Comments for ProseKnitic - of Words und Wolle

Comment on Last Day at Sea by AlisonH

AlisonH — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:39:01 +0000

Safe travels…

Comment on A bit of this and that by Ann

Ann — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:28:53 +0000

Where are you off to this time???

Comment on Lava and Fire Mountain by Beverly

Beverly — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:16:31 +0000

Sounds fantastic – Lanzarote is on my “to do” list. It is a great favourite with geologists. I have a piece of rock from Lanzarote in my conservatory – it is a beautiful sparkling piece of pale-green olivine and is part of the Earth’s mantle, thrown up from more than 60km below the surface by the force of a volcanic eruption.

I seem to remember from being in India that there is no such thing as a friendly camel. At best you will get one that is haughty and aloof, and regards carrying passengers (or any other load) with disdain but most tend towards bad temper and uncooperativeness. But they are fantastic animals and superbly “designed” for the environment in which they operate. I would guess that they are not native to Lanzarote?

Comment on The Eldest by AlisonH

AlisonH — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:25:33 +0000

Happy Birthday!

Comment on Chocolate by Bill Reeves

Bill Reeves — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:06:35 +0000

Holly,
You devil you, I have been following along with your adventures at Sea and Ashore but this is just too much.. I and Joanna have been on the H C G 500 calorie diet for three weeks and now have another three weeks with no sugar or starch.. I was wondering how I would fair at sea and now I know, NOT WELL.. So thanks for the lesson I guess. What a wonderful life you lead trapsing around the world on a luxury liner..
God Bless,
Bill
P s
I have checked and many jewish folks love the serinety prayer..

Comment on Chocolate by Cat (the Downunder one)

Cat (the Downunder one) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:53:21 +0000

I admit it is skilful but I would never want to eat food people had been playing with – crepe with lemon sounds a better choice!

Comment on Chocolate by AlisonH

AlisonH — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:45:49 +0000

Shrek-n-see Deutsch chocolate?

Comment on Rua De Santa Maria by Linda M.

Linda M. — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:02:15 +0000

I love the turtle!

Comment on Norwegian Jade by Angeluna

Angeluna — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:28:39 +0000

Good grief, friend, you really can’t hold still, can you?

Comment on Norwegian Jade by Cat (the Downunder one)

Cat (the Downunder one) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:21:47 +0000

Grrrrrrrr – oh, just enjoy it for me!

Comment on A bit of this and that by AlisonH

AlisonH — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:12:20 +0000

Have a good trip and throw a snowball for me when you get a chance.

Comment on A bit of this and that by Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:25:42 +0000

Where to this trip?

Comment on A silly half meter by Carmen

Carmen — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:35:20 +0000

D a r n

Comment on The other way up by Bob

Bob — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:34:37 +0000

Surely there’s a hardware store that carries the automatic garage door openers (just the little hand-held or visor-mounted thingie). Most of them are programmable to perfectly match whatever garage door you have installed. We don’t own or need a garage, but I’ve assisted many friends and neighbors calibrate the opener replacements/additions. Maybe such things are different in Deutschland.

Comment on Lights on the stairs by Mary

Mary — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:33:43 +0000

So if you are using this to explain dropping stiches in your shawl, are you saying that you’ve taken multi-tasking to new heights??! Are you knitting and doing the stairs in the dark?!!!

Comment on Lights on the stairs by Steve

Steve — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:33:08 +0000

Yes…I’ve noticed the ‘atmosphere’ lighting in many eateries getting a bit low. I’ve also started to notice some older folks carrying the small LED flashlights to read menus. I think I may do that as well. The problem is often not just insufficient photons bouncing off the print, but to a larger extent, the idea of ‘lets fancy the menu up a bit’ which often consists of printing the menu (black print) onto an imaged background. When you print BLACK onto a slight lighter shade of color, the relative contrast DECREASES, bottom line, you can’t see. It drives me nutty. Glasses don’t necessarily help either.

Comment on Lights on the stairs by Pat

Pat — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:32:21 +0000

I’d be afraid of falling. Especially without a rail. A friend of mine
at church fell on a stairway without a rail, suffered pretty severe
TBI, ended up on disability. We actually installed a railing in our
house stairwell to the basement for this reason. Carry laundry up and
down a dim staircase with no rail? No thank you. LOL! I do feel much
safer with even a light railing.

Comment on Lights on the stairs by Alison

Alison — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:30:36 +0000

OWWW on the dropped stitches! But I was afraid I was going to be reading
about a dropped Holly by the end–glad you’re okay!

And yeah, I can’t knit dark stitches on dark needles especially in poor
light anymore.

Comment on Finishing up by Helen

Helen — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:29:32 +0000

I try to make sure I only have one WIP going at one time in each of a very few categories. For instance, socks are in the pedestrian portable category, but also the fine gauge category, so anything else I start now needs to be coarser gauge and probably a home, quicky, or car project. Crochet doesn’t count against knitting WIPS but maybe it should. Maybe that way I could get more of the motifs attached to the bodice-in-progress and finally free up the dress form. I do use the motifs for car fiddling but they’re too absorbing for conversational work. Hmm, maybe if I schlep the dress form down the the rec room I’ll work on it during TV evenings.

Comment on A silly half meter by Holly

Holly — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:25:48 +0000

I can’t see you with much around in these colors either. If I hadn’t started out with three balls of the stuff, I would not have assumed that I still had some left.

Of course, I could use this as an excuse to drive to Schoppel…. (Zauberball people)

Comment on A silly half meter by AlisonH

AlisonH — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:09:29 +0000

Steal it from the next project. It’ll never know. Make a hat out of the rest of that ball instead of something bigger, it’ll go with the shawl. Wishing I could help out with matching yarn, though.

Comment on Stash Building by Cat (the Downunder one)

Cat (the Downunder one) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:31:12 +0000

A severe case of Stash Advancement Beyond Life Expectancy? BUT it looks nice! :-)

Comment on Lovely Toys by Holly

Holly — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:32:31 +0000

It would also help with Cat Hairs……

Comment on Lovely Toys by Cat (the Downunder one)

Cat (the Downunder one) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:27:44 +0000

What a nifty idea – cannot justify it though – no dog hairs!

Comment on Heading Home by Steven

Steven — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:46:25 +0000

Re United: Yes, it does. Sucks.
Were those black katz on the scarf in progress? Nice.

Comment on No Lights by Holly

Holly — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:50:17 +0000

@Carmen
Who said anything about them paying me ……..

Comment on No Lights by Carmen

Carmen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:49:48 +0000

Ah, so you are working for the Army again!

Comment on No Lights by Holly

Holly — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:35:59 +0000

@Brad No, this one was a real driver. There was even a description of the car. now, if it was me - I would have pulled over in a panic, changed directions and pretended it never happened.

Comment on No Lights by Brad

Brad — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:34:52 +0000

Geistfahrer?

I recall the notices for that.

Comment on No Lights by AlisonH

AlisonH — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:33:55 +0000

Botts Dots. C’mon, traffic folks there, at least Botts Dots! Glad you’re safe.