Knit Your Square To Give Your Share - Part 3

k2tog

Hi Everyone
Hope you all had a lovely couple of days in the company of family and friends. Have been doing bits and bobs of knitting and doing some dreaded stuffin' and sewin'. Think I might be getting better at it though!
Hello Misskool :hello:lovely to see you here. You are probably competent enough to mix the knitting with MB - I'm just a beginner at the MB so I keep 'em seperate on the basis that a dropped stitch I can cope with, but an MB disaster :eek::rotfl:
Off to sort small noisy people out

salome

Hi.
Thank you for you kind words :-) It was a lovely day. I'm a sort of honoury aunt to the family :-) Caitlyn is Hannah's first baby, she's about 5mths old now and is a darling. Her husband is lovely, and if Mike was still alive, and knew him, he would be good friends with him :-) Hannah is the eldest of 11 :-) her youngest sibling is only 2 and she is georgeous. She calls me "Nannie" I think it's because my name is Anne, and my OH calls me Annie, and she's picked it up, but can only pronounce it as Nannie lol. Hannah's family and I have stayed very close, and they are my "Dartford Family" lol.
No knitting done today. Think I shall have to put that right shortly :-) lol.
Thanks for being a great "family" It's good to know you are all there :-)
Love you all

x

roamin_in_the_gloamin

Evening All
Had a lovely couple of days, now think I am turning into a sofa spud! Have spent a couple of hours stripping and cleaning and oiling the knitting machine, in preperation for the loads I hope to do in the coming months, you have to have a dream!
Orkney Star - wee OS looks smashing in his balaclava, hope he had a great christmas.
Chalky - just how many sock monkeys did you end up with? You sneaky thing you.
Mayturus - loads of lovely posts from you, hope your keeping a bit better these days.
F1 - big gold star and huge VG tick for you and I just bet it was worth the effort too!
Welcome to the newbies,
K2tog OK I will ask what the eck is MB (milky bar, mad babe??)
off to catch up with some letters and things *YUK*, back soon I am determined to get some knitting done - well perhaps tomorrow.
Jean
xx

In_Search_Of_Me

MB I recon could be matched betting? Off to cast on with a g&t!!

f1widow

Evening ladies - thank you for your kind comments re my :eek: trip to Mums
although ISOM Im hoping you/ one of your family are not suffering with the panic attacks - if you are my sympathies to you - its hard for others to understand what its like - but all you ladies are very understanding and supportive. If I can be a listening ear to anyone Im only too glad to.
(by the way pasta and salmon sounds lovely - nobody else likes salmon in the family so it has to be a "me" treat very rarely)
salome - so glad that your visit was lovely - how very special for you xx
roamin - love the sofa spud quote - its what you deserve so dont knock it! thank you for my gold star xx
may - as usual your posts are lovely and a great help xxx
miskool - welcome :wave: - Im a slow knitter - spend more time talking about it and stroking my wool than knitting :rotfl:....... but I have to say after being on here a year Ive produced things - thanks to the encouragement and help of the ladies here - that I never thought I would - there is something for all levels and everything is greatly appreciated - so dont worry - any questions someone will pop up and answer - Maytaurus one of our lovely font of knowledge ladies has a page (im hopeless at linking) where she points you in the direction of patterns and tuturials, charities etc
kinsey - oh isnt it lovely to drool over piccies of wool - you just see it and want some ........ hmmmmmmm kathy & may you are teasing us xxxx
kathy - thanks for the "loopy" link and for telling us your latest news - always lovely to hear the goings on - weather sounds better than us - although its been brighter its still a bit grey, damp and very cold xx and your dinner always sounds so yummy xx
Right Im off to work out whats next on the knitting agenda (been doing squares) - today Ive been playing with my xmas present from Mum & Dad- cutting dies to make scalloped edge circles - thank you cards in progress!
Warm thoughts to you all - oh and I had a thought is chalky away or am I having one of my la la moments and missed her posts as i have not seen her for a few days or so - hope she is ok

jaqui xxxx

roamin_in_the_gloamin

F1- Chalky is at her home in the south of England just now for Christmas with the family, last heard of she was a bit snowed in. I saw the sock monkeys on her bloggie thingie. LOADS OF THEM - a bit like her hedgies.....perhaps she is starting a monkey sanctuary next LOL
XX

psso

k2tog wrote: »

Hello Misskool :hello:lovely to see you here. You are probably competent enough to mix the knitting with MB - I'm just a beginner at the MB so I keep 'em seperate on the basis that a dropped stitch I can cope with, but an MB disaster :eek::rotfl:

Mind Bending - Mind Boggling, MMMMMBeats me

f1widow - big congratulations for beating the panics to go and see your mum and dad, well done you.
I like salmon as well, but the young `uns don`t so I have it as a `me`treat as well........think I might have some tomorrow if there`s any in the freezer now that you`ve mentioned it. See what you`ve done ISOM ??

Well, spent Christmas day with DD1 and grandkids then came home vegged in front of the telly with Thorntons :rolleyes: and knitted curly scarf. Getting on fine until blow me - the circular needle came apart. That`s the second one which has broken with me. Reckon I`m not supposed to used the darned things - stick to straight ones methinks.:p Managed to rescue it onto a smaller circular and get it finished but I don`t think I`ll be doing another.
Boxing day was spent at DS1`s with all the family together (except DS2 who was working) plus ex husband and his wife. Took a long time before I could even be civil to him, but we get along OK now - have to for the kid`s sakes. Today was DGD 2`s birthday (8) so we were all together again......don`t see most of them for ages and then an overdose at this time of year. Will see them again on Thursday (Hogmanay) as it`s DGS2`s fourth birthday then. Phew.

Got my `indecisive` head on just now - can`t decide what to do next.......would like to start some baby knitting for DD, but have ?? unfinished projects which should be done first, but I`ve `gone off `them for one reason or another. Anyone else have that problem ?? I can hear my dear departed Mum`s voice telling me I should get going and finish what I`ve started first and get it all cleared before the New Year comes in. She used to do all her cleaning etc so that she started the new year with a clean slate :T Hmmmm, we`ll see.
Still very cold and snowy here so am off to fill the hottie to warm up the bed.
Hope you are all warm and cosy and getting rid of the sniffles and coughs.(((hugs))) to those who need one, and if you don`t need one right now have one anyway and keep it safe for when you do --

Night night, sleep tight.

Elaine.x

prfungi

Good evening everyone, I hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas, I have – despite not being able to get Mum home for xmas lunch. My brother saw her on Christmas day morning & took her some pressies & cards – here’s a couple of ‘photos he took,



of course the best gift was the card with a Teddy on it!!!!

He came to mine for a late lunch, leaving the car at the top of the estate & walked down to the house – we had a lovely meal (no turkey) – even if I do say so myself !!!!!!!!!!

I had phone calls with all my kids and a couple of the grandkids, my older brother in NZ, plus my DH’s Aunt and my Godmother, so a super time filled with (long distance) love. I had Hugs from Pamspal’s young niece to make up for the GKs so that was nice, plus she walked Little Dog for me and really liked the – wait for it – fingerless gloves – yippee!

It’s been wonderful to see Maytaurus giving us lovely long posts – thanks May!

Pol – so good to hear from you, sad news about your neighbour, I’m sure your help was much appreciated.

SGT, good to hear from you too, thanks for your good wishes.

Salome – well done, what a lovely effort to provide a nice lunch & good company for the lonely in your area, such a nice thing to do!

Shazrobo – what clever plans, big meal xmas eve, leaving the day itself free for the kids and a little you time, then boxing day reveling BF’s company- well done I hope it all went well!

ISOM – sounds like you had a great time and rounded it off chillin’ n’ knitting with your Mum – has Isoke demolished the tree yet?

OrkneyStar – love the balaclava - the picky reminded me of my 2 brothers who wore them a lot because of sore ears! I think all little boys look cute in them but, why don’t we knit them for little girls??

Mioliere – so glad you’ve had a lovely time, its difficult to adjust to a family free Christmas so I’m glad you spent the time with some lovely friends and had a good time!

F1widow, good to hear you managed a journey out – it sounds like you did really well on the trips, in spite of the weather. How nice that you were able to spend xmas with your folks - they must have been so pleased.

Roamin’ – hello my little sofa spud – join the clan ……… glad you had a nice time over xmas, good to hear you’re getting primed for new year knitting, you’ve produced some amazing stuff this year, can’t wait to see what’s on the cards for 2010.

Psso – hi – great to hear from you, sounds like your Christmas has been a hectic one – what are you doing to the circ needles?? Is your tension a bit tight? I’ve been doing a bit of “stressless” knitting but had to use normal size straight needles (I usually use short ones) so (I ended up with achy wrists and a sore shoulder so not so stressless after all!

K2tog – Hiya – hope little people are settled for the night. What are you stuffing – do you want to do mine? 4 toys I think – hidden away ‘til the new year!

A quick welcome to the newbies – don’t worry about how much you knit – every little thing helps someone. I’m sure you’ll learn to love us (strange as that may seem just now) we’re a good bunch.


Well, that’s me ready for another drinky poo! So I’d better close now!

(Hugs) to all

luv
Pam:smileyhea:snow_laug:snow_laug_party_

f1widow

BIG LA LA MOMENT TIME .....

hi (again!) - Im just knitting squares and have noticed it said that if you slip the first stitch you end up with neater edge - so in "la la" terms what do you have to do???? - I know that slip stitch is pass left to right without knitting it - but when I go back the other way the side seems all baggy & loose - what have I forgotton to do???

Thank you - la la xx

PS Pam - your Mum looks lovely (so do her shawls! love the green one )
PPS Nice to hear from you Elaine xxx sounds like its busy with you xxx salmon it is tomorrow unfortunately I think for me it will be salmon paste sandwich mmmmmmmmmmmmm xxx

Kinsey

Orkney Star I love the picture of your little lad in his balaclava, one of mine was a thumb sucker too.
Pam your Mum looks great, especially the middle picture.