Rope work Finland

Very nice pictures! Unfortunately I didn't know exactly what I was looking at in a few of the pictures. There were no descriptions of what each item was, and even if there was it would have been in a language I don't read or understand. Good luck with your business though! :o)

*hugs* Gemini

I didn't realise it was advertising a business :-)

I have many knotting friends, they meet monthly and talk knots and rop. I've been but it doesn't grab me enough to go more than twice. Spouse picked up the skill very quickly (he would!) and enjoyed it too but again couldn't be bothered to do it just for the sake.

Another of our friends, Dez Pawson, who buys beeswax for me - indeed I cast blocks with rope knots on them just for him - is the founder and was the first President of the International Knot Tyers Guild. He and his wife are a marvel, makes a living from making and selling knots - many like those on the web site, fenders for boats, that sort of thing. At the bottom of their large garden he erected a large building and made it into a Knot Museum, we were invited to the Grand Opening a few years ago and it was a memorable day. There were people from all over the world there, we learned a lot!

Mary

many others.

My Dad was a pretty quiet and shy man (except when he was ticked off... then everyone heard him, and everyone moved in a hurry. LOL) so I didn't know that he knew how to macrame (he had been in the Royal Canadian Navy during the war) until one day when I was knitting... shortly after I had taught myself to do so. I happened to glance over and noticed him with some cord/twine/string (the kind that you can use to either tie a parcel or turkey legs together for roasting) attached to the back of one of the kitchen chairs. Back in my teen years my Dad and I never really spoke much to each other... it was just understood that we loved each other (I was very shy too).. so I didn't say anything to him about what he was doing and instead I just continued on with my knitting... and of course him being as shy as he was, he wasn't about to mention it to me either. By the time my Dad and I spoke more, I had somewhat forgotten about him macrame-ing until after he had had a stroke. Then, for whatever reason, the memory came back... but it was too late then to ask him to teach me, because he had lost his hand co-ordination. I kick myself now for not speaking up when I was a teenager and asking him then to teach me. It's true what they say.... hindsight is a b*tch! :o/

*hugs* Gemini

Dez Pawson? I have his book "Handbook of Knots Expanded Edition". When I first got it, I would stay up late at night reading about the knots in the book and studying the pictures. It's a very nice book and one of my favorites. : )

Christy

The classic knot book is Creative Ropecraft by Stuart E. Grainger, but it can be expensive.

Des did a splendid book for Dorling Kindersley (not my favourite publisher but their pictures are excellent). All the hand and finger movements are shown very clearly. It's a small format book and available from Amazon (as well as other places!).

recommend it 100%. Mary

LOL! I've just replied to Gem's post with similar information, thanks for your opinion :-)

Mary

Thank you, Mary! I've forwarded your message to myself to remember the books. I will check our local library first to see if the have it. If I like it and think it will be useful to me (aside from just looking at neat pictures and wishing I could make something like that... because I used to have a tendancy to buy craft books that interested me only to have it only be looked from time to time), I will check into seeing about purchasing the book. :o)

*hugs* Gem

Oh - that's clever! I'd never have thought about it :-)

If they haven't won't they get it for you? They will here.

It won't break the bank. Do without biscuits for a while - better for you anyway :-)

Mary

If the library here in town doesn't have it, they check their system to see if another library has it to lend to them. When the book is not being borrowed by someone else, whatever library that does have it on their shelves will send it on to our library and they will then give me a call saying it's in. Most times they borrow from another library in the same county... but on occasion they have to go even farther away to find a particular book. Pretty neat system. :o)

Oh doing without biscuits isn't what concerns me... I have done without much more than that before. My main concern is that we are able to keep up with our regular bills... once that is done, I will happily do without some food to get something I would really like to have.

-- Actually, come to think of it... I have to work out whether I have enough money to get my son something for his birthday next Tuesday. He's a good kid (he would NOT be pleased with me calling him that of course... he will be 26) who does without so often, so one special thing on his birthday would be nice. Of course he has already said he would rather that we could go pick up my cousin Linda (who has terminal cancer) and her son Liam, if Linda is feeling up to travelling. According to Liam (who was chatting online with Matthew yesterday) Linda is feeling better and has more good days now that her medication has been adjusted, "but she still does have some days when she feels like a dogs dinner". So we'll have to see how it goes *if* we can afford the gas to get there at all. I really hope we can at least go visit them for a couple of days at least, as we just have no idea at all how much longer Linda will still be with us. :o(

Anyway, Matthew is hoping to have a small barbeque gathering with only 3 or

4 friends. We will be pricing a couple of food items tomorrow (when the money is in), and if we can manage he is hoping to do either his barbequed chicken dinner *or* his Hawaiian Shishkabab. If we can't afford either of those... hamburgers and hotdogs it is. It will be a very casual gathering of his close friends (who know Matthew's lack of work situation), so he's already told them it's a BYOB (bring your own booze) party *if* they want to drink.... but considering that they will be coming from outside of town (his best friend can stay the night, but we have no room for more... especially if my cousin and her son can come too), they may choose not to drink. They are also going to be bringing along salads to go with the main meal, and chips for snacks later on while sitting around a campfire in the back yard. I think they are also bringing bathing suits to have a dip in the pool too... as Matthew has already established "Pool Rules" with them. *hugs* Gem

Yes, that's what happens here but if other libraries don't have a book they'll usually buy it.

I've done that many times.

Perhaps I'm overweight now because I'm making up for those days :-)

DO it!

And enjoy.

Mary