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Posted by Wooly on June 18, 2006, 1:12 pm
I cut an apple the other day for my son's lunch (he's missing five
teeth right now, can't bite much of anything!) and discovered
sprouting seeds. I quartered the apple and planted each quarter in
it's own pot of composted horse poo. In 10 or 15 years I might have
the only producing Gala apple trees in town :D
The endless shawl is finished, except for blocking and darning in the
ends. The pattern didn't specify gauge or yarn quantity, though it
did suggest the finished, blocked size for the shawl. My *unblocked*
shawl is about 20% bigger than the finished, blocked size and used
2.25 cakes of Jaggerspun Zephyr so I'm guessing the "recommended" size
would take something less than two cakes. This week I'll put together
my high-tech PVC blocking frame and spend most of a day stringing out
the shawl.
County fairs, here I come :D
I have on the needles a Beth Brown-Reinsel gansey. I'm using Bendigo
5-ply (which is finer than sportweight but not so fine as fingering
weight) and knitting at 6spi. I find that I can't knit at the tight
gauges I was able to achieve before I broke my arm, or even the gauges
I could knit to before I had wrist surgery in February.
So I'm only looking at a few tens of thousands of stitches, unlike
Aaron who has to knit a few hundreds of thousands :D
I've got one sock of a pair made, the other sock is waiting for me to
become bored of the gansey.
What else. I'm still spinning froghair to be turned into 3-ply yarn
for a sweater. The going is slow, but I'm forcing myself to knit for
20 mins, spin for 20 mins, then to get up off my lazy butt and do
housework or whatever.
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Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET.
This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%.
Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...
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Posted by YarnWright on June 18, 2006, 1:24 pm
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:12:03 GMT, Wooly spun a fine yarn
mercilessly snipped:
>........ and do
> housework or whatever.
>
WTF is housework? LOL!
Happy Fathers Day to your DH, btw!
Noreen
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Posted by JCT on June 18, 2006, 2:07 pm
I get in on the father's day fun this afternoon- invited along with my
DH by my sons to a barbeque.
I also got to talk to our DD because he wasn't home when she called (he
called her back later).
It is a gorgeous day today - edged up toward 70F and bright sun.
Should be fine for backyard barbeque.
I frogged the yellow sweater. I had debated between the L and XL sizes
and made the wrong choice - the good news is that I decided before I
was too far along that it was going to be too big.
( The critical dimension being at lower part of the sweater - not the
upper in my case) The sleeves I will leave alone and just make the
sleeve openings the right length for the already finished sleeves -
shouldn't be to hard to do that. Because it is all slightly ribbed
(k3p1) and the fabric is soft, it should be just fine this way and not
hang funny on my shoulders. I need to keep at it or summer will be
gone before I finish my summer sweater!
Judy
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Posted by Your friend on June 18, 2006, 4:40 pm
Oh no Judy, you're going to do that ruffle again?
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Jan in MN
>
> I frogged the yellow sweater. I had debated between the L and XL sizes
> and made the wrong choice - the good news is that I decided before I
> was too far along that it was going to be too big.
> ( The critical dimension being at lower part of the sweater - not the
> upper in my case) The sleeves I will leave alone and just make the
> sleeve openings the right length for the already finished sleeves -
> shouldn't be to hard to do that. Because it is all slightly ribbed
> (k3p1) and the fabric is soft, it should be just fine this way and not
> hang funny on my shoulders. I need to keep at it or summer will be
> gone before I finish my summer sweater!
>
> Judy
>
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Posted by JCT on June 19, 2006, 1:41 am
Yep -- ruffle has been redone. Started again on the body of the
sweater. I am in battle mode on this thing now. Judy
Your friend wrote:
> Oh no Judy, you're going to do that ruffle again?
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