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3/24/2004 8:10:22 AM
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Knitting term
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Yes, that cardigan looks beautiful!!!
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3/24/2004 8:10:22 AM
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knitting term
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Yes, that cardigan looks beautiful!!!
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3/24/2004 8:10:22 AM
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knitting term
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Yes, that cardigan looks beautiful!!!
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3/24/2004 8:10:58 AM
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knitting term
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Yes, that cardigan looks beautiful!!!
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3/24/2004 8:10:58 AM
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knitting term
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Yes, that cardigan looks beautiful!!!
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3/24/2004 8:10:58 AM
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Knitting term
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Yes, that cardigan looks beautiful!!!
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3/24/2004 8:12:35 AM
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Mustang Judy, did you love it?
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Yes, that cardigan looks beautiful!!!
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3/24/2004 8:17:35 AM
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Mustang Judy, did you love it?
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That picture looks like it came out of a catalog! Hey, and only 825 yards to do the short sleeved version... and for such a tall girl, too... that`s pretty good! Now let`s see what Elann`s Endless Summer Collection will have next...
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3/24/2004 8:19:53 AM
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Marion, your daughter is a goddess!
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That picture looks like it came out of a catalog! Hey, and only 825 yards to do the short sleeved version... and for such a tall girl, too... that`s pretty good! Now let`s see what Elann`s Endless Summer Collection will have next...
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3/24/2004 8:26:32 AM
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MacChick - Amazon has Knitting Aound the World for $3.99
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This is really nice of you guys, but I don`t want to see everyone going to such trouble... the book will show up eventually, it can`t be that rare!
All of those Threads books are amazing though, aren`t they? When did Threads stop including knitting articles in their magazines, anyway? I have back issues from 98 and 99, and there is not one single kitting article in any of them!
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3/24/2004 8:29:37 AM
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Knitting in the Nordic Tradition - Vibeke Lind
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Also check eBay... it shows up there very often, usually goes for about 18 bucks. I didn`t get it yet, but will... I`m just not in as much of a hurry on that one, partly because it`s pretty easy to find and partly because i keep getting it from the library.
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3/24/2004 8:39:48 AM
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cate and MacChick - Knitting in Nordic Tradition
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Seriously, the Nordic book isn`t hard to find, but you got a good price on it, and I`m glad you got it... and don`t you just love those fringed mittens? I was gonna make those out of Uros, but haven`t yet, and might do them out of the Highland Wool instead, but I am definitely going to make them before next winter!
I used the hat design ideas all through last winter, and began making the lining sections out of Uros when that came out, and it was the PERFECT yarn for it! Soft, warm, heavenly!
Somebody else here gave me the idea to go looking for that book, back before Christmas... I can`t remember who... I had asked what everybody`s favorite books were, then i went tracking down the ones people had listed that i hadn` seen before.
We should do a thread like that again... it`s a great way to make your book wish-list even longer than you ever wanted it to be!
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3/25/2004 12:12:34 AM
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Nanny sweater update
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No way would I rip that!!!! And I rip lots of stuff!!! But if the nanny ever decides she doesn`t want it after all, just let us know... MustangJudy and I will fight over it, then I guess it will end up ripped! (I LOVE that blue!!!)
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3/25/2004 12:32:17 AM
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Little kids and colors
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Some kids never pick a color... that`s almost harder, I think. My daughter was grabbing at pink in the fabric store, clothing department, everywhere when she was but a few months old. Now mind you, as soon as she could talk, she insisted (and still does) that her favorite color is yellow, but when asked to pick out a yarn or a fabric, it`s always pink, except when it`s "Rapunzel colors" (pink and lavender)... NEVER yellow! Even her jeans have to be pink!
I remember feeling so strongly about blue that I didn`t want to go to my first day of kindergarten unless I could wear all blue, and it has never changed or wavered at all.
My niece, on the other hand, will be so intense about her favorite color that you`d swear it was permanent... but just about the time her parents repaint her bedroom, it changes abruptly.
I`d go with knitting in red for awhile... she`ll let you know if a new color takes over, but in the meantime, she`ll love the red more than us grown-ups can begin to express in words!
Now as for grocery store attire... I`m the one with no fashion sense. My daughter has been telling me, "Mom, you really should match your shoes to your outfit... or your outfit to your shoes... or maybe you just need new shoes and new clothes, and this time make them match!" I took her roller skating for the first time, and at the last minute, we had a fashion crisis: "Oh, Mom, I can`t go out in public like this... my knee pads don`t match my pants, and my helmet doesn`t match either one, and my whole color theme is just wrong, wrong, wrong!"
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3/25/2004 12:40:06 AM
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14 sts and 18 rows gauge
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Well, if you`re not in a hurry, I would hold out for awhile and see what wonderful yarns are going to be in Elann`s "Endless Summer Collection." We know they are going to be to-die-for wonderful, and I`m betting there`s going to be at least one that`s a cotton/linen blend.
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3/25/2004 9:46:13 AM
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lace update
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Well, maybe not model it, but you definitely have to stuff it with some contrating color fabric and take a picture so we can see the lace!
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3/25/2004 9:51:02 AM
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oh pooh
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Farmin`... isn`t this your third $50.00 credit since October? You go, girl!
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3/25/2004 9:57:13 AM
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Casual Cables Done
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Cool! I`m really psyched to see it! All I have left to do on mine is the bottom cables on the body (`cause I did it top-down) and the neck & button bands. I can`t wait to see how everybody`s various colors and versions of casual Cables came out!!!
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3/25/2004 11:27:03 AM
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oh pooh
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I don`t have the budget to keep buying yarn... I just don`t, I`m even having to all-but-eliminate the book budget for now... so I told myself no more yarn until the rest of the "Endless Summer" yarns come out, then BE MODERATE...
But you guys all went ON and ON about the Brilla and the White Buffalo so much that I just HAD to get some of both, and this place is just not helping me at all... then I see Farmin` rackin` up those $50 credits, and I think, "You know, that`s just good sense... yarn is never going to go DOWN in price," and isn`t it appropriate to re-word an old addage from the 70`s: "Yarn will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no yarn,"
...and if we all love Elann and want it to stay around forever, we should be spending as much money here as possible... and it`s the righteous thing to do (play some sappy music here in the background), and it`s our duty as knitters to earn more than one of those credits per year (wave a hank in th air like a flag)... and if we could all be a little more like Corrinna and earn them every two months or so, we`d be doing the right thing!!! So maybe I`ll get some of that Lapis... (head up & proud!) and my daughter likes both of the pinks (yea!), and it looks like it is a high-quality equivalent of the Cotton Tots yarn (hey, yah, that, too...) which I wanted so badly to have be o.k., but which just pilled and pilled and pilled...
And this could make some more pink turtlenecks for my daughter, who just yesterday said, in as good-natured a manner as possible, after I pulled the current one off her head, "Whew! Mom! That reminded me of when I was born!" (This is from a kid who got stuck in the birth canal and had to be vacuumed out... so maybe that too-tight turtleneck is worse for her than I can fully understand!)
hmph! "Enablers" isn`t the word. Y`all are crazy! Between the yarn and knitting books I never knew existed and sites that sell 11/0 knitting needles... "Enablers" Yea, right... pushers, that`s the old-school word for it. You`re all pushers! Gettin` each other an` me all hooked on needles and everything! Aw, it`s just crazy! I`m tellin` ya, it`s crazy!
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3/25/2004 1:02:44 PM
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YA (yarnaholics anonymous)
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If I understand them correctly, "support groups" are places where members help each other fight off the urge to give in to the addiction.
SO... this is actually more like our local tavern... where we all gather `round, talk about life, and order a few more skeins, talk about knitting, and order another round, talk about books about knitting, and order another flavor, stay too long, come back too often, spend all the money we don`t quite have, and order a few more skeins... tell each other how good it feels to be on a real binge, congratulate each other`s binges, and buy a few more skeins... (seriously, though, i didn`t mean to stop at the chat area here, i was just signing on quickly to go buy a little more yarn...)
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