That unraveling and reknitting query:

This is in regards to your reusing yarn query! HTH, Hugs, Noreen

I do plenty of that on my own - why on EARTH do I need a KaL for it?

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Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET.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...

Thanks Noreen! Hee hee, I've been poking around in there the last half hour :-)

(mmm, and I also set a weblog after peeking in at yours!) And I'm sitting and knitting, while I wait for pages to load over my sad little dial up connection - LoL! But I'm enjoying my morning :-)

Sandra Rose

splort! I guess to 'some' out there it's a new concept, and they like KaL's! Noreen

DO tell where your new blog IS!! Hugs, Noreen

Arrgg - it's giving me fits right now :-( I'm sure I'll get it working, keeps telling me it can't connect to weblogs - and my first post won't post... bah!

Gonna put it aside for a while and have another go later today. Maybe it's cause of my dial up - maybe I have turn off my ad-blocker...

Right now I just want to be happy and knit! So I'll fight with weblogs later :-)

Have a lovely day Noreen - talk to you later! Sandra Rose

Going to add it to my sig soon, but for now I gave up on weblogs.us You can visit my Live Journal at

Don't give up on weblogs.us - - - I have TWO there, the oldest being when they still offered MovableType, and the newest with WordPress. Don't hesitate to ask if you need help, I CAN!!!! email me offlist at noreenDOTjATgmailDOTcom or, if you hit reply to sender on THIS, change the N E T to C O M. Hugs, Noreen who just left a comment at your livejournal heeheehee

Awww, Sandra Rose... is Tammy Toes your daughter? I just read what she wrote about the turkey dinner and it brought a tear to my eyes.

Neat! I just left you a message too! :o)

Gem

That's my travelingtams ;-)

We went hard core fundraising in her grade 11 year for a trip to France - HARD core. and they made it, and she ended up goiing again after graduation to work in Europe as an Au-pair, to see more of the countries. I like to think it was the first exposure that fed that desire to discover new places :-)

Sandra Rose

How wonderful for her to be able to travel around and see the world while she is still young and single. :o)

Gem

hmmm - yes - except...

It was in Germany (after Holland placement...) where she met her sweetie, an American soldier.

And he is wonderful, wonderful to her and wonderful in general it seems, but now she is in love with a fellow in love with the American Service, and posted to Iraq in January :-(

And planning her life around it. But it's a good plan - he's been planning too, so it's all good. But it brings the whole situation very very very much closer to home than it was before I actually knew someone really 'involved' - do you know what I mean?

And I feel for her, having her sweetie so very far away, I suppose it is romantic on some level, but I just feel that it sucks they are both waiting and planning around world events to finally set about their own little lives...

as are many other people, of course. Funny thing love is, funny thing, this world of ours...

SR

Gem

Ahh yes, that is a bowl of mixed emotions there, isn't it? A good thing that she found someone special, but a bad thing because of how it *could* end up... and praying that it doesn't end up that way. :o/ I wish them both well... and safe happy lives together.

Gem

Yes, thanks Gem :-)

Hmm, a teacher once announced to my grade 8 class that "everyone you meet, and everything you experience - are threads - threads - in the tapestry that is your life - What kind of tapestry do you want?!?"

It's all worthwhile, even hard moments, even hard years. It makes us who we are.

Sandra Rose

Gem

So they can show off what they did to their buddies who understand it? (I can see some people turning up their noses at "reused" yarn.) It's like the stash enhancement posts here - "lookie what I got/did/made". Also the blogs let them post photos, unlike this lovely words-only Usenet group, and it is more impressive to show what you created from something that may have been out of style, misshapen, or just badly designed in the first place.

I haven't deliberately bought things to remake them, but I am trying to use up an astonishing amount of leftover yarn that I have acquired from various sources. It's mainly becoming hats. I'm learning a lot about choosing color combinations.

=Tamar

Yes, very true... and like the words Matthew and I have been living by in the last few years.... "What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger!".

Gem

- For everything there is a reason, and a time for every purpose under Heaven! And no I am NOT quoting the Byrds song, although the words will no doubt give some people earworm to hearing that song! ;o)

And if the words didn't give you the earworm, you can listen to it here:

Tamar, I have just gone through a basket full of little spinning samples or left overs. You know how you store spun left over yarns on toilet rolls. I have an ice cream bucket full of lots of little bits. I was thinking of making a small tapestry with it. I am sure there are other good ways of using this handspun yarn. A scarf, knitted length wise, might work as well, just using one yarn for one row.

Els