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WIPs, tip for today, blather

Jawoll socks. First sock is done, second is languishing. I have PADD (project attention deficit disorder) and get distracted by other things.

The "Shaped Triangle" shawl from _A Gathering of Lace_. I happened to have the required yarn in the stash and I felt like making something non-wooly. My yarn is Cinnibar and not Garnet; cinnibar is a bit deeper red with a smoky undertone. I started the third chart last night so my progress will be *much slower* than it has been, but I have only 80 right-side rows to go, plus the edging. Today is the beginning of week two for this project, I expect it'll take me at least another 10 days to finish, maybe even a full two weeks. I'm knitting this on a nylon needle lent me by our friend Aaron and it is absolutely perfect for this yarn - smooth pointy tips, tapered joins, nary a snag in sight unless I manage to hook my MedID bracelet in the damned lace :D

Spinning: I've decided that half an hour of spinning, half an hour of knitting, and an hour of "get up off your a$$ and do something else" is my formula for the summer. The spinning is froghair, however, so I have LOTS and LOTS of half hours to go before I have enough yarn for the sweater. The sweater's buttons aren't going anywhere...

Tip of the day: When using Elizabeth's one-row buttonhole, make a swatch with button-bands long enough to fold over and actually button together, then clip the swatch to a hanger for a couple of days and observe its behavior. The buttonhole as given is a bit big for a

1.25" button, especially once the button stretches the buttonhole a few times. The buttonhole is easily modified, and of course you can always go back and darn it closed a bit (which is what I did).

This afternoon we're off to the pool. Hopefully the water will be warmer than it was on Monday. On Monday my no-body-fat child was purple and shivering in less than half an hour and professed to be "still shivery inside" after stewing for an hour in a warm tub after I got him home. The poor thing sinks like a rock, too, so he'll have a hard time satisfying the "swim the width of the pool" requirement to qualify as a diving board user.

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Wooly
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If they work, keep them. You are not going to trick me in to trying lace by sending them back to me : )

I have miles and miles of gansey ahead of me. I gotta focus on that and get it done. I knit last night until my biceps twitched and throbbed as I went to bed. (No pain in hands or wrists!) This morning when I measured it was only 6500 stitches in 6 hours - less than 20 stitches per minute : (

Oh, well, it was starting a new section of pattern that I had never done before. Only 30,000 stitches of that pattern until I get to the arm holes and switch from knitting in the round to knitting back and forth.

Aaron

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<agres

Heh, heh - I have PADD too Wooly. Love the expression! Your shawl sounds wonderful....

This sounds SO familiar to me. Back in the day (snicker) when I was a child, my father just happened to be the "Superintendant of Pools" for the city I lived in, and there was an apartment above one of the pools. We moved there when I was about 4..... I learned to swim like a fish by the time I was 5, and was "WonderWoman" in the pool til puberty hit. Then boys became my #1 focus. I can remember any number of times the lifeguard on duty would make me leave the pool after many hours, because my hands were so wrinkled (prunes) and I also was turning blue and shivering. Lots of fond memories there - good fun and nice people!

Shelagh

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Shillelagh

Shelagh, My dad ran the pools until I was ten and then in another city later when I was a teen. (Because they were outdoors, the job was seasonal and he coached and taught PE during the school year) During the war years and gas rationing, we would pick up the lifeguards in the morning on the way to the pool in our 38 Olds and then stay the day at the pool. Needless to say, I learned to swim early like you did. Dad also had the key to the pool at the college and he and I used to go there for a bedtime swim sometimes - which I loved. If I finished homework early enough, we would go there for a swim and then come home for a bedtime snack.

I remember teaching little boys one summer when I was a teen -- they were advanced beginners about nine or ten years old. Most were skinny little guys whose lack of body fat meant they floated beneath the surface and turned blue and shivery quickly. (Those are not my problems - my body fat ratio is well designed for easy floating) It made learning to swim harder for them and I had to keep thinking up ways to make it more fun for them while still making some progress. That was, of course, many years ago - but I doubt that little boys have changed that much.

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JCT

My WIP at the moment is a summer sweater made from Dale Svale in a sunny yellow. I will try to take a WIP pic of the sleeve. I started there so that if my swatching for needles size wasn't quite right I could have something to try and then not have to frog so much if I had goofed.

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JCT

OK -- here is the sleeve--

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fit ok and I think I will continue with that size needles. I wouldlike to finish the top this month as DH has a meeting in Sedona, AZ toward the end of the month and I need a few things with more class than my usual jeans and t-shirts. I also need to sew the buttons on my other new top and then it will be ready.

Judy

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JCT

Oh, I love it! What a gorgeous colour. I will be waiting to see the rest of it.

Higs, Kather> OK -- here is the sleeve--

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Katherine

On Sun, 21 May 2006 19:23:05 GMT, spewed forth :

Har! Lace is both easier and harder than it looks, especially when one has husband and child and cats all clamoring for attention. I'm at a point now such that I'll have to only work on the shawl in the morning, after I take child to school and before man starts bumbling about the house. He's wonderful and I love him, but he really needs to decide that retirement at 50 isn't for him and GO BACK TO WORK even if he clerks at a stop-and-rob.

You can knit for miles and miles and miles...

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Wooly

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