In this issue of the KnitList Digest:
Re: Knit: testing for fiber content
[sydow <sydow@optushome.com.au>]
Re: Knit: Kids*3 book question [Anne Niemann
<anneniemann@mediaone.net>]
Knit: online canadian resources
[Susanna Eve <aq389@chebucto.ns.ca>]
Knit: thanks re: Cast-On
["Christine E" <thepanda@erols.com>]
Knit: "Oyster ovens"
["Dulcie Gannett" <dulcie@idt.net>]
Knit: help with neck line shaping
["J. Campbell" <jcampbell@ij.net>]
Knit: A bit of an embarrassment; From Bad to Worse ["Tocker
Family" <jbto]
Knit: www.woolworks.org
[Christine Evelyn Squires <ces@teleport.com>]
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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 12:00:50 +1100
From: sydow <sydow@optushome.com.au>
Subject: Re: Knit: testing for fiber content
Greetings all,
Chris Craven wrote:
>
> Can someone please review the simple tests for determining fiber
> content of unlabeled yarn? I found a huge cone of yarn at Value
> Village for $% but I'm not sure if it's wool or what. Thanks!
>
> Chris Craven, exhausted from a long night of election madness in
> Washington state.
Some URLs (from the top of my printouts!)
http://einstein.human.cornell.edu/135/flam.html
http://einstein.human.cornell.edu/135/burnid.html
http://fabrics.net/fabricsr.htm
http://www.customs.treas.gov/imp-exp1/comply/fibryarn.htm
The last one is a large document, the burn test is in Appendix B, in
my
printout, p. 35 of 38.
HTH,
Karen Sydow
Melbourne, Australia
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Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 19:28:45 -0600
From: Anne Niemann <anneniemann@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: Knit: Kids*3 book question
lambs pride will dye very nicely but the white and natural colors did
not
felt at all well for me. anne ps lopi and baabaajoes whites felted
very
nicely.
Rachel Kates wrote:
> Could someone who has made the "magic" felted Kool-aid dyed hat from
Kids
> Kids Kids, please let me know which yarn you used? I am thinking
Lamb's
> Pride will do the (magic) trick. TIA
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 23:07:20 -0300
From: Susanna Eve <aq389@chebucto.ns.ca>
Subject: Knit: online canadian resources
Hi Everybody,
I cast on for a scarf out of Marlene by Austermann (kind of fake fur
like)
using 10 mm needles. I made another scarf last year using 2 strand
of this
on size 15 mm needles but since then I have started using circulars
instead
of long straight needles. I am not sure that I will be able to
get such a
big sized circular needle at a LYS, the first one I called didn't have
any.
I would love to by the skacel ones from Elann but I can't afford it
right
now. So, my question is does anybody know of any Canadian online
sites
where I could find large size plastic circular needles.
I could also
trade yarn for one, the Canadian dollar is so low right now that to
get a
money order I have to 1.46 Canadian per US dollar, so it really isn't
worthwhile to order anything from the US unless I am desperate:(
OKC
My mother is in the hospital recovering well from minor surgery but
I have
been going daily, my hospital knitting is a Dr. Who Scarf that I am
knitting in the round, no long seam to sew up afterwards, out of small
amounts of different coloured Briggs and Little. I am also working
on a
sock. I finished off a wonderful Kufi cap a couple of weeks
ago using
some black cotton and some novelty yarn, it turned out really well.
Thanks for any tips or help in my search for large sized circulars,
the
length doesn't matter as I only need to cast on about stitches.
Susanna
fulltime homeschooling mother to 4 big boys and 1 little girl
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 22:00:34 -0500
From: "Christine E" <thepanda@erols.com>
Subject: Knit: thanks re: Cast-On
hi...
thanks to everyone regarding my quest for my Cast On...
I emailed them and they told me that if I didn't get it
by Friday they'd send me a new one...
Christine in Laurel, Maryland
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 23:04:14 -0600
From: "Dulcie Gannett" <dulcie@idt.net>
Subject: Knit: "Oyster ovens"
Hi all--
DANGEROUS WILLIE WARMERS?
I just got the local public TV publication, just reworked into a tabloid,
and it has a front page story on a Canadian woman who, to keep her
prize
bull's sperm production from being damaged by the winter cold, made
up a
scrotum-shaped polar fleece "oyster oven." She was all set to
have the
local knitting guild start production for sale, but the U. of Saskatchewan
found that they worked a little *too* well, and heated up the area
enough to
impede sperm production almost as much as the cold did.
So...maybe the willie warmers should come with a warning?
OKC
The aran coat with the cables on a st st, not rev st st, background
is
coming along well. I got one of the patterns started wrong, and
had to rip
out and redo 50-some cables, but I managed to survive that. It's
going to
look fine.
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There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein
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Dulcie Gannett***Dulcie@idt.net***cyberspace dilettante
(one step up from neophyte)
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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:12:35 -0500
From: "J. Campbell" <jcampbell@ij.net>
Subject: Knit: help with neck line shaping
Hello:
Long time, no write- but it's been a heck of a semester. I recently
ordered
some Lamb's Pride worsted from Claudia of Countrywool (usual disclaimers
etc)- who proved to be as gracious and <<helpful>> a YS
owner as I have
known yet. She even helped me choose the colorway ("spice") based
on a a
mere written description of relevant vital stats! (And what do you--
I
<<love>> the color!) Anyhoo- I am thrilled with the yarn
(I really like
Lamb's pride). I originally was planning to knit Countrywool's
English
ribbed sweater... yet the spirit of adventure took me and I decided
to knit
an adult -sized version of the Jil Eaton sweater "Bow Wow" on pg 71
of
Minnow knits, Too. For those of you that don't have the book-
it's a drop
shouldered, all-over cable w/t mock turtle neck. Cute as a button
in the
bright yellow shown, but I've always thought in a more sophisticated
shade
it would look quite nice on an adult.
As well as making the appropriate size increase, I also converted it
to a
circular pullover- at least to the "armholes"; then I plan to work
front and
back separately, join the shoulders with three needlebind off
technique,
and then pick up the stitches for the sleeves and knit down to the
cuff.
HOWEVER- I need some help with shaping the neck. I want to do
the same kind
of mock turtle neck, so I'd guess that the neck depth would be about
3 or
3.5 inches, give or take, on my sweater. I just need to know <<how>>
to
calculate the stitches to put on hold, the stitches to "bind off" for
the
center, and the subsequent neck decreases. Something tells me
it will be
something like a 1/3 of the stitches for each of the shoulders and
1/3 for
the neck stitches- but that's about as far through the process as I've
gotten (I swear there's little hamsters turning the proverbial wheel
up in
my brain- and none too swiftly. Perhaps they are drunken little
hamsters...
but I digress.)
If more specific numbers are needed, I can provide these- but it just
seems
to me that there's got to be a pretty standard formula for this kind
of
thing. I've knitted sweaters before but they've already figured
out the
math for the neck shaping. Any help on this would be appreciated.
Jamie
jcampbell@ij.net
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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:58:19 +0200
From: "Tocker Family" <jbtocker@inter.net.il>
Subject: Knit: A bit of an embarrassment; From Bad to Worse
Hi Knitsibs:
Well-I am sitting here with egg on my face.
My Winter '00/'01 VK showed up in my mailbox the other day. While
I usually
just flip through and look at the patterns when I first get it (and
is
anyone actually planning on knitting #38?), I had some time on my hands
while waiting to chauffeur DD to work (since the disturbances I'm the
twice-daily means of transportation) and decided to read a bit of it.
Imagine my surprise to read about the 12,000 people who showed up for
Knit-Out in NYC this year and then read the following statement,
"Around the US, at least another 30 Knit-Outs were taking place on
the same
day-one, on public transit in Portland, Oregon-and in Israel, the first
international event..." <mild choking>
For the real report about Israel's first-ever Knit-Out, head over to
The
Oasis Knitting Guild's web page at
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/HobbyCt/oasis_isr/index.html and click
on
the link for the September newsletter.
I am glad our little (read miniscule) efforts garnered some attention,
but
it'll be a sub-zero day in Tel Aviv before we can even hope to match
the
12,000 that showed up in New York. (Heck-most of our *towns* don't
even have
12,000 inhabitants!) <g>
From Bad to Worse:
This has been a week, actually nearly a month, of near non-knitting.
There
are several small projects that need doing and finishing up and a couple
of
major projects that need starting (like my friend's Colinette vest
that I
promised her for her birthday *last* year) <sigh>, but I just can't
seem to
prod myself to get going on any of them. Either it's stress due to
the fact
that our daughter is about to enter her mandatory military service
(wonderful timing), or lack of enthusiasm for any of the projects.
This too shall pass.
Off to watch the news and see who will be the next US president. Talk
about
a photo finish!
Yours in knitting,
Jennifer Tocker
&knitchat2 on ICQ#21558412
The chat venue exclusively for Knitlisters
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yarnaholic Confessions
http://www.oocities.org/jbtocker/
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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 02:22:20 -0800
From: Christine Evelyn Squires <ces@teleport.com>
Subject: Knit: www.woolworks.org
Did Emily close this site? Did itmove? I keep getting a message that
there is no such server, regardless of whether I use Netscape or Internet
Explorer.
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