OT: for the cat lovers

Lucile , Knitting renaissnace has dragged in it`s tail other techniques that can be done with wools/ Also the changing global weather , makes the use of vest shawls etc quite reasonable. Hence if it isn`t already back , it will sure be back in a winter or two. mirjam

You're welcome Cheryl. I'm still recovering from DB Ted's wedding. I will post about that shortly. Meanwhile I sent Joyce the threads she needed and got to talk to her via Skype. I'm in the middle of writing up the Christmas Temari class I will be teaching and trying to get a few more made up for a display at CNS.

Plus I'm fighting the urge to not take up Quilling. (The precut papers are great to use for dividing temari balls). LOL Bobbie V.

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Me three. (except for the Lacy Prairie Shawl that is up to 211 stitches now and I have to count after every row.) I like knitting for the evening like Dianne, when the lighting isn't that great.

Alison

That's often when I'll switch to crochet, too...in the evening when the lighting isn't so great - either the room lighting, or the synapses in my brain lighting! Somehow I can crochet almost half asleep, when cross-stitching becomes impossible to concentrate on.

Sue

Knitting is great when there's little or no light -- in the car while on long road trips is another good environment (DH driving, not me!). Crocheting too; but I sometimes reach that "drowsy point" where I can't do either one!

Confession: the drowsy point for counted cross-stitch is reached much faster than the d.p. for crochet, knitting, reading, eating chocolate

ElastiGirl

I took a class last fall using a triangle loom. I made a shawl as my Christmas gift to my lovely English hostess. I really want to invest in one of those looms and learn to do more things than just shawls with it. And the beads... but obviously I'm not fighting that one.. I'm becoming more and more interested in making my own glass beads, but since it involves a mini blow torch, I'm a wee bit hesitant. I've been shown knitting, but it just doesn't stick with me. Although, since I was shown how to use those shorter, circular needles, I'm more interested in trying again. But since the temps are reaching triple digits, it's a thing that has to wait for fall.

And as a catch up on the cat, I'm in Ft. Worth right now after about 6 hours of driving, with four more to go tomorrow. The Vet seems to think it's mostly just "because she's old", and since I've told him she IS eating, he's going to give her a very rich canned food and see what that does (of course, *I* can tell him, if it's that rich, she'll wolf it down, then promptly throw it back up, but I'm just her Person, not a trained vet!).Bless his pointy old head, my Vet is a wonderful man, but he would much rather never deal with anything smaller than a mule! He's

Tegan

Took two classes that involved needlepoint - not just the continental stitch stuff I've done in the past, but actually involved frames and different size needles and threads. Sigh. If it involves a needle and thread, why fight it?

Donna in Virginia