Sock Wars

Oh, I am so doing this! Thanks, Sarah!

Higs, Katherine

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:06:42 -0300, Katherine spun a fine yarn

raising hand and joining in, too! Noreen who needs more challenges like she needs another bunghole....

Me, too, but that's what makes life interesting, right?

Higs, Katherine

This sounds like so much fun. I will watch with great interest from Australia. I am a bit unreliable to take part ATM. Maybe next year.

Good luck Sock Warriors!

I'm considering entering the sock wars, too. I read it to DH and he said "go for it". I am just now working on my first ever to-be-worn sock (and on two circs). I made a giant sock (fair isle pattern on dps) for a Christmas stocking last year, so it was really my first sock but no one can wear it!

BonnieBlue

I was thinking a giant sock would be a way for me to start, and then once I had a general understanding, I could try something smaller.

I must admit that i had no wish to even look at it the banal use of the word wars doesn`t appeal to me , mirjam

Mystified One,

I did the opposite to learn. I found a "training sock" pattern. It was small, so I could learn the components and methods of sock making quickly.

Hesira

Mystified > I was thinking a giant sock would be a way for me to start, and then once I had

The stocking I made was from Homespun Handknit - Caps Socks Mittens & Gloves edited by Linda Ligon. I enjoyed doing it but chose it also to practice using two colors of yarn to make a pattern. The project did not go especially fast but then I knit slowly anyway. Hesira's idea of knitting a training sock may be a better idea....or use a pattern for a child's plain sock. I gave the Christmas stocking as a gift and used the cute verse from the book:

Within this box is just one sock which I have knit for you for though I knit, and knit, and knit I never did get through.

BonnieBlue

I made my first sock in 3rd grade , was bored to knit 2 green ones thus added some red stripes to the 2nd ,,,,,, teacher called my mother and she was asked to restrain this creative misbehaviour ,,,,,,,, Years later the granddaughter of this teacher came to study creative weaving with me !!!! years and socks later i made little `sock pins` ,,, my daughter shared one of her student flats with a student that had a Regular caricature in a Jerusalem Local weekly , one weekend she wrote and drew ,,, My father bottles vegies , Drora`s mum knitts socks.... mirjam

Oh, My, Mirjam! There is a song here like that, about a teacher who insisted that the children colour flowers red and leaves green. Takk about stifling children! I am glad that she didn't succeed with you!

Are you out of the shelter yet?

Higs, Kather> I made my first sock in 3rd grade , was bored to knit 2 green ones

Sanctimonious (I considered using several other adjectives here) comments such as this are - individually - a relatively minor annoyance. But your constant harping is one of the reasons that I stopped reading rctn (only one of a few I must admit).

Congratulations. You have made a fun activity sound like something evil and corrupting. Are you pleased with your achievement? I thought about responding in a different manner to this latest piece of gratuitous "nobility", but I really don't think it is worth the small effort required.

Don't bother responding - I won't be here to be annoyed by your answer. Write it off as me having a "bad hair day" if you will, but life is too short to put up with annoying trivia that can so easily be eliminated by simply pushing a button (or in this case by refraining from pushing one). Go annoy someone else.

My thanks to those from this ng who responded with kindness or helpful advice to my infrequent ventures out of lurkdom, and farewell.

And you do realize that Mirjam spent the better part of six weeks living in a bomb shelter in northern Israel?

In her shoes I'd be a bit touchy about that turn of phrase too.

There's no pot-kettle action here, just holier-than-thou on your part, for whatever reasons.

Goodbye again, Jane.

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...

With so many words available in the English language, I note you have chosen this one.

Thanks for the disgusting image.

A reader

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:20:34 -0600, Daisy spun a fine yarn

\Jane... I now HAVE two of them, mine and YOU! One thing about bungholes... they're always there when you need them. Noreen

It's not your "bunghole(s)" that interests me (believe it!) it's your need to express yourself that way in a public knitting group that says so much. Here's hoping you learn to find attention in a positive way somewhere along the line.

It's a free Usenet; I'm just as entitled to good taste as you are to ... your taste.

LOVE IT!!!!!!

JJMolvik

Here is your perfect first project then!!!!!!!

THANK you Dear Wooly from the depth of my heart , i didn`t stop anyone from reading or enjoying i just felt that among mature and friendly people i could sort of tell you what i felt reading this term.

We are in cease fire , we cleaned our shelter and decided not to use it as added storage anymore, I washed the Straw mat [ a recycled ex room divider], i shakked the two thick winter blankets that i used as matrass. Looking through the house we found that somethings` screws go loosened ,, Dust is everywhere , but all in all we were VERY LUCKY,,, It is a very strange feeling to have lived such a long time in a kind of lotery , not knowing where the next ine will fall. The NORTH of Israel which isn`t very big got more than 4000 rockets. Many of my friends were far harder than me. Since we know we are going to have another round, i here by invite this woman , to cme and stay with me in the next time. I don`t think i complained much during this time , but i sure do not like the term War, for me is something painful, were people loose life. I couldn`t push a button and make this go away it was in the Subject line. I really wish you that you will never ever in your life know what war really means. Yesterday somebody slammed a car`s door , my cat , whom you can`t accuse of being ,,,,,,, stiffened , his little heart bounced so hard that i could see it pulse on his body.... it took me several moments to help him relax . mirjam

Mirjam spent the better part of six weeks