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Posted by Spike Driver on March 13, 2009, 9:35 pm
I am finally caught up. Finished the three blankets for my new great
nephew.
I am going to work on some two color knitting. That is about the only
thing I have not did very much of. I did a sweater for my sister. She
loved it, all the other teachers she worked with wanted it.
I saw that Jo Anne's has sock yarn we can afford now. I purchased a few
skeins. I have made many socks.
Drop a line and tell is if you are caught up.
Hugs,
Dennis
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Posted by Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH on March 13, 2009, 9:59 pm
Spike Driver wrote:
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> Drop a line and tell is if you are caught up.
I am just about caught up for now. Working on an easy lace pattern
(every 3rd row is a K2tog, YO) cape to take to work, because the Mobius
shawl is a little hard to take on and off quickly (when the air
conditioning fan goes on, which it does year-round, it is FREEZING at my
desk because it blows on my neck and back, and when it goes off, it's
too hot to wear a sweater/shawl/poncho/whatever, so I need something
that's easy to throw on, easy to throw off, and has no sleeves because I
don't have the room to do that quickly).
Then I'm taking a break and sewing some to beef up my work wardrobe
before I go back to knitting, at which time I am going to do a cotton
sweater that I don't have the yarn for yet.
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Posted by Olwyn.Mary on March 14, 2009, 12:55 am
Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH to reply wrote:
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> I am just about caught up for now. Working on an easy lace pattern
> (every 3rd row is a K2tog, YO) cape to take to work, because the Mobius
> shawl is a little hard to take on and off quickly (when the air
> conditioning fan goes on, which it does year-round, it is FREEZING at my
> desk because it blows on my neck and back, and when it goes off, it's
> too hot to wear a sweater/shawl/poncho/whatever, so I need something
> that's easy to throw on, easy to throw off, and has no sleeves because I
> don't have the room to do that quickly).
>
> Then I'm taking a break and sewing some to beef up my work wardrobe
> before I go back to knitting, at which time I am going to do a cotton
> sweater that I don't have the yarn for yet.
Samantha!! I thought you worked from home. Have you changed jobs
without telling us???????
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
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Posted by Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH on March 14, 2009, 4:22 am
Olwyn.Mary wrote:
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>> Then I'm taking a break and sewing some to beef up my work wardrobe
>> before I go back to knitting, at which time I am going to do a cotton
>> sweater that I don't have the yarn for yet.
>
> Samantha!! I thought you worked from home. Have you changed jobs
> without telling us???????
(Cross-posting to alt.sewing and RCTS because I don't think I ever got
around to telling everybody there, either, and I might as well say it to
everybody all at once)
I still work part-time from home, but I periodically lose accounts and
the pay has finally dropped to the point where I can no longer afford to
work at what the new accounts want to pay me, so last year when I lost
over half my work (three separate people I was subbing for) all at once
and didn't feel like I could take another 30% pay cut after having taken
a 40% pay cut in 2004, I started looking for in-house jobs. After six
months of sending resumes, telephone interviews, and in-person
interviews, I finally found a full-time, in-house job 4 miles from my
house with moderately flexible scheduling (I have to put in 40 hours per
week any time between 8:45 am and 6 pm M through F -- no weekends, paid
holidays, and a paid vacation, which three things feel like heaven). I
absolutely DETEST getting up and going to work in the morning (that is,
especially after I have already done my part-time, at-home work) and
being gone for that long, and my little dog (who I might not have gotten
if I had known that I was going to end up going out to work two months
after I got her) misses me terribly while I'm gone, but if the job fairy
had come down and given me the best job I could have realistically
gotten, she couldn't have found anything better. But the schedule is
grueling and after six months on the job (I get a half-hour lunch break
and several days a week I spend it knitting because there isn't enough
time to go anywhere or do anything) I still haven't figured out how to
pack a decent lunch and I still can't keep my focus for 8 hours
straight, but I am getting better.
It's still transcribing medical records, but instead of listening to
audio recordings all day, I transcribe from the doctors notes, cribbing
from the patient's previous visit note. This is TONS better than
transcribing from audio all day long, a lot more mentally stimulating,
and a lot less stressful on the old borderline RSI problems.
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Posted by Butterflywings on March 14, 2009, 12:05 pm
Still working on my son's Name afghan. Each 'name section' is 32 rows long.
Figured out the name chart on my own. His name is done in variegated blues
with a dark blue background, all in single crochet. He's pleased with it.
Hopefully, I'll have it done by Christmas 2009.
Also, working on putting together a knitted sampler of squares, rectangles,
etc, of the sample pieces I've done over the years. It's now big enuf for to
be an afghan. Done in shades of blue and green
Butterfly (mainly lurker at this point in time)
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> Olwyn.Mary wrote:
>>> Then I'm taking a break and sewing some to beef up my work wardrobe
>>> before I go back to knitting, at which time I am going to do a cotton
>>> sweater that I don't have the yarn for yet.
>> Samantha!! I thought you worked from home. Have you changed jobs
>> without telling us???????
> (Cross-posting to alt.sewing and RCTS because I don't think I ever got
> around to telling everybody there, either, and I might as well say it to
> everybody all at once)
> I still work part-time from home, but I periodically lose accounts and the
> pay has finally dropped to the point where I can no longer afford to work
> at what the new accounts want to pay me, so last year when I lost over
> half my work (three separate people I was subbing for) all at once and
> didn't feel like I could take another 30% pay cut after having taken a 40%
> pay cut in 2004, I started looking for in-house jobs. After six months of
> sending resumes, telephone interviews, and in-person interviews, I finally
> found a full-time, in-house job 4 miles from my house with moderately
> flexible scheduling (I have to put in 40 hours per week any time between
> 8:45 am and 6 pm M through F -- no weekends, paid holidays, and a paid
> vacation, which three things feel like heaven). I absolutely DETEST
> getting up and going to work in the morning (that is, especially after I
> have already done my part-time, at-home work) and being gone for that
> long, and my little dog (who I might not have gotten if I had known that I
> was going to end up going out to work two months after I got her) misses
> me terribly while I'm gone, but if the job fairy had come down and given
> me the best job I could have realistically gotten, she couldn't have found
> anything better. But the schedule is grueling and after six months on the
> job (I get a half-hour lunch break and several days a week I spend it
> knitting because there isn't enough time to go anywhere or do anything) I
> still haven't figured out how to pack a decent lunch and I still can't
> keep my focus for 8 hours straight, but I am getting better.
> It's still transcribing medical records, but instead of listening to audio
> recordings all day, I transcribe from the doctors notes, cribbing from the
> patient's previous visit note. This is TONS better than transcribing from
> audio all day long, a lot more mentally stimulating, and a lot less
> stressful on the old borderline RSI problems.
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