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Hi Erin: Please tell me, where did you find the skull beads?? Also, have you seen the patterns for the Skull socks and Skull hat from Hello Yarn's site? She has a bunch of fun free patterns on her blog. Marie and the cats

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Erin All the best wishes for you exhibition . mirjam m e:

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 09:19:13 -0500, BonnieBlue spun a fine yarn

Bonnie, CONGRATS and WHHHHOOOOOOHHHOOOOO's for your first pair of sox! Hugs, Noreen Oh, when grafting, to avoid those little 'jesterhattypethingies', do the first two and last two stitches together...

snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com skrev:

At the local toy store, believe it or not! The beads are about the size of my pinky nail and come in different colours. I could mail you a couple of packages if you email me your snail mail address.

I make my felted wrist-warmers out of different shades of green or purple wool roving and then choose beads to compliment the shading. The one I gave to Harri's nephew for his birthday was a fairly bright green with green and yellow skull beads sewn on.

Nope, I'll have to check out her site. Thanks for the tip!

Erin museumbitch (at) yahoo.com

Mirjam Bruck-Cohen skrev:

Thank you! I think things are a little bit more under control on my end at least. I have some exciting artworks underway (I hope!!!) and will just do the best I can.

The people putting on the festival are well-intentioned folk with poor organizational skills I'm afraid. I'll just do what I can to help-out with the publicity and otherwise will focus on MY artwork since that is something I can control. Ironically, I used to work at this Kommun and can't help thinking to myself that they should have hired me for a permanent position since I am good at organizing events! C'est la vie!

Erin

The last few days I have been working on preparations for my son's wedding and enjoying my daughter and granddaughter. Things are very quiet in the house this morning - so I am taking a few minutes to catch up a bit. The weather was glorious yesterday so the wedding was outside and the guests really only came in to get food and take it back outside - so my housecleaning was either a) unnecessary or b) good for the week instead of having to be redone. I don't think anyone but my own family came in the family room where I am at the moment (GDG#1 is sleeping in my office so I am on a laptop) The bride and groom were whisked off to a hotel and are leaving for Spain on a honeymoon. We are planning a very quiet day with remaining family members here at home.

I have several baby sweaters on the needles - one for an auction and one for a colleagues baby. DGD#2 looked at the tied shrug pattern and wants one but hasn't picke a color yet. I have the silk yarn and the pattern for the celtic knot sweater but haven't had a chance to ask DD if she would like me to make it for her (otherwise I will make it in a larger size for me (somehow I decided to get enough yarn for that option)

I do plan to do a simple sweater for Afghans for Afghans this month and also some hats for my nieces kindergartners. (My sister and I have been making hats and mittens for Sarah's kids - they are in a very rural area of Iowa and sometimes come without mittens or hats for playing outside. They love the stripey ones that result from stash remnants) I also plan some fingerless gloves for DD from the yarn remaining from a sweater I made her.

DGD#2 is looking for a crochet projects (she loved the aminagurumis (or whatever they are called) that I started her on at Nana camp. I showed her the simple skull cap pattern and I am sure she can do that. I brought her a crochet book for kids the last time I visited and she has been having fun with it. (She is 12)

All is well here. Judy

Noreen, thanks for the tip on the toes! :-) BonnieBlue

It's a great tip, and one I learned a few years ago. Works great!

Shelagh

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:31:03 -0500, BonnieBlue spun a fine yarn

You're welcome! That's what we're ALL here for, giving tips and receiving them! :D Hugs, Noreen

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:36:00 -0500, Shillelagh spun a fine yarn

Yup! And that's what we're all here for, sharing tips, both giving AND recieving :D Noreen

When you say "do them together", what do you mean exactly? I'm having a hard time visualizing.

Thanks,

Hesira

YarnWright wrote:

I must say I have probably learned more about knitting in the past 9 months by posting and reading here than I have in the 7 years I was knitting in isolation before that!

Many thanks to everyone here who has helped me and so many others. What a great group!

Hesira

YarnWright wrote:

Knit the first two and the last two together rather than knitting one stitch. HTH

Shelagh

Thanks Shelagh,

I'm thinking Kitchener Stitch, and I don't see how you can knit 2 together when doing that. I do see how you could pass the yarn through

2 stitches rather than one. Oh, my fuzzy brain!

Hesira

Shillelagh wrote:

Okay - when doing Kitchener, I don't have the protruding stitch at the start. At the end, I turn the sock inside out, and just thread the yarn through the protruding stitch and kind-of stitch it down. Voila - protrudes no more! HTH

Shelagh

I actually knit the stitches together rather than do kitchener stitch. In that case you can knit the two end stitches together.

Thanks Shelagh and Nancy.

I'm like you Shelagh. I use the Kitchener and the turn the sock inside out to hide the end protrusion.

Hesira

Shillelagh wrote:

Thanks for the offer! I'll send you an e mail. The wrist warmers sound really cute, I bet the kids just love them. I used the skull pattern from the hat to make a neckerchief for my sons black lab. I made it out of black yarn and did the skull in glow-in-the-dark yarn LOL. I'm going to make the skull socks too and use the glow-in-the-dark yarn for them also. Hopefully I can get around to it before Halloween. The Hello Yarn site also has a cute carry-bag with the skull pattern, I think she felted hers....it looks really neat in the picture. She has a number of cute patterns on there. Marie and the cats

Er> snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com skrev:

Hi Marie, and Everyone,

In case you don't know, there is an online crafting mag that specializes in things like skulls and other motifs that the young'uns like:

the name doesn't disturb you, there are all kinds of knitting thingsfor skull lovers. I'm partial to the snowball's chance in hell armwarmers:

Hi Erin: Please tell me, where did you find the skull beads??