Knit Your Square To Give Your Share 2009!

prfungi

Hi peeps,

had to let you know - I've just spent 5 minutes over at PamsPals watching a Mum and Baby Hedgehog eating their muesli (?) supper - what a delight - the baby ate his fill then wandered off with an oat flake on his nose, Mum carried on eating til all the tasty bits had gone then strolled over to the shady bit of the garden - presumably slug hunting.

I'm sat here grinning like an idiot - what a nice little experience.

PS - Ppal has just been on the phone - apparently Daddy 'hog has just arrived - oops no grub left! Aaaawe

luv
Pam

k2tog

How lovely Pam! Has it sent you on a hedgie knitting spree like Chalky

mioliere

Have a wonderful time, Chalky!

KathyXX

prfungi

k2tog wrote: »

How lovely Pam! Has it sent you on a hedgie knitting spree like Chalky

Not yet - although I have loads of fluffy wool - but its pale green - hmmm! furry frogs?? fluffy dragons?? :rotfl:

Whats your Rav name by the way? I see K2Tog is already taken (shame)!
Mine's the same as here - surprising for such a commonplace monicker aint it!:rotfl:

I love it on there - I find the Patterns discussion board interesting & there are some really good boards for getting help with just about anything.

'bye for now
luv
Pam:smileyhea

k2tog

prfungi wrote: »

Not yet - although I have loads of fluffy wool - but its pale green - hmmm! furry frogs?? fluffy dragons?? :rotfl:

Whats your Rav name by the way? I see K2Tog is already taken (shame)!
Mine's the same as here - surprising for such a commonplace monicker aint it!:rotfl:

I love it on there - I find the Patterns discussion board interesting & there are some really good boards for getting help with just about anything.

'bye for now
luv
Pam:smileyhea

I've got a clever prfungi (and many others on here) for that! Your questions must be much more difficult than mine if you don't already know the answer :rotfl:
I'm k2t!!!4 on Ravelry. Have spent ages browsing and have done NO knitting or crochet - I'm hopeless! Think i'm just killing time til my shorties arrive which will of course mean buying more wool as other than baby colours and my peru top (WIP :rolleyes:) [STRIKE]I don't have [/STRIKE] oh, yes I do, I've just remembered my chocolate brown and Olive green Aldi wool . I'm thinking about trying this http://www.unicornbooks.com/pattern_RTargylevest-SQL3.asp with the olive green. Ahh, so many projects....
ETA: it's filtering out my Ravelry name - confused! It's the same as on here with a 74 at the end

prfungi

k2tog wrote: »

........... I've just remembered my chocolate brown and Olive green Aldi wool . I'm thinking about trying this http://www.unicornbooks.com/pattern_RTargylevest-SQL3.asp with the olive green. Ahh, so many projects....

Ooo lovely pattern, its years (33 I think) since I did any intarsia work. I loved it then and have seen some fab patterns recently but I now prefer fancy stitches to lots of colours - I think its because of my platinum (ok silver grey) hair. I'm nearly 58 but my hair thinks its 80 (and has done for the last 15 years or so)

The pattern looks quite straightforward - remember to split your diamonds colour into 3 little balls, it saves having to carry threads across! Go on - have a go!

Where'd you order the little needles from, they seem to be taking ages? I hate waiting for stuff - I'm an "instant gratification" type.:rotfl:

Do you want to borrow mine?


luv
Pam:smileyhea

k2tog

Thank you for the kind offer Pam, but I must be patient - they are coming from America so the needles will be better travelled than me!
I will give that a go and might do a larger men's one for LH if it goes OK. Haven't done much intarsia so may do some on some preemie stuff first for the practice.
ETA Just noticed it's on a chart too :eek:

mioliere

Good morning everyone.

Chalky - if you read this before you leave for your trip, I hope you have a good time and that the weather is good. I hear that the weekend forecast for the UK looks promising.

All this talk of Ravelry has reminded me that I must visit it! I joined ages ago (same name as here) and only call in occasionally. I must admit I've never done anything on there apart from scroll through the patterns but I'll take another look later on today.

Pam - I'm nearly 57 and my hair would be silver-grey if it wasn't for the assistance of L'Oreal! I'm due to have my first French hair cut tomorrow morning:eek: so I'm having to learn how to say 'just tidy up the ends, please'! The last hair cut I had was in March just before I left the UK; it's the longest I've ever left it without a trim. It's long anyway so I can just tie it back when it gets in the way, but I want to look a little more chic (in a sort of Parisien way!) when I go back home. I don't want everyone to think that, now that I live in rural France, I've gone all peasanty!

Well, I have another Friendship square on the go now. I've chosen a deep purple with a sage green - I wasn't sure of the combination when I started it but the colours look great together, and it's using up small left overs that I wouldn't use for baby stuff or anything.

I spoke to both my boys on Skype last night, which was great. I even carried on knitting while I was talking to them! DIL is really huge now, with exactly a week and a day until the due date, so it's all getting very exciting. She left work a couple of weeks ago and is looking more relaxed now that she can take it easier. The other grandchildren look great, too, and told me all about the other day in the park, when they and their Mum walked into a wasps's nest!:eek::eek: DIL1 got stung once, DGS, once, and poor DGD - six times - all in her hair. DIL said that the wasps chased them back to the car. I could tell that she was still scared even talking about it, but she must have handled it really well because the children just talked about it as though it was an adventure! She had them both checked out at the walk-in clinic and no harm was done. It must have been terrifying, though.

Well, I suppose I'd better go and have a shower. I have to do some food shopping this morning, then I'll try and do a couple of hours of proper work, and some knitting this afternoon.

See you all later.

KathyXX

Kinsey

k2tog re: patterns on a graph, they are actually much easier than written patterns when you get used to it. I used to do a lot of very complicated intarsia and the best thing I found was a plastic ruler with a big elastic band round the length, pattern slipped behind ruler and moved up with each row.

Let's hope the weather behaves for chalky, it's raining here now. sigh.

mioliere love the sound of the buttons and the shop, you must have lots of willpower.

Pam a pale green fluffy dragon sounds delightful.

Hope all is well maytaurus.

mrs-moneypenny

morning all

have a lovely time at those weddings Chalky

PSSO so sorry to hear yuo were kept hanging about yesterday at DDs appt, i hope the scan finds a cause for the pain and thy know how to cure it.

Lou lovely to see you over here again, dont be afraid to say hello whatever time it is you pop in for a read

another busy day here im trying to decide what knitting to take i think ill take my school square wool (only 2 colours left to do) and mums top, i havent a hope of getting it finished for her birthday now but ive not touched it for weeks so no one to blame but myself. I keep getting distracted by other projects.

my updates for this week
2 blank poetry squares - ive sent mine off now
3 friendship squares

have a lovely week (or so) and stay safe. see you soon:hello: