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Hi Admin, and everyone, my name is Dave and my username on here is "eathcliff". I'm new too and Ive been sifting through this web site to glean tips and tricks.
My question is..........
If I thread 2 lengths of floss through my needle, then knot the 4 ends together to start stitching, am I using 4 ply or 2 ply?
I can't get my head around this, but need to get sorted and order the correct number of skeins for my project.
Many thanks..................
Bracka,
Welcome!
I did try a search, as I'm sure you also did, but there were no appreciable results. So my suggestion would be to find a piece of clip art you like and turn that into a pattern with the freePatternWizard. Please don't forget to, groan,
swatch!
Welcome!
My apologies...I can be a bit dense sometimes, LOL. I'm not quite sure what you're asking. The stitches in a graphghan pattern bump up against each other and you work as in normal crochet, e.g., right to left, then left to right. Unless you're working Tunisian, and then depending on whether you're right handed or left handed, you'll work right to left for every row or left to right.
I just thought of what you might be talking about. If you're inquiring about whether or not to bump the pattern chart squares up against each other or letting them be spaced a bit when you're creating the pattern, that's a matter of personal choice...there's no right or wrong.
Hope that helps!
Debbie,
Thanks! This is primarily a major infrastructure upgrade so initially I'm really, really hoping the first day you won't see any differences. Like I say, this opens it up for all
the updates we plan to do.
I just finished transferring 52 websites from our current to the new hardware and next need to update all kinds of configuration settings. We're hoping to test the new configuration tomorrow and get it close to bringing it live tomorrow or Saturday. I'll probably still need to bring down the current websites just before making it all live so I can transfer the most recent databases and files so we don't lose anybody. I'm pretty sure that this might take as long as 15-20 minutes, during which time you'll see a simple page telling you to come back soon.
But again, I'm crossing my fingers that everything will look the same when we first bring it live.
Terry
Line,
I'm sorry you've had to eat the cost on the apartment painting, but that said, I think you did the smart thing. Obviously, it would not be worth the extra money to stress yourselves out to paint the apartment and to waste your time on it, particularly when you're so tired. Cutting your losses on that really is the right thing to do. There are issues where you have to pick your battles, and you chose this one wisely.
The important thing is that you rest up
now, regroup, tie up the loose ends on your new home, and relax and
enjoy.
How do the house auctions generally go...do the prices tend to go up because it's an auction, or do they stay very, very low? Are foreclosures common there?
Our market here was a bit strange. We had a bunch of foreclosures, but since a lot of us were all looking at the same time, those foreclosures didn't last long, so by the time we were able to get into the market, the house we got was literally the only one left in our price range. It wasn't our first choice...but it was our only choice. Other people were lucky enough to have better choices.
That's really interesting about how what's "in" changes there! Do you find the popularity of homes by the sea can change depending on climate for any given year? I, for instance, would love a seaside home in theory...but in reality, I'd be very, very afraid of weather that could wipe out the house. (Some of that is due to memories of flooding.)
I can understand the popularity of houses in the city. Many cities become extremely expensive, of course. If we had unlimited funds, I'd love to live in Manhattan. But not full time, mostly because it gets very, very hot there in the summer and can snow a lot in the winter. LOL, dare to dream, huh?!
That sounds like a fantastic deal on your house, and that's not far out of the city center at
all! Even better that the city is growing and you have
good chances of profiting from that should you decide to sell your
house later!
I hear you about needing room for your yarn! Do tell about the nail stuff...do you
paint custom designs on your nails or something?
Well, the work here is seemingly endless and ongoing, sigh. And everything is on hold at the moment because of a stupid dead tree that keeps dropping branches. The tree is very, very old and should have lasted for many years, but because carpenter ants found it and have been tunneling in it, it's weakened the branches and now the tree must go. We had one very large branch fall, thankfully where it did little damage, but now we worry every time it rains or we have a lot of wind, because we can hear (thankfully smaller) branches hitting the roof a lot of times. We were originally scheduled to have the stupid thing removed, but then the guy who had agreed to the job (the only one who will handle a tree of this size) is off doing something else, so we wait and wait. We went from having a specific date for when this would happen to having no clue as to when it will.
In the meantime, the other work that has to be done ranges from immediate needs to things that shouldn't - but can and must - wait. Every door needs to be replaced, for instance. The reason is because two owners ago, the guy was an alcoholic, and in a fit of pique, probably because of his anger at the mortgage company, he threw out all of the antique interior doors. Our neighbor garbage picked them and gave them to someone who was remodeling (this was over 10 years ago), but in the meantime, after this place went to the next owners, they went out and bought apparently very cheap interior doors, and they're all in bad shape. The doors are kicked in, broken, don't close right, etc.
A lot of people get angry and mess things up when foreclosure is imminent...but what many of them don't realize is the big bad bank with whom they're attempting to get even doesn't really give a crap about it...more money, less money...it's all the same to them, as a few thousand price difference one way or another is nothing for them. The people who are really affected by stuff like that are the ones who, like us, end up buying the house next. So because the previous people were foreclosed on, they didn't leave a single curtain rod or air conditioning unit, forcing us to start from scratch.
Due to the lack of air conditioning units left for us, we need to install central air, as the hotter days are getting quite miserable with only two small window units for two of the rooms, which we purchased as it began getting hot. When the temperatures go up very high, we have to take our meals upstairs into one of the two rooms, because it's too miserable in the kitchen. But where do we start? If we buy air conditioning units for every room in the house, it will be nice and cool...but then that's money better spent on central air conditioning, so it doesn't pay to keep throwing away money on temporary solutions...except it then gets sooooooooo hot in much of the house.
Many of the windows are old and need to be replaced, but in the meantime, they have to stay as they are. There also isn't a single working window screen, so we can't even open windows for fresh air! (The kitty would sneak out.) Most of the window screens are nonexistent, and the few that remain are slashed.
This house has really been terribly abused. We plan to restore it, but it's going to take a looooooong time, and not a little bit of money.
It's better than where we were, so it's not that we're complaining...but it's hard at times to live in a place that needs so much work.
Awww, enjoy the wine and have a drink for me! Better still, have several, so I can
live vicariously through you.
To read a particular post, simply click on it!
Hi Admin, and everyone, my name is Dave and my username on here is "eathcliff". I'm new too and Ive been sifting through this web site to glean tips and tricks.
My question is..........
If I thread 2 lengths of floss through my needle, then knot the 4 ends together to start stitching, am I using 4 ply or 2 ply?
I can't get my head around this, but need to get sorted and order the correct number of skeins for my project.
Many thanks..................
Bracka,
Welcome!
I did try a search, as I'm sure you also did, but there were no appreciable results. So my suggestion would be to find a piece of clip art you like and turn that into a pattern with the freePatternWizard.
Please don't forget to, groan,
swatch! Welcome!
My apologies...I can be a bit dense sometimes, LOL. I'm not quite sure what you're asking. The stitches in a graphghan pattern bump up against each other and you work as in normal crochet, e.g., right to left, then left to right. Unless you're working Tunisian, and then depending on whether you're right handed or left handed, you'll work right to left for every row or left to right.
I just thought of what you might be talking about. If you're inquiring about whether or not to bump the pattern chart squares up against each other or letting them be spaced a bit when you're creating the pattern, that's a matter of personal choice...there's no right or wrong.
Hope that helps!
Debbie,
Thanks! This is primarily a major infrastructure upgrade so initially I'm really, really hoping the first day you won't see any differences.
Like I say, this opens it up for all
the updates we plan to do. I just finished transferring 52 websites from our current to the new hardware and next need to update all kinds of configuration settings. We're hoping to test the new configuration tomorrow and get it close to bringing it live tomorrow or Saturday. I'll probably still need to bring down the current websites just before making it all live so I can transfer the most recent databases and files so we don't lose anybody. I'm pretty sure that this might take as long as 15-20 minutes, during which time you'll see a simple page telling you to come back soon.
But again, I'm crossing my fingers that everything will look the same when we first bring it live.
Terry
Line,
I'm sorry you've had to eat the cost on the apartment painting, but that said, I think you did the smart thing. Obviously, it would not be worth the extra money to stress yourselves out to paint the apartment and to waste your time on it, particularly when you're so tired. Cutting your losses on that really is the right thing to do. There are issues where you have to pick your battles, and you chose this one wisely.
The important thing is that you rest up
now, regroup, tie up the loose ends on your new home, and relax and
enjoy. How do the house auctions generally go...do the prices tend to go up because it's an auction, or do they stay very, very low? Are foreclosures common there?
Our market here was a bit strange. We had a bunch of foreclosures, but since a lot of us were all looking at the same time, those foreclosures didn't last long, so by the time we were able to get into the market, the house we got was literally the only one left in our price range. It wasn't our first choice...but it was our only choice. Other people were lucky enough to have better choices.
That's really interesting about how what's "in" changes there! Do you find the popularity of homes by the sea can change depending on climate for any given year? I, for instance, would love a seaside home in theory...but in reality, I'd be very, very afraid of weather that could wipe out the house. (Some of that is due to memories of flooding.)
I can understand the popularity of houses in the city. Many cities become extremely expensive, of course. If we had unlimited funds, I'd love to live in Manhattan. But not full time, mostly because it gets very, very hot there in the summer and can snow a lot in the winter. LOL, dare to dream, huh?!
That sounds like a fantastic deal on your house
, and that's not far out of the city center at
all! Even better that the city is growing and you have
good chances of profiting from that should you decide to sell your
house later! I hear you about needing room for your yarn!
Do tell about the nail stuff...do you
paint custom designs on your nails or something? Well, the work here is seemingly endless and ongoing, sigh. And everything is on hold at the moment because of a stupid dead tree that keeps dropping branches. The tree is very, very old and should have lasted for many years, but because carpenter ants found it and have been tunneling in it, it's weakened the branches and now the tree must go. We had one very large branch fall, thankfully where it did little damage, but now we worry every time it rains or we have a lot of wind, because we can hear (thankfully smaller) branches hitting the roof a lot of times. We were originally scheduled to have the stupid thing removed, but then the guy who had agreed to the job (the only one who will handle a tree of this size) is off doing something else, so we wait and wait. We went from having a specific date for when this would happen to having no clue as to when it will.
In the meantime, the other work that has to be done ranges from immediate needs to things that shouldn't - but can and must - wait. Every door needs to be replaced, for instance. The reason is because two owners ago, the guy was an alcoholic, and in a fit of pique, probably because of his anger at the mortgage company, he threw out all of the antique interior doors. Our neighbor garbage picked them and gave them to someone who was remodeling (this was over 10 years ago), but in the meantime, after this place went to the next owners, they went out and bought apparently very cheap interior doors, and they're all in bad shape. The doors are kicked in, broken, don't close right, etc.
A lot of people get angry and mess things up when foreclosure is imminent...but what many of them don't realize is the big bad bank with whom they're attempting to get even doesn't really give a crap about it...more money, less money...it's all the same to them, as a few thousand price difference one way or another is nothing for them. The people who are really affected by stuff like that are the ones who, like us, end up buying the house next. So because the previous people were foreclosed on, they didn't leave a single curtain rod or air conditioning unit, forcing us to start from scratch.
Due to the lack of air conditioning units left for us, we need to install central air, as the hotter days are getting quite miserable with only two small window units for two of the rooms, which we purchased as it began getting hot. When the temperatures go up very high, we have to take our meals upstairs into one of the two rooms, because it's too miserable in the kitchen. But where do we start? If we buy air conditioning units for every room in the house, it will be nice and cool...but then that's money better spent on central air conditioning, so it doesn't pay to keep throwing away money on temporary solutions...except it then gets sooooooooo hot in much of the house.
Many of the windows are old and need to be replaced, but in the meantime, they have to stay as they are. There also isn't a single working window screen, so we can't even open windows for fresh air! (The kitty would sneak out.) Most of the window screens are nonexistent, and the few that remain are slashed.
This house has really been terribly abused. We plan to restore it, but it's going to take a looooooong time, and not a little bit of money.
It's better than where we were, so it's not that we're complaining...but it's hard at times to live in a place that needs so much work.
Awww, enjoy the wine and have a drink for me!
Better still, have several, so I can
live vicariously through you. friends
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