I went to my friend's house yesterday and noticed that his Christmas tree was bare except for a shotgun shell near the top.
I asked, "What's the deal with no decorations?"
Puzzled, he looked at me and said, "What do you mean?
Ready for it?
Sure??
OK then
It's a cartridge in a bare tree."
Gill Murray ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with
G I L L I A N - I could take that cartridge and SHOOT you !
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!! Don't tell my son about this...he already has strings of shotgun shell lights around the ceiling in his room! He's also just about to buy a house (amazing since he's only 21!) and is already talking about putting in camouflage furniture! :)
Joan
Then you will be pleased to know that there's camouflage yarn that you can make him an afghan with!
Gill! SHUTTUP!!!
Pat
Or you could do a really large scale punchneedle of a deer to hang over the sofa. . .
Do you have a link for that ? My dear son wanted camo socks, maybe I could fulfill his wish.
GROAN!!!!!
Cheryl
(thinking who to send it too)
It's your basic Red Heart worsted weight, available wherever you find Red Heart. If you knit socks of it, he may not be able to get his shoes on.
The solution to that is to "strip" the yarn. Not as easy as it sounds, but is do-able with a lot of patience. You'll want to ball the yarn as you go, and secure the end running to the skein with a bobby pin to ensure the ball doesn't unroll while you're splitting the next couple yards off the skein. It took me most of a day to get a skein of 4-ply worsted into two balls of 2-ply sock weight, but, by golly, my socks will match my pullover!
If I had to do it again, I would shanghai two people to help -- might work faster if two people were rolling the balls simultaneously and one splitting the yarn while they roll.
Really? I've never seen that! OOOOOooooooo....I see a housewarming present coming up! Must go to LYS and see if they have it. Thanks, Karen!
Joan
Mmmm, don't think so! He just got the deer head from the deer he shot
2 years ago back from the taxidermist so he'll have that covered. It was still sitting on the floor in the livingroom so DD & I strung lights and ornaments on it until we got our tree up! LOLJoan
Lol, he ain'[t getting the socks ! I'm old but I'm not crackers !
"Joan E." ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with
Yikes - see her later post - my boy does not get camo socks.
Hey if you want more cami stuff - I have a ton of cami fabric netting . Not real camouflage - but like really heavy tulle in cami print. I did a bat mitzvah years ago and the theme was a "picnic in a swamp" - don't ask. Anyhow, I did a 15' tall car wash curtain suspended on rope of cami nettings, and then had big swoops of it draping from the ultra modern lighting fixtures in the venue - it was something. I still have some stash of it. LMK.
ellice
Michaels. Herrschners. Or does your LYS stock such mundane things as Red Heart? (Mine doesn't.)
You could always drive him over the edge with a pair of diamond socks. LOL
Gillian!!!!!!!!! You deserve to have your pig-tails dipped in an ink well for that one. LOL
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