My Chorley Cakes just arrived in the mail!! Happy happy joy joy! And on a day when I'm home from work early and can enjoy them in solitude! Blessings on the head of Sarah Grace. Now scuse me while I go put the kettle on; this is worth breaking out my Ahmad's of London Irish Breakfast teabags for.

As the song says, "A good man is hard to find!" Jessie wrote: Hey, I like this subject line. I'd like to buy one of those. "prem_s" wrote in message ... Adriana wrote:

The sister who drew my name this Christmas got me Nancy Bush's Folk Socks!! I pored over it the whole evening (just got back home tonight) and am slavering. Every heel and toe variation one could think of. I must knit my sis a pair as a thank-you. Hope Santa treated all of you equally well.

Guess what I've been doing this past week? Yes, I've picked up the needles again! I'm on my third square of the Sampler Afghan. I want to thank all of you for sympathizing with me through the bout of shingles that began in October, especially the Katherine who sent me that invaluable web site...

....as Charlie Brown, and my late father, would say. I started this sampler afghan a year or so ago, and picked the Red Heart Super-Saver no-dye-lot yarn, figuring I'd be able to get that forever. NOT! When I ran out in the middle of a square, I popped over to the nearest Michael's, only to find...

I can't believe I didn't think of this when I started doing the squares (yes it is the Leisure Arts afghan), but the instruction for each square says to crochet around the sides making it 48 sts to both sides (top and bottom are cast-on and bound-off, of course). I've been wondering why the...

Sounds like "Fox in Socks," doesn't it? Well, I'm happy with my Gansey socks (except for that accursed Channel Island cast-on), but while the cable and the diagonal lines show up nicely, the snowflake pattern on the front/top just doesn't. Do I really have to block SOCKS to make the purl sts all...

DH is going to a two-day conference starting tomorrow evening in Hampton New Hampshire and on the spur of the moment I decided to go with him and have a relaxing few days. I will have all of Friday and some of Saturday to myself, so does anyone know of any good yarn shops in Portsmouth, which...

I found a really neat vest pattern (locally designed) in the Loop Cafe & Crafts in Halifax, NS, and began grabbing skeins of Butterfly, only to see that it was $12/skein and the proprietor said I'd need seven skeins (two of two colors and three of the third). That was way above my cost-benefit...

It's past noon, but we got up late and didn't breakfast until noon. It's a warm 57 degrees out so I've opened the doors to get the fried bacon smell out of the house. It still hurts my arm to knit much, but I've gotten halfway down the first sleeve of the Oddball sweater and am trying to figure...

I tried some knitting yesterday, the Oddball Sweater from Threads, which is straight-around knitting, which I'm making with the lovely heathery merino Classic Elite "Beatrice" I got from Ranee's destashing. It's very interesting looking, as it's three separate yarns...let me see, how can I...

Today's local paper had an article about limoncello: http://www.sunspot.net/entertainment/dining/bal-fo.sips22oct22,0,2381419.story?coll=bal-pe-alacarte (sorry, I haven't managed the tiny url thing yet)

Spike Driver wrote: "Kristine Quilici" wrote in message ... Hello everyone Does anyone know how to take the "bend" out of the cords Boyd Needlemaster cords. It is on the silver tip that the needle part...

Get a load of http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43504-2004Apr1.html -- is this guy cool or what??

I knitted Ann Norling's wonderful top-down sweater in a size 1 for a cousin who's due any minute, and when I bound off all the edges, I thought proudly how neat and even my gauge had gotten as I've gotten older. Then I pulled a bit at the neck to make sure it could stretch comfortably and it's too...

I can't believe I read those instructions as many times as I did, and it never dawned on me that I should have interpreted them vertically instead of horizontally. I have now tinked that sweater back to the ribbing for about the 17th time, and (D.V.) am on the right track. Anyone else ever...

Hey, everybody in eastern North America, if it's not cloudy there, go out and watch the shadow of the sun eating into the moon!

Went out to get a prescription refilled and of course couldn't walk past the Barnes & Noble in the same shopping center. I picked up some new fiction to while away the (increasingly boring) hours, and walked past a table FULL of knitting books! There was the Epstein one on edgings, even! Do I...

I found the SASE for the crochet Aran pattern on the front seat of my car, which has not been driven since I came down with shingles! Please forgive me. It's going in the mail today, I promise (I just carried it out to our mailbox). You must think I'm a total ditz!

Maybe it's the migraine drugs, but http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATTuniversalsock.html has me confused: Determine number of sts at end of Toe and Heel: Multiply D by 0.4. If D is odd, round to nearest odd number; if D is even, round to nearest even number: _______ (E) If it is odd, round...