Answers
I love getting comments on my blog, but I find myself in a conundrum of how to handle them. If someone asks a question, should I reply in the comments or through email or both? All comments to my blog arrive to me through email and I’m supposed to be able to hit reply and it goes right to the commenter. But I don’t think it’s working right. I wrote out this nice lengthy reply to someone and right as I hit “send” I saw that it was going to my blog’s inbox. So I have no idea if my replies are even getting through.
So I’m going to answer some questions here.
Tami asked why she wasn’t able to make smilies appear in her comments anymore. It’s because you need to leave a space between the sentence punctuation and the punctuation for the smiley.
Nancy wanted to know which colorway of Noro Silk Garden I’m using for my scarf. It’s number 87, which is mostly jewel tones. The scarf I’m making calls for 4 skeins. By the way, the pattern I’m using is free. I think it’s well written and is a good way to learn entrelac. You can find it here: Entrelac Scarf.
Janice was wondering if it’s all one skein of yarn. Yes, it is! It’s handpainted varigated yarn. I have seen other people’s entrelac projects where they used 2 different skeins to get a very specific set of color changes, but that’s a lot of work and I like the way the yarn does all that work for me.
JennG was wondering if I learned all these fun knitting techniques from books or from other people. A little of both, but mostly I’m self taught. I learn best from reading (what kind of learner does that make me?), so I can usually muddle along well enough to get by. Part of the fun of knitting, for me at least, is trying something new. I’ve managed to infect several people in my neighborhood with the knitting bug and having all these new and quickly learning knitting friends has inspired me to try all the fun things I’ve seen others do.
Angoraknitter (a fellow Army wife who just moved to our area) mentioned that she can hardly wait until her yarn arrives (I’m assuming in her household goods). Angora – can I call you Ang? – you don’t have to wait! There’s a fun knitting store in Old Town Alexandria. Head north on Hwy 1, after you pass the Beltway, turn right. It doesn’t matter which street, but I turn at the gas station. When you get to Washington, turn left. When you pass the statue in the middle of an intersection, Knit Happens will be on your right. I think the cross street is King.
She also asked me about my ottoman and chairs seen in my messy living room. They are indeed from IKEA. Both have removable, washable slip covers – a must in a house with children! We put sliders under the ottoman feet so we could move it around the living room easily, but that was a mistake. Pushing the ottoman around caused the knobs under the lid to break off, so the lid slides off when bumped into. That was our fault, though, since it was designed to really stay in one place. The chairs are comfy and have enough room under them to store a basket full of Wii paraphenalia under one and the WiiFit board under another. I had to wash one of the slip covers during our last round of stomach virus and it washed up wonderfully. No fading and the wrinkles disappeared once the slip cover was back in place. I spot clean the ottoman at least weekly and it’s holding up well, too.
OK, I think I got all the recent questions. Now I’m off to try to figure out how to get my emailed replies sent to the commenter.
