Knit Your Square To Give Your Share - Part 3

OnlyGirl

Glad to help orkneystar, I always worry when i explain things as it sounds like jibberish to me. Good excuse to have a tub of ice cream though isn't it? (not allowed at the moment as trying to diet.boo hoo!)

chalky_75

Just popping in to say I have managed the first 2 lines of the ripple blanket as shown on Attic24-- just need to get in the swing of it I think but different than my usuall Granny Squares.

Has anyone done more than 2 rows in 1 colour and then changing. Just wondering what you wondeful people have found out when working with ripple

dpixie

morning all of you lovely ladies - hope that you are in good spirits today. i must be honest i do like the rain ... its a great excuse not to mow the lawn!

have not done much knitting/crocheting, just trying to get those numbers of squares up to 150 by the 19th of October and all put everything together for our epic adventure that is starting very early on wednesday morning - the drive down to our french house!

anyway, isom - the declutter is going well, so well that i have managed to throw away some very important papers, which is rather a pain, but it will continue as i am tired of all the mess. also, as jean pointed out, i must be doing some of this in preparation of my SILs visit - she is the clean queen, dust does not even float past her house as it would be nuked before it got anywhere close. also, isom, i did a baby blanket for a friend in a half double crochet (not sure what the english term for that is, i normally use the american terms) and it looks great.

oh well, its coffee time, so i will leave you all with gentle thoughts and loads of tidying for me.

dpixie

dpixie

chalkey, i tried to do 4 rows in each colour and i thought that it looked a bit weird. so i looked on a ripple site, and generally people only do 2 of each colour, have not seen any with 4.

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mioliere

Hi everyone; late on here due to not feeling very lively first thing this morning, then getting a bee in my bonnet about the dust! So, I've been cleaning like a mad thing and now I'm exhausted! Woke up to pouring rain but that's all cleared up and I've managed to get some washing on the line. I'm still feeling shivery and a bit under par, but I don't think it's going to develop into anything with a name - if I went to the doctor he'd only say 'it's a virus' (I suppose I should have said that in French but I think they spell 'virus' the same way we do - unless Jean knows better!) and send me home with nothing.

Prfungi - ah, now, books! I cannot live without mine. I have hundreds and hundreds, probably thousands but I daren't count them, and only started feeling at home here when I got them all out and up on the shelves. I hated having them in boxes. I sometimes just stand and look at them, feeling really grateful that I was taught to read, but knowing that I won't live long enough to read them all! A lot of mine are favourites that I've kept for years and re-read now and again; I have loads of reference books (many of them about Chinese history - something I've always been fascinated about), loads of knitting, crochet and sewing books, and I have enough novels to start my own library. The good thing about them all is that a lot of my British friends out here are raiding the shelves - books are currency here! I bought most of them from charity shops in the UK over the years, at bargain prices and, of course, that avenue has been shut down now that I'm in France, but I went to an English book fair last week and picked up three that I've been wanting for ages. The lady who runs it charges €3 per book (whatever the book is, large or small, hardback or paperback, fiction or non-fiction), or buy-two-get-one-free, then, if you take them back, she'll allow you €1 against another one. I was thrilled to bits to find her - she only lives a short drive away, visits four different villages a month, but said that, as long as I ring her first, I can go any time I like to choose books - and have a glass of wine! She will be a true life-saver for me! Thanks for the comment on my blog, by the way! I keep looking at yours hoping you've added to it.

Chalky - I've put a comment on your blog, now that you've told me what to do! I have a Google account so it just posted automatically. The blog is great!

PurpleTeddyBear - so good to hear from you. Hope life is treating you well.

Maytaurus - what a fantastic job you've done of that all important info post - it looks so good, I'm sure it will encourage lots of newbies! Thank you so much for working so hard on it.

Only Girl - hope you feel a lot better soon.

ISOM - good luck with the knitting group and tell us all about it tomorrow!

Well, I'd better go and sort out some lunch, then I need to give DH a hand with some boring old DIY French-style. Was hoping to get some knitting or crochet done this afternoon, as well as the update for this thread, and put some photos on my blog - will see what time I get left with before the next meal shift. I wish sometimes we could just live on fresh air - I really resent having to stop for meals - it's so time-consuming!

Thanks for all your updates - this week's totals are looking really amazing!

KathyXX

psso

Chalky - re the ripples. I started `practicing` it a while ago and got on so well I carried on and made the practice piece into a scarf. Would have been a shame to rip it all out again. I did 4 rows white, 2 rows pale blue, 4 white, 2 pale pink, 4 white, 2 lemon etc and liked the way it turned out. Might do a baby blanket like that.........

Elaine.x

ps Add me to the list of BOOKWORMS. I love sitting down with a good book in front of the fire. I`ll read anything, have done since I was little. Gave Mum a red face in front of visitors one day when I was about 4, she found me hiding behind the settee `reading` the Bible. It was one of those lovely old ones with the beautiful coloured pictures in it and I was fascinated by them. The visitors thought I was a wee `Bible basher`and would try to convert them.!!

Pippa.S

Kathy - just realised I have'nt put my friend Jan's IS hats on for update, she isnt on the list yet though, is it possible to put her on?
I am working on her to do a few more bits ....

right here goes.....

JAN'S UPDATE

20 IS HATS


Off shopping will be back later TTFN
Anne
x

chalky_75

Well thank you so much for all the advice decided to give thr 2 line colour swap a go --- AFTER I have finished bright lapaghan for dd2 for Christmas. I want to get them all finished before our departure to save trailing them to Spain and back agin when we come home for Christmas
Dpixie --Are you moving to France for good. Whichever it is hope all goes well. We are getting a very strong French section. Wave those berets!!!

Kathy-- Hope you are feeling a bit better

Gentle thoughts to all

mioliere

Hi all - just taking a break.

Chalky - I posted a ripple blanket on Wooligans a few weeks ago; I had done it in four different colours, four rows to a stripe. I tried to carry the wool up the sides but without success, so it meant a lot of sewing-in of ends. I'm doing one now for DGS in two rows of each colour, so I can carry the wool up the sides, and tidy up the edge with a row or two of double crochet. I am feeling a little better, thanks, just not that warm, but that's just me. Everyone else says it's really warm today. I wish I hadn't gone past the hot flush stage now - I could do with one!

Pippa - of course Jan can join us! The more the merrier in our little, or not so little now, band of knitters, hookers (!) and needlewomen.

DPixie - good luck with the trip. When do you move out here?

Update will have to wait until tomorrow, I'm afraid. I've been roped into mixing buckets of plaster (oh, so much more interesting than the afternoon I'd planned with my wool - not!) but it means the work can get done a little quicker. I've also taken some pictures of a lovely little wood-burning range that we found in one of the barns (as you do!), which we'll have to find a home for, because it's really nice and really French. I'll add the photos to my blog when I get time.

By the way, with all this talk of reading and books, what is - or are - everyone's favourite books? Mine are Forever Amber, Gone with the Wind, Sky Burial (cried nearly all the way through that one!), and Wild Swans. Oh, and when I was little, it was Milly Molly Mandy, Children of the New Forest, the Secret Garden, and everything by Enid Blyton (and I still have them all, some of them are being read by DGS and DGD, much to my delight). I'd love to know what everyone else likes. I think we went through a book stage on here once before, didn't we? Anyway, I could talk about books for hours - and frequently do!

Off for a cuppa.

KathyXX

Kinsey

Forever Amber was one of my favourites too mioliere. I've just finished re-reading the four C J Sansom historical novels, which I love. Also every so often I dip in to the Discworld, they're all getting a bit tatty now they've been read so much. Oh and David Eddings, fell in love with the hero Sparhawk after three pages.
Edited because I forgot Sue Grafton and the Alphabet murders, which I was reading when I was asked for a user name and mind went blank, hence Kinsey.