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I am still here, knitting and crocheting.

Hello friends,

I have a pair of sport weight socks to finish for our Grand Daughter and an afghan for our Pastor who is getting married.

I hope to then get busy with my knitting sheaths to see if I can keep count of how many stitches I knit a minute. :)

We have been busy here refinishing the hard wood floors in the living room and master bedroom. Of course, I am just supervising. I don't do the hard manual labor any more.

I am looking at gansey patterns for next month, I am going to try on on the sheath. I have made one you could really call a gansey.

I hope I have not missed to many important days, I do love you all.

I noticed how hard you have been on my friend Aaron and men in general so I thought I would lay low for a while. It seems pretty rough in here some times.

I am glad we have been together long enough we can all take a joke, what are true friends for.?

I do log in long enough to see it my Twin is posting then I usually leave and get my chores done, Gail have been keeping me very busy making sure the remodeling is going well.

Hugs & God bless you all,

Dennis & Gail

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SpikeDriver
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:33:24 -0500, SpikeDriver spun a fine yarn

Good to *see* you, Dennis! HUgs, Noreen

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YarnWright

GOOD Morning Dennis Whta a nice letter to start my morning with mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

I will be interested, not to hear how many stitches you knit, but how you like using it.

Higs, Katherine

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Katherine

What gansey pattern? Does it have cables?

The steel needles ate the aluminum cable needle that I had been using, so I took a 7" steel sock needle and bent it over a mandrel to make a nice "U" shaped steel cable needle that I actually like better than the aluminum commercial ones.

I though it would be hard to bend the spring steel, but it turned out to be easy. Annealing and retempering after forming gives it a "better" feel. Thus, you can bend any of the needles to suit your knitting style.

If you (or Wooly) want steel cable needles just let me know, cause I made a bunch of those short steel needles before I worked out the physics and decided to just do all my knitting on longer needles.

Current versions of "How to Use a knitting Sheath". These are still in evolution. Any suggestions?

  1. Wrap yarn around right hand and place on top of right needle
  2. Take needle with stitches or cast on in left hand
  3. Push the first stitch to tip of needle with left thumb and, at the same time flick left needle so that the right needle gets inserted into stitch
  4. Warp yarn, moving right hand a little as possible
  5. Flick left needle with left hand to pass the stitch over the new wrap and, at the some time push tip of right needle back through the old stitch with the left thumb (purl) or left index finger (knit)

Alternate

  1. Wrap yarn around right hand and place on top of right needle
  2. Take needle with stitches or cast on in left hand
  3. Push the first stitch to tip of needle with left thumb and, at the same time flick left needle up and flex right needle to the left so that the right needle gets inserted into stitch
  4. Warp yarn, moving right hand a little as possible
  5. Flick left needle with hand to pass the stitch over the new wrap and, at the some time allow right needle to spring back through the old stitch which allows almost "push button" knitting.

Aaron

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<agres

Katherine,

There is a def> SpikeDriver wrote:

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Dennis

Aaron,

I am in the motel tonight and will be home Monday, I will set down then and read this, and I will respond.

I hope to have more time for the sheath then,

Yes the gansey had cables but, the sweater and the pattern are l> What gansey pattern? Does it have cables?

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Dennis

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

I'll be waiting.

Higs, Kather> Katherine,

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Katherine

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Hi David! We are so happy that we have you and Aron here! I'm sure you both can handle us! LOL! Good to see you! You are far more busy than I am these days.

Take care, and send my loves to Gail! AUD ;-)

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Aud

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