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Re: Tunisian gauge
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Latest reply: May 24, 2014 at 12:00:20 AM
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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.
Melanie (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=
~~~~~
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BetwixtTheStitch
message #302
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 18, 2014 at 8:51:08 AM (in response to Stitchboard Admin message #1)
Melanie,
That really is an excellent idea, stepping away from them for even just a bit will make it less like drudgery.
Hoping to start the part with the K hook today, if today is quiet enough.
I certainly think the memory foam was a good investment for us.
Sherry
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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?
Melanie (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=
~~~~~
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BetwixtTheStitch
message #304
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 19, 2014 at 9:28:50 AM (in response to Stitchboard Admin message #3)
Melanie,
Oh I do hope you're able to get it soon.
I felt like it was a miracle for me.
I still keep the wire notebooks everywhere for jotting down ideas, then make a habit of going back through them on occasion when I'm drawing a blank.
I did get to do a couple of rows alternating with the K hook yesterday, though not enough to tell anything before it just got to hot to hold it in my lap.
Sherry
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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.
Melanie (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=
~~~~~
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BetwixtTheStitch
message #306
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 20, 2014 at 8:52:17 AM (in response to Stitchboard Admin message #5)
Melanie,
My cursive is very bad as well,
so I print everything now. Cursive is no faster, certainly not more legible, and in my mind is useless.
Our temps will be up and down for a bit now, so hopefully I can get that thing done before that comes to an end.
If I were to bring it up there, it would get finished for sure, I wouldn't want to get out from under it at all.
Well now I'm curious, if you'd like to share?
Sherry
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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
.
Melanie (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=
~~~~~
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message #308
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 21, 2014 at 8:59:19 AM (in response to Stitchboard Admin message #7)
Melanie,
I don't mind the ups and downs now, ups are beautiful sunny days ranging from high 60's to low 80's.
Downs are in the 40's and 50's, not so bad, and I can work on the blanket.
I'm sorry you have to worry about flooding, but we are in desperate need of rain.
Let me know how that watchband turns out, it does sound interesting.
Sherry
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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.
Melanie (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=
~~~~~
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BetwixtTheStitch
message #310
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 22, 2014 at 10:00:34 AM (in response to Stitchboard Admin message #9)
Melanie,
I do not envy you with those cold temps, I would want to go into hibernation as well.
But we do want the water, we've been in such a severe drought for years that we are on year round water restrictions.
The other night they were saying that beef prices will be going up again because there's just not enough feed for the cattle. The cattle they were showing were very thin, almost bony.
Between the floods up there, and the drought down here, I can see pretty much all food going up again. Ugh
Easy and cheap are always a good thing.
Sherry
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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!
Melanie (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=
~~~~~
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BetwixtTheStitch
message #312
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 23, 2014 at 9:18:53 AM (in response to Stitchboard Admin message #11)
Melanie,
I remember thinking that, too. When I was growing up in southern Ca. and it would get down in the 50's and cloudy, my dad would say it was "too cold to snow" hahaha, the joke was on me when I really experienced cold and snowy.
I do wish someone would come up with a way to divert all that excess H2O down to our lakes and reservoirs.
Oh yeah, I'm all about cheap and easy too.
Sherry
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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!
Melanie (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=
~~~~~
I'm a beading, knitting and crochet addict. If that means I'm admitting I have a problem, then I admit to nothing. Please refrain from helping me.
Member since:
Jul 3, 2013
Posts: 575
BetwixtTheStitch
message #314
Re: Tunisian gauge
February 24, 2014 at 10:07:51 AM (in response to Stitchboard Admin message #13)
Melanie,
Funny thing, I couldn't get into stringing beads because it was too simple.
One or two might be fine, then I'd get bored with it.
But with crochet, there are so many endless possibilities that I can challenge my creative side while still doing cheap and sometimes very simple.
Sherry
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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!
Melanie (cat slave and Official Feline Can Opener) =^.^=
~~~~~
I'm a beading, knitting and crochet addict. If that means I'm admitting I have a problem, then I admit to nothing. Please refrain from helping me.
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