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Check out Joan's Ugliest Pattern Contest! WHOOPs...

Hey Daria! I'm with ya - I just went and joined her Acrylics Anonymous Webring... COME OUT into the LIGHT all Ye who are NOT "... afraid to show your acrylic love!"

check out Kristyn's entry about her *Tan Line* fiasco - my nephew once told me my arms looked like Frosted Mini-Wheats because I was so tan on ONE SIDE ONLY!

Krista Jo has some GRRRRRrate! tippage on buttonbands and collars in her current entry - hey, Krista, how YOU doin' - my fave buttonband is a sew-on type too!

I'm enjoying the marvelous poetry over at Maggi's site - check out her writing by visiting her links on the left hand side of page under the heading: *Poetic Stitches*


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A most heartfelt Message of Love and Sympathy on the passing of Greta's beloved Tasha...

the smiles after the tears? - Greta writes: "Sometimes Mercy and Grace pour down all at once and you just have to say YES."

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Have you stopped to thank a veteran today?
For the price of freedom they had to pay?
Did you gaze into those distant eyes?
Did you see the ghosts he can't deny?
Did you think a soldier's heart was made of steel?
Because he was trained to kill, he couldn't feel?
Did you see the guilt written on his face,
For the loss of life he can't replace?
Did you know he mourns the lives he couldn't save,
And walks with comrades in their grave?
Did you remember the boy with innocence lost?
Do you really know war's ultimate cost?
Have you felt the blast of artillery fire?
Do you have the courage it would require?
Have you stood in trenches consumed with fear?
Felt the enemies breath so very near?
Have you walked with God on a battleground?
Seen your brothers dead or dying all around?
Have you stopped to thank a vet today,
Or did you just turn and walk away?
From the pain he'll carry for the rest of his life,
Did you consider his family, his children, his wife?
That watch him suffer in silence each and every day,
As he's haunted by memories that don't go away?
Did you care that the soldier is still pulling guard?
That his heart, mind, and soul will forever be scarred?
Do you know how he suffers from ptsd?
Or that our precious freedom is never free?
Did you care that he still hears the blood curdling screams?
Or that he returns to the war each night in his dreams?
Have you felt the sorrow of a combat vet?
Or would you rather just forget?
That war has pierced his hardened heart,
And torn this soldier all apart?
Would you rather our heroes just fade away?
Or will you stop to thank a vet today?

...Chris X
United States of America
(used with permission)

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Agnes hits the Runway

Although it's the first day of June, it is only in the low 50's in the mornings (and evenings) here in the City.

WRAP IT UP!
...the Fabulous Thunderbirds

And this little retro cardi is turning out to be very entertaining to knit! The design is from this season's Rowan book. Of course, I can never leave well enough alone and have made many changes.

I am using a discontinued yarn called Denim (by Madil/Italy) that I purchased from One Fine Yarn ages ago. They are down to a scant handful of balls for sale - and am I ever sorry because once I started knitting with it I wanted more. It is a a 60% cotton / 40% acrylic blend that is tightly twisted and has a slightly sueded look. The closest thing I've seen like this is Bali by GGH and you can never find that in the US in many colors or even styles.

It knits up into a very cohesive but lightweight fabric and I LOVE IT! Sympathize with me for always finding these bargains then have mercy on me for for not buying more when I had a chance.

I PITY the Fool
...Mr. T - aka - Sergeant Bosco "B.A." Baracus - 1983

Back to Missy Agnes - the gauge on this yarn did not match the pattern, so that was the first change that had to be made. I am knitting this at 21sts/30rows per 4".

The peplum bottom of this cardi is dart-shaped moss stitch. Now, I can see the heads shaking and so was mine at first, but after several all ribbed sweaters and Rapunzel, moss stitch is a breeze! And, I adore how it looks...

Then, being the intrepid knitting busy-body that I am, I had to change the top pattern. WHY? To be easier for me! So I dug out my stitch books and slapped in a basic alternating eyelet pattern.

WHO's the BOSS?
...Tony Danza 1984

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StreetChic
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take a walk around my block

Gucci Window, Michigan Ave
photo by Bonne Marie Burns ©2004

 

Wardrobe... Gotta have it.

How to get it?!

DIY!

THAT's the knitting spirit at L'Atelier ChicKnits...

See it in a window? See it on the rack? See on a back?

MUST HAVE!

My curiousity knows no bounds, and that means, I'm drawn like a tractor beam to someone walking down the street in an interesting knitted fancy.

Hence this GUCCI window - I thought at first it was a chubby jacket made from Faux Fur!

The Eyelash Craze is EVERYWHERE!!!

And why am I not weeping and gnashing my teeth like many in YarnLand?!

Because it makes sense on many levels for OUR FUTURE...

For once, the LYSs are making some dough - and those really wonderful small gauge woolens are still out there - they are online and right at your fingertips. For second, everyone I've ever seen wearing these creations, from North to South, grandma to debutante, feels like a million! For three - that's what FASHION is really all about!

The Peacock Factor...

It makes me feel like a Queen, like a Runway Model, like the most desirable woman on earth, as naughty as a boa whirling dancer strutting the bar in the seamiest section of NOLA who turns and....

Oh, that's MY fantasy...

SO I say - Make it, wear it and have the most fun you can!!!

And if it ends up like somebody's retro macrame whatever, then WHATEVER...

We had a blast while it lasted and How About THose THOUSANDS of New KNITTERS!!! Welcome...

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1. Free Jacket Pattern from Crystal Palace

2. Berroco weighs in with one of its own

3. Our very own Tank Queen Alison's fine fine Spring Fling Tank Pattern (this is the one I'll be wearing when I'm dancing on the bar at the Artist's Cafe on Iberville NOLA - I have some luscious Lang *Bali*)

4. More scarves than you can shake a stick at at CP...

5. Felted Eyelash Bag Pattern from New York Knits

6. Send me your links and I'll make a FUN Fur Links Page!

see the page so far...


Please take and use this button...

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