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Awww, you're sweet! So much sympathy for my hanky!

To answer your questions: it's point five cezanne, and the texture is just lovely , just the colours are quite different (and I really needed a bit more)...and yeah, I hope she'll like it anyway!

Re: border/cushion cover: I'm gonna take home for christmas what I made so far and then discuss the options for improvement with my mum.

Thank you very much for all your input. :)
 
i feel very rich today. I went to the sales and i bought:


20 balls of calmer

10 balls of yorkshire tweed 4 ply

10 baalls of 4 ply cotton

10 balls of handknit cotton

10 skeins if summer tweed.

If you think that i generally like rowan yarns, you would be right.....


now i need some idea of what to do with it all.
 
oooh... where did you get all that? didn't realise that yarn was on sale too.... might break my "no going to the sales" rule....
 
gaijingirl said:
oooh... where did you get all that? didn't realise that yarn was on sale too.... might break my "no going to the sales" rule....
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Libertys and John lewis.

There's a lot of cotton stuff on sale in both places. Lots of summer tweed mainly in grey or yellow, lots of cotton tape, all seasons cotton plus some r2 stuff that looks like ripped rags, also some cotton braid, linen print.

I was told that Peter Jones in slone square have some noro on sale, But i'd already bought that lot and had run out of money so I didn't go look.
 
Thanks! I might go shopping tomorrow! I've never bought Noro and I do actually have half a ton of Colinette left.. but all my knitted Crimbo presents went down a treat.... legwarmers for the MIL, fantastic Colinette bag for a mate and I still have a few more to give out...

Also have this funky bright orange wool that was brought to me from China that I need to find a use for.

Time for another S&B I think!!

Maybe we could all bring our various pattern books and see what we can share!
 
gaijingirl said:
Thanks! I might go shopping tomorrow! I've never bought Noro and I do actually have half a ton of Colinette left.. but all my knitted Crimbo presents went down a treat.... legwarmers for the MIL, fantastic Colinette bag for a mate and I still have a few more to give out...

Also have this funky bright orange wool that was brought to me from China that I need to find a use for.

Time for another S&B I think!!

Maybe we could all bring our various pattern books and see what we can share!
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I would be up for that. I've got a stck of magazines as well.

I want to find something relly nice to do with this calmer.
 
moose said:
I got the Loop-d-Loop book by Teva Durham for xmas - some really nice, unusually-shaped things in it, some of which are quite sculptural. :cool:
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Wow... that is some unusual stuff.... looks a bit tricky for me..... but maybe this time next year? :)
 
Had a look, very unusual stuff there, some very nice ideas, but nothing i would actully wear. A few things that could inspire me to create a design one day.....

Now wht shall i do wirth all this damn cotton?

Has nyone knitted with the calmer, there's a long cardie in one of the magazines i have made of a textured wool, the guage is similar enough to run with, but what does the calmer hang like?
 
where did you get the Calmer from and what colours did they have? I have a very simple pattern for a jumper that I photocopied from someone using Calmer.....
 
gaijingirl said:
where did you get the Calmer from and what colours did they have? I have a very simple pattern for a jumper that I photocopied from someone using Calmer.....
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John Lewis, oxford street. They had a purple and the greeny/grey i've got 2 packs of.
 
Just got back from John Lewis in Liverpool and wow, did I do well on the Debbie Bliss. 23 balls of Merino Chunky in grey, navy and hot pink, and 9 hanks of Maya in two different colourways. I wasn't crazy about most of the Rowan stuff they had going, although now I'm regretting not getting some of the red cotton tape. The discounts were way better than I was expecting. I was briefly tempted by the Debbie Bliss cotton cashmere, although since I'm not sure what I'd make out of it, I refrained. Only intense stashguilt kept me from buying it anyway and waiting for the right pattern to come along.
 
They had some maya when i looked, but there was only a bright red left and i didn't like that.

Well done on getting what you wanted. I hope gaijingirl comes back reporting success as well.
 
Damn you and your woolly sales reports.... :mad: :D

Now £90 poorer... all the Calmer was gone in JL - there was 3 packs left in Liberty's but I got a job lot of summer tweed to do a hooded top I have been meaning to do for a while. Even with the sale it was £60! And of course I succombed to some other stuff whilst there too. And I STILL have tons of Colinette left to use.
 
only £90?

£122.50 in my case. My legs ache from carrying my daughter yesterday, and my face aches from grinning so much.
 
Yes well I only just spent a similar amount in Colinette in September and I'm nowhere near as knittastic as you!!!! I've got enough to keep me going till i die....

... it's just all so lovely and woolly!! :rolleyes: :D
 
Erm, no dear. it's just you have no where near as big a stash as me.

i am completely unble to resist a bargain.

i also have plans to handpaint some laceweight merino to make shawls and to make a couple of lovelly knitty patterns.
 
I'm now having to resort to hiding wool at work as I've run out of house . :rolleyes:

Nice painting, btw. :)
 
toggle said:
Would you prefer to link to my blog? i intend to stick all my pics up there.
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I do too, but now I'm putting select ones in the pool. I think it helps build a community feel for the online version of our Craft Club.
 
When I've got some good ones.

The clapotis i've just made should photograph well. Rowan linen print in pinks and oranges, the colour makes it an absolute showstopper.

I got the yarn on sale, £2.25 a ball, 6 balls to make it, deliberately dropping sitches still seems wierd to me though.
 
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