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I always enjoy reading your posing in Ravelry’s Color by Hand. Straightforward and down-to-earth.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:40 pmYou can catch my blog sometime (if you get a minute!)its http://www.knitteruk.blogspot.uk (I think) I am a mother of 7 and grandmother of 8 living in Harrow, Middlesex, UK. I like to wander around the net reading blogs of knitters and crafters worldwide.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:47 amSandyUK
I have done it wrong as usual, please try this one instead:
http://www.knitteruk.blogspot.com
SandyUK
February 5th, 2008 at 8:50 amHey Ray,
I just found out about your website and man I have to tell you that your yarn is absolutely gorgeous! I am certain I will be ordering from you soon as I am working on very special project. Yes, I too am a man who knits (and used to live in the Montrose area of Houston. I had come back to Cleveland to care for some ill relatives. Today I find myself the Director of a volunteer, community service youth group. My program is currently for young ladies, but as of June, we are going to begin adding young boys into the program.
Throughout the year they perform many services for the community such as feeding the homeless at various churches, visiting the Veteran’s and children at Ronald McDonald House and several nursing homes around the city. The girls all know that I knit and love to watch my ‘fabric’ grow on the needles to become something. I was swatching for a pair of sock with a new yarn and one of the girls told me it would make a pretty blanket. That night I found a website (shellykang.com) where she had taken sock yarn and knitted little squares into a full-size blanket. I printed off the picture and showed it to my girls. They loved it. So an idea was born. Every year we do a raffle fundraiser and the girls have asked me to knit a blanket (really an afghan) out of sock yarn like the one in the picture so we could use it for the raffle. I told them that it would most likely be done for the October 2009 raffle since it will take a bit of time to knit. They are really happy and they have been helping me out. How many times do you walk down the street and find a penny? Well the girls have formed a ‘Penny for the Blanket’ fund. They have literally be collecting pennies to help me buy the yarn for this project. Every event I go to, they want to see the newest squares.
So you see, I will be buying some of your yarn to put into this ‘blanket’. I would like to know if I can tell them of your story about being a Katrina survivor and show them your website so they can see that good things do often times come out of what seems to be a horrible tragedy. If you do give me permission, I will let the girls know that the next group of pennies will go for a skein of yarn from you Ray.
Thank you for having a wonderful spirit Ray and not quitting. You are in inspiration to those that continue to fight adversity in their lives, being a successful example to others. I apologize for the lengthy comment, but you just got the juices flowing.
Namaste’
Louis Runci, Director
April 13th, 2008 at 10:52 amCleveland Royalty Court
E-mail: royaltycourtdirector@yahoo.com
Phone: 216-355-4560
Website: http://www.misscleveland.org
hi. I want to make the wedding ensemble in michelle ornes book. it is in white, but i want it in periwinkle blue. problem 1. 4-5 different yarns are called for. if i die 4-5 different yarns they will all turn out different shades of periwinkle. i want one shade of periwinkle. here are the yarns
dk weight (3 light); worsted weight (4 medium) and fingering weight (1 superfine).
DMC berroco cotton twist 10 skeins #8301 bleach white - for top
6 skeins for skirt
DMC baroque crochet cotton size 10, bleach white ( no number just says A).2 skeins for top
3 skeins for skirt
rowan cotton glace #726 bleached, 3 skeins for top
5 skeins for skirt
berroco touche, #7900 bleach 5 skeins for skirt
this is page 139 michell ornes boob isbn # 978-1-59668-041-8
can you die all these yarns periwinkle and will they come out the same color?
August 16th, 2008 at 12:28 pmHi. Your site is gorgeous! I added a link to your post on our memorial to Bruce. Is that ok? Thanks.
September 12th, 2009 at 12:29 pm