Euroflax saga

English was and is own of my very favorite subjects in school. :o)

Animal lovers are usually the best kind of people. We (my son and myself) have two dogs... "Buffy" a 13 year old Border Collie mix (my son's), and "Casper" a 6 year old (I found his first Vet's report and couldn't believe that he was actually that old now... I had thought he was only 4) White Lab / Shepherd mix who is white with cream colour down his back (his father is a White Lab and his mother is a Black Lab/German Shepherd mix). The big Lab is Mama's Boy! ;o)

Cool, good luck with the emigration! My Dad's side was English, my Mom's side was Irish, English and a bit of French.

I learned the opposite way. I knitted first (barely had one lesson at the end of grade 8... just casting on, and straight knitting... no casting off and no purling), self-taught at about the age of 14 or so. I couldn't figure out crocheting at all, no matter how many times I looked at the "simple" pattern pictures. I did play with a crochet hook a few times and made a couple of things, that I had no idea how I made them LOL but I didn't actually learn and understand crochet patterns until about 8 years or so ago. I have sewn (Halloween costumes, costumes for school plays) *by hand* for many years!

Yes, this is the friendliest and most helpful newsgroup around, and I'm sure you'll make a lot of nice friends here. We tend to be more like family and often get off topic (mostly me, I'll admit that) quite a bit, but most people don't mind at all and most even enjoy the variety of things we talk about.

Good to hear that you didn't ruin your dress. I don't really have any suggestions about blocking your shawl though, sorry. I'm sure someone else will come up with some answers for you.

OooooOOoooo Chocolate breakfast! ;op~~

You have only been knitting for EIGHT months and you are designing already?!? *sigh* Must be nice to be so talented. ;o) Just kidding... congratulations on that!

Peace! Gemini

Hi and welcome. If you have wall to wall carpet, pin out the shawl on it. Mist with a spray bottle and allow to dry completely. This can be quite a chore when you have critters, they seem to like to nest in whatever you are trying to do.

DA

Hi Anastasia,

Welcome to this great group and do come back often and tell us how the projects are coming along.

Nora

DA sweetly suggested: : : Hi and welcome. If you have wall to wall carpet, pin out the shawl on it. : Mist with a spray bottle and allow to dry completely. This can be quite a : chore when you have critters, they seem to like to nest in whatever you are : trying to do.

Would be a great idea, but A) I've just got hardwood floors, and B) none of the empty space on them is more than about five feet in any direction.

I'm considering using tent stakes to stretch out a sheet in the front yard, and just pinning it to that. Although the 93+ year old lady next door will probably think I've lost my mind....

Anastasia

WIP: Cable sweater for DH in Homespun (which I hate), Ljod from Viking Knits in Cashsoft, and socks galore. Oh, and a celtic knotwork lace/filet-looking shawl I designed myself in 100% alpaca laceweight. Which is heaven to work with, light as a feather, and just frelling gorgeous!

Hi Anastasia,

Welcome to the group! My DH, DD#2, and I were in St. Louis 2 years ago looking at Washington U. DD#2 decided not to go there. (There was no place to ski. LOL) I can commiserate about snagging. I pulled the fabric of a dress recently and haven't yet fixed it totally. Come back and talk as often as you can. And good luck finding a job.

Janise

Janise mentioned: : Welcome to the group! My DH, DD#2, and I were in St. Louis 2 years ago : looking at Washington U. DD#2 decided not to go there. (There was no place : to ski. LOL)

What, you didn't know about Hidden Valley Ski Resort in nearby Eureka? Less than an hour's drive from campus. Oh well. They should advertise better, methinks.

Thanks for the welcome!

Anastasia

WIP: Cable sweater for DH in Homespun (which I hate), Ljod from Viking Knits in Cashsoft, and socks galore. Oh, and a celtic knotwork lace/filet-looking shawl I designed myself in 100% alpaca laceweight. Which is heaven to work with, light as a feather, and just frelling gorgeous!

Anastasia,

Welcome! Do you read the Yarn Harlot's blog?

LauraJ

HAHAHA I'm having visions of a little elderly lady peeking out from behind her curtains wondering what the heck is going on next door.

Peace! Gemini

The next solution would be to use a wooden frame like the Shetland knitters. The frames were constructed of thin wooden strips like lathe, and shaped like a canvass stretcher. Waste yarn was looped thru the edge of the piece to be blocked and then over the frame. There is a picture of these frames in Knitting By The Fireside and On The Hillside, A History of the Shetland Hand Knitting Industry. Good Luck, DA

LauraJ spaketh:

: Welcome! Do you read the Yarn Harlot's blog?

Yeah, I've read YarnHarlot's blog. I love the bed idea, but linen takes forever to dry, and my cats use that bed more than I do.

White and grey cat fur + deep violet shawl = icky poo

Thanks for the welcome!

Anastasia

WIP: Cable sweater for DH in Homespun (which I hate), Ljod from Viking Knits in Cashsoft, and socks galore. Oh, and a celtic knotwork lace/filet-looking shawl I designed myself in 100% alpaca laceweight. Which is heaven to work with, light as a feather, and just frelling gorgeous!

Gemini uttered forth:

: HAHAHA I'm having visions of a little elderly lady peeking out from behind : her curtains wondering what the heck is going on next door.

Heh. If she'd only stay inside. She walks out onto the front porch and just stands there. Watching. Like some sort of vulture. I've tried to start conversations with her, but she just looks at me as if I'm a troll.

True, I was stretching a mega-King sized quilt out on the lawn and standing atop of my car to photograph it that one time, and TP-ing my own trees that other time, and tying balloons to the dog's collar once...

But still.....

Anastasia

WIP: Cable sweater for DH in Homespun (which I hate), Ljod from Viking Knits in Cashsoft, and socks galore. Oh, and a celtic knotwork lace/filet-looking shawl I designed myself in 100% alpaca laceweight. Which is heaven to work with, light as a feather, and just frelling gorgeous!

You know, we have young(er) neighbors like that beside us. They stand there staring at us, and when you say hello, they either act like they didn't hear you or like you have three heads. That is father & mother (late 40's or so), teenage daughter (about 16), teenage son (about 14), and youngest daughter (oddest one of the bunch... takes after the father more I think... who is about 12 ish). The mother speaks when SHE wants to, the oldest daughter speaks when she's at work at Subway, the son is the only one who speaks first once in a while and answers more than the rest of them.

ROTFL Methinks you will fit into this newsgroup very well. ;o) With you doing those things I think I might look at you a bit funny too... but then I'd laugh and make some smart-*ss comment to break the ice! ;o)

Peace! Gem

"Teacher Gal" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@fidnet.com...

Hi, and welcome to the group from a teacher in Norway!

I just have to say that Ireland is one of a favourites, since I, as an 11 yo school girl at had a "project" about Eire! (I had heard the name, but hardly "thought" about it earlier) In those days we did not travel much, so it was a dream land to me, didn't think I ever would come there. But as a grown up student, I went there, we were 6 friends hiring a car, to explore the beautiful country and the hospitable, kind people! We felt like home, even the landscape and culture was different enough to make it exotic to us! We have so much common history. ( ... well, WE killed and robbed and captured people, they WERE killed, robbed and captured..!)

Luckily they seemed to have forgotten our bloody past! Norwegian was very well welcomed!

No wonder I chose to celebrate my 50 years birthday in Dublin ;-)

I knit, crochet, sew , weave and embroider, and am so happy to have found this group! Again WELCOME!

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Aud, I think over the years as much loving went on, as fighting! I think it mght be hard to separate out the Viking from the rest! DH's family is Icelandic and they look like my family.......and so do you!

Eimear

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Why 2016? And have you visited before?

I also do those things and I'm happy to meet another textile-lover!

Eimear, Irish-born and raised, now living in Canada

ROFL! I love it!

Eimear

I wrote : > I'm a FREAK for anything Irish at : > all (I was named after my immigrant Irish Great-Grandmother), and plan to : > emigrate there before 2016.

And then Eimear said: : Why 2016? And have you visited before?

I plan on being right there on O'Connell street for the centenial celebration.....100 years of independence! Now that's a party I wouldn't miss for the world!

Yes, I visited last summer. Looked up some relatives I had never met before and was received as if I'd never left. The place just felt like home, no matter what county we were in. Heaven. Plus, I'm sick to death of the political, educational (and, to an extent, the social) situations here in the U.S. Time for me to go, I think.

How do you pronounce your name, anyhow? It looks beautiful!

Anastasia

Maybe your neighbor can think of you as free entertainment! :)

I went to London a few months ago and it had that "home" feeling for me. I lived there for 3 years when I was a young teenager and I always wanted to return. I finally did as a way to celebrate turning 50. Part of my heart never left.......