KAS SNIPPETS - FEBRUARY 2021
Gabi Fin
Nancy Joshua
Anne Clegg
Lynda Faulkner
Ashley
Carrie Polonder
Check out EDY SYQUER'S dolls and hats ...
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Permalink Reply by MILI K on
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Thank you Glo for your comprehensive sweep of news and titbits from our members and the KAS barn. My head is just whirling with all this colour and information.
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Permalink Reply by Gloria Grandy on
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Mili, thank you. It's amazing how quickly news travels. I just posted this this morning and already you have it at your desk ... hahaha Too bad we can't get our squares to S.A. as quickly, eh ... xo
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Permalink Reply by Karen Gordon on
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Congratulations on another amazing, comprehensive oversight of life inside giving what we can for KAS. I thoroughly enjoy a really good read through your well put together accounts G X
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Thanks, Karen ... xo
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Permalink Reply by Chris Chiplen on
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Thank you Glo for another super Snips! As to the question “what’s your knitting style”...... well, I only crochet these days, but having looked at the video, I am definitely a thrower :))
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Permalink Reply by Sharon B on
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Entertainment! Loved this issue of Snippets, Gloria. I have no words to describe Edy Syquer's Dolls with Hats! They are soooo cute, so clever, so thoughtful.
Original knitting style was as a thrower (learned on a DVD). Switched to Continental soon after (learned on YouTube) -- because I never really learned to control the yarn with my right hand, even though I am right-handed. It was all the previous years of crochet, controlling the yarn left-handed.
Crochet style is overhand, also called knife-hold.
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Oh my goodness, thank you Sharon and Chris for mentioning crochet! I have a bad habit of forgetting the crochet crowd. And I'm a crocheter! Go figure :)
I used to hold my crochet hook 'like a pencil', if that's the right way to say it. Then I switched to the 'knife-hold' and have had no problem with cramping.
I think the pencil hold meant I was moving my wrist further or more often ... or something. Not sure what it was, but for a while I couldn't crochet. So I switched and since then have had no trouble. That's the way I do TC, too - knife-hold.
It's all fun and games until someone gets hand cramps ... LOL ... xo
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Permalink Reply by Patricia Underwood on
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Yes, I crochet knife-hold (although I do hold my knife like a pen - very bad form I know!)
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Well, I must confess that I have been told more than once that what I do isn’t really crocheting! I hold my hook like a knife, but I don’t use my left hand to hold the yarn, it’s in my right as if I were knitting, and I guess I must look very clumsy, because my knitting ‘technique’ used to look clumsy too! The thing is, I’m comfortable crocheting this way, I have tried doing it correctly, but my fingers then look like a confused octopus :))
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Chris, I'm amazed! One of our RJSKs does the very same thing! When I first saw her working away, I thought she was knitting. Then I realized she had only on needle ... no ... hook! She looked at me and laughed. She said, I know it looks odd, but it gets the job done. I agree. Doesn't matter how you hold your tools so long as you get the job done. And you, dear Chris, get the job done beautifully every time :) ... xo
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Oh my goodness... You girls are making me LOL... Lol. It all sounds so funny and I can't even do it, full stop, nowt, squat! None-the-wonder if it's so technical, ha ha.
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