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4/26/2004 10:07:40 AM
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Arghhhh!! Laundry Crisis - help please
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And I`m signing on wth Benne`s suggestion... Goo-gone will not harm poyseter; it`s just a citrus acid solvent, there are others out there now, Citri-Clean and so on, but Goo-Gone has been around for years and I personally have used it to remove chapstick, non-washable crayons, spray-adhesive, glitter paint, and a host of other messes from clothing. The only thing I cannot predict is how deeply set the chapstick was if it went through a clothesdryer, since I don`t currently use one of those... but Goo-Gone will probably do it. Sometimes you need to let it soak on there for awhile.
Now another hint... after several times of digging melted chapstick goo out of the laundry, I got my daughter the kind that has a key ring on the cover, and put it on a string, which she wears around her neck... has one clipped to the zipper of her little purse, one on a wristband, one on the back of a baseball hat (that one is weird, and I don`t see a kid much older than 5 going for it), but the point is that she can teach herself not to put them in her pockets anymore... possibly?
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4/26/2004 10:10:36 AM
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new elann shopper
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Oh, tell us her screen name... so we can know which one she is... and so I can email her on the side and have her go raid your stash of Peruvian Collection yarns... hee, hee, hee...
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4/27/2004 2:49:02 AM
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new elann shopper
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Lock it in the safe, huh?
So there`s a safe... that`s another clue! Another clue!
Let`s see... probably not one of those under-the-floor safes, because of the part of the country you live in... so which room is the safe in?
(Harry Potter books are sharpening my clue-finding skills, and I`ll bet if I wave a knitting needle at the safe and whisper "Alohamora!" it will just pop right open for me!)
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4/27/2004 3:00:18 AM
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undies emergency
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Well, but then it would be hard to get the husbands go "Yea!" about spending $300.00 at Elann... Remember, that was the whole point of the models. Jeesh! You guys are total gratification junkies! You`re even forgetting the strategy part!
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4/28/2004 2:10:25 AM
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new elann shopper
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LOL! You guys are too quick ffor me... and I dare not flirt with a curse like that... that must rank among the "Unforgiveable Curses," doesn`t it?
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4/29/2004 12:20:01 AM
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I am in a blind running panic!
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Remember to bring your own hair conditioner.... most hotels these days do NOT provide it, even if they give you soap & shampoo, and in that humid air, well, it can be a tangly problem to be without it!
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4/29/2004 12:34:19 AM
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The BEST auction I`ve seen in ages!
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Yep, that wins, hands down, for the best auction yet! (Did anyone actually see it on Al Roker`s segment?) What a great writer!
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4/29/2004 12:38:41 AM
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Ooh - Tahki Spash!
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Did you say rereripped???? Oh, now that is right up my alley! I think I have a sickness... I`m suspecting I might have developed an addiction to ripping...
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4/29/2004 12:41:35 AM
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Another Laundry rescue, and I owe it all to you guys!
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Yea, I`m betting they`ll make it onto CNN for causing some kind of a disturbance. I`m going to make sure and watch it every night for awhile.
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4/30/2004 3:11:58 AM
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Ooh - Tahki Spash!
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The part you saw posted here earlier did not get ripped; that was the result after many rippings... the belly and bottom after it got ripped a few more times, though. And a stand-up neck got added. And I cut it down the middle then added button plackets, to make it into a cardigan. It was always intended to be a cardigan with a stand-up collar, beacuse it was a gift for my sister, and she most definitely wanted it to be a cardigan. I liked the way it was looking as a pullover... enough so that I might do another one as pullover-with-crew neck.
How are you coming with your top-down project? I sure thnk they go fast! I mean, my only delays on that one were because I kept thinking of different things to add, but the basic sweater was very painless. I am going to try a raglan sleeve next, I think... although that top-down -in-the-round version of set-in-sleeves has actually been calling me in my dreams lately. And I am thinking I want to modify my ballet sweater pattern to make it into a top-down raglan sleeve construction. I can`t wait to hear how you are feeling about this top-down method! Are you using circular needles or long double-pointed needles?
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4/30/2004 3:45:58 AM
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Woe is me - I`m jealous
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C`mon guys, cheer up, we will all get to go some day... and to a knitters` camp, too... These guys are just the, what shall we say, "Advance Party"... they will report back to us on the highlights and the "notes for what to do different next time." And when another festival comes along that has the right location and timing, another group of us will go... maybe the same group, but with more people...
And in the meantime, console yourself with a bit more yarn. Yarn gets you through times of no money better than money gets you through times of no yarn... and if you REALLY can`t buy any more yarn just now... re-organize your stash... you might run into some yarns you`d forgotten about , and that always brightens a day!
And one of these days, it will be a huge group of us at a wool festival, the Elann Contingent (or whatever... we do need to work on a name!), and we will preceed the show with a week-long "Knitting Camp" up at Shui`s place, and we will follow it up with another week of knitting and some spinning at Benne`s sheep-llama-alpaca-vicuna-angora farm!
And we will gather all of our chatty little hints, notes, patterns, experiments, and general anecdotes into a great big book with loads of pretty photos. And we will think of a catchy, silly, but secretly meaningful, name for it and send it off to a publisher. And then we`ll have a good laugh at that, too, and buy some more yarn to celebrate.
And decades later, people will talk about that mysterous "Elann Group," try out the patterns and pass on the advice, and keep the spirit alive... and go to a wool festival together...
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4/30/2004 6:01:33 PM
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This is just sick...
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I just ripped out the entire beach poncho again... what the h@*! is wrong with me? I seem to have developed a refusal-to-finish-a-prject complex. DD is frantically hiding her half-done turquoise Sonata top until I get over this problem. This is just sick now...
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4/30/2004 6:06:07 PM
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Phew!! Had me worried yesterday!
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LOL!!! That was TOO classic! You know you are seriously addicted when you say:
"...as soon as I was able to get back on I ordered some of the new mohair!"
You go, girl! As long as we all keep doing that, Elann will still be here, right?
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4/30/2004 6:08:46 PM
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Yeah! - finished top -- and a question
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Congratulations!!! I find it pretty rare to have something actually come out the way I was trying to get it to come out, so I am happy for you! It`s very cool! Can`t wait to see the photo!
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4/30/2004 6:12:03 PM
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ebayweddingdressguy.com
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Yea, and now that the dress is *famous* it`s probably actually worth what they ended up paying for it... to some collector, somewhere... should probably go into a museum next to an Andy Warhol display! What a hoot is right!
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4/30/2004 6:21:10 PM
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This is just sick...
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It seemed all twisted... I made the increases all going the same way, and it kinda looked like a giant tam, and the neck opening (a V with a shawl collar) wasn`t lined up with the center front anymore... it was off to one shoulder... and I don`t really try for high standards, but it really bugged me because it`s such nice cotton... if it had been kitchen cotton for a few buck a cone, I probably would`ve left it that way... but I was planning it as a thing she wouldn`t outgrow for a long time, and the cotton is so, so nice and soft, and I just knew it was a waste to leave it "wrong"... but I also feel at my wit`s end with all the ripping lately... I am seriuosly wondering if it`s because I`m a Lakers fan and it`s playoffs and that`s the whole mood... to practically ruin all hope then pull out a win by a string and a prayer... and maybe I`m just in that mode. I don`t know, but I gott stop doing it... it was fun at first, now it`s really feeling like a seriously psychotic thing!
SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!!
O.K., I`ll make a prmise to everybody here, because that WILL make me stick to it...
I WILL NOT RIP OUT THIS GARMENT AGAIN.
However it comes out this time is going to be the final incarnation.
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4/30/2004 6:25:35 PM
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really cool site about icelandic sheep
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Hey, this is cool... and I`m very intrigued by the clog thing, too!
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5/2/2004 3:36:35 AM
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This is just sick...
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First, thank you ALL for making me feel better about this! (And Fran, I would`ve gone with the new fashion statement approach, but I think it was headed for claustrophobic nobody-can-wear-it status!)
Well, here`s a first... Corinna, I`m going to say don`t rip... Because on the basis of color variations in the Araucania, I`m suspecting that if you wash the finished garment in Clorox 2, or after a bit of time, the colors are going to even out a bit. (Or they could get worse, I suppose...) I`m finding more color variation in the turquoise than in the raspberry, but I`m looking at it like it`s part of "the look" of this yarn... plus, I really think it`s going to even out after it`s been washed. Sounds like the deepest blue has much wilder variations than I`ve been seeing though, so only you can tell for sure. I guess before I ripped I might try a strand of each in Clorox 2 and see if they get closer to each other in color or even more different. My guide on ripping is to ask myself: After the garment is done, am I going to eventually not care about the so-called problem, or is it going to be SO increasingly annoying to me that I can`t stand to look at it? You say it`s on the back... Is your hair going to cover it anyway? Hey, well, if anyone points it out, you can sure ask them why they were studying your back side, huh?
I did try the experiment I was mentioning awhile back, too... putting some of yje Araucania in straight bleach to get yet another color variation. Straight bleach is a terrible thing to do to any fiber, I know, but I loved the color change in the turquoise... it made it come out the same color as the top Eileen made that is posted here. I only bleached about a one yard strand, and put just one stripe of that color in... I liked the color, but I couldn`t bring myself to subject the nice cotton to such harsh treatment again.
And, in retrospect, this last rip-out was a very good thing. It`s coming out WAY better... hanging right, and I`m glad I did it. I changed from sort-of following a poncho pattern to doing the whole thing pretty much like those "people cozies" that we all discussed this past winter. DD told me, as I was winding the yarn back into balls, "I really think you should`ve just stuck the needles back in and kept knitting it, but since you didn`t... I have been thinking that I would like a hood after all... so since you`re starting all over again, maybe you can make me a hood this time?" So I started at the top with 7 stitches in a circle and pretty much followed the people cozy pattern, with a few modifications for beach vs winter-snug and for cotton vs wool. And it is so, so, SO much better!
I guess when I have had more years of knitting under my belt, I will have a better "mind`s eye view" ahead of time, and that will save some of these false starts. I do recall going through a lot of this with sewing about twenty years ago, and, after awhile, I just "knew" some things about how things come out and how they are constructed. I`m just not there yet with knitting. Lots of you guys here are, and that is very helpful... like when I couldn`t figure out why the pink turtleneck wasn`t working and you guys instantly knew some things that made all the difference in the world. And making decreases not swirl by going k2tog alternately with ssk (thanks). So simple and obvious... but I guess it takes screwing things up a few times to build up an internal repertoire of these things to the point where you can see HOW to make almost anything come out so it looks the way you are picturing it will look.
Thanks for all the support! You guys have made me feel like I`m not a whacko! (DH says I`m an adrenaline junkie sabotaging my own stuff to make it more challenging... but really that is NOT it... it`s all just part of the learning curve!)
Oh, and my sister got the cas cables variation sweater... and she LOVES it. She really never liked the neck of the original pattern, and loves the higher neck and all the rest (she never had a sweater before that actually had sleeves the right length)... and she says she will definitely keep this as a knew tradition... where she gives me an Elann.com gift certificate for my birthday and I knit her something for hers. She thinks she`s getting the better end of the deal, says she feels a bit guilty... and I feel a bit guilty making her pay for the yarn for her own sweater, because I was going to make her one anyway... so we both think it`s a GREAT new family tradition!
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5/2/2004 3:58:07 AM
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Ooh - Tahki Spash!
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It is in the Barbara Walker book, "Knitting from the Top." This book has now become so indispensible to me that I cannot put it back up on the bookshelf... she must have the easiest-ever version of invisible cast-on, too, and I am just converting everything to the top-down, in-the-round method. I cannot begin to explain how "right" it feels to cast of and have that be the end... no sewing or grafting aything shut. It is "pure knitting."
Now I know once before I had said something about "just don`t look at the photos" in that book.... because they were these horribly ugly 70`s looking acrylic yarn and icky... but when I finally needed more than just constantly renewing the library`s copy, and bought a new copy of the book from Elann, I discovered that the currently in print edition has omitted the photo section. (And now... go figure... I wish I had all the ugly photos! Hey, they were REALLY horrendous, but it IS always nice to see an actual close-up example of how things turn out... even if you have to squint and try to tune out the yarn that was used! Oh, but it would`ve been a marketing DISASTER to have kept them, I know that for sure!)
If you have ANY trouble with figuring out the 2 circs sleeves, please say so... I have tons of photos I can email, if you want. You`ll probably get it right off, though. You`ll never do sleeves one at a time again! (I know, I need to stop saying that!)
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5/2/2004 4:10:36 AM
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"I did it"
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Now that you`re finished, are you saying, "Oh, yea, I am SO glad I frogged it... it was DEFINITELY worth it!" That is the part of ripping out that keeps me doing it... it would be more discouraging to have a pile of things that all came out very wrong than to have a smaller pile of things that took numerous rippings to finish.
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