Stitchboard Admin message #301
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 17, 2014 at 10:34:18 PM
 
Sherry,

Oh, yes, I'll say...that's got to be far cheaper than replacing a mattress!  It sounds like the 2" thick topper is perfect!  I don't know, maybe that is something we should look into doing...sooner, rather than later!

I'm very curious to hear how it goes with the K hook.    It's such trial and error and it's so great when you finally find the perfect solution! 

I'm seriously thinking of breaking away from the dishcloths here and there, maybe taking 15 minutes occasionally during the day just to try something new.  I'm so burned out on dishcloths.  I want to try some of these new ideas before I forget them!  I also need to make a couple of things for myself that really could be part of experimenting, so it wouldn't be wasted time. 

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Stitchboard Admin message #303
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 18, 2014 at 11:16:33 PM  (in response to BetwixtTheStitch message #2)
 
Sherry,

Oh, yeah, doesn't it help to step away from things now and then?    LOL, I also want to experiment because I'm afraid I'll forget what I have in mind! 

I hope the K hook is the answer for you! 

I mentioned the mattress topper to hubby and he thinks it's a good idea!    I don't know what his timeframe is, but I think it would help both of us tremendously.    We're so uncomfortable these days...I don't know...maybe it's arthritis or something. 

I've been thinking of trying to put some of my ideas into a file on my phone.  Sometimes I wake up late at night with great ideas, and it would only make sense to type or draw or somehow record them!  Unfortunately, I've already forgotten numerous ideas.    And when I did write them down on scraps of paper, it was too easy to lose them.  So maybe since my phone is with me most of the time, this would make a big difference. 

What do you do when you have an idea you really don't want to forget? 

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Stitchboard Admin message #305
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 19, 2014 at 7:39:01 PM  (in response to BetwixtTheStitch message #4)
 
Sherry,

I hope we can get it soon, too!    It really sounds like a total life saver for bad backs/hips, etc!    So glad you mentioned it! 

I've tried the wire notebooks thing, but then I often can't remember what I meant or decode my awful drawings.    Even with actual patterns...I was writing down one pattern, and when I went to type it up, couldn't make heads or tails out of it!    And it's not only the handwriting, though my handwriting could have been a doctor, LOL.    It's that I really can't understand the things that I "knew" I'd understand later on.  That's pretty bad! 

Oh, yeah, I imagine it would be too hot there for working on anything like a blanket, throw or afghan!  LOL, maybe you need to fly here and get some of our cold weather...um, not!    Even with sweaters, jackets, blankets, etc, the cold is just too cold! 

I have to stop dishcloths for a new (necessary) thing, sigh.  Thinking of knitting it, because I don't need anything super thick or warm.  Just the opposite.    Thinner and flexible, made of cotton.  Not sure where this is going. 

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Stitchboard Admin message #307
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 20, 2014 at 8:36:00 PM  (in response to BetwixtTheStitch message #6)
 
Sherry,

LOL, my printing isn't really much better!    Sometimes I'm not sure which is worse...the printing or cursive. 

I'm sorry your temps are going to be so crazy...but glad you can get the blanket done.    Yes, you definitely would get it done here, but ugh, the price you'd pay with the cold, cold weather! 

Our temps have been crazy, too.  Warmer, so it started thawing, some wintry mix, rain, wind, cold.  Heard some thunder late last night, too.  I'm amazed there wasn't any 90 degree weather, too! 

So now we have to watch the river.    This is the very unpleasant part. 

Oh, nothing much...almost embarrassingly dumb, really, LOL!  I had made a thing for my wrist to go under my watch to wear in the summer, and my hot flashes are so bad I have skin irritation from wearing my watch in the winter.    I can't locate the bloody thing I made the last time, so I need to make another one.    LOL, sigh, yesterday.

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Stitchboard Admin message #309
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 21, 2014 at 10:22:58 PM  (in response to BetwixtTheStitch message #8)
 
Sherry,

Those sound like really nice temperature ranges...so jealous!  Though the 40's are probably a wee bit cold for you guys (and I understand that, since you get hot summers), I would take it as a low here in a New York minute!    At least the lower temps are conducive to working on the blanket.    It's hard to work on something so warm when it's too hot out, but in the cooler weather, it's much preferable! 

Unfortunately, we'll be going back down into the sub-zero temps, I hear.  I can live with below freezing, as long as it's not snowing or anything, but that sub-zero stuff is so bad!  I don't want to leave the house at that point.  Just sit around, pile on the clothes, and hope not to shiver too much!

I so wish we could just pipe our precipitation down to you!  Rain, some melted snow...you would be welcome to have all of our extra, because we have more than enough to spare.  Too bad it's not that easy!

Thanks...I'm glad you like the idea!    It's kind of a little practical thing, more annoying to need it, but at least it's something I can do pretty easily.  And it uses the smallest fraction of yarn from a skein, as well, so it's economical and not very time-consuming. 

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Stitchboard Admin message #311
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 22, 2014 at 10:02:42 PM  (in response to BetwixtTheStitch message #10)
 
Sherry,

Yuck, the cold is so horribly unpleasant.    I think about a young woman I knew back in college, who was told by her teacher in Korea or Vietnam (forget which) that snow was so fluffy and nice...then she arrived here and discovered it was cold and miserable! 

I really wish the water issue could be resolved easily.  The climate is just getting worse, where half the country is parched while the other half is drowning. 

There is an easy solution to the problem of the starving, bony cows, but nobody has any intention of resolving it fairly.    The way the system is now, it's completely unsustainable.  Rather than resolve it once and for all, money is thrown at the problem, and it doesn't resolve it, but at least it makes the people throwing the money feel as if they're doing something, when they're not doing anything...or at least not doing anything smart. 

I like cheap and easy...that's why I married who I did! 

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Stitchboard Admin message #313
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 23, 2014 at 6:26:24 PM  (in response to BetwixtTheStitch message #12)
 
Sherry,

Argh, hearing "too cold to snow" definitely didn't prepare you for the misery, did it? 

I've read that's really not true, as well.  Our ultra cold weather bears this out.  During the worst of the polar vortex, it has snowed more than once. 

It would be so wonderful to get the water to where it's really needed and get it out of the places that have too much.  The irony here is that for years, people were saying many of the water tables wouldn't withstand the population explosion, and it's true.    Now the population has exploded, and there are fewer sources for water.  Weather patterns are getting worse, so water is diverted from where it's needed and lands in overabundance where it isn't, and the overabundance causes worse problems, like flooding.    If we don't get this climate issue under control, it will only get worse.  People love to deny climate change, but the climate isn't going to stop changing by ignoring it.

LOL, glad you're into cheap and easy, too!    Something that uses less than a full skein would be a great stashbuster project, so it really might not cost much at all, just some time spent to make something so small.    And it's almost instant gratification!  It's like beadweaving compared to stringing...it's a lot of fun and so beautiful, but it takes ages to make anything.  Bead stringers make something and after an hour or so, it's done!  Hee hee, so jealous!

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Stitchboard Admin message #315
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 24, 2014 at 10:43:04 PM  (in response to BetwixtTheStitch message #14)
 
Sherry,

I'm just so not talented with stringing.  The color combos, bead sizes, charms...it all doesn't go together well for me. 

I agree...there are a lot more possibilities for crochet.    Because stringing really is only good for jewelry.  You can't string a scarf, blanket, hat, pullover, cardigan...really, you can make jewelry, but not much else, perhaps a few incidental things, like eyeglass cords.

My TV shows are back on, so I'll be able to work again! 

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