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culpepper

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 638
Location: Kent

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 4:18 pm Post subject:

JC wrote:

If you used fine wool (4ply baby sort of stuff) would you get softer, non itchy socks, or would they not last very long?

Jackie

Ive used baby wool for socks.They are very comfortable.You cant walk around with no shoes or slippers on though as they would wear through. I still have some of mine from about 20 years ago.
I found that 100% wool will wear into holes immediately and so would 100% acrylic but mixtures dont seem to. However im wearing some today made with charity shop 4 ply,absolutely no idea what the yarn is made of but they are on their third wear and havent shrunk at 40 degrees . So probably not pure wool.

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 4:23 pm Post subject: My wood

tahir wrote:

Madman wrote:

Just went to look at my new wood

Tell us more...

Five and a half acres of mixed deciduous woodland, half a mile down the road from the house. Hope it will be mine in three weeks or so. Then have big plans for coppicing, pigs, ducks, geese, chickens, welling timber and logs...etc etc...

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45420
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 4:29 pm Post subject:
Brilliant, can't wait to see some piccies

sugarplumhalle

Joined: 07 Feb 2005
Posts: 50
Location: E. Yorkshire

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: My wood

Madman wrote:

wooo, thats very exciting.... pigs, ducks, geese and chickens? extremely jelous but obviously in a nice way

judyofthewoods

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
Posts: 804
Location: Pembrokeshire

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 4:41 pm Post subject:
Very exiting, great news - keep my fingers crossed it all goes through without a hitch. If Madman goes all quiet in three weeks time, we know he'll be up to his knees in mud . Will you henceforth be known as madmaninthewoods?

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 5:26 pm Post subject:
Wildmanofthewoods

Marigold123

Joined: 06 Feb 2005
Posts: 224

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 5:50 pm Post subject:
Ditto on the jealous. I always go a bit quiet and thoughtful when I drive past a sign saying 'Woodlands for Sale". Congratulations!

judyofthewoods

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
Posts: 804
Location: Pembrokeshire

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 5:59 pm Post subject:

Madman wrote:

Wildmanofthewoods

Oooh, sounds so romantic

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nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 8:16 pm Post subject:
Thanks sugarplumhalle for those links - brilliant! Madman, you are going to have to be nice to people who knit socks now, it sounds like you're going to need us....

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 8:57 pm Post subject:
I think I'll be doing too much sweating in my wood to have much use of woollen things!....Hm....or of clothes!

judyofthewoods

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
Posts: 804
Location: Pembrokeshire

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 9:16 pm Post subject:

Madman wrote:

I think I'll be doing too much sweating in my wood to have much use of woollen things!....Hm....or of clothes!

nakedmanofthewoods

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 9:17 pm Post subject:
Oo-er!

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 9:20 pm Post subject:
Like this one best, says he changing the subject quickly!

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 9:20 pm Post subject:
Should keep the trespassers away.

hardworkinghippy

Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Posts: 1110
Location: Bourrou South West France

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 05 9:22 pm Post subject:
These are the beams for our new extension which we've just cut from our woods. Note that I'm wearing my knitted socks! HWH

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