Knit Your Square To Give Your Share 2009!

Kinsey

Lovely posts maytaurus,as always. The poem made me cry, can't get it out of my head now. I wonder, can you help me. I've been looking for a shrug pattern in chunky wool, knit or crochet, but they all seem to be light summery ones that I find. It's for my sister for christmas. Thanks in advance.
Kinsey x

mioliere

Hi everyone. Maytaurus - as usual, lovely posts, and I loved the very moving words, too.

Shaz - they take no account of real lives, do they? As Maytaurus has said, they seem to think that 'one size fits all' when they make all these rules and regulations. I think it's awful that you have to keep going every three months to justify your position. Good luck for today.

DPixie - would love the crochet pattern please!

I think our thoughts today are very much with Pippa - I can't wait to hear how everything went. I think today is just a formality, a sort of rubber-stamping, but it'll be a huge day in the lives of all involved.

Well, I should be working but I'm watching something about animal rescue on BBC1 and it's wonderful. They've just found someone's stolen Staffie (it had been found in a cupboard!) and reunited it with the owner. Luckily, it had been micro-chipped so the owner was easy to trace. Just goes to show how important micro-chipping is.

Anyway, the programme has just finished so I must go and do something.

KathyXX

maytaurus

Kinsey
One of these I've already got might be ok
I'll have a looksy for some more l8tr if not
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/ccw-bolero.html?noImages=
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/60342AD.html?noImages=
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/60335A.html?noImages=
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/60258AD.html?noImages=
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/chs-shrug.html?noImages=
Have a nice day :j

k2tog

Haven't got very far with my chores but I did find this

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/static?page=free-patterns-from-patons

for Chr*****s ornaments which might be useful for Elaine and Shelley's fundraising fayres.
Haven't heard from Shez for a while - are you buried under a pile of mini stockings Shelley? :eek:

OrkneyStar

Got my ribbon .
Resisted getting wool but did get two stitch counters (save me scribbling so much lol!)........
Time to finish that gown .
Maytaurus, you never know I might quite suit a white snowflake wig!!!
x
ETA I wanna learn to crochet too....knitted since I was about 8 or 9, properly since early 20's, but could never understand how to make a crochet chain into anything else!

k2tog

OrkneyStar - I learnt from youtube and a book. I'm not a brilliant crocheter but I'm improving! It's nice to be able to swap between the two and I find crochet a bit more portable than knitting but I suppose it depends what you're working on.

prfungi

Hi guys!

Thought it might be useful for crochet wannabe's - here's the link to the lovely Crochet Ripple Blanket blog - it has really clear how to instructions and I know that some of you found it good.

http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/neat-ripple-pattern.html

'bye for now

luv
Pam

Kinsey

Thankyou maytaurus, it'll be a hard choice now, might have to make one for myself as well, which means buying more wool:D.

OrkneyStar isn't there someone at the wool shop who could start you off on crochet? Or they might know a customer who could help?

mrs-moneypenny

morning all

i hope all are well
sorry i missed you going kathy, have a lovey time
i hope everyone with reasons to celebrate today has a lovely time.

flying in and outas ive got tons to do but ive been playing with the camera trying to upload photos, only got 1/2 hour till work starts


i've managed to get it sewn together over the weekend and im almost hlaf way through knitting thee lace edging
http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac124/mrs-mooneypenny/IMG_06021.jpg

not sure what ive done wrong but ytou need to copy and paster the link to see the blanket if you want to look

shazrobo

just back from the job centre, had a lovely lady who spoke to me, who was very nice and understanding, glad thats over and done with, time to get on with some knitting.
mrs moneypenny the blanket is lovely and so bright and colourful, what do all the letters stand for?
i had to add a letter h to the begining of the copy and paste

shaz xxx