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| Anne's finished projects 2003 |
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Socka Südsee socks for Chris' Birthday
Fairisle socks Mike's Opal socks Tozzy's rather large London beanie / rasta hat |
| Toria's Daisy. Dark blue rowan felted tweed background and large but delicate daisy in rowan wool and cotton. |
| Finished projects 2002 (with links to archives with picis) |
| Socks (6 pairs): Variegated welly socks Pastel variegated Brown wool Lime green cotton Red variegated Light blue cabled, Cream gansey yarn. |
| Other items (3): Black jacket Red scarf Project Linus Stripy blanket |
| Anne's work on needles |
| Project Linus blanket 2 Pale blue domino squares (à la Vivian Hoxbro), plain border, every other inner square has coloured corners. |
| Greeny-blue socks German 4ply sock yarn. Twisted 1x1 rib all the way down the ankle and continuing across the instep and heel. Sole in stocking stitch, toe back in twisted rib. Very ribby... |
| Fantastic sites for sock knitters |
| Socknitters homepage An amazing site including cyberclasses in sock knitting, patterns, tips, technical help and masses of inspiration. |
| Toe index Different types of sock toes to knit. |
Katherine DeMoure-Aldrich
An amzing, inspirational sock knitter. |
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OK, so what do I do in the case or terrorist attack. We've been so used to the possibility of it over here for the last ... years (how long is it since I was in school?) - I remember running full pelt out of Heathrow's terminal 4 in a bomb scare (nothing happened) and my friend being in Harrods with her dad buying her first Glyndebourne gown (now those were the days!) when they evacuated. Dad dived into the changing rooms, grabbed his daughter by the arm, half in gown, grabbed her bag in other hand and carried (!) her running to the exit until she convinced him that if he would just secure the back of the gown, she could probably run herself. They kept the gown and put a cheque in the post. Harrods (amazingly!) found her clothes in the changing rooms and returned them. Two other friends were injured, but not permanently or horribly, in a similar bomb scare in London that actually went off that same year. It was 1976, I think. I still feel edgy thinking back. We had a bomb scare in the shopping centre in Brighton a few months ago, my daughter was also there with a friend. I had a momentary panic, then decided she was eminently capable of being evacuated without her mum holding her hand. I don't feel entirely happy on the London underground, so I might give that a miss for the while. Anyway, what do we do? We are out in the back of beyond, so bombs not likely, but chemical / biological attack could cut off supplies. So, we turn over some of the garden to edibles. Done. We get some chickens again. Have located nearby source just in case. I have a lot of yarn in stash, so no broblem there. We have a stream (and several underground streams) and there is the site of an old well on the terrace outside the kitchen. We can dig down. DH is a painter, and middle son is a cricketer, so not really skills that would be immediately on demand in such circumstances, but I am a remedial massage practitioner, so that may come in handy in the local community, either for free or swaps. An acupuncturist lives up the road towards the village and another in the village. Oldest son is a mechanical engineering student, and can strip and rebuild a bicycle in no time at all. There is a fairly good black (greyish) market thriving here already. We did without electricity for five weeks following the October 1987 great storm, so that holds no fears either. Voilà! My planning is done. That's as far as I am going. Duct tape does not work in a 17th Century timber framed house. Project Linus blankie progress: 52/81 squares. Somehow it's going quicker now. The end is in sight. It would be a beautiful baby blankie with slightly smaller squares and 8-10 different colours for both main squares and corner squares, distributed at random. Rowan wool cotton would be nice. Clémence has finished a beautiful orange... looks like a gansey with cables... scroll down for a pici on her site. The sock is nice, too. Nice nice nice. I may be a little preoccupied at this moment in time. 21st March 2003 I passed one of my Pilates teacher training practical exams today, so am quite relieved. Also received 5 reviews out of 25 back from my other editor - somehow text has got lost, a website has disappeared entirely (???) and one review was identical to another. So have spent the last two hours rewriting and rewriting. How did I get into this? It had something to do with being self-employed and not liking to pass up an opportunity to earn some money. Think: money... yarn... knitting... cottonpurewoolsilksoftsocksaaaaaaaaahhhh :) 20th March 2003 Have just ordered more sock yarn from Martina. She can take credit cards now, so I hope it all went through. I did it from her German shop rather than the English group (click for link to Martina's English yahoogroup where you can buy German sock yarn with no hassle). My German can still stand up to it! Last time I ordered it came within about five minutes, i.e. the next day. The confirmation email is very clear and efficient. 36/81 Blankie squares. It's getting a tad boring, purely because of the acrylic yarn. There is no delight in feeling it slip through the fingers. Yet again I vow never to knit with it. This time I am going to stick to the decision! Oh my word, Martina's sent off the yarn already. She is a marvel! My editor has sent me the final final final draft and I have corrected / added / adapted / rewritten and returned!!! Into print next week, I hope. I just want to see it out and finished. I think I may get paid October this year instead of 2004. Good, eh? Well... better than a kick in the teeth. If anyone is interested in Literacy, Numeracy and Citizenship in Modern Foreign Languages, click here. No? Oh well... 18th March 2003 31/81 blankie squares completed. I've been reading about psychic discoveries 'behind the iron curtain', and in particular about people who could tell colours, without seeing them, from their 'feel' - i.e. they sensed them rather than saw them. I thought 'I've always done that' but never put it to the test by *just* sensing. I do like to use a colour according to how it 'feels' to me (rough / smooth / warm / slippery, etc) so I'm about to see whether I can actually tell the colour of, say, paper or fabric, without looking. I usually tend to swish my hand over a colour rather than touch it, or hold it (particularly balls of yarn!) and close my eyes. I'll have to find some coloured cards that I can shuffle, then close my eyes and 'feel the vibes'. Not absolutely ultra-scientific methodology, but it'll let me know whether there's somthing in it. Don't hold your breath! I'll let you know the results, but in the meantime it should be fun. Does anyone else amongst you employ this rather vague art of evaluating colours? Jerry's got a new knitting ring up and running Men Who Knit - to join you have to be male, keep a (knitting) blog going, and update regularly. And it has to be in English. I'm looking forward to dropping by from time to time. 17th March 2003 Another six murders in the relentless line of atrocities perpetrated against a tiny nation. This time a two-year-old girl and a thirteen-year-old boy are amongst the victims. This is happening almost daily. Took my greeny-blue socks to Toria's cricket training yesterday, but didn't get anything done. Far too busy watching and chatting with other chauffeurs and life-style enablers for the girls. However, managed to reach 27/81 blankie squares. Went to Kangaroo in Lewes at lunchtime and bought some 4ply and dk cotton. The fourply is in a sand colour, and I found some chestnut beads to go with it. At first I thought of adapting the new Jaeger magazine's Amor to feature diamonds instead of hearts, now I am wondering whether I might not be a little more adventurous and abandon regular diamonds altogether. This will be my first attempt at knitting beads in. The dk is in a dusty blue (antidote to powder blue!) and will be turned into a short stand-up collar cable-fronted pull. Sue still has a sale and I got these for very few pennies. |
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