Seems you all oversleep from Haloween ?????

snipped-for-privacy@actcom.co.il (Mirjam Bruck-Cohen) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ar.news.verio.net:

it certainly is quiet! i went to the eye doctor yesterday & will be getting new glasses, both reading (knitting ) & distance. these will be replacing my hated bifocals that never worked, with the magnetic attaching sunglasses that scratched beyond wearability 2 days after i got them... anyway, i had to leave my old close-up glasses to get the new lenses, so my work will be somewhat slower for a week or so, since i'll have to use a manifying lens. at least i prevailed & will be getting real glass lenses. i detest plastic lenses. i tend to scratch them & they seem to distort more than glass.

lee

Hi, Mirjam--

I started a new project. Don't remember which came first--the thought that I should knit my son a scarf for the New York winter, or the compulsion to get some of that "recycled" Tibetan/Nepali silk (loose threads from weaving, spun very tightly into a thick 1-ply yarn). So, he's getting a silk scarf, which should be quite warm. Let me tell you, that stuff is a b***h to knit. I have ended up using 15mm needles (US #19, wooden, thank goodness), and knitting it with some left-over rust-color sport-weight silk yarn. Keeping my fingers crossed it will be long enough, since no two hanks were the same color mix.

I tried to stay awake all night on Halloween this year to watch GHL (GhostHunters Live), but could do it. But I had the show taped so I could watch the parts that I miss. The show was real cool. Taps did a investingation in a Haunted Hotel. Its was the same Hotel that Stephen King did the movie Shining in. It was the one that gave him the idea for the book & movie. The hotel is called the Stanley Hotel. They had people text them if they saw a shadow or anything moving. They even had a voice of a ghost child named Katie that said Hello two of the Taps members. The hotel really a reinvestingation b/c a table moved on Brian,(another member of Taps) and Jason (one of the lead investingators of Taps) got footstep and his drinking glass broke and he got on tape of his closet door closing there last time. It was real neat. Before that I watch the Engiburh, Scottland investingation haunting on MHL, (Most Haunted Live) it was for two nights Halloween eve and then another showing Halloween night. They got a good ones too. The MH team got growls & then attacks on film. The ones that got attacked though was John, and another name I just forgotten.And then Karl got attack by the same ghost. That was very scary at the end of the first night show. John, Karl and team all are ok. I had fun watching those two ghosthunting series. Almost made me go get a camera and try it. Almost that is. Pam-Doggirl3

Hallo All , we don`t have it here , but i remember that while we were in Boston we went to a Haunted house , stood HOURS in line ,,,, brrrr than were haunted brrrrr mirjam

LOL I guess you are commenting on the few posts, Mirjam. Speaking for myself, I am really busy studying, plus I am using Google, which I really don't like much. But I try to drop in when I can.

Higs, Katherine

Did the Migrating birds carry some of you away ???? mirjam looking out to the sky

I no longer have the sweater I knitted with the rust colored silk--it kept growing, and growing and growing; every time I wore it it got longer! But I love wearing well-made silk garments. As for the recycled sari silk--the woman at the LYS recommended it be used as an accent, but...that wasn't my plan.

Georgia

I agree with you. But I watch stuff like that b/c of the history they tell about stuff. Pam-Doggirl3

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Conglatulation on your new glasses Lee. I know how it is wearing those bi-focals. They tend to make you focus on the line in the middle of the glasses. I wear some but only the no-line kind. Pam-Doggirl3

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Hello, Mirjam, and anyone else out there today.

I have a bit of a sinus headache and a sore neck today so I am not doing much in the fiber area. I hope it will be better tomorrow.

I need to do some ironing and get my husband ready to go on a short business trip this week. He leaves Sunday evening.

BonnieBlue

Knitting! I spend my time in the merchant area, helping my friend (and shopping) so I didn't take any classes. Relatively few booths weren't entirely about knitting. One booth offered massages (by appointment), and another booth was selling massage equipment. One had triangular weaving looms, there were two jewelers, some had spinning materials (roving, batts), some sold spinning wheels and spindles, EuroSteam irons, buttons, pins to fasten shawls with - but mostly it was yarn, books, and needles and crochet hooks of all kinds. There was also a booth of knitting machines that people could try out.

I over-spent as usual, but almost everything I bought was on my wish list before I went. At Sandy Terp's booth I found books on lace knitting, including Miller's _Heirloom Lace_ - not cheap, but also not easy to find where you can leaf through and really see what is inside. I decided I'm too rough with my needles to get the beautiful cobalt blue glass circular needles, but I found the 10-inch long birchwood Brittany dpns I've been looking for. Newton's Yarn was there (all the way from Anaheim, CA) with their usual amazing bargains on overstock yarn, for example, cashmerino for $7.00 for hanks of 3 or 4 ounces each (minimum purchase 5 skeins) in glorious pure colors. Webs (from Massachusetts) had their usual very large area. From other vendors I got local-area naturally-brown wool (from Virginia, which is local compared to California), Regia for $2.48/ball, and a bag of sock yarn for 75% off. And a set of blocking wires, in case I ever finish any lace that needs to be blocked. (The Orenburg lace booth was selling completed shawls and stoles as well as cobweb yarn, but I still have dreams of making my own.)

The merchant space was slightly cool, which made it comfortable for people who were wearing their beautiful hand-crafted sweaters, waistcoats, and shawls.

=Tamar

Georgia , this sounds interesting i have never knitted wityh silk , but wove with it ,, always a strange unexpected experience ,,, it has it`s own ideas , of how to behave ,,, mirjam

Hee Pam Doggie girl ,,,, i find this stories amazing and amusing . when we lived in Boston our [wooden] stair case would creak at night , we worked out that ithad different noises when we heatedthe house and different when we had the A/c on ..... the noises were spooky. I might tell you that i am more afraid of bombs and falling rockets than of spooky stuff. mirjam

Tell us about the Stitches East Tamar ? What was the Main craft shown ???

mirjam

Lee! Congratulations on your new glassees ,,, may they please you and make your crafting easier. mirjam

Hallo STUDENT Katherine How are you ,,, i am wreiting some material for a university course and am Besieged by piles of books ,,,, know what you meant about busy studying ..... mirjam

I used some of that re-cycled silk once! I loved the colors in it and made up a handbag. Think I used size 9 US needles-ugh! It was a pain to work with but after my project was finished I loved it. Marie and the cats

Georgia wrote:

Thanks for the excellent report. Reading it was the next best thing to having been there.

That's good to hear. I love the colors too--I think I spent 10 minutes choosing which hank to buy! I hope my son will like the scarf.

Georgia