Knitlist Digest      Monday, November 20 2000      Volume 2000 : Number 4220
 
 

In this issue of the KnitList Digest:

  Knit: OT/Palm Recommendations       ["Terri Royea" <royea@sk.sympatico.ca>]
  Knit: KNIT: Beehive Hat Gauge  [Jeff and Stasia Wussow <jeffnstasia@earthl]
  Re: Knit: Help on wrapped stitch on Aviator hat  ["Hazel Spencer" <dorlesk]
  Knit: Gauge for Honeycomb Beehive Hat  [Sarah and Jamie <brink909@iaccess.]
  RE: Knit: Chicago LYSS      [Barbara Fitch-Wallish <barbarafw@airmail.net>]
  Knit: Shamrock buttons                 [Joanna <webmaster@knitsnbytes.com>]

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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 22:11:35 -0600
From: "Terri Royea" <royea@sk.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Knit: OT/Palm Recommendations

Well, I guess it's sort of knitting related!  I know that someone either on
this list or Knit U has created a knitting inventory program for Palm PDAs.
I am thinking that DH can give me a Palm for Christmas this year ... and I
am thinking about getting the Palm IIIxe model.  It is the 8 MB model.  Does
anyone have this, and if so, do they LOVE it?!

I am somewhat of an organization freak and think it would be so great to
have my knitting stash with me all the time (uh, I don't have to worry about
that obsession, do I?!), as well as my schedule, address book, etc. etc.

Please let me know off list what you love/hate about your Palm and what
model you have.

Thanks!

Terri
mailto:royea@sk.sympatico.ca

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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 23:15:50 -0600
From: Jeff and Stasia Wussow <jeffnstasia@earthlink.net>
Subject: Knit: KNIT: Beehive Hat Gauge

BEEHIVE HAT GAUGE

Sorry to post twice today (!!!), but I'm an idiot. I already e-mailed Sarah
the change for the gift page...

The gauge on the Beehive Hat is 5 sts/in in the 1x1 rib. If you get that
right, you'll be fine in the honeycomb stitch.

The hat is sized to fit a very small child - finished measurements,
unstretched and facing side only, are 6.5" wide by 7" tall. But it is a very
stretchy hat, widening to 10.5 inches (front side only...21" total around)
with my hands inside stretching it with my fingers all open wide (to
simulate a head.) :-)

The bee is 3" long including his antennae.

The Caron Sayelle yarn is just regular worsted acrylic... mine is old, I
think I got it at K-Mart a hundred years ago. You can substitute anything,
really, in that sort of a weight.

If you want to make the hat bigger, use larger needles, or cast on extra
stitches using a multiple of 8, plus 4 (to accommodate the 2 border stitches
each side in the honeycomb stitch). To make taller, just work more repeats
of the honeycomb stitch before switching to the stocking stitch for the
fold. Easy!

Good luck!

> Too quick a trigger on delete..
> What gauge was used for this hat and where can I find the Sayella?? yarn
> Tnx
> Brownie

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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:13:32 -0800
From: "Hazel Spencer" <dorleska@tds.net>
Subject: Re: Knit: Help on wrapped stitch on Aviator hat

HTH. If you still can't figure it out let me know and I'll make a small
sample and take some digital shots to place at my website.

Please do Flor!
I too am having trouble with that one.  I have knit both stitches together
after turning as it is the only way I can see to avoid dropping a stitch,
which is what it seems you are saying... and yet, that can't be. How can
something explained so many times still be a blank to me?! It's a nice
looking hat and a clever design, I would love to see detailed pictures!
Thanks,
Hazel

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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:20:52 +1100
From: Sarah and Jamie <brink909@iaccess.com.au>
Subject: Knit: Gauge for Honeycomb Beehive Hat

I've updated the pattern for the honeycomb stitch beehive hat on the 2000
knitlist gifts page.
You can find it at
http://www.oocities.org/handknitter/2000/beehive-hat.htm along with a
picture of the finished hat.

Sarah
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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:43:09 -0600
From: Barbara Fitch-Wallish <barbarafw@airmail.net>
Subject: RE: Knit: Chicago LYSS

I wonder -- is the store in a non-smoking building? If not, then perhaps
Dulcie went just after the owner had had a cigarette, but you've been lucky
enough to miss those times?

OT -- DH, ds and I just moved into a new house.  Our office used to be a
girl's bedroom, and what's now the nursery used to be the owner's home
office, so those rooms need to be redone soon, but otherwise it's pretty
much perfect.

OKC -- Not much.  The bedspread I was experimenting with is probably going
to end up on my ds's bed, because dh and I just realized that we're going
for dark green in our bedroom, and the yarn I was using is navy blue.  Oh,
well, at least now I'll know pretty much exactly how much yarn I'd need if
I'm going to make one for dh's and my bed.

Barbara

- -----Original Message-----
From:   Rachel Kates [SMTP:rachelkates@hotmail.com]
Sent:   Thursday, November 16, 2000 7:32 PM
To:     knitlist@kniton.com
Subject:        Re: Knit: Chicago LYSS

Like Dulcie, today I went to We'll Keep You in Stitches, but had no sinus
reaction, and I've never noticed any smoke or smoke residue.

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Date: 20 Nov 2000 00:43:42 -0800
From: Joanna <webmaster@knitsnbytes.com>
Subject: Knit: Shamrock buttons

Re Shamrock buttons:

I got tired of looking for matching buttons so I bought some fimo in various colors. As it
happens, I made shamrock millefiori buttons for a kiddie present.

I rolled three fat snakes of green clay, cut a trench in the top along the snake and then made
the other side pointed to get three heart-cross sectioned snakes. I added a wedge shaped long
bit for the stem. Filled in with white clay quarter snakes to make the interior. Then using the
methods in "The New Clay" book I added clay for the outside rim of the button, reduced the cane
and sliced. Poked holes in for the cord and baked them. Very cute.

You can also make a non-millefiori version by just cutting out shamrock shapes with a tiny
shamrock cookie cutter or using a template.

Joanna in Germany. Visit our site http://www.knitsnbytes.com
which is temporarily a mess, unlike the house which is
permanently a mess. JUST SAY NO TO BULKY KNITS! Fashion be damned.

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