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Georgia that is lovely work:)) Thank you for sharing and a warm welcome:))

Happy New Year to you too:)

Ophelia Scotland

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Georgia, Thank you for sharing your beautiful work! we love to se eachother work here, and here are links from time to time! My photos are here, but I should tidy up a bit..

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Very nice, Georgia. We love sharing pictures. I think that I know that Aran pattern. You can see my pics here.

You do beautiful work Georgia:>)

Thanks for sharing. I have a couple of links in my signature showing things I like to do:>) Don't pay much mind to the messy pics of my craft room though, it's been changed quite a bit & I have to update the pics:>)

Hi Georgia, Your work is lovely!

I also meant to write you last night after I checked out the jewelry on your site - very nice work. I've been wanting to get into working with polymer clay. I joined one of the ng's for that a few years ago and just lurked and checked out peoples' websites. I knew about some of the techniques used, but was amazed at the creativity and artistry involved. I'm sure it would take me some time to develop the skills that you have. The way you talk about color indicates to me that you have formal training?

Thanks for sharing your knitting with us! Susan K

thanks, Susan. I think polymer clay is the most wonderful art material ever invented. It is very forgiving, and (compared to knitting) offers instant gratification. After I worked with the clay for a year or so I thought I needed to learn more about color, so I took a course at the local community college. The instructor was great, and I learned a lot, but mostly what I learned about color was that I had pretty good instincts. My favorite color inspiration so far is some Dover Publications books of plates of ARt Nouveau textile designs by E. A. Seguy. I think I could play with those combinations for 20 years and not get tired of them.

Georgia

Thanks, Ophelia--from Scotland--land of serious knitting. Whereabouts in Scotland? (I have visited Glasgow and Edinburgh, day trip up to Loch Ness...

Omigosh, your socks and hats are gorgeous. And those multicolor patterned socks aren't from a single skein of fancy-dyed yarn like mine are!

Georgia

Thanks, Trish. I saw your site after I posted last night. I love the red mittens!

Georgia

I am near Stirling (I think you might have heard of that) .. in between Glasgow and Edinburgh:)) I know Inverness well and I think you will have loved it up there:))

O

Tks Georgia:>)

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Thank you! ...And I am ashamed, I forgot to say WELCOME!!!

Hi Georgia,

You do beautiful work and my favorite is the blue with the confetti.

If you care to check out some of what I do it's at

Hugs,

Nora

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Hi Georgia,

Sorry about that. I forgot one little mark.

Try this now.

Hugs,

Nora

Hi Georgia Of course you don't break any rules by showing urls for photos of your work, and that's some work load too isnt it, I think it's all beautiful work, love the socks, what's a German Heel, I mean is this without a heel flap, hard to see with self patterning yarn, I have some in reds and yellows and the black and white...great fun, I like to spin yarn for socks as well.

As I recall that heel involved a flap and short-rowing (I hate short-rowing! I'm always worrying I'll forget which direction I'm going!)--I thought it was called a German heel.

Unravelling to make a heel (or a thumb on a mitten) scared me at first, but I love making the heel just with decreases. (I still don't have the nerve to cut knitting to make steeks.)

Georgia

Georgia , i used to hate short rows from same reason , but i learned to see where i was, UNTIL learning it i have a small safety pin i move to begining of my place ,,,, mirjam

Georgia said " (I still don't have the nerve to cut knitting to make steeks.) "

It is scary but I found this article helpful:

it has worked pretty well for me and the sweaters I have madeare worn by grandkids and have been washed many times without problems.It does seem to be more efficient - I suspect those Norwegian knittershave been turning out good warm sweaters using this technique for along time.