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11/16/2006 6:23:12 AM
Knitting frustration Benne:

So sorry to hear that you`re not feeling well. You`re no whiner, that`s for sure.

I know that critter-care also brings you great joy. Can you do some extra critter-care right now? I know that most of your animals in need come right to you, but you would be such an asset to be a foster mom to a litter of orphaned kittens or puppies. Lots of places need doting foster moms.

If not that, then maybe think about how you can get some more critter time in your life right now. Fur and feathers can help heal as well as soft yarn.
11/16/2006 8:00:09 AM
Knitting frustration Yea, a new puppy! Get that furry therapist into your life ASAP. A puppy out there needs a good forever home, and you need a little fuzzy lovin`, now that you`re not getting that from your yarn!

I do the one-sense-at-a-time introduction process. Separate rooms, food, and facilities for awhile. It seems to work, and I am eventually forgiven for having added to the critter posse.

You`ve gone through a very rough patch that would make any feeling person stressed. Be gentle on yourself.
11/17/2006 9:00:31 AM
Check out these mitts - Eunny strikes again! Although Eunny`s is beautiful, I wouldn`t knit one in a million years because you would have to check me into the nuthouse.

Benne`s, however, looks lovely and do-able.
11/17/2006 1:49:34 PM
Total insanity -- NO NO NO

What about dads?

But most of all, what about devising a project that is constructive of time and energy. This isn`t.
11/18/2006 7:13:39 AM
Total insanity -- There are good ideas here. You know, one thing that kids could learn about colonial times with quilts is how MUCH WORK all this stuff was.

Do you spin? Can you demonstrate spinning? Even many of my college students don`t realize that making cloth and bedclothes was a tremendous amount of work.

Plus, nothing was ever thrown away. One thing that you might think about is reuse. Have students cut scraps of cloth from Goodwill clothes, or clothes they have at home.

And sewing, rather than coloring, is a much better idea. It is more appropriate to colonial times and also develops different hand skills that perhaps few of them have practiced.

Sounds like your school needs to look strongly towards learning objectives rather than keeping kids busy.
11/18/2006 7:19:03 AM
Fingerless Gloves Benne: which year of IK Holiday are you talking about? 2006?
11/19/2006 9:38:02 AM
Fingerless Gloves Okay, I`m still confused. I couldn`t find any interweave knits holiday issues in my colleciton and went to teh website.

Interweave Knits doesn`t do Holiday issues--that`s vogue knitting, I think. Is it Winter 2006, benne?
11/19/2006 11:03:28 AM
Fingerless Gloves Thanks LisaB for clearing that up! I do subscribe, so I don`t look at it on the shelves of the local bookstores. You would think that subscribers would get all the issues!

I was just going nuts thinking "I`ve never seen a holiday issue in my mailbox!!!"
11/21/2006 7:23:40 AM
How I spent my afternoon or how to almost burn your house down-OT Although i don`t have one, those electric teakettles are pretty sweet. They turn off on their own. Seems to me that they are in every European household.....you could go in a different direction and bring a bit of Europe to your kitchen with a snazzy electric teakettle.

But geez, that`s scary. When I was half out of my mind with an ill pet on my hands, I tried to cook up some sugar syrup for her. Of course, you know the story ends up with a sick pet PLUS a house full of smoke from a completely burnt sugary mess. Haven`t been able to get the pot completely clean.
11/21/2006 9:57:15 AM
How I spent my afternoon or how to almost burn your house down-OT Hey, that`s a good idea.

A kettle looks good sitting on the stove, but the electric kettle sure is convenient and very safe for those who boil a lot of water.

Really, as all of us have shown, it`s only a matter of time until you get involved with other stuff and forget a kettle on the stove again. Just being human, I think.
11/21/2006 10:46:15 AM
And she scores!!! Given the unexpected events and expenses in my life, I`ve got to hold off. Ugh. Painful. Painful. Plus, I really want Barbara Walker 1 and 2 as well.

Shoot me now.
11/24/2006 7:12:03 AM
Debbie Bliss Cotton Angora Alert! I`m sure that Elann will do everything possible to cleaer this up.

That said, there is something fishy going on at DB when one color has pretty different yardage than another color. It really can`t be the dye--otherwise we would be looking at this problem in every single yarn we purchased, as black would weigh more than red, etc. That`s not it.

Knitters Review gave a rather lukewarm evaluation of this yarn because surface deterioration. But what is really interesting is that the editor of Spin-Off wrote in saying that in her opinion, machine processing is inappropriate for this fiber combination. In her opinion, cotton/angora needs to be carefully hand-prepared and handspun.

Perhaps DB discovered how difficult it was to deal with this particular combination using machine methods.

http://knittersreview.com/article_yarn.asp?article=/review/product/041104_a.asp
11/24/2006 7:21:39 AM
Benne and Les: Benne: are you a subsidiary or alternate warehouse for Elann?

Someone mentions a particular shade of a particular wool that is no longer with us, and you HAVE IT! That`s just nuts.
11/24/2006 7:21:39 AM
Benne and Les: Benne: are you a subsidiary or alternate warehouse for Elann?

Someone mentions a particular shade of a particular wool that is no longer with us, and you HAVE IT! That`s just nuts.
11/24/2006 8:20:32 AM
Observations It might also depend upon when one started knitting. When I started, I don`t remember any "fun" yarns. Just regular stuff. So, I started out on maybe a size 7 needle and knitted a simple gansey for the first project. For the second, I picked a very ambitious intarsia sweater with probably 20 colors--but all plain wools. I have a few "fun" yarns in the stash, like Great Adirondack Fluff, but I don`t have many. I tend to knit on very small needles, but I`m a loose woman anyway.
11/25/2006 7:20:25 AM
Debbie Bliss Cotton Angora I`ll again suggest looking at the knitters review article (see my previous post in the previous thread about cotton /angora).

My hunch is that the manufacturer found out just how difficult it is to machine this yarn. Apparently handspun cotton/angora is the way to go.
11/25/2006 7:20:25 AM
Debbie Bliss Cotton Angora I`ll again suggest looking at the knitters review article (see my previous post in the previous thread about cotton /angora).

My hunch is that the manufacturer found out just how difficult it is to machine this yarn. Apparently handspun cotton/angora is the way to go.
11/26/2006 1:05:33 PM
Emily3cat, lacy mitts This is an incredible yarn. Maybe it wasn`t 7 to the inch, but it was definitely more stitches per inch than normal for me. Would have to go get the tape measure, which is in the other room and I`m defending my sandwich against the feline mob. It`s a supersoft yarn and it took one ball.

No pattern. Made it up. I can try to write out what I did, as I remembered close enough to make #2.
11/27/2006 7:21:57 PM
We all scream for ice cream.... We all scream for Dale`s Tiur.

D###, this is a fine yarn.

I`m doing my first Nordic sweater. Lots of color changes, and I`m not capable of right/left ambidextrousness (ya`ll know what I mean!).

But the yarn, the yarn, is incredible, mix of mohair and wool. Terrific. Good to the feel. Bouncy but firm.

I will consult you upon the heartache of steeking. Be forewarned.

And come, ye, Dale of Norway yarns, on Elann. I will not smite ye.
11/27/2006 11:14:44 PM
We all scream for ice cream.... Marie and Benne:

Yes, I`m in unabashed love. Although we`re not supposed to post disparaging stuff about companies, nobody said anything about love letters.

:)

Seriously, however, although it`s a bit of a pain to work two colors in the "throwing" method, I am smitten with this yarn. (Remember I said that I`m a bit dense to know the two hands-two yarns method.)

Now that Benne posted the ones which have been offered here, I can say that I like all of them for price vs. quality and yardage.

Remember that I`ll be crying to you once steeking commences.
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