Comments on: Toes in the sand http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:33:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: meg http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/comment-page-1/#comment-13217 meg Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:12:32 +0000 http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/#comment-13217 Your Baltic Sea Stole inspired me to choose the same pattern for my own wedding stole - so I know whatever you end up making will be divine. Your Baltic Sea Stole inspired me to choose the same pattern for my own wedding stole – so I know whatever you end up making will be divine.

]]> By: Marmalade the Cat http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/comment-page-1/#comment-13195 Marmalade the Cat Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:32:26 +0000 http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/#comment-13195 Hi, Gus. I'm Marmalade and I am the owner of Tanya. I just want you to know that Bonita and I feel your pain! Tanya and our other person, J, like to take us out on the boat. While the time spent in the car to and from the boat and the time spent with the engine running are nearly more than we can take, we really do enjoy being on the boat. We especially like it once the anchor has dropped and twilight sets and we go exploring around the deck while our people have cocktails and dinner. Anyway, wipe the chin and know that you are not the only one out there turning green under the fur in order to enjoy quality time with your people. Hi, Gus. I’m Marmalade and I am the owner of Tanya. I just want you to know that Bonita and I feel your pain! Tanya and our other person, J, like to take us out on the boat. While the time spent in the car to and from the boat and the time spent with the engine running are nearly more than we can take, we really do enjoy being on the boat. We especially like it once the anchor has dropped and twilight sets and we go exploring around the deck while our people have cocktails and dinner. Anyway, wipe the chin and know that you are not the only one out there turning green under the fur in order to enjoy quality time with your people.

]]> By: Katherine http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/comment-page-1/#comment-13194 Katherine Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:41:09 +0000 http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/#comment-13194 Yay for Mr. Garter reading His Dark Materials, especially with the movie coming out! I'm trying to get my guy to read them, too, since I know he'd love them. Wives and Daughters is in our Netflix queue, we're looking forward to watching it. Yay for Mr. Garter reading His Dark Materials, especially with the movie coming out! I’m trying to get my guy to read them, too, since I know he’d love them.

Wives and Daughters is in our Netflix queue, we’re looking forward to watching it.

]]> By: Rebecca http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/comment-page-1/#comment-13193 Rebecca Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:11:52 +0000 http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/#comment-13193 I just wrote about the shawl I made this time last year for my wedding on my blog (the direct link is here: <a href="http://archiknist.blogspot.com/2007/08/p1010013.html" rel="nofollow"></a>). I used one of the patterns from the First Book of Modern Lace Knitting (meant as a small table topper, but I just kept going in the same pattern till it was shawl sized). It's round, which turned out to have been a good thing since I needed the extra layer for warmth, but some of the rectangular patterns (meant as curtains) would also be adapted to be a stole. I just wrote about the shawl I made this time last year for my wedding on my blog (the direct link is here: ). I used one of the patterns from the First Book of Modern Lace Knitting (meant as a small table topper, but I just kept going in the same pattern till it was shawl sized). It’s round, which turned out to have been a good thing since I needed the extra layer for warmth, but some of the rectangular patterns (meant as curtains) would also be adapted to be a stole.

]]> By: Karma http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/comment-page-1/#comment-13191 Karma Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:31:15 +0000 http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/#comment-13191 Your time away sounds fabulous and well deserved. I read The Golden Compass this past school year and really enjoyed it! I think I'll read the second this fall. Congrats to Mr. Blue Garter; I hope his endeavor is just as he hopes it will be! Your time away sounds fabulous and well deserved. I read The Golden Compass this past school year and really enjoyed it! I think I’ll read the second this fall. Congrats to Mr. Blue Garter; I hope his endeavor is just as he hopes it will be!

]]> By: carrie m http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/comment-page-1/#comment-13190 carrie m Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:08:56 +0000 http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/#comment-13190 what a delightful post! sounds like you really needed a trip away ... i'm excited to see the fruits of hubby's labor soon. i'm also curious about what shawl you'll choose. what a delightful post! sounds like you really needed a trip away … i’m excited to see the fruits of hubby’s labor soon. i’m also curious about what shawl you’ll choose.

]]> By: whitney http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/comment-page-1/#comment-13189 whitney Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:40:19 +0000 http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/#comment-13189 Wow, lots of exciting things in this post. Congrats to Mr. G for starting a new company, and hooray for having a lovely vacation. Congratulations to your brother! My little brother is getting married in the Spring of next year, too, and I've been asked to knit my soon-to-be sister-in-law (who I absolutely adore) a wrap for the wedding. She's having me knit Sivia Harding's "Shetland Garden Faroese Shawl", but since it sounds like your future sister-in-law wants a stole, that's probably not a good suggestion. I do remember really liking Ms. Harding's "Hanging Garden" stole when I was looking at her site, but I don't know what it's like to knit. Poor Mingus. My little guy doesn't travel well, either. We have to medicate him, and one time he spit his meds out and wound up bashing his face into the side of the carrier the whole way from Chicago to Upstate NY. Poor baby was a bruised-up mess, I'm sure PETA would have had gone after me if they'd seen him! My husband and I were just talking about reading Philip Pullman's books together this morning, sounds like we should! Wow, lots of exciting things in this post. Congrats to Mr. G for starting a new company, and hooray for having a lovely vacation.

Congratulations to your brother! My little brother is getting married in the Spring of next year, too, and I’ve been asked to knit my soon-to-be sister-in-law (who I absolutely adore) a wrap for the wedding. She’s having me knit Sivia Harding’s “Shetland Garden Faroese Shawl”, but since it sounds like your future sister-in-law wants a stole, that’s probably not a good suggestion. I do remember really liking Ms. Harding’s “Hanging Garden” stole when I was looking at her site, but I don’t know what it’s like to knit.

Poor Mingus. My little guy doesn’t travel well, either. We have to medicate him, and one time he spit his meds out and wound up bashing his face into the side of the carrier the whole way from Chicago to Upstate NY. Poor baby was a bruised-up mess, I’m sure PETA would have had gone after me if they’d seen him!

My husband and I were just talking about reading Philip Pullman’s books together this morning, sounds like we should!

]]> By: rebecca http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/comment-page-1/#comment-13188 rebecca Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:48:09 +0000 http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/#comment-13188 What a lovely vacation! Sounds just heavenly. What a lovely vacation! Sounds just heavenly.

]]> By: mamie http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/comment-page-1/#comment-13187 mamie Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:26:37 +0000 http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/#comment-13187 it makes me happy to hear you had a rest. especially after the herculean feat of brigette. i read the dark materials series on rec by my teen brother, loved it so. one of those that you cannot stand to turn the last page. i could read again as it has been almost a year. hmmm. your description of the coast makes me long for that cool oregon ocean air. did you dip toes? bbrrrrrr. it makes me happy to hear you had a rest. especially after the herculean feat of brigette. i read the dark materials series on rec by my teen brother, loved it so. one of those that you cannot stand to turn the last page. i could read again as it has been almost a year. hmmm. your description of the coast makes me long for that cool oregon ocean air. did you dip toes? bbrrrrrr.

]]> By: materfamilias http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/comment-page-1/#comment-13186 materfamilias Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:17:52 +0000 http://www.bluegarter.org/2007/08/toes-in-the-sand/#comment-13186 I loved the Dark Materials trilogy. It's probably the last book I got to read out loud to my kids (the youngest 2, 22 and 25 now, and they were tolerant teens already when I was reading the Pullman). Time for a reread, actually, with the movie coming out. I read to my husband when we're driving and when he's cooking although he doesn't reciprocate the favour -- says he just really thinks I'm a better reader and I have to admit I'm not a patient listener. We've never tried fiction though -- David Sedaris' books, travel memoirs, food lit have so far been more our speed. As for a wedding shawl, have you made Birch yet? It's a surprisingly fast knit (well, relatively speaking) and it's satisfying as well -- I've made two and would happily make another. I loved the Dark Materials trilogy. It’s probably the last book I got to read out loud to my kids (the youngest 2, 22 and 25 now, and they were tolerant teens already when I was reading the Pullman). Time for a reread, actually, with the movie coming out.
I read to my husband when we’re driving and when he’s cooking although he doesn’t reciprocate the favour — says he just really thinks I’m a better reader and I have to admit I’m not a patient listener. We’ve never tried fiction though — David Sedaris’ books, travel memoirs, food lit have so far been more our speed.
As for a wedding shawl, have you made Birch yet? It’s a surprisingly fast knit (well, relatively speaking) and it’s satisfying as well — I’ve made two and would happily make another.

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