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knitting journal
The most important fact to record in your knitting journal is where the
object is hidden while waiting to be wraped and tagged for Christmass. I simply did not remember knitting that pair of socks, but I seemed to be short 2 skeins of yarn. Yep, there was another pair of fuzzy pink socks at the bottom of my ski sweater drawer. I guess elite knitters wrap and tag as they go? Or, do they have a column in their journals for "where hid"? Aaron |
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:53:09 GMT, Agres wrote:
The most important fact to record in your knitting journal is where the object is hidden while waiting to be wraped and tagged for Christmass. I simply did not remember knitting that pair of socks, but I seemed to be short 2 skeins of yarn. Yep, there was another pair of fuzzy pink socks at the bottom of my ski sweater drawer. I guess elite knitters wrap and tag as they go? Or, do they have a column in their journals for "where hid"? Aaron Oh, Aaron, I can certainly empathize with this dilemma! (remember the Tool Time episode where Tim hid Jill's valentine?) To answer your query, YES, I do wrap and hide immediately, and I DO put 'where' in my journal! (laughing at myself though, because with all our moves, occasionally the JOURNAL gets LOST!) Noreen who, BTW humbly apologizes for remarks made earlier.... hanging head. -- STRIP * tease * to email me. |
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Ach Aaron this was HILARIOUS ,,, i write all deatials of my works in
copybooks ,, but i never hide them , my work room is LOADED enough so that i just can put them [if i want to hide it] under a pile of wool or between the sewing cloth !!!!! i usually make and give ,,,,,but i do keep a drawer for small Bazaar items , since the ladies who need it keep coming a day before, i learned to have some on stock , anyway it is always god to have some handmade presents handy ,,,,,, mirjam , over woirked with stuff. O |
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I use to do this - I'd find stuff that I got for Christmas and forgotten
- so I started a box in my closet (in my craft room - which is full of boxes) that is for Christmas finds/items made. Right now it's full of stocking stuffers! Sonya Agres wrote: The most important fact to record in your knitting journal is where the object is hidden while waiting to be wraped and tagged for Christmass. I simply did not remember knitting that pair of socks, but I seemed to be short 2 skeins of yarn. Yep, there was another pair of fuzzy pink socks at the bottom of my ski sweater drawer. I guess elite knitters wrap and tag as they go? Or, do they have a column in their journals for "where hid"? Aaron |
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I hide stuff in plain sight too - this works for me because my husband
won't wear my knitted goods (the cad) and anything my son asks me to make I'm more than happy to produce ASAP. FOs for the outlaws go in a box in garage with a couple of mothballs. Naphtalene, the smell that keeps on giving! *g* On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:53:09 GMT, "Agres" wrote: The most important fact to record in your knitting journal is where the object is hidden while waiting to be wraped and tagged for Christmass. I simply did not remember knitting that pair of socks, but I seemed to be short 2 skeins of yarn. Yep, there was another pair of fuzzy pink socks at the bottom of my ski sweater drawer. I guess elite knitters wrap and tag as they go? Or, do they have a column in their journals for "where hid"? Aaron |
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In article , Slinky
wrote: I hide stuff in plain sight too - this works for me because my husband won't wear my knitted goods (the cad) and anything my son asks me to make I'm more than happy to produce ASAP. I hide things in plain sight, but that is because it's the only way to make sure that Rich doesn't see them. He thinks I have some sort of magic that can produce something right in front of him that wasn't there the second before. I have literally set a stack of books directly in front of Rich at a table and just didn't tell him where they were and he couldn't find them. Regards, Ranee -- Remove do not and spam to e-mail me. "The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man." Acts 17:24 |
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My DM uses her linen closet as the gift gathering location. Every year she
says, "This Christmas is going to be slim!" And then she empties her closet! I just have to shake my head each year at the PILE under the tree. JJMolvik |
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I have not settled on where to keep the knitting journal. It started as
notes in my Franklin Day Planner, then became a separte notebook. The dayplanner notes were too hard to index, and the notebook was always with someother WIP. I think I'm going to try keeping it as a tabbed section in the dayplanner that gets moved to a separate notebook as it gets filled. What brings this on is trying to knit complex Aran patterns flat. I can see how complex Aran patterns can be knitted in the round by an illiterate person with with fairly simple mnemonics. And, I know that the Norse culture had sophisticated symbols for recording and manipulating knitting patterns. But, after spending the night working on an old Aran pattern that was knit flat, I firmly believe that Irish wemen were much more widely literate than is recognized. I think they were reading and writing to record knitting patterns if nothing else. I do not think the MEN that ran the museams and wrote Irish history understood the sophistication and density of information in the knitting patterns that the women recorded and interpreted. Men in the countryside that also made a living knitting understood, but they were not running museams and recording history. Ok you say, "Why don't we have little scraps of paper with knitting patterns on them scattered all over the Western World?" I would say that the Norse system lent itself to the crudest of writing implements - chalk on slate and flint or iron against slate if you want a permenant record. They used what they had, and they did not have paper. They were knitting with goose feathers! Moreover, the Irish climate is not condusive to the long term preservation of bits of paper or leather. What we should look for are neat rows of scratches on slate. They would be near the door or near the hearth of old Irish cottages. If they exist, they should not be too hard to find. If we find them, it means that all those Irish wemen were actually reading and writing. (Remember that computer cards and the binary languages encoded on them were derived from a system to control Jacquard looms.) If we do not find them, it means they were smart enough to work out all those patterns in their head. Wow! Has anybody noticed such patterns in their tours of Ireland? Aaron "Noreen's Knit*che" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 02:53:09 GMT, Agres wrote: The most important fact to record in your knitting journal is where the object is hidden while waiting to be wraped and tagged for Christmass. I simply did not remember knitting that pair of socks, but I seemed to be short 2 skeins of yarn. Yep, there was another pair of fuzzy pink socks at the bottom of my ski sweater drawer. I guess elite knitters wrap and tag as they go? Or, do they have a column in their journals for "where hid"? Aaron Oh, Aaron, I can certainly empathize with this dilemma! (remember the Tool Time episode where Tim hid Jill's valentine?) To answer your query, YES, I do wrap and hide immediately, and I DO put 'where' in my journal! (laughing at myself though, because with all our moves, occasionally the JOURNAL gets LOST!) Noreen who, BTW humbly apologizes for remarks made earlier.... hanging head. -- STRIP * tease * to email me. |
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Aaron, you think too much! VBEG!
JJMolvik |
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In article ,
Agres wrote: snip What brings this on is trying to knit complex Aran patterns flat. I can see how complex Aran patterns can be knitted in the round by an illiterate person with with fairly simple mnemonics. And, I know that the Norse culture had sophisticated symbols for recording and manipulating knitting patterns. But, after spending the night working on an old Aran pattern that was knit flat, I firmly believe that Irish wemen were much more widely literate than is recognized. I think they were reading and writing to record knitting patterns if nothing else. I do not think the MEN that ran the museams and wrote Irish history understood the sophistication and density of information in the knitting patterns that the women recorded and interpreted. Men in the countryside that also made a living knitting understood, but they were not running museams and recording history. Just a couple of comments. The earliest documented Aran patterns (meaning knitted on one or another of the islands including the isle of Aran) only go back to the early 20th century. The legend that they are ancient is just that, a legend made up during the 1930s. The guernseys knitted in less-bulky stitch patterns are traceable to early 19th century (by photoraphs) and may go back earlier in the Netherlands. Also, it's not all that hard to work an Aran once you get used to it. You start out, do what looks good, and keep looking at what you're already done to check what you need to do next. Flat or round, it's about the same process. Guernsey patterns tended to stay the same in one area for several reasons, one of which was that people copied the old sweaters to knit the new ones. Bits and shreds of old knitting that had an interesting pattern were carefully kept as models to copy. Ok you say, "Why don't we have little scraps of paper with knitting patterns on them scattered all over the Western World?" We do.. oh, you meant from the past. :-) They had scraps of old knitting, but eventually the moths got at them or they rotted or wore out. They were knitting with goose feathers! Where did you hear about that? =Tamar |
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