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This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here. Saturday, September 15, 2007 Charity knitting I've knitted hats for local shelters and charities for years, but never participated with anyone else in doing so. This year I'll be going to the Roanoke NoSoKnit (North/South Knit) on September 29, to knit with 99 other knitters, a bunch of LYS owners, and whoever else Rae Creedle, the organizer, has invited. NoSoKnit is limited to 100 registered participants, and I'm darn lucky to be one of them, because although I knew about it in plenty of time to sign up, I forgot about it until it was mentioned in one of the Ravelry groups I belong to. I was #102, but two others dropped out, so I'm going!The price of admission to NoSoKnit is a knitted item that they will donate to a local charity or hospital. This is one of a group of Tychus hats currently in progress for my donation. The construction isn't obvious from this picture, but it involves five (as written) or four (which seems to be more usual) wedge-shaped pieces of short-row knitting, which magically make a hat with vertical stripes instead of horizontal ones. Besides just being really attractive, it's amazingly versatile. The original directions call for worsted weight yarn used double, but this particular hat is worked with a single strand of bulky yarn, and I've made it with doubled fingering, doubled and single sport weight and DK, and a single strand of worsted. Each makes a different size and appearance. Since I never know who the eventual recipient will be, I don't have to worry about gauge, just get a reasonably good match between the yarn weight and the needle size.This is some of the Bernat Baby Boucle that I bought for the Ducky Blanket. I would still be working on the Ducky Blanket at the moment, except that I discovered I had worked the middle panel four inches beyond where I should have stopped. The boucle yarn can not be ripped back. The stitches just disappear into the overall texture of the fabric, so there was no hope for it but to unknit every one of the 20 or so rows of 72 stitches. I was so aggravated that I stuffed the blanket back into its plastic bag and threw it in the corner, and cast on for this hat. I had already started one in purple and white, and one with three colors--gray, pink and blue.It occurred to me that you could felt a Tychus, but the ones I'm making right now for NoSoKnit have to be made of non-wool machine washable and dryable yarns, so felting was not an option. But I found that someone else had felted a Tychus, and the results were about what I had feared, a heavy stiff bowler of a hat. It might still be an option, though, with the right yarn.Another thing I haven't tried yet is to make the hats with each wedge a separate solid color, like the adorable ones Knitting Nonni made to go with her equally adorable Baby Surprise Jackets. I think I'll try this variation next.More photos when they're finished. posted by Liz @ 10:05 PM | The template is set to display 10 posts. To see all the posts for this month, click on the month name in the Archive section RSS Feed PERSONAL Send email toliz at life-as-a-spectator-sport.com Home I'm a mother, grandmother, a computer professional, Democrat, Christian. 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Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart. 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I've knitted hats for local shelters and charities for years, but never participated with anyone else in doing so. This year I'll be going to the Roanoke NoSoKnit (North/South Knit) on September 29, to knit with 99 other knitters, a bunch of LYS owners, and whoever else Rae Creedle, the organizer, has invited. NoSoKnit is limited to 100 registered participants, and I'm darn lucky to be one of them, because although I knew about it in plenty of time to sign up, I forgot about it until it was mentioned in one of the Ravelry groups I belong to. I was #102, but two others dropped out, so I'm going!The price of admission to NoSoKnit is a knitted item that they will donate to a local charity or hospital. This is one of a group of Tychus hats currently in progress for my donation. The construction isn't obvious from this picture, but it involves five (as written) or four (which seems to be more usual) wedge-shaped pieces of short-row knitting, which magically make a hat with vertical stripes instead of horizontal ones. Besides just being really attractive, it's amazingly versatile. The original directions call for worsted weight yarn used double, but this particular hat is worked with a single strand of bulky yarn, and I've made it with doubled fingering, doubled and single sport weight and DK, and a single strand of worsted. Each makes a different size and appearance. Since I never know who the eventual recipient will be, I don't have to worry about gauge, just get a reasonably good match between the yarn weight and the needle size.This is some of the Bernat Baby Boucle that I bought for the Ducky Blanket. I would still be working on the Ducky Blanket at the moment, except that I discovered I had worked the middle panel four inches beyond where I should have stopped. The boucle yarn can not be ripped back. The stitches just disappear into the overall texture of the fabric, so there was no hope for it but to unknit every one of the 20 or so rows of 72 stitches. I was so aggravated that I stuffed the blanket back into its plastic bag and threw it in the corner, and cast on for this hat. I had already started one in purple and white, and one with three colors--gray, pink and blue.It occurred to me that you could felt a Tychus, but the ones I'm making right now for NoSoKnit have to be made of non-wool machine washable and dryable yarns, so felting was not an option. But I found that someone else had felted a Tychus, and the results were about what I had feared, a heavy stiff bowler of a hat. It might still be an option, though, with the right yarn.Another thing I haven't tried yet is to make the hats with each wedge a separate solid color, like the adorable ones Knitting Nonni made to go with her equally adorable Baby Surprise Jackets. I think I'll try this variation next.More photos when they're finished.
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WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT'
"If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart.
THE NON-ELECTRIC HOME
Cleaning, 1 Cleaning, 2 Cleaning, 3
KNITTING BLOGS
Extravayarnza Knitting Heretic Mind of Winter Pie Knits Persistent Illusion See Eunny Knit The Keyboard Biologist Taleweaver's Ramblings TECHnitting Wendy Knits
FINISHED PROJECTS
SELF-RELIANCE AND THE FUTURE
POLITICAL BLOGS and SITES
BOOKS I'M READING
How to Grow More Vegetables, etc. Small Scale Grain Raising
ARCHIVES
February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 August 2008 July 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 April 2002 March 2002 February 2002
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