Purples, greens, blues - those are my `signature` colors, so the pink/coral/pale green for my Clapotis was a big change, but I love how it turned out.

A couple of weeks ago I went to a new LYS for a sale, and they were doing custom-dye work. There was a skein laid out to dry that was in the vivid colors of a New England fall - golds, russets, darkish reds, etc. It was fabulous!
5/8/2005 4:03:35 PM
Roll call question--Gardeners, what`s your favorite rose??? I have thought about getting a Mutabilis, since the color change is so striking. Is there much of a scent?

If anyone wants a great deep pink, try a First Prize. Nice scent and flowers can be 5in across. Gold Medal is a wonderful deep yellow that goes nearly white as it ages; this is a grandiflora, like Mr Lincoln.
5/8/2005 4:04:52 PM
Ogee lace sweater What is Ogee lace? I gather from your post that it is a complex pattern, I just hadn`t seen the term before.
5/8/2005 6:32:26 PM
Ogee lace sweater 28 rows!? Oy! Thanks to MaryTess on the About.com forum, I have BW Treasuries 1,2 and 3. Since I`m still having a bit of trouble sometimes with 10-row repeats, I`ll put Ogee lace down toward the bottom of my WIMs list. Thanks for the info.
5/9/2005 3:15:50 PM
My Quest is HERE--- Up and at `em, girl! That green just *has* to be for you; it will look fabulous with your hair!! And you can knit a wee shamrock with the leftover bits - for a lucky charm!
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