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11/15/2006 8:20:50 AM
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afghans
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if your `big swatch` turns out not to be quite the right size - pick up stitches around the edge and add borders as a design feature.
alice
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11/15/2006 8:20:50 AM
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afghans
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if your `big swatch` turns out not to be quite the right size - pick up stitches around the edge and add borders as a design feature.
alice
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11/15/2006 8:26:32 AM
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My little white box
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with the philosopher`s wool method, you use each colour as you need it with no twisting of the yarns. as you weave-in the yarn not in use every second stitch, there`s no need to twist - no holes and no pulling tight once you practise a bit. sit down with one ball of yarn on each side of you - no tangling.
alice
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11/15/2006 5:47:40 PM
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Knitting frustration
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since the dr`s visit yesterday, i am now able to use my right hand within reason as long as i move nothing from my elbow upwards. so i can knit a bit which is great but the`shoulder immobilizer` keeps my hand at right-angles to the keyboard, so i`m still confined to lower case until i figure this one out.
benne, i keep looking at my toes and wondering if there is any hope for us there.
alice
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11/17/2006 10:59:54 AM
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Help - cooking advice desperately needed
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most children will eat things with chicken as long as they are not too exotic. look in your crockpot book for a `chicken stew` recipe that has veggies in it, but not too much in the tomato/hot pepper range - hunter`s stew or the like. caccitore and coq au vin are probably over the top. there`s a great little book in the `company`s coming` series called `make-ahead meals` which is great. get the book from your library or supermarket. the meatballs are really good. the sliced beef dishes are great - cut up the meat in one session, marinate it, zip-lock bag it, and freeze, then you have the making of several meals from stir-fry to beef bourgignon. buy the veggies cut-up frozen - not the peas/carrots/corn mixed veg types - look at the choice in the freezer section.
also, investigate the pans of frozen lasagna - not the little ones, almost all the 3-5 lb ones are much better.
desperate, buy 3 bbq chickens on the way home. coat with chutney - mango or major grey in a bottle - put in the oven at 350 for 20-30 minutes, make instant rice with a tsp of mixed herbs [whatever you have] mixed in, and a big salad and everyone will think it`s a gourmet meal.
frozen, pre-stuffed turkeys are just fine - you remove the plastic bag, pry off the little bag of giblets and any plastic frozen onto the bird, and then put it into the oven, frozen - 6hrs later you have a golden brown turkey with no worry about any nasty bacteria. make a casserole with any left over meat and stuffing by mixing with mushroom soup, adding dried or frozen chopped onion to taste, sprinkling bread crumbs and a little parmesan cheese on top [or put left-over mashed potatoes on top] and put in 375 oven for 30 mins or until really hot.
serve salad for every dinner - very healthy. baked poatoes are easy.
plan ahead exactly what you are going to eat - each meal - and keep it simple with lots of eye appeal, and then coming home from work is not so daunting. you just have to do it, not think about it.
can you tell that i was a working mother?
alice
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11/17/2006 9:59:15 PM
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Philosophers Wool 2-color knitting
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marie
if you follow what the book says, exactly, and keep the colour not in use behind your knitting, you should not have any trouble with the second colour showing through. you are twisting the unwanted colour around the working yarn before it knits a stitch, rather than twisting it between stitches.
ask more if this is not clear
alice
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11/22/2006 9:07:17 AM
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Substitute for Endless Summer Connemara
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it`s a cotton yarn, holds its shape well. take a look at the debbie bliss that was up last week. try `search aran weight- all fibres`. the ramie/cotton might be what you are looking for - dye it whatever colour you want. i`m knitting a cabled cushion cover in it with very good definition. knits not unlike the connemara.
alice
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11/22/2006 3:50:38 PM
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Alice Trueman, can I email you
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yes please. interested to hear.
alice
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11/25/2006 1:48:29 PM
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Have you ever tried this? 3 Needle Bind off for seams
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the technique is very useful for attaching vertical ribbing/edging to a cardigan. pick up the stitches on the garment for about 6 inches. then knit the last stitch of the band together with the next picked up stitch, on the ws row, slip the first stitch purlwise. when you have used up most of the 6 inches of picked up stitches, pick up the next 6 inches, and so on. neat, even, and no sewing.
i usually pick up in 2 rows, skip a row, pick up in 2 rows, skip a row, and so on.
alice
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11/25/2006 5:18:05 PM
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Jayne, a letter to Mr. Harper, maybe??
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the problem is usually not the postal service but the customs inspection at the border. if packages are stopped for inspection, they are supported to be released within 48 hours - 48 business hours - but that does not always happen. it`s my belief that they have a certain quota per day, and start again from the top of the heap, noy where they left off.
when i sent my huge to t via n in seattle, i somehow missed one. i mailed #10 from duncan on the big island on friday nov 3rd when i went over for the fateful bonspiel. t received it on monday nov 6th - canada post can`t do much better than that.
i`m sure some of my knitting magazines get read at the border. oct `05`s knitpicks arrived may `06. it had either gone around the world twice or someone had had a good long read. knitter`s has occasionally been opened and read. it`s hardly subversive.
alice
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11/27/2006 9:15:36 PM
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ALERT! Elann Email & Blog Address List
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i received the second message with a few corrections, but the first one came through all jumbled.
please send again - thanks
alice
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11/27/2006 9:29:40 PM
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Knitting travel question
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dani and i had no trouble flying out of vancouver, bc to cardiff, wales in october. we both had non-metallic needles and toiletries in 100ml bottles in a 1 litre ziplock bag. coming back out of the uk, we had to put our 1 litre ziplock bags into checked luggage, but no problem with meds or knitting. we flew zoom airlines.
may 2005, knitting needles were banned on domestic flights within the uk - ie london to edinburgh even though aircanada would allow them transatlantic. so check carefully on the website of each airline you are using.
smaller airports are more likely to have the time and patience to warn you before you check your baggage than somewhere like heathrow. cardiff had a very pleasant woman who questioned and advised each person in line for check-in.
alice
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11/29/2006 9:11:09 AM
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Update on Addy List
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cbm
i e-mailed you back off-list. i don`t know what is going wrong. it`s formatting itself as a separate message with no sender, no subject. i only opened it as i figured it was from you.
please keep trying
alice
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11/29/2006 1:57:51 PM
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Canadian Customs Questions
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with free trade, `duty` does not apply to most american items. the tax, [gst = goods and services tax] can be applied to the value of imported items. many smaller items come through with nothing being charged - large shipments get hit. this tax has gone down so is less than the seven per cent it has been for some time. a number of elann listers have sent me yarn and knitted items for dorcas and i have never been charged.
alice
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11/30/2006 10:09:03 AM
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It`s Snowing Again...
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the palm trees in lotusland look rather silly topped with 15 inches of snow. we`ve been below zero since last weekend - that 25 - 28 degrees south of the border. not cold by alberta standards, but distinctly chilly for us.our road is plowed but very slippery - ds walked down to the mailbox yesterday and decided that no way was he going to drive into ganges. a neighbour has walked way down the hill to try to bring his car home for the 2nd time this week.
i`ve finished the reversible scarf from `cables untangled` and am now working on the matching toque in hw teal for ds`s partner. by christmas, everything will probably be back to normal and he won`t need them. oh well, the scarf will contribute to his `young professor` look.
the sun is shining and the snow is dripping off rhe trees.
alice
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12/2/2006 5:45:25 PM
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hug[e] arrived on friday
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the little box arrived yesterday. just wonderful.
thank you all
alice
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12/7/2006 10:37:06 AM
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carola from alice
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thank you so much for the wonderful box of dorcas yarn that arrived on my doorstep. i can assure you that it will be put to very good use for warm clothing for children up north.
i really appreciate it.
alice
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12/12/2006 9:44:06 PM
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Pi Topper Chemo Cap - Query 2
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hi anna
the band part of the hat is 13 stitches wide. you are going to knit back and forth on these stitches until you get an edging all around the hat. you knit the band at right angles to the body of the hat.
after you have cast on the stitches, knit 12 from the outside edge, then knit the 13th stitch together with the next live stitch from the body[crown] of the hat, then knit 2 more live stitches together, turn. knit back across 14 stitches [1 + 1 + 12] to the outside edge, turn. knit 12, knit 13th stitch together with a live stitch, knit 2 live stitches together, turn, just the same as you did the first time. knit back to outside edge. continue with just these few stitches, until you use up all of the live stitches.
as you consume 3 live stitches with each garter stitch ridge, you get a nice firm edging.
the tapering starts after you have used up all the live stitches.i just sewed the cast on edge to the last ridge that was connected to live stitches. this was simply easier for me to do - i can manipulate the fingers of my right hand at the edge of this shoulder brace, but it`s hard to do any tricky manoevering as i need to put the right end of the needle cable up into the brace and position the tip at the right angle - it was easier to just sew. my great-niece`s head was getting very cold, so she needed it in a hurry.
do ask more if this isn`t clear.
alice
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12/14/2006 8:29:16 AM
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Question to Bets or any cook in the house
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i use alum foil all the time. have used the little parchment circles and they are great, but not sure they are worth the bother to hunt down.
alice
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12/16/2006 11:54:54 AM
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Well...we survived the storm. Just.
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we have been really lucky. lights have flickered a few times, the cats have been really spooked, a fair-sized branch broke off a douglas fir tree but landed below our deck.some of the island has been without power for days at a time. we were snowed in up here on the ridge for nine days, but we were warm and dry.
i haven`t got out much - theresa, i will send you a money order for hug[e] postage as soon as i can get out in banking hours to get one in us dollars. a cheque in canadian may be hard for you to cash.
hang in there jayne, cheryl have you slid down the mountain. this may be all of winter.
alice
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