Wearable cotton yarn?

If you can live with some wool content, try Cotton Fleece from Brown Sheep. Its an 80/20 cotton/wool blend that wears well (I made socks with Cotton Fine and they have yet to show any wear). I don't generally like cotton blend yarns but I make an exception for this line.

On Mon, 23 May 2005 12:25:58 GMT, Jenn Vanderslice spewed forth :

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET.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

Why all the check-ups, Jenn?

Katherine (who HAD to ask)

Hi Katherine,

I work at a retirement center/nursing home/assisted living facility. The residents are very prone to illness in their senior years, so I have to be checked for TB annually now. The hepatitis B shots are HIGHLY recommended....I've chosen to get them since the facility pays for them. It's for their protection as well as mine and better safe than sorry.... ;-)

/J

That makes sense. DO you know, that just the other day, there was a case of TB diagnosed in my province? THere hasn't been one here for decades. So I guess it is never completely gone.

Katherine

I have been very happy w/ the Lion Brand Cotton .. not the kitchen cotton.

My favorite worsted cotton yarn is Butterfly mercerised cotton from Greece. It comes in skeins of 125 gram at 230 meters 22 stitches and 28 rows knits up to 10 cm or 4inches with a 4.5 mm knitting needle. They have a very broad range of colours. I buy these for $12 canadian. I love the way this yarn knits up. So far I have used it for a dress, rompers and another dress for my two grand daughters. I knit with it by hand as well as on my knitting machine.

Els

No TB is not gone and actually on the rise again.

Els

When I was a very little girl, the mother of a friend of mine was diagnosed with TB, and had to go to the Sanitorium for several years. Keith tells me that, in Carbonear, there was a house where several people had contracted TB, and no one would buy it. They had to tear it down and turn it into a green space, as people said that even the soil was infected. Don't know if that has any truth in it, or if it was just an old wives' tale.

I know that, in the far north, there is a lot of TB still, but I thought that, with the innoculations, it was gone in the south. Not good!

Katherine

There is Kim and Kelly by King yarns, with some acrylic, but they are very soft and machine washable.

Roger.

Definitely not good... a bit scarey too. :o/

My paternal grandfather had TB when they lived in Nova Scotia after coming over from England. I *think* (don't quote me) while he was in the sanitorium (or at some other point after moving to Canada) he taught mechanics to Walter Pidgeon before he went on to become an actor.

Not important to TB, but just an interesting piece of my family history. ;o)

Gemini

On Tue, 24 May 2005 08:58:31 -0400, MRH spun a fine yarn

Wow. Memories. My maternal gramma was in the san for TB too. One thing that also came back... remember the shot-of-air TB tests? My sister and I always came back 'positive', and my cousin Renee and her twin Russ always came back negative.... and I recall ARGUING with Renee, she saying it meant Nancy and I either 'had' it or would get it, and she and Russ NEVER would... and my retort always was that the positive ONLY meant we had been *exposed* and they had not... and *we* (Nan and I) PROBABLY, because we had been "exposed" had built up anti-bodies against it. Oh my gosh, this was a l-o-n-g time ago.... Noreen just my 2 cents (JM2C)

And we love these interesting little pieces, don't we?

Katherine

Were those the little back scratches, NOreen? That is what we had in school.

Hugs, Katherine

We had a little scraping/scratching on the inside of our forearm when I went to school. I don't think Matthew ever had those tests done... at least I don't remember hearing about them if he did.

Gemini

I remember the inside of the wrist, Katherine... Hugs, Noreen

waving and jumping up and down, and hollering. YEP! LOL Noreen

Probably the same thing.

Katherine

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