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  #11  
Old August 20th 06, 08:17 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Katherine
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Wooly wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:13:49 -0300, "Katherine"
spewed forth :

Sorry, Wooly, I haven't done that.
Poor sheep! Is there any way of keeping the poor things cool during
that horrid weather? I can really appreciate how it felt, as I ended
up in emergency myself due to heat exhaustion a couple of weeks ago.


The only real fix is shearing, quite honestly, and between the heat
and my (almost-not-quite-fixed) wrist I haven't been up to wrassling
with a sheep that weighs more than me. So in the final assessment the
sheep's demise is on me, but I can live with it. It's just a sheep
and it wasn't a family pet, heh.

I got seven gorgeous, huge fleeces off of him during the time I owned
him. One was stolen by a one-man "processing mill", I gave one away,
and I sent away five earlier this year for processing at Zeilinger's.
Hell, I've got enough of Hershey's wool for 10-12-15 sweaters if I
spin it finely enough. There'll be no lack of quicksilver sweaters
and socks over the years...

I'd have liked the hide as a rug - the sheep was that big - but by the
time my friend found him the buzzards had already been at work for a
while :PPPP

I've been avoiding heat stroke myself by camping in the pool, at least
I was until the neighborhood pools - including mine - started closing
for the season. Temps still in the 100s and we've got four municipal
pools open for nearly 2million people. I swabbed out what was
previously the dog wallow (toddler pool) and put it on the patio.
With my feet in the pool and a fan blowing at my back it's almost
tolerable. I relented and set up a sprinkler for the posse in the
back yard so instead of 6-8 sub-teens arguing house rules Monopoly in
my living room I have a various number of them wandering in and out of
the back yard in the evenings after dinner.

I gave serious consideration to buying a Kwik-Set Intex pool when they
went on sale at the "end of the season" but by the time I talked DH
into it the 10'x36" sizes were sold out. I'm not willing to take on a
15'x48" for liability reasons so maybe next year I'll be more on top
of it. They're moderately inexpensive pools with good filtration, and
as long as they're properly drained and stored they should be good for
at least three seasons.

I really don't know why I kvetch about lack of pools. Austin seems to
have more pools per capita than most other major cities in this USDA
zone despite being located in what is essentially low desert.

Ok, I'm being asked to produce more pancakes, then it's back to my
knitting.

My sweater is a lot bigger than it appears. I put it off on a string
and it is exactly the size I want it to be. Life is good, Kathmandu
is still on hold ;D


ANd people wonder why I prefer to live here! g

Higs,
Katherine


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Old August 20th 06, 09:21 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Wooly
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:37:04 GMT, (Mirjam
Bruck-Cohen) spewed forth :

WOOLY what is Herself ??is this a kind of knitting mag ???
or book
mirjam


Herself is a codeword for a knitwear designer named Alice Starmore,
who is so egotistical that she's trademarked her name (therefore I'm
in violation of several countries' laws just by typing the woman's
name, heh).

Her website (very much NAYY) is
http://www.virtualyarns.com and you
can view some of her designs there. Her books sell for ridiculous to
downright unbelievable prices at times on Ebay. I have access to most
of them through my friends; the ones they don't have I've gotten
through interlibrary loan. US copyright law let's me make
personal-use copies of patterns from library books, so I copied the
patterns I was most interested in, including the one I'm working on
now.

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Old August 20th 06, 09:37 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Mirjam Bruck-Cohen
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WOOLY what is Herself ??is this a kind of knitting mag ???
or book
mirjam

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Old August 20th 06, 10:16 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
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Wooly wrote:

I got seven gorgeous, huge fleeces off of him during the time I owned
him. One was stolen by a one-man "processing mill", I gave one away,
and I sent away five earlier this year for processing at Zeilinger's.
Hell, I've got enough of Hershey's wool for 10-12-15 sweaters if I
spin it finely enough. There'll be no lack of quicksilver sweaters
and socks over the years...


I'm still learning about wool, so pardon my dingbat question: Is the
roving you gave me off him? If so, I can give it back. I'm only 1/4
way through one of those piles. Every time I pull it out to spin,
Hedgehog comes in and "helps" me. You haven't known true hysterical
"I'm going to feed you to the monster under your bed" bad-mommyhood
until you've had a two year old try to grab your wool right after she's
had a peanut butter sandwich.

I went up to Taylor today and spent some time playing with cotton. I
have the pictures. I'll be blogging my adventure later, after I get
back this evening probably (going out for some wine and fun with friends
and taking my current sock so I can turn the heel within a support group
setting). I will say this: harvested or not, this stuff is gorgeous
and I'm having a lot of fun staring at the fields. My husband and kids
sat in the car *so* patiently while Mommy hopped around with her camera
in the fields in her sandals, pedal pushers, and silk blouse. I had the
bejeezus scared out of me by two different jackrabbits. I didn't even
*see* them until they were already flying across the stubble.

I'll write more about it later. I brought back a couple of souvenirs.
If it ends up that you don't hear from me for a while, it's because I'm
doing hard time in the Williamson County lockup for stealing roadside
cotton and harassing the local wildlife.

--
Threnody

http://aff-the-fang.blogspot.com
http://totallyhooked.blogspot.com
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Old August 20th 06, 10:29 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
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http://au.merial.com/bioclip/ ?

Saw some fleeces at Dixon that were bioclipped. They were the cleanest in
the shed.

Some other producers that I am interested in use it to improve their yield.

Aaron


"Wooly" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:13:49 -0300, "Katherine"
spewed forth :

Sorry, Wooly, I haven't done that.
Poor sheep! Is there any way of keeping the poor things cool during that
horrid weather? I can really appreciate how it felt, as I ended up in
emergency myself due to heat exhaustion a couple of weeks ago.


The only real fix is shearing, quite honestly, and between the heat
and my (almost-not-quite-fixed) wrist I haven't been up to wrassling
with a sheep that weighs more than me. So in the final assessment the
sheep's demise is on me, but I can live with it. It's just a sheep
and it wasn't a family pet, heh.

I got seven gorgeous, huge fleeces off of him during the time I owned
him. One was stolen by a one-man "processing mill", I gave one away,
and I sent away five earlier this year for processing at Zeilinger's.
Hell, I've got enough of Hershey's wool for 10-12-15 sweaters if I
spin it finely enough. There'll be no lack of quicksilver sweaters
and socks over the years...

I'd have liked the hide as a rug - the sheep was that big - but by the
time my friend found him the buzzards had already been at work for a
while :PPPP

I've been avoiding heat stroke myself by camping in the pool, at least
I was until the neighborhood pools - including mine - started closing
for the season. Temps still in the 100s and we've got four municipal
pools open for nearly 2million people. I swabbed out what was
previously the dog wallow (toddler pool) and put it on the patio.
With my feet in the pool and a fan blowing at my back it's almost
tolerable. I relented and set up a sprinkler for the posse in the
back yard so instead of 6-8 sub-teens arguing house rules Monopoly in
my living room I have a various number of them wandering in and out of
the back yard in the evenings after dinner.

I gave serious consideration to buying a Kwik-Set Intex pool when they
went on sale at the "end of the season" but by the time I talked DH
into it the 10'x36" sizes were sold out. I'm not willing to take on a
15'x48" for liability reasons so maybe next year I'll be more on top
of it. They're moderately inexpensive pools with good filtration, and
as long as they're properly drained and stored they should be good for
at least three seasons.

I really don't know why I kvetch about lack of pools. Austin seems to
have more pools per capita than most other major cities in this USDA
zone despite being located in what is essentially low desert.

Ok, I'm being asked to produce more pancakes, then it's back to my
knitting.

My sweater is a lot bigger than it appears. I put it off on a string
and it is exactly the size I want it to be. Life is good, Kathmandu
is still on hold ;D

+++++++++++++

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET.
This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%.
Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...



  #16  
Old August 21st 06, 03:20 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Wooly
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:16:36 GMT, Threnody
spewed forth :

I'm still learning about wool, so pardon my dingbat question: Is the
roving you gave me off him? If so, I can give it back. I'm only 1/4
way through one of those piles. Every time I pull it out to spin,
Hedgehog comes in and "helps" me. You haven't known true hysterical
"I'm going to feed you to the monster under your bed" bad-mommyhood
until you've had a two year old try to grab your wool right after she's
had a peanut butter sandwich.


No, that's some Ramboulliet wool I bought from a guy at the Gillespie
County fair a couple of years ago and sent off to a different
one-horse mill for processing. They did an adequate job but I know
now to just go to the Best in the Business with my business. Which is
not to say I gave you **** roving, it's just not what I wanted it to
be when I bought the raw fleece.

Heebeejeebies is when you discover a kitten running amok ****ing
himself in fear of the foot of roving hanging from his mouth and
chasing him everywhere and you know full well it started out as nearly
two FEET of roving. Guess where the missing foot was and how much it
cost to recover...


I went up to Taylor today and spent some time playing with cotton. I
have the pictures. I'll be blogging my adventure later, after I get
back this evening probably (going out for some wine and fun with friends
and taking my current sock so I can turn the heel within a support group
setting). I will say this: harvested or not, this stuff is gorgeous
and I'm having a lot of fun staring at the fields. My husband and kids
sat in the car *so* patiently while Mommy hopped around with her camera
in the fields in her sandals, pedal pushers, and silk blouse. I had the
bejeezus scared out of me by two different jackrabbits. I didn't even
*see* them until they were already flying across the stubble.


I guess you'll be signing up for my cotton spinning class, if and
when...

Keep your eye on the BB website. My (one, underpriced) two-session
class ought to be on the schedule page shortly if they aren't already.

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This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%.
Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...
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Old August 21st 06, 03:52 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
SpikeDriver
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Katherine wrote:
Sorry, Wooly, I haven't done that.
Poor sheep! Is there any way of keeping the poor things cool during that
horrid weather? I can really appreciate how it felt, as I ended up in
emergency myself due to heat exhaustion a couple of weeks ago.

Higs,
Katherine

Wooly wrote:
Has anyone knitted the Malin sweater from Herself's _In the Hebrides_?
Gauge is given in non-stockinette, instead over something called "sand
stitch" which on the other side is merely (knit 1, seed stitch 1)
ribbing. I'm knitting a little more tightly than gauge so I'm making
the size up from the one I would have made for myself.

I'm almost 4" into the body and the sweater seems to be running small
on the needle. Yes, I should put it onto a string and measure it.
Howsomever with luck someone out there has made the sweater and can
comment on the sizing.

My make-up Kathmandu came in the mail a couple of days ago. I really
ought to finish *that* sweater. Perhaps I'll need to rip Malin, which
will give me an excuse to work on Kathmandu...

I'm still spinning froghair for 3-ply for the sweater. The sheep from
which this particular wool was shorn has died of heat stroke last week
(nine consecutive days over 100f, I'd die too in a 6" wool coat) so
what I have is all there is. That's a goodly sum, enough for at least
four or five sweaters, but I'll miss this wool when it's gone.

+++++++

Following is OT. Feel free to skip.

=======

We have new neighbors in the rental next door. This is a good thing
as I no longer need to do even minimal maintenance on the yard and the
owner isn't mooching my cleaning supplies any more while he does
make-ready.

The downside is that the new occupants have dogs. This normally
wouldn't be a problem, except the *other* dogs with yards bordering
the new dogs' yard charge the fence in the morning yapping their fool
heads off (bad enough, they're mostly spaniel-based mutts with
moderately inoffensive barks) when the "new" dogs are put out for
their morning constitutionals.

But.

The new neighbors have two Danes. Fabulous dogs, I've met them,
they'll lick a body to death before the thought of baring teeth enters
their heads.

But.

Danes have BIG BIG barks. And they tell off their neighbors much the
same way teen girls bicker.

So I'm awake at least two hours earlier than I'd like to be.

Eventually the dogs will all figure out the Danes belong there (make
it soon, please?) and there will be no more oh-dark-thirty property
line squabbles. In the meantime I'm feeling quite sleep-deprived.

School started last week, which compounds our scheduling issues. My
son hasn't *quite* got his wake-sleep pattern tweaked back to a
bedtime hour that's good for school, so he spent three days dragging
a$$. He's always had trouble sleeping, so the occupational therapist
recommended us to a Chinese herabalist, who concocted some
valerian-free, kava-free bugjuice we're to administer 30 minutes
before we'd like the child to be asleep.

Per the herbalist it may take a week to exhibit any effects, and we've
got a prescribed bedtime routine to follow as well. Funny how, if
necessary, I can swing my entire schedule to that of a third-shift
worker in about a week with no chemical or herbal aids, but I'm
willing to try most things until they prove themselves useless...

In other animal-related news, it appears as if my mysterious cat donor
is at it again. A boy cat that is the spitting image of a black cat
that adopted us several years ago has turned up four mornings running
on my back patio. He's skinny so I've started feeding him. He's a
bit skittish but has obviously been somebody's cat, so I'm working on
his trust issues with an eye to stuffing him in a carrier and taking
him to the cheap speuter clinic. I need more cats...

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This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%.
Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...



Katherine,

Dear friend, please be careful.

Higs & God bless,
Dennis & Gail
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Old August 21st 06, 04:01 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
SpikeDriver
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Default Katherine

Katherine wrote:
SpikeDriver wrote:
Dear friend, please be careful.


Awww, thank you, Dennis. Not to worry, though, my apartment has AC, and
summer is coming to an end, so I should be fine now.

Higs,
Katherine



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Old August 21st 06, 04:01 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
Katherine
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Default Katherine

SpikeDriver wrote:

Dear friend, please be careful.


Awww, thank you, Dennis. Not to worry, though, my apartment has AC, and
summer is coming to an end, so I should be fine now.

Higs,
Katherine


 




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