any one working on a project

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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Spike Driver
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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.

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Samantha!! I thought you worked from home. Have you changed jobs without telling us???????

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn.Mary wrote:

(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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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 (ma>>>

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"Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH to reply" wrote in message news:49bb694e$0$95559$ snipped-for-privacy@news.sonic.net...

I removed the cross-post 'cause no one at the sewing group knows me and likely wouldn't care about knitting and work situation blathering.

Good for you!! My little independent transcription situation has taken major hits over the past couple years. In the past I've always had other clients make up the slack from losing one, but the last few times that just didn't happen, and there was no new interest either; the gods know I've been trying. I know that when a doctor's reimbursements decrease, as they have been doing since I started working in offices 24 years ago, the first things that go are anything considered "luxuries", and in this case it was me. Fortunately, I'm not required to be bringing in enough money to pay the bills so I can do what I'm currently doing, and that's going to school to become a pharmacy tech. This has seriously cut into my knitting time this semester, but I manage that, too. I'll be finished with the required courses to start my externships this summer, and after this fall semester I'll be completely finished and licensed in California. I'm hoping to end up working in a hospital pharmacy or home infusion setting. It'll be back to regular hours, but I can live with that. I'm still harboring the delusion of going to pharmacy school after I take all the required courses, but that's a few years down the line. I'll bomb that bridge when I get to it

On the knitting front, I've taken on a couple of challenges from Ravelry groups. One is the NaKniSweMoDo, the National Knit a Sweater a Month Dodecathon, with the goal of doing just that, completing a sweater a month for this year. So far I'm on track, with two finished and one on the needles with only one sleeve and then finishing to do. The other challenge is a lot easier, and that's knitting a pair of socks a month. Since I whipped out something like 25 pair in a 6-month period last year this isn't a problem. I'm currently working on my pair for March; I finished 2 pair in January and 1 in February. These would go quicker if I had smaller feet

The Other Kim kimmeratsoylentgreenfielddotcom

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Samantha,

I know how you feel. My cubicle at work was right under the vent. Roast in the winter and freeze in the summer.

Have you tried the capelet patterns. They are smaller and fast to work up.

Hugs & God bless, Dennis

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Spike Driver

Butterfly,

Please leave us a pick if you can, I would really enjoy seeing it.

Hugs & God bless, Dennis

Butterflyw> Still working on my son's Name afghan. Each 'name section' is 32 rows long.

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Spike Driver

Kim,

I enjoy socks myself, there is some beautiful sock yarn out there as decent prices now.

My favorite knitting and crochet is creating a sweater.

Again, leave some pics.

Hugs & God bless, Dennis

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Spike Driver

Last evening, I took two hours to repair a shadecloth that was 30' x 40'. Some of the grommets had torn out. I was able, with my trusty Singer

111W155 machine to sew it all back together. The sun had deteriorated the thread mainly, and the cloth as well as the edging was in remarkably good conditions. I got to use my new grommett kit.

What amazed me was that I went to my shop and found some fabric that I bought from Home Depot to make some skylight sun shades, and it was EXACTLY the fabric of the costlier sun shade. I know where I'll go for the sun shade material on my next project.

Was nice to fix a big piece of material, and have it come out so good.

Steve

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Congratulations on a job well done. It feels good, doesn't it?

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Pogonip

Really. That was a $200 piece of custom made shade cloth.

I'm really going to be beaming when I get those awnings covered. And, we've decided to do sail shaped pieces over a back yard area like they have on modern playgrounds. Not expensive, and soooooooooo easy to make. Plus easy to take down and put up. And a fraction of the cost.

Steve

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Steve,

Great on the 111w155, I used to be a SINGER dealer.

Good luck with the new grommet kit.

Dennis

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When you've got it done, you'll have to put some pictures on Flickr or Photobucket or somewhere so we can all ooh, and ah and drool over your creations. Some may even get inspired.

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Pogonip

I was a steel erection contractor in Las Vegas for nine years. We did hundreds of awnings, some on businesses and hotels that lasted fifteen years. Some are still hanging today. We did lots of residential. And then they came down with remodeling and not from use. Most of them were removed, recovered, then remounted. Raven Mills Sunbrella all.

I did a personal awning 32' x 13'6" just recently. But I did it out of Fabral metal because of the size and wind we get here. These window awnings will be four feet wide to eight feet wide with a stickout long enough to shade the inside from the sun. The sail wedges will be about 20' on the sides, the hypotenuse longer.

Will surely put them on flickr.

Steve

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Dennis, I'll NEVER be caught up! The most I can hope for at this stage is to keep my head above water. If you want to try two-colour knitting, you should have a look at this website:

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have a great video which teaches you how to do it two-handed,withoutgetting the wool tangled. It is great! Higs, Katherine

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Babies! Lots of Babies!

Well, only two.

So I turned to my old standby Mary Lamb Baby Book Vol. 30 (twenty cents!), pattern 3006. I've done this pattern before a few times so I felt quite confident with it and it's going well. I'm about two/thirds of the way through the blanket in variegated wool: white, pale blue and pale green.

I've got my next project lined up as well: 3013. It looks the easiest of two I thought would be quick knits. That one is in yellow because the nursery is yellow. I'm hoping to adapt 3027 to this pattern--should be simple, but these days I can never tell what's going to work for me andwhat isn't--as it's more of tuque style.

Someday I'd like to be able to say I've knitted all the patterns in this book. It's one of my favorites. I think it was one of my grandmother's.

That might be a goal for next year! I used to make baby blankets regularly and so had some in stock whenever a new little person arrived, but I haven't done that in years. Knitting sure is different for me these days.

I love reading about all the beautiful things you all are making. I don't post a lot, but I lurk and always head straight for the new or finished project threads.

Murielle

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