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gonzs
Chatty Knitter
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 Posted - 04/04/2005 : 5:16:44 PM
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With a new membership to Rowan, I recently received a free pattern and four 50 gm balls of Rowan "Cork" in the mail. I don't like the free pattern (it's Freda, the mini poncho kit) and have done some research for other Rowan Cork patterns with this amount but am not coming up with anything. I like the way the yarn looks - it looks like it's been chain crocheted. And it's 95% merino wool, 5% nylon polymide. Hmmmmmmmm - a felted "something"?
Have any of you worked with this yarn? Ideas for 480 yds of it?
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RoseByAny
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Posted - 04/04/2005 : 5:29:58 PM
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I wonder if the nylon would stop (or at least drastically screw up) the felting process?
Perhaps a fun bag, or vest, or hat/scarf or mobius, or....
"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."
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pam@plumpirate.com
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 07:06:43 AM
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Me, too -- got 4 balls of Cork, like the yarn, don't like the pattern.
I am thinking about doing a simpler capelet: adapting Ann Budd's Grand Plan capelet pattern in the Spring (?) Interweave Knits, or adapting the pattern for Phoebe (Goddess Yarn) at the beginning of that same issue -- having to play some with the gauge. Or Teva Durham's simple capelet pattern at loop-d-loop
http://www.loop-d-loop.com/productspages/wraps/hc.html
which, again, would require changes to get gauge. (I would wait for her book to come out, rather than buy the pattern individually.)
Or, maybe, try the brimmed hat made from Yorkshire Tweed in the winter or fall IK?
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probablyjane
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 07:30:44 AM
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Or you could sell the yarn on e-Bay like most of my friends who have got the kit and also don't like it. I only know one person who has made it and it looked like an interesting knit but if I wore it I would resemble a pilchard looking up through a stargazy pie...
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purlewe
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 09:22:47 AM
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hmmm. I wonder if there is a yummy purse pattern out there for you. I bet it would be lovely.
Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don’t think about sex at all. You know, they become lawyers. ~Woody Allen
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truly violet
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 09:25:16 AM
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Originally posted by probablyjane
but if I wore it I would resemble a pilchard looking up through a stargazy pie...
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/janelithgow/album
sweetie, please translate this for violet...... into american english ok?
cause you know we do speak a different language
and this sounds interesting...
vi
ps: is that a fish of some sort?
none of this will matter in 100 years.......except I will finally be at my goal weight...vi
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probablyjane
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truly violet
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 09:51:26 AM
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ok I understand now...... btw, there are medeival refrences to that dish in middle english!
hahaha
I thought it was sky ward gazing fish heads but I wasn't sure
vi
none of this will matter in 100 years.......except I will finally be at my goal weight...vi
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probablyjane
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 10:06:11 AM
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Now you have some idea just how good I would look in that poncho....
I'm feeling a bit guilty now that Vi and I have been dragging fish heads all over your very sensible question like a couple of wayward cats, Sue, so I will pull myself together and attempt a serious answer.
I think it would make a really good...
Cushion cover
Hot water bottle cover (I especially like this idea...)
Child's jumper or jacket
Hat and bowtie scarf.
Hope that's helpful...
Jane - off to chase paper and string....
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Monkachia
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 1:52:21 PM
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How about a sling for cats? I've meaning to make a hammock for them...I got the same subscription, yarn and the same ugly pattern. I think either hammock or socks.
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achrisvet
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chris
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 2:10:14 PM
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Amie, most of my felting books say the yarn has to be at least 85% wool. The 5% in this yarn shouldn't affect the feltability.
chris
quote:
Originally posted by RoseByAny
I wonder if the nylon would stop (or at least drastically screw up) the felting process?
Perhaps a fun bag, or vest, or hat/scarf or mobius, or....
"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."
http://RoseByAny.BlogSpot.Com
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achrisvet
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truly violet
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 2:14:07 PM
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but you did return the topic......
we only romped a little bit.....
sniff
and the fish are pretty interesting in a demented sort of way....
sniff
vi
none of this will matter in 100 years.......except I will finally be at my goal weight...vi
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Punctuatedknitter
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 5:49:49 PM
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I got the same thing and had the same reaction to the pattern. Cork is a pretty and expensive yarn though so I was happy with the "gift" anyway.
I am either going to do knit bag, or use the Cork as a stripe in a pullover sweater. I could do the whole thing in Cork sort of like this:
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter02/PATTmarc.html
but looking at the Cork book I think I would like it better as a stripe in something slightly more fuzzy, like a "typical" plied wool.
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Punctuatedknitter
Seriously Hooked
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Posted - 04/13/2005 : 5:52:56 PM
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| p.s. That pie is hilarious. Please tell me nobody eats those now. |
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tejer
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Lanea
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Posted - 09/11/2005 : 04:16:16 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by jainkym@yahoo.com
p.s. That pie is hilarious. Please tell me nobody eats those now.
Um, people still eat Stargazy pie. Want one? I make a fine crust.
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gonzs
Chatty Knitter
USA
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Posted - 09/11/2005 : 04:57:53 AM
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You Sillies! You had a good romp through this thread, but in spite of all detours and giggles, I got some ideas. I may try the Chicknits scarf. No kitty hammock for me! Thanks for your ideas!
Sue |
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Andy
Seriously Hooked
USA
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Posted - 09/11/2005 : 9:01:57 PM
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Sure looks like my cat made that gross pie! It is exactly the way he'd do it, complete with *kneading* a lot around the edges...true his rubbery finger pads are smaller, but I think it would come out about that way...besides, I don't think he'd be so offensive as to bake the little fishies, he'd be like Gollum and not "ruin the conies", but eat them raw...ok, so he'd rip them out of the pie...but, he does play with his food a lot...he's a terribly successful hunter...thus, he is permitted to be an indoor cat 99% of the time!
Sorry, I really digressed from the topic of the thread, but you guys started it!
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achrisvet
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Posted - 09/12/2005 : 09:39:27 AM
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I'm glad this topic got bumped. I went to see "Ladies in Lavender" a couple weeks ago and darned if they didn't make a stargazy pie! I almost jumped out of my seat yelling "stargazy pie!" I had never heard of it before reading about it here. Since I don't like fish anyway, it looks really repulsive to me.
Anita
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