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2/3/2006 10:11:02 AM
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Ok, Alice, I give up! Gumtuckies?
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Yes, Carol, you are right. The term is from the Ottawa Valley. The valley is Ontario/Quebec border country, and was isolated, so a distinct dialect and vocabulary developed.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/5/2006 9:38:18 AM
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Row 2 - Need help....looks like pattern is wrong?
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Hi Mary
ROW 1: The extra wrap around the needle for five stitches is going to make long stitches in the next row.
ROW 2: You are going to drop the extra wrap in each stitch of the group of five stitches (to make the long stitches) AND slip the stitch to the right hand needle at the same time. Then slide the left needle through the front of the five stitches (right needle is inserted into BACK of stitches, but ready to knit - this will add a twist), treat this group of five loops as one stitch, and K1, P1, K1, P1, K1 into the group of loops held together as one stitch. This makes a cluster (C5). You should have 18 clusters and 157 stitches total.
ROWS 3 & 4 These are stabilizing rows.
ROW 5: You are doing the same as in ROW 1, but your clusters are staggered - K12 instead of K8 at the beginning and K9 at the end instead of K5
ROW 6: Same as Row 2, except for different number of inset stitches. You should have 17 clusters and 157 stitches.
This should make an interesting pattern of little twists (sort of like one piece of a cable) in your blanket. By staggering them, your blanket won`t twist out of shape.
Hope this helps.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/5/2006 9:39:21 AM
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Row 5 has more stitches then Row 2!
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See my answer below. Write back if not clear.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/5/2006 9:59:29 AM
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Top- Down Cardigans
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After lying awake two nights ago worrying that DH`s sample cardigan (his is the raglan one) would be too big, I slipped half the stitches onto a second circular needle, put those rubber things on the ends, and made him try it on. It fits! Shoulders and across the back fit really well (I short-rowed to give it shape), I just need to keep making it narrower as I get towards the bottom - lanky men have smaller hips than chests. About 4 inches to go before the bottom trim. It`s sort of Bavarian-style, so a bit racy for him, but he likes the colour. (HW in Tapestry Blue with Mocha Cream and Pottery Red trim).
I`m pleased with the other two as well - the saddle shoulders with back yoke for me, the round yoke for Jenny. Just need to do the finishing on them.
When I get all of these done, I`ll be able to write a book on top-downs in HW,Peruvian Alpaca, and Connemara!!!!! It had better be cool enough in Scotland for us to wear them.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/5/2006 10:10:35 PM
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Knitting Out of Africa
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Knitting Out of Africa is great. I saw it advertised and asked Sherri at Watermark Books in Ganges to order it. It arrived the same day that Elann posted it, so I have it in my hands! She ordered two copies, and another customer was seriously considering the other one when I went in to pick up mine - and she doesn`t even knit. We don`t have a real LYS here (it`s the back part of the quilt store), but we are a great source of the latest in knitting books. Catalogues arrive this week for the spring books - Sherri and I will have to confer.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/5/2006 10:24:52 PM
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Hope Elann is ok - big wind, waves and flooding in the area
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Wind was bad, sea was rough, power went out a couple of times, but otherwise we are fine. Living almost at the top of a ridge (700ft above sea level, at least the rain runs downhill from us. Some really soggy people at the bottom by the creek. Tides were so high that we had to go drive up to get on the ferry at Vesuvius on Wednesday morning. When we came back from curling, the ferry zigzagged back and forth - "to recalibrate the instruments in case of rough weather" we were told.
No matter how hard it rains, I just remind myself that it`s not snow, it doesn`t have to be shovelled or ploughed, there are no drifts, no white-outs, no creeping along at 10 mph, almost bumper to bumper, just hoping that everyone will manage to keep going and not do something stupid.
Instead of fighting the weather, I stayed inside and knitted and worked on my thesis.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/6/2006 5:58:30 PM
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Dorcas
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Hi Libby
We especially need baby things - size 6 months and larger. These don`t have to be in baby yarn or traditional baby colours - up to worsted weight or even chunky is fine, and the brighter the better. We are trying to add a support group for new moms and babies in Fraser Lake to our repetoire and need both aby items and maternity clothes. These do not need to be new, just clean and in good condition. The group is promoting the `healthy mothers, healthy babies` philosophy. I am going to try to send to them in late summer so that they have a good supply for the winter months. Most of the mothers are young with very little money.
For the regular Christmas bales, we only send new articles. We always need sweaters, baby sets, toques, mitts, scarves, socks, slippers, and afghans. Yarn should be machine washable and/or boilable - modern laundry facilities are often scarce in the northern communities. Stripes are good, and again, bright and cheery.
Anyone who would like to knit for us, will be welcomed with very open arms.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/7/2006 9:21:20 AM
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Dorcas
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Store bought is fine! Those sleepers that were only worn a few times or ones that were pink and the baby was a boy, or undershirts and it was a summer baby. Anything useful and gently worn. We put store bought things in the Christmas bales, too, as long as they are new - selection of those terry sleepers, vests, undershirts, bibs, etc.
Maternity clothes should be practical and timeless. Jeans and pants are especially useful - Fraser Lake is very rural.
Many thanks
Alice
Salt Spring Island.
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2/7/2006 9:36:41 AM
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About waist shaping
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Waist shaping depends on your shape. Most short people go in and out fairly quickly whereas long, lanky people may go in the same amount but much more slowly. What you have done sounds fine, BUT make sure that the narrowest part ends up at your waist.
Another place to put the decreasing (other than or as well as the edge) is to make lengthwise `darts`. Look at a tailored jacket to see where they go, front and back. This way you are making the decreases in four places in addition to the edges, so you are sculpting a tube - use K2tog on one side and SSK on the other so they will complement each other.
For the slanted part, I would cast on the full number of stitches, do the same number of decreases but closer together. ie if the original is over 60 rows, you may need to get to the same place in 48 rows (recalculation to get even spacing).
Hope this helps.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/7/2006 9:43:01 AM
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Row 2 - Need help....looks like pattern is wrong?
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A simple basket weave pattern (squares of stocking stitch and reverse stocking stitch) knits up very quickly for a baby - no holes, just a nice firm fabric.You can always put a fancy edging around it, if you choose.
Alice
Salt Spring Island.
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2/7/2006 10:45:46 PM
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Help again with Pattern! - K1 W1 Fwd....and w.o.n.
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Could "W1.fwd" be wool forward?
I think it means K1, yarn forward and over the needle, *K2tog, K1, P1, yarn over needle*, repeat * to *.
The count should come out right - you have a yarn over needle before each K2tog. The K2tog in the last 3 stitches makes it come out right.
K O K2tog K P O K2tog K P O K2tog K P O . . . K2tog K
This makes a row of holes. Very useful technique.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/10/2006 10:05:56 AM
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Oh, E-that was a quick project-
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Lots of hugs to you.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/28/2006 9:20:55 AM
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Happy belated greetings to CatBookMom!
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Hope you treated yourself to lots of great yarn.
All the best
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/28/2006 9:38:36 AM
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Not a Good Time
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As some of you know, my eldest brother died in October, and the middle one two weeks ago. He and his wife were dry camping outside Quartzsite, Arizona, and he sat down after supper one evening, and, to use his expression, just "tipped over". It was certainly how he would have wanted to die. His sons flew down as soon as they could get a flight to Phoenix, but Pat had two nights before they got there. The other campers were absolutely wonderful to her and made sure that she was not alone. They drove back in the truck and fifth wheel last week and we had the memorial service yesterday in Duncan, on Vancouver Island, with literally hundreds of people. What was a man with a heart condition, who would have been 82 next month, doing dry camping yet one more time, thousands of miles away with a GMC 2500HD truck and a 32 foot fifth wheel? We won`t even go into that!
Many, many thanks Benne, Chris, Les, and Naomi for your much needed support. I`ll write to you soon.
Now I`m going to order more yarn.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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2/28/2006 11:27:22 AM
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Help! Very confused ! Reverse shaping
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Whichever way the stitches slanted on the decreases on the left side, do the opposite on the right side. ie if you did SSK, then do K2tog on the right side.
For the shoulders, you need the fewest rows on the armhole edge, so that the shoulder slopes up to the neck edge. On the left shoulder, you will cast off on right side rows, and on the right shoulder on wrong side rows. You MUST cast off at the beginning of a row or else your yarn will end up in the wrong place. Yes, you will have an extra row on one side - that won`t matter as it`ll be on the opposite side on the back.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/2/2006 8:46:57 AM
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Not a Good Time
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Thank you all so much. You are a wonderful group of people.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
PS: Dry camping is not being connected to utilities, just running off propane and water tanks.You don`t have to be lined up in a row with other RVs.
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3/2/2006 8:56:32 AM
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All together now...........Happy Birthday, Dear Alice, Happy.............
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Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/3/2006 8:36:22 AM
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elannite meet up in Salt Lake City?
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It`s not Salt Lake City, but why don`t you think about coming to Salt Spring in October (any days between the 21st and 29th)and meet elannites. $50US per night for a warm bed, food, and unlimited knitting time in front of a roaring fire (with experienced tending by Naomi) in a big stone corner firplace. If you come for the right days, you`ll meet Ann.
Check into rates on Alaska Air into Vancouver- then you just take the ferry.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/7/2006 8:53:33 AM
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Pattern Help! Barkarole Pullover
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Hi Carol
The rib is not symetric so that the middle stitch of a K5 falls at the shoulder seam. At the beginning, you will end your rows with P7, S1, but this won`t matter. As you increase, the numbers of K and P against the seam will change.
To increase - a neat way on sleeves would be S1, K2, M1, continue in pattern until 3 stitches remain, M1, K2, S1. On the next row, knit or purl the M1 stitch to fit the pattern (K5, P5, K5, P5 . . . .)
The alternative is to S1, M1, continue in pattern until 1 stitch remains, M1, S1.
What you are doing is adding stitches until you get to 5 knits or 5 purls, then, after the next increase, purl or knit to start a new set of 5.
Ask again if this is still a muddle.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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3/7/2006 8:36:42 PM
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Where can I see the B & B?
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There`s a photo at http://iwpshopinfo.interweave.com/Knits/2003%20newsletters/Winter2003projects.htm
Now I know I have that issue somewhere - - but where?
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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