My Old Knitting Rant

norabalcer · 2006-01-16T15:32:23+00:00

Hi Everyone,After reading the note from Noreen, I thought I would share this storywith all of you. A picture of the afghan is in my album under otherprojects. woman that I used to work near knew that I did knitting and her DDraised keeshound dogs. She had found this pattern that she loved and ithad a horse in the middle of it, but she wanted a originalpattern was from an old "McCalls Needlecraft Magazine". Another gal whoworked near both of us was a great artist and said to her, bring in apicture of the dog and I'll put it on graph paper and Nora can knit did and that's the dog. Well, I quoted her a price for doing itplus all the yarn as there were a lot of colors. In fact she bought allthe yarn so she could get the correct colors she wanted, and I adjustedthe price I was asking. I did knit the outside panels with the flowers,but the middle had to be done with the afghan stitch and the dog put onafterwards. It took me about six months or more to do, can't rememberjust how long as it's been over thirty years. Anyway, when I got itdone, I called her to come over and get it and she did. The problem,she didn't think it was worth the money that I was charging her,thought it should be much less. I told her fine, when you decide to payme what I'm asking, you will get the afghan. Even though I still sawher every day at work, she told everyone I was overcharging her. I gotso mad that I took the afghan into worked and showed everyone and theysaid I didn't charge enough and she should pay more. By then, her DDwanted to know where the afghan was if I had finished it. She told heryes, but it's not worth the price. Her DD said, pay her for it as Iwant it. After six months, she finally called me at home one day andsaid all right, I'm bringing the check over to get the afghan. She did,but before she came, I told her no check I want cash, even though Iknew her check wouldn't bounce I didn't want to take that chance. Onemonth after getting the afghan she retired from work and...

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MRH 20 years ago

LOL In flew enza! That tickled me! hehehe I'm feeling a bit better today, thank you! :o)

Gem

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MRH 20 years ago

HAHAHA I *have* to learn to read the complete sentences before I take a sip of tea, I almost spit it all over the place when I got to the end of your first line, Cher... "you feel sort of heavier at the bottom" ROTFL

I'm glad that you are feeling better too! I think fresh air, and happy puppies make you feel better sometimes before your body thinks it should be better. ;o)

*hugs* Gem

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spinninglilac 20 years ago

LOL gawd don't ...

this is late in againm and there are stil 259messages not downloaded yet my server ain't getting things right or else my spam eater swipes everything...

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen 20 years ago

HEEEE CHER one ,more message to download from me ,,, Haven`t seen you for toooo long mirjam

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