Good Sunday morning to all and a hug for Aud

We have a beautiful morning here today as well. I want to get out in the yard a bit as it is just too nice to stay inside today. I seem to have lots of projects started and none finished. I am getting pretty close on one sweater. It is the one that I found I needed more yarn to finish. I have the yarn now and am near the end of the two sleeves. Then it will just be sewing it together. I am also done with embroidery on one of the felted slippers (the pattern from Aud), so those should get finished today. I haven't started the ones for DH yet.

I am making a sweater for a baby that will be coming from China soon. Her prospective adoptive parents are in our church. They have been told to expect to go within the next 4 to 6 weeks to pick up their new daughter. I am making a 12 month size sweater using a ribbon yarn and the free pattern from Yarn Forward.

is going fast, so I hope to have it ready before the little girlarrives. My NYCO is waiting my decision on whether to frog and fix or live with a mistake and the sweater for DH tests my patience being black cotton and a boring pattern. It is what he wanted but I can't stand working on it for too long at a time.

I am trying to finish some of this off before starting on the projects that are waiting in the craft room. (Mostly color work on sweaters in kids sizes - fairly fast and fun)

It's nearly noon here, and I am taking a rest from digging out a new bed in the garden. Clay, rocks and more rocks. Time for lunch.

I've started to think about Xmas,. and to look around for gifts for all my various neices and nephews. Somehow the Knitter's shawl book came out, and I was thinking of making a small shoulder shawl for the oldest girl (16). It almost takes as much yarn as an adult sweater though, and do teenagers wear shawls? Knitting for small children is a much safer proposition than knitting for teenagers.

Dora

Hi Everyone,

It started out as a gloomy day, but the sun has managed to come out while we were at brunch. It's still cool for this time of year here in upstate NY, but at least we didn't get the snow that some places have.

I've started a continuous granny square afghan that I am calling ugly and my DH agrees. I'm using up all the small balls of yarn that just digging into the knitting basket and pulling out a color and putting it on even if it doesn't match. It will be instead of a coat of many colors, an afghan of many colors. LOL

Hugs,

Nora

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Thank you, Els; It is great to be back!

I can feel it your back and your knees,. ...and in addition I feel it in my stitches on my stomack!!LOL!!!

Yes, Counter march is good! How many "shafts" do you use to this project? I think that you don't have a very broad warp, but if the threads are thin, there still may be enough of them to tie!! GOOD LUCK! It is a wonderful feeling when you at last are done with all the "threads and ties"... And you can sit in it and see if everything works! And WHEN it works... than it is just "a feast"! AUD ;-))

I'll bet that it will look gorgeous when it is done!

Hugs, Katherine

It's 4:51pm here. Last night my OES group had our birthday banquet and what a blast. Some of the gals put on the entertainment. Do you remember me mentioning making the Andrews Sisters hats? Well, they wore them last night, and they looked great. I happened to have my dad's air force pin and I did a rubbing of it onto the bottom of a throwaway pie plate and cut it out and put it on each of the hats. They looked quite real from a distance. When the girls came into the room, they all had canes and really hobbled. I guess they are getting to be quite an age now. LOL

Oh my gosh, Nora if I did that it would be as big as a rug! LOL

Oh, Norma, I'll bet that was fun!

Hugs, Katherine

Thank you, Els; It is great to be back!

You must be feeling better, good to have you back Aud. Please do not laugh to hard and do not sit under looms, indeed very hard on your stitches.....LOL

Aud It is a 45 inch (114 cm size reed) Counter March loom, Otto build for me year ago. It was a gift for me when he was going to build his 40 feet steel motor sailer in the eighties. He thought that since this was the second boat he was going to build, and he would be away to our yacht club a lot, he better make something for me first....LOL..to keep me happy and busy as well.

The loom has 12 shafts. I am not using all 12 at this time. It is a 4 shaft weave, from an old draft I made while I was going to Ontario College of Art (also years ago...LOL) I had done a draw down of this on paper and it look so nice, I thought it would be great to use some of those patterns we had to design from skeleton drafts. I also have a software on my computer for drawing weaving drafts, but I had never looked at it seriously. I put it all into practice at the same time. Learning time for sure.

At the moment I am weaving a 8" scarf. It is a fine warp, but not very wide, just nice. Just when you think that it is getting to hard on the eyes to pull all the ends through the heddels and reed it is all done....LOL

This yarn is so lovely and it weaves like a dream. I have just started and only had to fix one mistake. Now the enjoyment of the weaving.

Els

You will have great memories, of what you did with all the different yarns. I agree with Kathernine it will be a happy afghan, with all those colours in it.

Els

Very original, I bet you had lots of fun, with lots of laughter.

Els

It was Katherine, and then we had one gal dress up like a hooker and swing her beads while they say a song to her about waiting for the soldier. Then two came out in fatigues and mops and swabbed the deck. One of them upended her pail and sat on it. Then she couldn't get back up! LOL All in all the night was a lot of fun. I took lots of pictures and hope to get them developed this week. I did put one pic up on the Smart Groups RCTY6x6 exchange group of the Andrews Sisters.

We did Els. The laughter was sometimes so loud you couldn't hear them! LOL

Norma, Could you post the URL for the RCTY 6x6 group so I can see the picture? I didn't bookmark it.

Hugs, Kather> It was Katherine, and then we had one gal dress up like a hooker and

Here you go, it's in my album as "Andrews Sisters"...

I completely forgot it was Sunday , as it was holiday i had the feeling that was still Saturday ... It is here colder than usuall for Passover Pesacyh time , and since every where there are festivities ,,, it is fun , buit people walk with sweaters, the moment the sun goes to sleep. Now we will have all week Half holiday days ,, = those who have to work , work half days .... mirjam

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I am aVERY serious woman Els! Or I TRY to be, these days! Next week i can laugh withoth support my stomac!

I got mine, much for same reason! LOL! (UH!....I laughed...) DH was a football(soccer) trainer in the evenings, (we needed the money),and I had to stay home by the children.

(My weave is 120cm reed. 8 shafts, but I have never used them all) We had no other place to keep it than in our living room, but we thought it was cozy!

I had not much mony for yarn, so after some very inspiering wool jackets and vests to myself an the nearest family (I made my own patterns and designs), I started to weave rugs from MY family's old clothes, and later: OTHERS families'! People also thought it was possible for me to weave from small childrens clothes! (I never managed to say: Thank you, but SORRY, I cannot use them; so imagine what I had in my loft!):

loved to weigh the different colores of cutted cloth,and then draw patterns from what I had.I dyed, if I needed, but I NEVER told my neighbour,as an old Grand Aunt did:"Oh what a beautiful yellow dress you have got there!It is perfect for my rug!"At last I had rugs for every room in my summer house. I used cotton or linen or wool for other projects, but in those years, I never had money egough to weave so much, If I had to buy the threads all the time!

My living room was a mess from thousens of theads comming out when I weaved this cutted cloth, and the Hoover "lived" beside me. But I think many looked at me as a very strange lady! Memories! :-)

HOW nice! You often are amazed when you look at old , almost forgotten patterns, an look at them with fresh eyes! And you may think: Have *I* made this!?! Very nice to make them real, Els!!! Hope we will get a picture when you have it done?

Good luck, Els!! tell us how it works! AUD ;-))

I love it!

Hugs, Kather> Here you go, it's in my album as "Andrews Sisters"...

>> Norma,

Amazing the parallels in our stories. We did not have very much money either when our kids were young. No money for yarn, although it must be said yarn was also so much cheaper than today's yarns.

Otto had to go into large factories (he was a rigger estimator, or estimator for the moving of heavy machinery) That is how I ended up in the Textile industry part of Ontario, Cambridge. He would look at the machinery to be moved, and I found factory outlets that sold all kinds of yarns, mainly man made yarns. But it had to do, and that is how I started out, on a very small second hand loom, 36 " wide counter-balance one. I wove, materials for clothing etc.

I demonstrated once in our local library, and was asked if I would like to show some of my weaving. That was my first try at selling some of my work. After that I was asked by other libraries in Toronto to hang some of my work. It seems to move from there....LOL It was mainly small stuff, with a couple of large wall hangings thrown in for good measure. I do not weave to sell anymore. I am now trying to focus on weaving rugs, that is if I do not get side traced by small grand daughters and knitting, and braiding, and spinning.....Life is full with wonderful things to do

Els