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3/28/2004 9:33:20 AM
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Oh Les-what a dollbaby!!!!
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Dang- you`re too quick for me, Betsy - thought I could slide this one past without anyone asking! I really haven`t a clue what kind of yarn it is!! It was a WIP for quite a while - started it a couple of years ago for another baby who grew up!! It was a cotton acrylic blend and the gauge was 27 sts/4 inches knit on 3.5mm needles.
Abby really is a doll, aren`t I lucky! She lives about an hour`s drive from here so I don`t get to see her enough. Hope to see her this friday and will have her big sister model some of the felted Naturgaarn slippers I just finished. They have the digital camera.
Lesley
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3/29/2004 6:32:54 AM
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I am a woman of great restraint
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Okay, Benne, the silver lining...... you now have incredible vault of material to use to maintain your upper hand. This could be used for........ years, I`d say!!
Lesley
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3/29/2004 7:02:16 AM
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Shui Kuen - your bio
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Great Bio Shui Kuen!
My parents grew up in Thunder Bay - It is a place we visited during some summers when I was young. I looked up Nolalu on the map and see that you are near Kakabeka Falls. I have fond memories of picnics there and running along the smooth rock, upstream from the magnificent falls. The last time I was there (in my 20`s)I went x-c skiing at Kakabeka. What wonderful country.
One of my grandmas`s lived in Rosslyn on a little acreage, (before the area was built up as it is now). She had no plumbing, - a hand pump in her kitchen, a humous toilet indoors and loved it that way. She was quite the naturalist- birds and plants - and in her 80`s worked at the local museum to make money to buy herself a hearing aid!! You really are in a beautiful part of the world, aren`t you. The description of your property had me drooling!! Do you have a "proper Finnish sauna"?
And Ann/Robert, if you`re listening, my DH grew up in Winnipeg. DH went to Kalvin (sp) and St. Pauls. His dad, Jack Patterson was a high school English teacher at Churchill. Any links there?
Lesley
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3/29/2004 8:18:23 AM
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you readers out there
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for those of you who mentioned their reading passion, there is a Reading Room at www.homemakers.com where they have just started to read and discuss some of the classics, starting on Mar 15 with Jane Eyre. The moderator is an English prof at U of Toronto.
Les
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3/30/2004 4:52:51 AM
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Aracaunia cotton - fabulous!
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Didn`t have a computer meltdown - yet, but just in case it should happen, I bought some of this yarn in raspberry, lapis and turquoise for the DD`s to knit 2 tanks and the t-shirt. Goin` in bright!!
Lesley
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3/30/2004 4:56:52 AM
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Maryland Wool Festival
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What`s with that - a husband who "has learned an appreciation of the fibers and colours". How the heck did you do this??
Les
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3/30/2004 4:56:52 AM
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Maryland wool festival
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What`s with that - a husband who "has learned an appreciation of the fibers and colours". How the heck did you do this??
Les
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3/30/2004 5:08:52 AM
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Ok, roll call! Who`s working on what this week?
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Bea - I hope you`ll share your experience with adapting the Not your mothers coat to be less swingy. I too am not quite tall enough for the "swing" but love the jacket. It really does look wide in the orangish pic in the book, doesn`t it. I have also thought that I didn`t want to look like Sally M from the back in the pic of her in the brown Einstein coat in "The Knit Stitch". Didn`t like the "hang" of it. Any comments about the hang from those of you who have knit an einstein (Alice maybe? you`ve knit a few)?
Lesley
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3/30/2004 5:58:45 AM
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Jeanflores-how was Poland?
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what kind of pottery is it that you look for?
Les
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3/30/2004 8:37:07 AM
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Maryland Wool Festival
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I absolutely love watching the sheep dog trials too! They are simply amazing dogs. I love their body language when they are working!!
My latest revival of knitting I think was when I started to knit for my great nieces and cousins kids, just in the past while. My niece`s husband is Norwegian and his grandma used to knit all of the grandkids beautiful norwegian mittens. she is quite elderly and doesn`t knit much anymore so Dan wanted to learn how to knit and is in competition with his brother. Dan is a student right now so hasn`t had time to come back for instructions for a while now. Then I found Elann and can afford to work on a stash!! The rest is history.
Lesley
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3/30/2004 8:37:07 AM
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Maryland wool festival
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I absolutely love watching the sheep dog trials too! They are simply amazing dogs. I love their body language when they are working!!
My latest revival of knitting I think was when I started to knit for my great nieces and cousins kids, just in the past while. My niece`s husband is Norwegian and his grandma used to knit all of the grandkids beautiful norwegian mittens. she is quite elderly and doesn`t knit much anymore so Dan wanted to learn how to knit and is in competition with his brother. Dan is a student right now so hasn`t had time to come back for instructions for a while now. Then I found Elann and can afford to work on a stash!! The rest is history.
Lesley
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3/30/2004 8:26:45 PM
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Corinna, wonderful sweaters
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Those sweaters are tremendous! You do like the challenge don`t you!! Well done.
Lesley
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3/30/2004 8:34:47 PM
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The Vega`s here!
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Bets - come on up here. It was in the high 70`s today, people in shorts and sandals and the forecast is for snow tomorrow afternoon!!!! Go figure. I never put my ski jacket away.
Les
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3/30/2004 8:39:38 PM
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Maryland Wool Festival
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You caught on!!! I DO think I could show some enthusiasm for his passion - wine that is! Oh, my!! LOL
Les
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3/30/2004 8:39:38 PM
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Maryland wool festival
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You caught on!!! I DO think I could show some enthusiasm for his passion - wine that is! Oh, my!! LOL
Les
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3/31/2004 5:33:01 AM
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Jeanflores-how was Poland?
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Jean:
That pottery IS great. Such wonderful colours. We have some local potters "Terracotta Dudes" who have a store and also sell at the local summer farmers` market. They started out selling ware with chili peppers on it - salsa dishes with lids so that when the kids (who have been trained not to double dip) have a snack,they just put the bowl back in the fridge with the lid on rather than leave the half filled bowl on the counter to be thrown out. They now have a line of African- fabric -inspired ware that they are doing in yummy colours. Great wine goblets - glass top with pottery stem in a funky design - which make a glass of red taste even better! Did I need that?
Bummer when the prices jump, eh?
Les
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3/31/2004 6:00:29 AM
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Poll: What are you going to make with your Araucania cotton?
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Benne - Oh, I love that Sharon Stone sweater. And, I love that collar as is! Take a deep breath and wear it!! Of course I live where a turtleneck can be summer wear!! Our evenings get very cool in the summer - mountain air ya know, and the sun doesn`t set til about 10:30 pm so we are often outside in the evening. Restaurants here have high standing propane heaters on their outdoor patios to keep the wine drinkers happy.
I am planning to make a couple of tank tops for my girls 17yo and 20yo (on April 4) out of the raspberry and the turquoise maybe like the Koko pattern Mara posted- they can fight about who gets which one, and maybe the T-shirt shown on the site in the Lapis. I did this without consulting the girls as they can`t see beyond the colour of a garment in a pattern pic or the length of something in the pic. GRRRR! That makes 3 for two girls - hmmm, how do I get out of that one. maybe they can share the T. They are both about the same size but the younger one has bigger boobs than the older one!!!! We`re talking about a 34" chest on the larger one and the older one has great shoulders!! (They`d kill me if they read this!!!!) I`d better stop!
Les
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3/31/2004 7:10:37 AM
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Oh, that Esprit! Marion, did you get yours yet?
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Can I get on the list too, Marion? do you need my address? what`s your e-dress?
Les
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3/31/2004 7:18:43 AM
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Finished a sock!
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Hahoo!! I have finished a sock out of some Socka yarn! Had to rip back the toe as I didn`t end up with an even number of sts. I had to do some heavy thinking to get back on track as I had put the danged thing aside,but I did it!! Thought I might have to fly off to Maryland Festival for some help. You guys are so lucky!! I am now starting on the cuff of the next sock. Am knitting with what feel like toothpicks in a very tiny sized bamboo. Next pair will be definately in a larger gauge.
Les
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3/31/2004 7:43:38 AM
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downloadable patterns
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check these out!
http://www.ashford.co.nz/Tekapo_Garments.htm
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