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You sound ambitious and smart...good to have you here!!!!

Hello there!

You do sound very talented, what projects are you working on?

Kath

I'm working on a beanie that features my school logo (or a stylized version therein) and an afghan adapted from a knit scarf pattern (still working on the adaptation).

in other realms:

im designing a computer based on the Intel 8086, a chip very similar to the processor in the first IBM PC.

My car (it's back home in Michigan) is in the middle of an engine swap.

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Wow! I'm working on growing up a small person,(4of4) not all my own work but I'm still proud.

I've been known to plumb a bit but the comp stuff leaves me glazed over and sleepy. I call my otherhalf for comp stuff.

Ahh... i'm my mom's personal IT dept. she even calls me from Michigan for help. and most of the people in my dorm hall come to me for help every once in a while.

surprisingly crocheting is like computer programming.

in crocheting you follow a pattern, which is a list of steps to make something

in computer programming, your program uses an algorithm. which is defined as a list of steps to accomplish a specific task.

i also enjoy the numerical aspect of crochet. i made an afghan (for my ex) and it contained over 225,000 stitches. its a whole nother way to visualze math and big numbers.

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Your mom must be very proud. I can't wait to have a bit more free time, there are so many patterns and stitches I want to experiment with. I'm a new fan of victorian lace. Baby rearing is similar to a physical endurance test, how well you can cope surviving on minimal sleep. She does look very cute in my crochet when we do get hands free time. But it's not often...like now she chews my collar.

my dad was the one to fix cars, I used to pass him tools on occassion I know more about old rovers (pre 1958) than i do comps but not toomuch more.

Are you any good at single handed typing?

Kath x

my brain is a bit daddled... i have noticed i'm repeating myself in previous messages!

she is. its because of her that i can even crochet in the first place. and i can imagine how you feel about baby rearing. i remember when my little brother was a baby. now hes an 11-year old with Autism which makes some days a big test on my moms sanity and endurance as a single mother. Working and parenting a child with special needs is a big task, and now that i'm not at home it's no easier for her.

i LOVE old cars. some are just so much more beautiful than whats on the road today.

i can type single-handedly, but for the most part i use both hands. altho i'm becoming something of a multi-tasking master. my computer has 2 monitors, allowing me to work on many things at once. or just listen to music while i surf the web (like right now).

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My mum taught me to knit, I came to crochet late and through a baby gilet pattern requiring edging. Took my hands a while to master holding hook and yarn but I got it.
Your moms sounds really cool and i'm sure you help her as much as possible.

Im going to make an online picture diary of my work I want a record of my progress.

A few hats and brown gilet can be seen on Lizzy with Daddy at http://degrit.com/puzzetta/ also 2 of my big girls. I'm sporting the opulent udders!

It'd be great to have the same but for my projects..

Got any pics of your work?

i have an old blog...

let me dig it up....

i found it!

i really should keep that up to date.

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Adorable afgans!

I have completed before xmas, hat and scarf for DD3 and 2 shawls for DD's 1 and 2. A dress for lizzy also in stocking stitch with some slight lace motives. Since then its been plenty of hats and beenies and headbands with flowers. I designed a cardi for myself to an elaborate lace st but to be honest it needs much more time than I can dedicate to it right now... I keep that for when baby sleeps through the night. A 20 row repeat lace pattern needs concentration. I'm itching to spend hours at it though.

kath

ahhh....

sounds interesting for sure.

the baby is beautiful btw.

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My love of crochet is the speed at which it works up, results are seen so much faster compared to knit. I also believe it feels different to working knit. You can zone out while crocheting. Thanks for the baby praise.

Kath.

What weight yarn was the lilac afgan?

its worsted weight. the lilac one is the picture from the pattern book of the one that i made. i dont have any wicker furniture, lol.

and i love to watch movies and crochet. during that afghan i watched:
the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Matrix Trilogy
The entire Star Wars saga
lots of Law & Order
and some MythBusters

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lol

I'm working through shakpeares History plays, all of Jane Austen adaptations on the bbc... and Gaskell and Dickens. I'm very fond of reading JRR Tolkien also a personal fav.

During night feeds I can watch them and if baby is asleep I crochet and listen.

Sorry I thought both afgans were your work... Silly me,

How far along are you with the school logo beanie?
Is the logo complicates to crochet?

im still in the design phase. changing the logo into a chart to crochet with.

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Hi, multi-talented Crafty Boy!

Pauline

HI!

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Hi there,

I just took a look at your blog, I think the logo looks good in crochet. Naxt afgan for yourself.... what do you fancy?

my beanie almost done, it's a suprise because i'm doing homework help for 2 and feeding another.... busy busy

kath

i want to do something with binary. lol im such a geek. but theres a great pattern that came out in a webzine called knitty. you can find it here!
i just wish the pattern would work in crochet. the main problem is that unless i work in the round my sc's don't even come close to lining up. and when i do work in the round they still don't line up perfectly. so idk. maybe i'll learn tunisian crochet, but thats a LOT of stitches on one hook.

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love the scarf... wouldn't it work better in fair isle??

I havn't been able to work a stitch (or eat) wee one is fussing.

kath

perhaps, but no matter how much i look online i can't seem to find a decent tutorial on fair isle. unless its not all that difficult and im just going crazy? idk.

anywho if anyone knows how and wants to educate me im willing to try anything.

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Well I wish you luck, I think I could wing something simple but as to teaching it, I'm sure theres lots of experience on here to tap into. I only suggested it because of the lining up issue. Maybe you could wing it with a small swatch and see what happens??

Kath

i have a few failed swatches already. but i'll keep looking into fair isle.

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One of my next knit projects (and havn't I alot of them)Is my first fair-isle. I'm very early on the planning stages and all my merino bought for the purpose, seems to be being made into beanies!!

Good luck with it.

http://treblecrochet.blujay.com There's a group on Ravelry called Men who Crochet, if you haven't already joined...

i'll look into it.
thanks.

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