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gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 3:09 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

I'll be getting the Filmy Fern shawl out this evening (first time in a few days). It's more than just a winter's work, though. 2mm needles, 1860 sts...

God,I`m having trouble keeping track of 67 stitches!

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 3:09 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Finish off the concrete worktop in the laundry room. Still needs a bit more grinding, then seal and wax.

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Once we've done that we've got to sand and oil the bannisters for the staircase.

oh I like the look of that - is it hard to do? do you have any links for me to see the process?

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 3:09 pm Post subject:
It's a circular shawl and the cable is 1m. The stitches fit on fine: it's Jamieson & Smith's cobweb, so very fine. https://www.knittingdaily.com/media/p/52426.aspx Much easier than it looks! It's very easy to see where you are in the pattern from the preceding row.

cassy

Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Posts: 1047
Location: South West Scotland

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 3:16 pm Post subject:
Your worktop looks great tahir! Was it difficult to grind it down (or just a lot of work)? Gil: is that the yarn you had at the guild on Saturday? The pattern is so intricate! I'm working on a folder with samples of different fibres (spun then crocheted, woven and braided) and I thought I might try to get ahead with Mothering Sunday pressies, while the weather is keeping me indoors.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 3:31 pm Post subject:
we are trying to get the fruit trees in and fenced before any bad weather hits indoor projects - make more stock , carry on with house renovations - really got to get on top of finances

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91ï¿½ N

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 3:32 pm Post subject:
All the projects I have depend on working outside or having done enough work outside to free up the space in the workshop. So regardless of the weather it's more work on Mrs JB's studio.

cassy

Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Posts: 1047
Location: South West Scotland

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 3:34 pm Post subject:

colour it green wrote:

we are trying to get the fruit trees in and fenced before any bad weather hits

I've got fruit trees to go in too but the ground is frozen at the minute. Resigned to waiting; they're in damp sand so should be ok for a while. Hope you get yours in in time.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 3:35 pm Post subject:
Rebuilding the T150V engine. I'll post picture later - truly exciting stuff - watching Loctite dry

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 3:38 pm Post subject:

cassy wrote:

Gil: is that the yarn you had at the guild on Saturday? The pattern is so intricate!

I'm working on a folder with samples of different fibres (spun then crocheted, woven and braided) and I thought I might try to get ahead with Mothering Sunday pressies, while the weather is keeping me indoors.

Yes, it is that yarn - I'd just undone the knitting. I'll need to get up the impetus to start again, as it had been going well (just not enough sts round).

Your samples project sounds really interesting - I'd love to see the results some time, and the differences between crochet, weave and braid.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 3:57 pm Post subject:
I also have fruit bushes to go in. Too wet,too cold,working.Now we`ll have snow on our one day off duty.

lettucewoman

Joined: 26 Sep 2006
Posts: 7834
Location: Tiptoe in the Forest!!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 4:32 pm Post subject:
Well,weather or not I havea craft fair to do..so sorting and cleaning jewellery, with a bit of making...and I have knitted an owlie which needs making up!

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 4:52 pm Post subject:
Tax returns. Bloody things.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 6:19 pm Post subject:
I've been making a few fix lures and tying a few salt water flies / feathers when I can't get outside. Luckily we've missed the snow so far so I've been able to get outside to do some gardening. Friday may be put aside to play in the snow with the dog.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 13 6:25 pm Post subject:

That is a great pattern Gil. It makes me want to knit something but I think I will try and sew something for myself or at least cut out a design for a quilt that has been stuck in my head for a week or so. I'm trying to persuade myself to draw choughs and not crows but I have one of Ted Hughes poems in my head from Crow and need to deal with it. If only the space between the idea and the result wasn't quite so wide.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45434
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 13 10:33 am Post subject:

colour it green wrote:

oh I like the look of that - is it hard to do? do you have any links for me to see the process?

No it's not hard, just time consuming. We just went with a combination of all the stuff we found on the interweb about concrete worktops.

We made ours in situ so we didn't have to worry about broken backs or worktops carrying it onto the units.

We didn't use any of the fancy products available, just a normal concrete mix

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