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Sunday morning coffee

Good morning all -- I am getting up to what looks like a beautiful day here. The water has just a few gentle ripples and there are only a couple of fluffy clouds in the sky. Last night we had a crowd here for a houseparty to support the Friends of the Hylebos Wetlands. Now I have lots of leftover party food and little leftover energy.

I have been knitting a little sweater (12 months size) using a free pattern from Roger's website.

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It is for a little girl in China who will soon become the daughter of a couple in our church. They are waiting for final word to go over for her - sometine in the next four to six weeks. I had never used ribbon type yarn before but it seems to knit up well. I have a multicolored main yarn and a soft lilac contrast for collar, cuffs and waistband.

I have new projects in mind while I still have too many WIPs on the needles. I did finish the knitting on one sweater the other day and am ready to put it together. It is the one that I was searching for yarn to finish - fortunately that search was successful as I found two more balls of the discontinued yarn. My next project is likely to be a Dale sweater for an auction next fall. It is the Syrdal one which I will do in a barn red and off white Falk yarn. Here is a picture

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I got the red yarn fromRoger's Treasures and the white from eBay - so the price tag will besomewhat less. The pattern is in one of the Dale books I already had. I think I will make the pullover.I hope you are all having a restful day. I plan on a pretty quiet onehere after all of the work getting ready for a crowd last night.

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JCT
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OOps -- sorry. I messed up on the website. It is really

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Look at Treasures and you will find the barnred yarn I am using.

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JCT

What do you know - site works either way. I should have tested before I went into panic mode.

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JCT

Good Sunday morning to you all!

It has been a cold week with temperatures going down to -6C (or more) each night. NOT very good for my garden, although most of the plants seem to have survived remarkably well. My living room floor is crowded with plants in pots. The temperatures are supposed to go back up this week. Going from 22C to 2C during the day was a bit of a shock though. I've been sneezing a lot the last 2 days.

I got about half the front done on my lace rib sweater this week, and am still thinking about sweater patterns to make for the little nephews and nieces next Xmas. Those Dale sweaters look interesting J, and are about the right size. What book are they in?

I'm probably going to be off line for a while, since I've decided to switch ISP's. I have a cable guy coming on Friday. Then I'll have to figure out the news server/reader thing again.

Have a good week, all

Dora

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bungadora

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Although I'm in lurk-mode, I HAD to comment... spewwwwwwwwwwwwww~ thanks for the grin, and glad I'm not the 'only' one. N.

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Noreen's Knit*che

They are in Dalebarn No. 120. Dale may have Sirdal out in a leaflet as well as in this book - sometimes they do that. I have seen a leaflet in the baby sizes but in my book there is a pattern for sizes 2 -12. I think it is a Dale classic as evidently it is also in Heilo 60th Anniversary Book - though I haven't seen that one. I am doing it in Falk as it is easy care.

I googled for the book and got

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That was just the first of multiple hits - so evidently it is fairlyeasily available.

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JCT

Thanks. A couple of local LYS carry Dale yarns, so one of them might have it. If not, I'll go in pursuit of the book.

8) Dora
Reply to
bungadora

Good afternoon,

Dora, it's cold here in upstate NY too. Wouldn't be surprised to see snow next week as it's not going to get warm just yet. We could have used our winter jackets this morning when we left for brunch.

Great to see you Noreen.

Hugs,

Nora

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norabalcer

Good afternoon Judy, and good evening to everyone else....

Sounds like you had a great time, and for a very good cause as well. We do not have a lot of wetlands left in the world. So I hope you made lots of money and got many people aboard for this great project.

Sitting and knitting is a great way of relaxing. I have been in the garden all day and installed new soaker hoses, rebuild stone walls, pulled weeds, and tied up plants. Our Montana climatus is in full bloom and looks fantastic. This fall I have to start cutting it back drastically, before it will totally overgrow everything in site. I resued a snake out of the compost pile and watched the Mason bees fly from flower to flower. At three I came in took a shower, and checked out the group.

Hope everyone had just as great a day as I did

Greetngs from the west coast

Els

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Els van Dam

From what I read, switching ISPs just involves putting their phone number and code numbers, etc., into your program you already have.

=Tamar

Reply to
Richard Eney

I'm using aol on dial-up, and have been posting/reading through google. I didn't bother switching to a different newsreader when aol pulled the plug on newsgroups, because I was planning to switch to cable when my prepaid term on aol ran out. I'll have to figure out how to set up my outlook express, among other things, since I haven't been using it.

My 'problem' is more on figuring out a relatively spam-free way of posting.

Good night.

Dora

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bungadora

From what I read, and I admit I've never set it up myself, it's better to subscribe to a newsreader other than outlook express, such as Netscape or Agent (Agent has a free version that is simpler). Whatever newsreader you use, a firewall (such as ZoneAlarm) and various other antivirus programs are good things to have.

I'm told that spam-blocking is done with a filter (most newsreaders and email programs apparently have them built in) set to refuse anything with all capital letters, dollar signs, certain key words, and whatever else you set it to reject.

Some people sign up for a free Yahoo account, or use those disks that come in the mail for a free month, and use those as posting addresses (changing every month), but never or rarely read the sending address account; they just dump it out once in a while. They have a separate address for receiving mail, which is disguised some way such as spelling it out in their sig file.

HTH

=Tamar

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Richard Eney

Thanks for the information. It is a bit like figuring out a pattern though - sometimes one just has to sit down and do it.

Dora

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bungadora

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