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We love Elisenlebkuchen. Let us know how it goes….. Jenny ?
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Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Friday the 13th check-in ...? Forgot to add: I am cooking a more experimental menu because I need to plan and I can look up recipes and get ingredients. Also, we had a very successful cookie exchange a few weeks ago when the weather was nice. A bunch of us retired IBMers met outside on my lawn and had a carefully socially distanced gathering. It was lovely to see people. I am planning to make Elisenlebkuchen in a few weeks when all the ingredients show up. DH and I loved this when we were in Nuremberg and I’ve tried buying lebkuchen here but it isn’t the same. This is a flourless cookie made with hazelnuts and almonds and the stuff you get here is more like fruitcake. It is complicated as the cookies are baked on edible paper bases. If it works, it might become an annual thing. ? On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 5:21 PM Jaya <ermabom@...> wrote: Happy Diwali to all of you! Today is the day that Hindus believe light triumphed over darkness, good over evil. May the light dispel your darkness and may you have good triumph over evil in your life. In some parts of India, today is also New Year’s day and I also wish you a very safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year! My Diwali traditions these days are far removed from what I did when I was growing up. Work, the inability to take the day off in the early days of my career (before personal choice or floating holidays), and the demands of raising kids meant that all I ever did here was make sweets and light lamps.? We’ve been pretty much home-bound since March. My sister occasionally comes over to see my father if she comes upstate. My father would have gone to visit my brother for some months but that hasn’t happened. He is confined to the house except for doctor’s appointments. We go to the grocery store, to the hardware store, and the pharmacy around once a week and most other things are quite rare. DD was supposed to come at Thanksgiving with an extra two weeks of working from here when she would be quarantining in our house. In her bedroom with access to the other bathroom upstairs and maybe exercising in the basement when we weren’t there. But we canceled due to spikes in her area and in ours. We’ll reschedule when levels are down and not plan but just do it spontaneously. However, some things have worked out well - I now have a Sat am Zoom call with Ravefry friends from the US, Canada and India. I taught DD to make Indian sweets yesterday so she can celebrate Diwali on her own. My yard is looking good. I’ve been doing some weaving, knitting, spinning, but not as much as I thought I would.? ? On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 9:00 PM erica <knitzz@...> wrote: I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ... knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
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Hi everyone, it was delightful to read so much news of people managing to stay sane and keep going. Fighting something by lying low? is so counter-intuitive. ? We’re okay here. DD2 successfully crossed the border form Scotland late August at the end of her year’s post at the Glasgow veterinary hospital, travel then being allowed, and flew to Geneva as she had not seen her Dad since Christmas last. Had a? good week with him but got caught by the new quarantine requirement for those returning from Switzerland, so spent her last two weeks of vacation quarantining in the opposite side of the house from myself. At that time Swiss cases were much lower than in the UK so it seemed a bit daft, but she was fine and spent a lot of the time in her room going? through drawers and cupboards and removing things no longer wanted. So all good. ? Got back over the border late September, to her anaesthetics post in a new hospital just outside Edinburgh, but now caught again in high level restrictions. No idea when I will see her again. She’s had a tough year, like most of the central belt in Scotland. Hard lockdown, very heavy work schedule, off work 5 weeks with? coronavirus, straight back? into heavy schedule, no travel over 5 miles allowed from March until late July ?- so only 4 weeks of relative freedom before returning home. They have not reinstated the 5 mile strict limit yet but by mid-September no-one is supposed to leave the health area they are in (to prevent high infection rates spreading to relatively “clean” areas!!). The exclamation marks are because lots of people ignored it and drove into the areas which were still open for dining etc, and now these areas also join the high infection restrictions. So thoughtless. ? I got out to Switzerland late September, had a wonderful ten days with DH, we visited Kandersteg and St Moritz which are stunningly beautiful. I then had to do my 2 weeks of quarantine so did a lot of those household jobs which are always on the upcoming” list but never make it to the top. ? In between all that, taking my regular turns for a couple of days with parents in London, piloting them to hospital appointments, sorting out their muddles and trying to keep them going.? With both developing dementia and heart problems, Mum now having some nasty face cancers which she is refusing to have treated, and general limited ability to cope with anything but the most basic, regular tasks, there will be a day of reckoning coming soon. We hope to keep things on an even keel at least until January, maybe even until Easter. But it depends…….. ? So, current state of play. Swiss figures atrocious, worst in Europe and no-one sure how it happened so quickly. DH may not get home at Christmas. DD2 likely to be stuck north of border, Dd1 with husband about 80 miles away, because I am on my own at present and they are shielding for her DH, we have special access arrangements allowed so she can pop over when she feels it is safe to do so. So we have had a few day visits and one stop-over since the rules changed in July. How we hugged and hugged when we first saw each other after 8 months ? But currently all England in? a 4 week lockdown where only education, work which can’t be done from home, exercise, essential shopping and medical visits are allowable reasons for leaving home – all to be done “locally”. We’re lucky to have a nice home and a small garden. And lovely woodlands nearby. ? I’ve done surprisingly little knitting, taken up cross stitch which I have to really concentrate on (so it blocks stuff out). Started some drawing and painting again, thinking about playing with basketry. I’m a real introvert but I am getting tired of the situation. I want my friends and family back. But I have been sure since last January that this would be the state of play until at least? Easter 2021, so we just have to hang on in there, plenty of time for reading anyway. ? Vaccine won’t be a quick fix, with 2 doses 2 weeks apart, a 4 week wait for protection after that, the very first to get vaccinated will have to wait 6 weeks before feeling more safe. And it will take ages for enough people to be done to make much difference to transmission rates. But it will come. If nothing else, the better spring weather will hopefully get us “out of jail” by April and by the end of next summer things should look more normal. Roll on 2022!!!!!! ? Best of luck to everyone meanwhile, in new jobs, relocation plans, in managing to keep connected to those we love. I try to remind myself of the lonely onlies who don’t have anyone to miss seeing, for whom this is their normal everyday life. I do hope that ?out of all this will come more community effort to engage with these people and give them more connection and less enforced solitude. ? Jenny
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Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Friday the 13th check-in ...? Happy Diwali to all of you! Today is the day that Hindus believe light triumphed over darkness, good over evil. May the light dispel your darkness and may you have good triumph over evil in your life. In some parts of India, today is also New Year’s day and I also wish you a very safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year! My Diwali traditions these days are far removed from what I did when I was growing up. Work, the inability to take the day off in the early days of my career (before personal choice or floating holidays), and the demands of raising kids meant that all I ever did here was make sweets and light lamps.? We’ve been pretty much home-bound since March. My sister occasionally comes over to see my father if she comes upstate. My father would have gone to visit my brother for some months but that hasn’t happened. He is confined to the house except for doctor’s appointments. We go to the grocery store, to the hardware store, and the pharmacy around once a week and most other things are quite rare. DD was supposed to come at Thanksgiving with an extra two weeks of working from here when she would be quarantining in our house. In her bedroom with access to the other bathroom upstairs and maybe exercising in the basement when we weren’t there. But we canceled due to spikes in her area and in ours. We’ll reschedule when levels are down and not plan but just do it spontaneously. However, some things have worked out well - I now have a Sat am Zoom call with Ravefry friends from the US, Canada and India. I taught DD to make Indian sweets yesterday so she can celebrate Diwali on her own. My yard is looking good. I’ve been doing some weaving, knitting, spinning, but not as much as I thought I would.? ? On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 9:00 PM erica <knitzz@...> wrote: I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ... knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
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lebkuchen ... thanks Jaya ... that word took me on a *several* hour German food imagineTasting odyssey?...yum!The recipes I was reading about?lebkuchen and its cousins ... all used large Altar Bread as the bottom layer ... you said paper ... just a thought. And never.would.I.ever ... have realized Amazon sells Altar Bread (communion wafers if you ask this lapsed Catholic) ... in multiple sizes!
With fancy patterns! It took all my willpower NOT to order a box ... since I have an empty Catholic Church right across the street :-)
THANKS for the European vacay! erica - livin' large in a small sandbox
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 3:25 PM Jaya Srikrishnan < ermabom@...> wrote: Forgot to add: I am cooking a more experimental menu because I need to plan and I can look up recipes and get ingredients.
Also, we had a very successful cookie exchange a few weeks ago when the weather was nice. A bunch of us retired IBMers met outside on my lawn and had a carefully socially distanced gathering. It was lovely to see people.
I am planning to make Elisenlebkuchen in a few weeks when all the ingredients show up. DH and I loved this when we were in Nuremberg and I’ve tried buying lebkuchen here but it isn’t the same. This is a flourless cookie made with hazelnuts and almonds and the stuff you get here is more like fruitcake. It is complicated as the cookies are baked on edible paper bases. If it works, it might become an annual thing. On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 5:21 PM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: Happy Diwali to all of you! Today is the day that Hindus believe light triumphed over darkness, good over evil. May the light dispel your darkness and may you have good triumph over evil in your life. In some parts of India, today is also New Year’s day and I also wish you a very safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
My Diwali traditions these days are far removed from what I did when I was growing up. Work, the inability to take the day off in the early days of my career (before personal choice or floating holidays), and the demands of raising kids meant that all I ever did here was make sweets and light lamps.?
We’ve been pretty much home-bound since March. My sister occasionally comes over to see my father if she comes upstate. My father would have gone to visit my brother for some months but that hasn’t happened. He is confined to the house except for doctor’s appointments. We go to the grocery store, to the hardware store, and the pharmacy around once a week and most other things are quite rare.
DD was supposed to come at Thanksgiving with an extra two weeks of working from here when she would be quarantining in our house. In her bedroom with access to the other bathroom upstairs and maybe exercising in the basement when we weren’t there. But we canceled due to spikes in her area and in ours. We’ll reschedule when levels are down and not plan but just do it spontaneously.
However, some things have worked out well - I now have a Sat am Zoom call with Ravefry friends from the US, Canada and India. I taught DD to make Indian sweets yesterday so she can celebrate Diwali on her own. My yard is looking good. I’ve been doing some weaving, knitting, spinning, but not as much as I thought I would.? On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 9:00 PM erica < knitzz@...> wrote: I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ...
knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
Jaya
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I'm the luckiest of all of you - isolation occasionally has its advantages. My state was blocked to all people from other states, so currently zero deaths & under 50 cases. We experienced town lockdown, with road blocks at the 10 mi point, manned by the army. Empty shelves of greengroceries, meat, and dry goods is still a problem.
It has suddenly become hot! The weekend has been sitting at the 106-110F mark &dropping tothe high 80s overnight. This kind of weather affects my health a little, so it is challenging.
Terminal cancer has been a big thing in my life this pandemic. I have lost knitting friends, my close cousin, & even Mr Boof, the cat; others have had breast cancer & are coming out the other side. As they are knitting pals we made a blanket each, & I have been making neck-wear as a love parcel.
Work is weird right now: I can't complain I am bored, but rather regularly feel overwhelmed & paralysed by sheer volume. My manager had to quarantine in Alice Springs, during one of his vacations & never rang us for a check-up. His ignoring we exist program is obviously still on-going. It ends on Monday - we had a restructure and he has been removed from all managerial duties. Instead, I gain 2 levels of management (we all do) & the Senior Director, although a career public servant, is likely to be predictable regarding expectations; the immediate manager shall be a challenge - he is currently a team member, who is a brown-noser, so I am wary of a: telling him ideas because he has a habit of claiming them for himself; and b: what crappy chores he will throw at me as he stretches his ego.
The isolation has also meant no escape to recharge from this challenging town. Alice Springs is equal to the worst Baltimore days with rampant crime. The costs have skyrocketed - the return airfare to attend my cousin's funeral equalled a Sydney to Los Angeles fare & instead of 2.5 hrs travel, had exploded to 15-18 hours as I did multiple flights & sat incarcerated in terminals.
I have 2 Zoom groups - my Bendigo Show knitting pals once a week, & my Syrian Orphan charity crew every 14 days. I have knitted & read a lot until just recently with this heatwave. Nothing has been completed of late, but my monthly tally of used up balls is acceptable for both monthly & year to date.
I love Amy's Shawl project. Go You!! My friend. I'm not betting on who gets across 1st - I haven't been successful regarding both US election calls, and new Management position placements.
Lubbs Petey
On Sunday, November 15, 2020, 07:55:14 AM GMT+9:30, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:
Forgot to add: I am cooking a more experimental menu because I need to plan and I can look up recipes and get ingredients.
Also, we had a very successful cookie exchange a few weeks ago when the weather was nice. A bunch of us retired IBMers met outside on my lawn and had a carefully socially distanced gathering. It was lovely to see people.
I am planning to make Elisenlebkuchen in a few weeks when all the ingredients show up. DH and I loved this when we were in Nuremberg and I’ve tried buying lebkuchen here but it isn’t the same. This is a flourless cookie made with hazelnuts and almonds and the stuff you get here is more like fruitcake. It is complicated as the cookies are baked on edible paper bases. If it works, it might become an annual thing.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 5:21 PM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: Happy Diwali to all of you! Today is the day that Hindus believe light triumphed over darkness, good over evil. May the light dispel your darkness and may you have good triumph over evil in your life. In some parts of India, today is also New Year’s day and I also wish you a very safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
My Diwali traditions these days are far removed from what I did when I was growing up. Work, the inability to take the day off in the early days of my career (before personal choice or floating holidays), and the demands of raising kids meant that all I ever did here was make sweets and light lamps.?
We’ve been pretty much home-bound since March. My sister occasionally comes over to see my father if she comes upstate. My father would have gone to visit my brother for some months but that hasn’t happened. He is confined to the house except for doctor’s appointments. We go to the grocery store, to the hardware store, and the pharmacy around once a week and most other things are quite rare.
DD was supposed to come at Thanksgiving with an extra two weeks of working from here when she would be quarantining in our house. In her bedroom with access to the other bathroom upstairs and maybe exercising in the basement when we weren’t there. But we canceled due to spikes in her area and in ours. We’ll reschedule when levels are down and not plan but just do it spontaneously.
However, some things have worked out well - I now have a Sat am Zoom call with Ravefry friends from the US, Canada and India. I taught DD to make Indian sweets yesterday so she can celebrate Diwali on her own. My yard is looking good. I’ve been doing some weaving, knitting, spinning, but not as much as I thought I would.? On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 9:00 PM erica < knitzz@...> wrote: I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ...
knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
Jaya
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Forgot to add: I am cooking a more experimental menu because I need to plan and I can look up recipes and get ingredients.
Also, we had a very successful cookie exchange a few weeks ago when the weather was nice. A bunch of us retired IBMers met outside on my lawn and had a carefully socially distanced gathering. It was lovely to see people.
I am planning to make Elisenlebkuchen in a few weeks when all the ingredients show up. DH and I loved this when we were in Nuremberg and I’ve tried buying lebkuchen here but it isn’t the same. This is a flourless cookie made with hazelnuts and almonds and the stuff you get here is more like fruitcake. It is complicated as the cookies are baked on edible paper bases. If it works, it might become an annual thing.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 5:21 PM Jaya < ermabom@...> wrote: Happy Diwali to all of you! Today is the day that Hindus believe light triumphed over darkness, good over evil. May the light dispel your darkness and may you have good triumph over evil in your life. In some parts of India, today is also New Year’s day and I also wish you a very safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
My Diwali traditions these days are far removed from what I did when I was growing up. Work, the inability to take the day off in the early days of my career (before personal choice or floating holidays), and the demands of raising kids meant that all I ever did here was make sweets and light lamps.?
We’ve been pretty much home-bound since March. My sister occasionally comes over to see my father if she comes upstate. My father would have gone to visit my brother for some months but that hasn’t happened. He is confined to the house except for doctor’s appointments. We go to the grocery store, to the hardware store, and the pharmacy around once a week and most other things are quite rare.
DD was supposed to come at Thanksgiving with an extra two weeks of working from here when she would be quarantining in our house. In her bedroom with access to the other bathroom upstairs and maybe exercising in the basement when we weren’t there. But we canceled due to spikes in her area and in ours. We’ll reschedule when levels are down and not plan but just do it spontaneously.
However, some things have worked out well - I now have a Sat am Zoom call with Ravefry friends from the US, Canada and India. I taught DD to make Indian sweets yesterday so she can celebrate Diwali on her own. My yard is looking good. I’ve been doing some weaving, knitting, spinning, but not as much as I thought I would.? On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 9:00 PM erica < knitzz@...> wrote: I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ...
knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
Jaya
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Happy Diwali to all of you! Today is the day that Hindus believe light triumphed over darkness, good over evil. May the light dispel your darkness and may you have good triumph over evil in your life. In some parts of India, today is also New Year’s day and I also wish you a very safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
My Diwali traditions these days are far removed from what I did when I was growing up. Work, the inability to take the day off in the early days of my career (before personal choice or floating holidays), and the demands of raising kids meant that all I ever did here was make sweets and light lamps.?
We’ve been pretty much home-bound since March. My sister occasionally comes over to see my father if she comes upstate. My father would have gone to visit my brother for some months but that hasn’t happened. He is confined to the house except for doctor’s appointments. We go to the grocery store, to the hardware store, and the pharmacy around once a week and most other things are quite rare.
DD was supposed to come at Thanksgiving with an extra two weeks of working from here when she would be quarantining in our house. In her bedroom with access to the other bathroom upstairs and maybe exercising in the basement when we weren’t there. But we canceled due to spikes in her area and in ours. We’ll reschedule when levels are down and not plan but just do it spontaneously.
However, some things have worked out well - I now have a Sat am Zoom call with Ravefry friends from the US, Canada and India. I taught DD to make Indian sweets yesterday so she can celebrate Diwali on her own. My yard is looking good. I’ve been doing some weaving, knitting, spinning, but not as much as I thought I would.?
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 9:00 PM erica < knitzz@...> wrote: I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ...
knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
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So far, so good here.? Arielle’s school is still hybrid, but we’ve had an uptick in reported cases in the district in the last week and a half (it’s a pretty small district and they’ve got really robust contact tracing) so I don’t know what’s going to happen there. Boys are still at school; Baird drives home right before Thanksgiving and the school has decided to offer free COVID tests to anyone who wants one before they travel, so I’m going to ask him to get one and have his driving companion do so too.? He is taking winter term off because he’s not going to graduate on time since he took last spring off and hasn’t been happy with how his school is managing the pandemic (though the cases there seem to be coming from off campus, at least until now).? Ezra is hoping to just stay at school over winter break (school is about 25-30% of students on campus), which would keep him out of airports, but no word on that yet. ? Mostly, we’re doing the minimum of shopping that can be done, keeping close contacts to Arielle’s pod of friends, and spending a lot of time hiking and walking, preferably places where there aren’t other people.? My synagogue went back to in-person extremely limited Saturday morning services about a month ago and I took Arielle last week and it was wonderful for both of us, but I don’t know how long that will last. ? Started a sort of new job last week; I’ve worked with these folks for years but when Jemma announced she was engaged in September, I decided that as much as I’d hoped to put off being an employee until Arielle left for college so that I could keep the flexibility I’ve had, the prospect of being without health insurance should Jemma actually get married was too much for me.? It’s slightly odd and kinks are still being worked out (little things like sending me a computer without a license for Microsoft Office) but I think it’ll be fine and my manager has assured me that she doesn’t care when my work gets done because she knows from experience that it will get done, so while I’m giving up some of my flexibility, I’ll be able to keep some amount of it.? ? Doing quite a bit of knitting, but almost no spinning or weaving, both things I’d like to spend more time with.? By the time I get to anything at night, I’m usually too exhausted to think about anything but simple knitting, so I’m trying to remember to be kind to myself about it. ? Having my entire heating system minus the actual boiler (furnace equivalent) replaced this week so I’ve been most of today pulling books out of bookcases where they’ll be working first and trying to purge things as I go.? I’ve run out of room in my trash can, so I’m going to take a break and walk the dogs in the park. ? Melisande ? p.s. Here’s hoping the vaccine beats Amy! ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Amy Brotslaw Schweiger Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2020 2:18 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Friday the 13th check-in ... ? I haven’t seen my parents in a year. I thought I had a plan to go to Wisconsin and isolate at a condo in my parent’s development for five days but we hatched that before things exploded this week. I don’t think I’ll be going anywhere fir quite some time. And we are terribly worried about Miriam’s travel back from Northampton in December- there’s no way to isolate in our little house.? I’m waiting to retire - they still haven’t even interviewed anyone for my position. I think I’m telling them 1/15 will be a firm “out” day. ?Meanwhile weaving a lot and knitting my Shetland shawl - I started it at the beginning of the pandemic. It’s a race - what will we have first, a finished shawl or a vaccine? For the record I’m not even half done.? Amy ? I’m here as well. Outside trips have been for groceries and doctors’ appointments. That’s pretty much it for us. ? Crafting continues. I have been cranking out dishtowels on my Flip and mailing them off to family and close friends as they are finished. ? Haven’t seen the Grands since December (except on FaceTime). Younger son and the Granddog, who live in town, have been here three times (I think) since Christmas. ? ? ? I'm here. We have been staying home since mid-March, using delivery and curbside pickups for most of our shopping needs.? I am well aware of our good fortune in being able to work from home, but it is wearing on me that I can't see family in other places.? This is the longest I have ever gone without seeing my children or my mom, but I am thankful for Zoom, Whats App and TinyBeans to stay connected.? I have a group of friends that I have a virtual happy hour with every week, and my siblings and I take turns sharing a song/artist of the day every day. Not quite as much knitting going on as I would have expected, but we are doing some projects around the house so that we can be ready to sell when we can move to Colorado (home of the grandson, and where DH grew up).? Patricia in Austin (still) On Friday, November 13, 2020, 8:00:10 PM CST, erica <knitzz@...> wrote: I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ... knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
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I'm here too.? I was thinking about going east around Christmas - my nephew & his family were coming from France, and other nephew & family from Thailand, so thought I could see everyone, plus Mom, of course.? I suspect their plans are cancelled - my hometown newspaper was talking about refrigerated semis yesterday....?
Oregon has just called a shutdown of onsite dining at restaurants, and gyms are closed.? I am getting some weaving done, reading a bit, and actually finished a sweater!?
I'm rooting for the vaccine before your shawl, Amy!
Diane
On Saturday, November 14, 2020, 11:17:33 AM PST, Amy Brotslaw Schweiger <brotslaw@...> wrote:
I haven’t seen my parents in a year. I thought I had a plan to go to Wisconsin and isolate at a condo in my parent’s development for five days but we hatched that before things exploded this week. I don’t think I’ll be going anywhere fir quite some time. And we are terribly worried about Miriam’s travel back from Northampton in December- there’s no way to isolate in our little house.?
I’m waiting to retire - they still haven’t even interviewed anyone for my position. I think I’m telling them 1/15 will be a firm “out” day. ?Meanwhile weaving a lot and knitting my Shetland shawl - I started it at the beginning of the pandemic. It’s a race - what will we have first, a finished shawl or a vaccine? For the record I’m not even half done.?
Amy On Nov 14, 2020, at 10:50 AM, Ann McManus <mcmanusab@...> wrote:
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I’m here as well. Outside trips have been for groceries and doctors’ appointments. That’s pretty much it for us. ? Crafting continues. I have been cranking out dishtowels on my Flip and mailing them off to family and close friends as they are finished. ? Haven’t seen the Grands since December (except on FaceTime). Younger son and the Granddog, who live in town, have been here three times (I think) since Christmas. ? ? ? I'm here. We have been staying home since mid-March, using delivery and curbside pickups for most of our shopping needs.? I am well aware of our good fortune in being able to work from home, but it is wearing on me that I can't see family in other places.? This is the longest I have ever gone without seeing my children or my mom, but I am thankful for Zoom, Whats App and TinyBeans to stay connected.? I have a group of friends that I have a virtual happy hour with every week, and my siblings and I take turns sharing a song/artist of the day every day. Not quite as much knitting going on as I would have expected, but we are doing some projects around the house so that we can be ready to sell when we can move to Colorado (home of the grandson, and where DH grew up).? Patricia in Austin (still) On Friday, November 13, 2020, 8:00:10 PM CST, erica <knitzz@...> wrote: I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ... knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
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I haven’t seen my parents in a year. I thought I had a plan to go to Wisconsin and isolate at a condo in my parent’s development for five days but we hatched that before things exploded this week. I don’t think I’ll be going anywhere fir quite some time. And we are terribly worried about Miriam’s travel back from Northampton in December- there’s no way to isolate in our little house.?
I’m waiting to retire - they still haven’t even interviewed anyone for my position. I think I’m telling them 1/15 will be a firm “out” day. ?Meanwhile weaving a lot and knitting my Shetland shawl - I started it at the beginning of the pandemic. It’s a race - what will we have first, a finished shawl or a vaccine? For the record I’m not even half done.?
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On Nov 14, 2020, at 10:50 AM, Ann McManus <mcmanusab@...> wrote:
? I’m here as well. Outside trips have been for groceries and doctors’ appointments. That’s pretty much it for us. ? Crafting continues. I have been cranking out dishtowels on my Flip and mailing them off to family and close friends as they are finished. ? Haven’t seen the Grands since December (except on FaceTime). Younger son and the Granddog, who live in town, have been here three times (I think) since Christmas. ? ? ? I'm here. We have been staying home since mid-March, using delivery and curbside pickups for most of our shopping needs.? I am well aware of our good fortune in being able to work from home, but it is wearing on me that I can't see family in other places.? This is the longest I have ever gone without seeing my children or my mom, but I am thankful for Zoom, Whats App and TinyBeans to stay connected.? I have a group of friends that I have a virtual happy hour with every week, and my siblings and I take turns sharing a song/artist of the day every day. Not quite as much knitting going on as I would have expected, but we are doing some projects around the house so that we can be ready to sell when we can move to Colorado (home of the grandson, and where DH grew up).? Patricia in Austin (still) On Friday, November 13, 2020, 8:00:10 PM CST, erica <knitzz@...> wrote: I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ... knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
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Re: Friday the 13th check-in ...
I’m here as well. Outside trips have been for groceries and doctors’ appointments. That’s pretty much it for us. ? Crafting continues. I have been cranking out dishtowels on my Flip and mailing them off to family and close friends as they are finished. ? Haven’t seen the Grands since December (except on FaceTime). Younger son and the Granddog, who live in town, have been here three times (I think) since Christmas. ? ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Texknitter via groups.io Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2020 1:20 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Friday the 13th check-in ... ? I'm here. We have been staying home since mid-March, using delivery and curbside pickups for most of our shopping needs.? I am well aware of our good fortune in being able to work from home, but it is wearing on me that I can't see family in other places.? This is the longest I have ever gone without seeing my children or my mom, but I am thankful for Zoom, Whats App and TinyBeans to stay connected.? I have a group of friends that I have a virtual happy hour with every week, and my siblings and I take turns sharing a song/artist of the day every day. Not quite as much knitting going on as I would have expected, but we are doing some projects around the house so that we can be ready to sell when we can move to Colorado (home of the grandson, and where DH grew up).? Patricia in Austin (still) On Friday, November 13, 2020, 8:00:10 PM CST, erica <knitzz@...> wrote: I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ... knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
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Re: Friday the 13th check-in ...
I'm here. We have been staying home since mid-March, using delivery and curbside pickups for most of our shopping needs.? I am well aware of our good fortune in being able to work from home, but it is wearing on me that I can't see family in other places.? This is the longest I have ever gone without seeing my children or my mom, but I am thankful for Zoom, Whats App and TinyBeans to stay connected.? I have a group of friends that I have a virtual happy hour with every week, and my siblings and I take turns sharing a song/artist of the day every day.
Not quite as much knitting going on as I would have expected, but we are doing some projects around the house so that we can be ready to sell when we can move to Colorado (home of the grandson, and where DH grew up).?
Patricia in Austin (still)
On Friday, November 13, 2020, 8:00:10 PM CST, erica <knitzz@...> wrote:
I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ...
knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
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Friday the 13th check-in ...
I feel like I have been asleep ... on a bus ... and when I woke up ... y'all musta got off a few stops ago :-)
Can you tell I just finished listening to an interview with Mary Karr ... love her word*crafting ...
knock*knock ... anybody out there? erica in sunny <blue> arizona
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whoa! THANKS ... just ran right over and signed up! I have been planning A Sewing Winter ... for months now - this is icing on my homemade cake :-)
erica in Maybe it MIGHT rain someday Arizona
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 6:55 AM Jaya Srikrishnan < ermabom@...> wrote: This was posted in one of the Ravelry threads on Craftsy. Apparently, this is an offer received by many people. A year’s premium membership for $2.49c24282?
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I just signed up for a year. My classes are all on there but I haven’t looked at any of them yet.
People don’t like the new interface as it doesn’t let you watch at a higher speed or go back and forth easily but the tech team at Craftsy is busy coding stuff. Also, people with problems are being given months of premium membership for free. --
Jaya
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This was posted in one of the Ravelry threads on Craftsy. Apparently, this is an offer received by many people. A year’s premium membership for $2.49 c24282?
c24397
I just signed up for a year. My classes are all on there but I haven’t looked at any of them yet.
People don’t like the new interface as it doesn’t let you watch at a higher speed or go back and forth easily but the tech team at Craftsy is busy coding stuff. Also, people with problems are being given months of premium membership for free. -- Jaya
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More on Heartwarmer shawl
I finished one chart knitting back in mirror fashion using Steph's video and a couple of others just to learn how to knit backwards continental style as I only knew how to do it with flicking.
It has been an education in how much I do without thinking. Concentrating on the actual movements made me lose track of the mirroring around the center and I've had to rip back multiple?half rows to correct that. Now I'm constantly orienting myself with respect to the edge or the center. Fortunately I think there are only two charts that still?have orientation left to do. The rest are symmetrical or easy.
The other problem I ran into is that the two colors of Bearfoot that are used in this chart have a brown-ish tinge that is very close in both the purple and the gold. At times these are being used at the same time so trying to figure out if I used the right yarn requires good light and a close-up view. If they were identical, it wouldn't be a problem. But being close? but not identical means that I worry the difference will show in certain lights. Anyway that problem is gone. The rest of the colors are distinct enough, I think.
I'm enjoying it though it is slow going and stresses my hands so I have to knit in small pieces. I try to do a half row at a time.
-- Jaya
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Re: Delicate Knit Repairs With Wooly Nylon
So trendy! There’s even a Reddit sub on “Visible Mending.”
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On Oct 10, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Diane via < tdpigg@...> wrote:
Fancy darning/mending is v.chic & trendy these days -
I have to say mine is more functional than fancy....
On Saturday, October 10, 2020, 1:10:38 PM PDT, erica < knitzz@...> wrote:
Great suggestion?Mary - I have always loved elbow patches :-)?
I am making my "patching" very visible these days ... big stitches?and bright threads just 4 the FUN of it!? Why hide when you can show off?
erica in Tourist Crazy Arizona Regan, cashmere is such a problem child.? Either something is munching them or they are well loved and worn, slam through, but it is worth the trouble.
I wonder what your sweater would look like with silk moire or ottoman (ribbed silk) elbow patches?? The look would certainly be that of patches engineered to be seen and appreciated.
Mary.
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On Oct 7, 2020, at 5:47 PM, mary_007usa via groups.io <sewgood5@...> wrote:
?I've got a ton of catching up to do and will begin reading all the messages tonight. I wanted to share a simple solution to a problem that has plagued me: how to repair a purchased cashmere knit poncho without access to the right weight and color of cashmere yarn. I've worn this poncho so much and my car's seatbelt had worn through the bound off edges of the poncho in a few places.? I looked through my stash of laceweights and nothing was right.? Either it was too heavy, too scratchy, too dark, too light.? My poor poncho sat on top of my dresser since March, front and center, so I wouldn't forget about how much I wanted to do a proper repair. This morning, the first full day back in Raleigh since this summer, I had an inspiration.? I sometimes use a serger thread called wooly nylon to do a rolled edge on a scarf or delicate garment when I don't want the thread to show.? It's also useful when you want extra stretch.? It's a fine collection of a few untwisted nylon fibers and it looks a lot like laceweight, cashmere top, ready to spin.? I unearthed a spool of black wooly nylon, armed my self with a needle and a very fine crochet hook and got to work. I've attached before and after shots.? The nylon was very forgiving, gives a result that is almost completely invisible and retains the softness of the cashmere knit. Wooly nylon is easily sourced from online sellers and even JoAnne's Fabric and Crafts.? If you have a problem like this one, it's a great option! Mary.
 
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Re: Delicate Knit Repairs With Wooly Nylon
I use the squiggly-wiggly darning stitch on my sewing machine ... and a piece of FUN stretchy fabric to "darn" over the worn areas ... or do the same by hand sometimes :-)
On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 2:50 PM Jaya Srikrishnan < ermabom@...> wrote: Mary, Regan,? Great idea. I would worry about one thing, not so much for Mary’s item which is an edge mend, but for Regan’s. Serger thread is a lot stronger in general than cashmere and many years ago, I was taught never to make a mend with a stronger thread than the original fabric as the stronger thread will cut the weaker one with wear.
My own experience with this comes from sock mending. I was initially making socks with non-sock yarn (back in the 90s) and they developed holes. I mended them with the same yarn and found that the patches wore holes around them. Then I tried reinforcing those areas with serger thread and found the the wool yarn wore around the serger thread. I eventually gave up on mending and developed other things I could make with socks that wore in those spots - upcycle them in a way. I am now experimenting with mending sock yarn with sock yarn but making the patch large enough to anchor in much stronger yarn around the worn area. Let’s see how they wear. I've got a ton of catching up to do and will begin reading all the messages tonight.
I wanted to share a simple solution to a problem that has plagued me: how to repair a purchased cashmere knit poncho without access to the right weight and color of cashmere yarn.
I've worn this poncho so much and my car's seatbelt had worn through the bound off edges of the poncho in a few places.? I looked through my stash of laceweights and nothing was right.? Either it was too heavy, too scratchy, too dark, too light.? My poor poncho sat on top of my dresser since March, front and center, so I wouldn't forget about how much I wanted to do a proper repair.
This morning, the first full day back in Raleigh since this summer, I had an inspiration.? I sometimes use a serger thread called wooly nylon to do a rolled edge on a scarf or delicate garment when I don't want the thread to show.? It's also useful when you want extra stretch.? It's a fine collection of a few untwisted nylon fibers and it looks a lot like laceweight, cashmere top, ready to spin.? I unearthed a spool of black wooly nylon, armed my self with a needle and a very fine crochet hook and got to work.
I've attached before and after shots.? The nylon was very forgiving, gives a result that is almost completely invisible and retains the softness of the cashmere knit.
Wooly nylon is easily sourced from online sellers and even JoAnne's Fabric and Crafts.? If you have a problem like this one, it's a great option!
Mary.
Jaya
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Re: Delicate Knit Repairs With Wooly Nylon
Mary, Regan,? Great idea. I would worry about one thing, not so much for Mary’s item which is an edge mend, but for Regan’s. Serger thread is a lot stronger in general than cashmere and many years ago, I was taught never to make a mend with a stronger thread than the original fabric as the stronger thread will cut the weaker one with wear.
My own experience with this comes from sock mending. I was initially making socks with non-sock yarn (back in the 90s) and they developed holes. I mended them with the same yarn and found that the patches wore holes around them. Then I tried reinforcing those areas with serger thread and found the the wool yarn wore around the serger thread. I eventually gave up on mending and developed other things I could make with socks that wore in those spots - upcycle them in a way. I am now experimenting with mending sock yarn with sock yarn but making the patch large enough to anchor in much stronger yarn around the worn area. Let’s see how they wear.
I've got a ton of catching up to do and will begin reading all the messages tonight.
I wanted to share a simple solution to a problem that has plagued me: how to repair a purchased cashmere knit poncho without access to the right weight and color of cashmere yarn.
I've worn this poncho so much and my car's seatbelt had worn through the bound off edges of the poncho in a few places.? I looked through my stash of laceweights and nothing was right.? Either it was too heavy, too scratchy, too dark, too light.? My poor poncho sat on top of my dresser since March, front and center, so I wouldn't forget about how much I wanted to do a proper repair.
This morning, the first full day back in Raleigh since this summer, I had an inspiration.? I sometimes use a serger thread called wooly nylon to do a rolled edge on a scarf or delicate garment when I don't want the thread to show.? It's also useful when you want extra stretch.? It's a fine collection of a few untwisted nylon fibers and it looks a lot like laceweight, cashmere top, ready to spin.? I unearthed a spool of black wooly nylon, armed my self with a needle and a very fine crochet hook and got to work.
I've attached before and after shots.? The nylon was very forgiving, gives a result that is almost completely invisible and retains the softness of the cashmere knit.
Wooly nylon is easily sourced from online sellers and even JoAnne's Fabric and Crafts.? If you have a problem like this one, it's a great option!
Mary.
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Re: Delicate Knit Repairs With Wooly Nylon
Fancy darning/mending is v.chic & trendy these days -
I have to say mine is more functional than fancy....
On Saturday, October 10, 2020, 1:10:38 PM PDT, erica <knitzz@...> wrote:
Great suggestion?Mary - I have always loved elbow patches :-)?
I am making my "patching" very visible these days ... big stitches?and bright threads just 4 the FUN of it!? Why hide when you can show off?
erica in Tourist Crazy Arizona
Regan, cashmere is such a problem child.? Either something is munching them or they are well loved and worn, slam through, but it is worth the trouble.
I wonder what your sweater would look like with silk moire or ottoman (ribbed silk) elbow patches?? The look would certainly be that of patches engineered to be seen and appreciated.
Mary.
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erica