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12/5/2005 9:10:46 AM
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Donna-do not be afraid of cables-
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Learn to knit cables from a chart from the beginning. The chart gives a visual picture of what the cable is going to look-like, which way to cross,how many stitches, etc.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/6/2005 11:12:36 PM
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Is there anyone here who lives in Canada?
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Try e-mailing Beehive Wool in Victoria, BC
beehivewool@telus.net
and see if they have it. It`s not on their website, but they have many more yarns in the shop.Give a full description and then the ladies are very helpful.
If they have it, I can pick it up next time in Victoria and mail it to you, or they`ll mail it to you or me.
Alice
Salt Spring Island truemana@telus.net
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12/8/2005 9:12:29 AM
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back...
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Bri, try to remember the good times with the grandparents, not the family stresses and strains around the services.
Write a chatty, but non-committal, letter to your mother - don`t talk on the phone - then she`ll feel that you are paying attention to her and you won`t have guilt from listening to her side of the dialogue.
Buy yarn and start two new projects.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/8/2005 9:26:10 AM
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A Wednesday to remember
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Take really good care of yourself, Jamie, tail bones really hurt! It`ll heal but even laughing will make it hurt. Just think how lucky you were to be with friends. If could have been on ice in a parking lot somewhere.
Here`s a funny story that may make you smile. After our school board banned smoking on school property, for everyone, the principal and a female VP atlarge high school, used to sneak off behind a strip mall for a quiet puff while the students were in class. One day, she started to slip, he grabbed for her, and they both went down on the ice. Neither could get up, so at class break, students found them sitting on the ice, smoking while they waited to be rescued. The kids called the paramedics, but left them to explain to Emerg how they came by these cracked tail bones.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/11/2005 9:10:40 AM
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Jamie - Happy Birthday!!
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Happy Birthday!
Have a great trip. Warm sunshine will do you the world of good.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/15/2005 5:55:41 PM
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Totally OT-walked to school in the snow, uphill, both ways-
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Here on Salt Spring, children still can and do walk to the bus stop, or from the water taxi dock [next to the floatplane dock for those of you who know where that is] up to the middle school or high school. The ones who go to private schools off-island take the ferry each day and are picked up on the other side by buses or vans from their schools. The older ones look out for the younger ones (some are 6 or 7). The 3:30 ferry from Crofton to Vesuvius routinely has 30-40 kids up in the lounge and a bunch more take the 4:30. The schools off-island have a 5-day school week, government funding is only enough for 4 days a week here - but that`s another issue.
In Ontario, life was not as safe, I always dropped my children off at school before 8am and went on to my school, and picked them up after their activities at 4:30-4:45. I did make sure that they learned how to take public transit to Toronto by bus or train and subway by the time they were 12 - and get home again. It`s really important that children know how to escape a dangerous situation with confidence.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/17/2005 9:14:25 AM
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Checking in...
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Have a great time!!!! Don`t forget to go your exercises regularly so that you are all ready for 2006.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/18/2005 9:21:29 AM
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I`m in!
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Wonderful! Just remember that you need to sit down and knit for 15 minutes out of every hour while you unpack.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/18/2005 9:46:34 AM
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POLL - What`s next on your list?
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I`m working on sample top-down cardigans for May in Scotland.I`ve got the `saddle shoulders with yoke across the back` down below the sleeves (already knitted-in) and so it`s now just mindless knitting. I think that it`s really clever how it all goes to-gether, I just hope knitters at the retreat will think so, too and try it.
I started with a provisional cast on in the centre back of the yoke and knitted in both directions towards the sleeves, shaping for the neck as I went along. When I reached the outer edge of the shoulder on each end, I put the stitches on holders. Then I picked up stitches for the fronts and the back along the edges of the yoke. With all the pieces arranged in order on a circular needle, I began knitting down, increasing on both sides of the sleeves to make a set-in sleeve. Put the sleeve stitches on a short circular needle and knitted back and forth for 10 rows, then went circular to the cuff. For the body, I picked up the extra stitches I needed along the edge of the 10 rows on each side of each sleeve. Now I`m knitting down the body. No seams to sew up! I can try it on at any point by putting the stitches on a string. [The first attempt at a sleeve, I cast on extra stitches for the sleeve too. After 6 inches, I knew it was too big, so I frogged it and did the above.] Want to SEEhow it works - come to Scotland!
The other one on the go has a round yoke with a simple pattern. I`m going to steek the front. It`s way simpler but not nearly so clever.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/18/2005 9:50:25 AM
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Peeks are up, trust me, it`s nothing good...
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Fortunate, isn`t it Chris.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/20/2005 8:47:28 AM
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Anyone familiar with the Wool Peddler`s Shawl?
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Ithink Benne knows about this one. Wait for her answer.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/20/2005 8:57:05 AM
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Paper is Done!
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I finished my term paper Sunday and went over on the early ferry yesterday and handed it in! It`s done, it`s done. Turned out a bit long, but just didn`t have the time to condense any of it. Course was an Ethnohistory seminar, very interesting, but a lot of reading. I did the paper on Indian residential schools in the West. Found too much material. Did a lot of mindless knitting while I was reading and reading. Now back to my thesis.
Alice Salt Spring Island
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12/23/2005 9:43:08 AM
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How many of you started Kiri and quit?
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I started the Kiri four times and frogged three of them because I couldn`t get the count to come out right. Then I decidedthat it was just absurd, and sat down by myself with a cup of tea and NO distractions, got the first 15 or so rows done, and then it was just fine. Start with a new piece of yarn, not frogged bits, and just do it! You can.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/23/2005 9:49:47 AM
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Okay,I`m done! How`s it going for your holiday gifts?
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I`m so pleased that it`s not just me, makes me feel much better!
Must block DS`s sweater before he arrives on the 1pm ferry. Want to steam it on the kitchen counter and it`s a bit too obvious to do it in front of him. As for the parcel to Singapore, I`m `planning` for it to arrive after DD and M get back from Thailand. Make a nice surprise, don`t you think.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/24/2005 9:40:36 AM
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Merry Christmas to Everyone
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Very best wishes to you all. For 2006 - nimble fingers, faster needles, and miles and miles of new yarns.
All the best
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/24/2005 9:40:36 AM
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Merry Christmas to everyone
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Very best wishes to you all. For 2006 - nimble fingers, faster needles, and miles and miles of new yarns.
All the best
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/24/2005 9:40:36 AM
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Merry Christmas to Everyone
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Very best wishes to you all. For 2006 - nimble fingers, faster needles, and miles and miles of new yarns.
All the best
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/25/2005 10:31:28 PM
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Knitting sweater in the round
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You can knit in the round from the bottom up or fromthe top down. Top down has the advantage that you can try it on and make sure the neck and shoulders fit properly before you are too far along.
Yes, you can knit set-in sleeves all in one piece, no seams.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/28/2005 9:15:49 AM
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Grrrgh! Problems with short rows...
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Your instructions may be another way of saying `wrap and turn`. If so, you would then knit (or purl) the wrap yarn with the stitch it surrounds the next time you knit past this point.
Wraps must be knitted up the next time you go by, you CANNOT knit them two or three rows later unless you are constructing a particular design element.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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12/31/2005 9:47:26 AM
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I can`t seem to get a thing done!
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Way back when I took some time off from university, I cooked for the winter at a ski lodge at Lake Louise. My `shadow` was the manageress - she also drank and took tranquillizers on the side - who just couldn`t stay away from me. I would go and have a bath! With the water running constantly in a big old cast iron bathtub, I could pretend that I could not hear her outside the door. Some days I had three baths - I was a very clean cook!
Occasionally, I would have a minute to pick up my knitting, and I would pretend that I had to watch every stitch - which I don`t. Carefully putting your finger on a place in the pattern (any place) before looking up works too.
Segregate your own space from David - every woman needs `a room of her own`. All sorts of obstacles on the floor deters entry. Assigning chores, untangling wool is always good, when he floats in, may encourage him to be busy out of your sight.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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