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Beigey denim socks In Regia cotton yarn for Toz 
Alpaca super-fine scarf in crocodile scale lace for Meghan 
Beaded top in hemp Hemp yarn from House of Hemp in 'gosh', kingfisher blue / green. 
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More educational aids  How about a knitted uterus this time?
Libby found it, and there is a free pattern here. May 29th Sidetracked again... I've knitted myself a pair of little sockies to wear as a brooch, one purple with stripes, one red. Whadyathink? They were worn yesterday pinned to Luscious.  Beaded hemp top is still advancing. Obligatory cricket report: Sussex U17s went down to Bath to play Somerset yesterday, 45 overs, got them all out for 99, Toz woz 1 for 10 off 8.2; none of our batsmen really fired but we got the runs with a few overs to spare. Good job done. Tamara came to watch, and her mum came too later on. So nice to have a few long hours to sit and chat - and I didn't have to score! This is what I was knitting at the match, and I still get 'jokes' about the guillotine when I knit at matches. (See below if you are mystified). I have decided to suggest gently that the 'guillotine effect' brings about a subtle crumbling in the oppo's confidence and that is why we win so much. (Or it may be due to them facing bowling from a girl who sees off the openers in the men's league. But that's probably too simple). Anyway, the guillotine effect is an idea worth running with. Do witches knit? I'd be glad to hear from any knitting witches.  Les tricoteuses... ...were women who sat by the guillotine during the French Revolution and knitted whilst watching the beheadings. This has been interpreted as demonstrating the height of cruelty and callousness. Follow this link for an alternative view on the matter. Isn't it just wonderful that science is at the cutting edge? Of course, the idea of emergency knitting is totally ridiculous and would never catch on ... I am going to sew the buttons on the final outfit for Melanie's baby today, then it can all be shipped off. Thanks to Jacqueline for the suggestion in the comments about my dreaming! I am adopting Fritz Perl's strategy for asking each part of the house what it's role is in the scenario. I do that whilst knitting, natch! May 27th Slow progress on all fronts I have moved house so much in my dreams in the last week or so, I don't know whether I am coming or going. Hmmm. However the front of beaded Hemp top is finished and the back is growing. The beigey sock is finished and the second one is started. What is happening with me? Harvey knitted a fantastic breast on Monday evening and was palpably pleased with it. She knits very fast and easily, throwing the yarn with her right hand, to a fairly tight tension. I suspect her finished guage (see below for a pici of intended article) was *not* exactly as the pattern exhorted, however, it did make a brilliant... er... item. And she made it in skin-colour beige with a brownish nipple. I had expected pink polkadots or stripes. She obviously made the larger size shape since we still haven't found anyone who recognizes the small shape. I've had time to contemplate the ideal patterning for mine and it may now sport Fresian cow black-on-white markings. Penny is going to sew a couple of individual hairs into the areola of hers, and add a nipple piercing to another. Breast knitting may become a fetish yet. For those of you who have emailed me asking for the pattern, (copyright) I have an address, so please email me again. May 23rd I think I'm reinventing myself again Only this time I'm not being such a control-freak. So I'm doing all this myofascial release stuff (I mean, I am the 'recipient' letting the tissues unwind and the practitioner, wonderful woman that she is, persuades my tissues to start releasing, gives the process a nudge every so often and just hangs around being there in case I get scared)... and the ground is shifting under my feet and I love it! I'm getting dreams at night, vivid dreams, dreams about living in old, odd houses. At first they were just huge and rambling, with most of the rooms blocked up and flooded or crammed to the gills with mouldy, slimy stuff. Unlit staircases led to bricked-in walls and sheer drops into basements. I did quite a lot of exploring at night for a couple of weeks. Now the houses are enormously huge and whole parts are being demolished outright and I stand there wondering what's going to appear (or whether I'm going to build something) in their place. Last night it was the living room, a 20m x 20m L shape, which was just not there any more. Taken down, cleaned up, the cleanest building site I have ever seen, and light flooding in. A small team of workmen were beavering away on something. And I had spent the previous 30 minutes wandering the other windowless rooms, wondering why I was there. I had forgotten that there was a living space. I hope it's going to stay light. New stash members Here's a little taster. It's all on the stash page. I really must go on a yarn diet. I have to say, it helps immensely to have one's stash available online to ponder and peruse, without having to unpack it all. Of course, if I had somewhere I could keep it all visible, that would be even better. This is the Ford Barton wool.  I haven't told you about the Hobgoblin yet, have I? Well, I went to meet with some other Brighton knitters at the Hobgoblin (next to Sainsbury's on the London Road) on Monday evening. Usually there are quite a few who turn up, but this time it was only Penny, a Brighton comedienne and Harvey, a nurse at Lewes prison. Some of the others apparently got lost in Lewes (???). The whole evening was a total success, including superb chat, good Guiness and a bizarre knitting pattern from Penny for knitted breasts - they get stuffed and used in ante-natal classes to teach mothers-to-be how to breast feed. I shall do mine in fairisle. The smaller version doesn't look like a breast at all to me, but the larger one is more life-like. Please tell me what the flowers are doing there. Lending scale, maybe? The inscription says "Visual Aids for use in ante-natal and post-natal discussion and classes", and there is a very involved pattern on the back. Apparently it is *essential* to obtain the correct tension.  |
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New reading this month: All PNI stuff and the knitting books above to retain sanity. Read this month: Far too much and all technical.  The User's Manual for the Brain Bodenhamer and Hall's manual for NLP practitioner certification. Pretty clear and comprehensive but badly written (grammatical mistakes abound on every page) and it obviously wasn't edited carefully or at all. Written from the perspective of those who assume their readers to be religious (one of the authors is a 'pastor') and in places addressing what they assume to be a male readership. Weird! I'm going to have to use it, though. US shoppers click here: The User's Manual for the Brain |
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