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Hi there, Just popping in to say I'm back in Brittany, teaching in Paris once a week in person. I feel like I've been on the road for the last month, well, because I have been. Took Amalie back to school in California, driving cross country with Marina and the pup, and it was great even if tiring. Got to see some dear friends on the way (like dating back to grade school and high school), and fell in love with Santa Fe. It was so good to see my brother and his family with the girls, as we haven't all been together since 2017. When I got back, I turned around the apartment for the sublettor, tried to get my puppy's papers set to bring her (which at the last minute didn't work), and somehow made it back. My computer crashed in Paris, a few days before I was supposed to teach my first class in person, and Apple support and I spent hours together. But somehow it's working out. I think I've figured out my logistics for the rest of the semester between trains and rental cars and hotels (sort of). It's really good to be back in the classroom, and my students are engaged and smart. It's really good to see colleagues again. I've discovered that I much prefer staying in a hotel for the 24-36 hours I've got to be in the city. The house - not bad after being vacant for 14 months. Loads of spider webs, but hey, no flies or mosquitoes. Aired out the mustiness. I've joined a Breton dance class in a community center nearby, and didn't embarrass myself my first time out. I forgot how much yarn I already had here. Oy. Paris is lively as before, and that's reassuring. Things here feel more normal than they did in NY. The Covid rates are pretty low where I am in the boonies, and while people are complaining about the pass sanitaire and there are anti-vaxxers, it doesn't feel as vicious as in the states. Anyway, good luck on the closing, Connie, and to all of you on your projects. xoxoNilda

As I mentioned earlier, I have a lot of knitting books that I will probably never use. I have been debating as to what to do with them. I called the LYS to see if they wanted to add them to their knitting library and the LYSO said 'no'. Her customers are not knitting from books and she has a number from her own library. She said she'd take stitch dictionaries and reference books, but those are not the ones I'm ready to give up. The local libraries will sell them so that was not a bad idea, but I'd rather they be used more widely. I asked the spinning guild President if they had a listing of the books in the guild library so that I could donate them there with no duplication of titles. But they don't. However, he said that they don't have very many knitting books so it would be a good addition to the library. So that's where they are going. I will be culling the library over the next few months and then I'll take a box over to his house and he'll take them to where the guild books are. That location is not accessible to a wide variety of people right now due to COVID-19. Anyone know good places to sell china? A friend just cleared out their mother's house and she has some lovely bone china that they want to dispose of. -- Jaya http://knitsarina.blogspot.com/

It really hasn’t been good around here. Just recently, a friend from our exercise class died (not Covid). She was a very nice person and will be missed. Then Mark’s niece’s husband had a stroke and did not survive the surgery to try to mitigate. Tuesday, we got a call saying that Mark’s younger brother, a man in his late 60s, died (also not Covid). It’s been quite the 3 weeks! Top it off with a serious case of poison ivy that has me on very strong steroids that are knocking me for a loop. I can’t wait to see what October brings. Ann in PA

I had three hand knit sweaters that belonged to my mother. Two were knit by me and one by her. Two wool, one alpaca - Schaefer yarns alpaca. They didn't fit me as my mother was smaller through the shoulders and bust. My sister, who takes after her in body type, was not interested as they were too loose for her taste. My mother wore these over a sari and so they had more ease. I had a tough time letting go of them. I remember my mother knitting that sweater and going with her to find buttons to match in Mumbai when I was a teenager. I remember knitting those sweaters for her and discussing size and pattern. But they were taking up room and I needed to get rid of them. I was going to give them to Goodwill but I was afraid that they would just get tossed out because someone posted on Ravelry that Goodwill has been doing that with unlabeled stuff. I have previously given handknit sweaters to Goodwill hoping that they fit someone or that someone would unravel them for the yarn. Anyway, it suddenly occurred to me that the domestic abuse shelter could probably use them. I found out that they no longer take clothing donations although we've donated quilts to them in the past. But there is a thrift store where their clients shop at and they recommend donating there. I called on Friday and the manager said that they'd love them but that their clientele includes people from many agencies, not just the domestic abuse shelter. I didn't have a problem with that. Anybody in need who could use them was fine with me. I dropped them off on Saturday. They aren't taking any donations right now due to a surfeit of donations. They don't have room. But they happily took the sweaters. I think this is where I'm going to be giving away any handknits that I no longer want. -- Jaya http://knitsarina.blogspot.com/

I sold my Tina II. I sold it a couple of weeks ago but the buyer has finally unpacked it and verified that everything is in good shape. I didn't want to think of it as having completed till that happened. She wanted a birds-eye maple Tina II so was willing to pay me what I wanted for it, which was well above the going rate for the cherry ones and also because I had more whorls, bobbins and extras like a spare scotch tension peg. I learned about the Tina II from this group and when I went back to look at when I had bought it, I realized how many of us had bought Tina II's in that timeframe. I loved that wheel. It was so beautiful. But when I went to spin, I almost always was spinning on a spindle or my Hansens. So it was better that the wheel went to someone who would use it. I was surprised by how many people contacted me after I posted that I had a birds-eye maple Tina II in the Jensen group. I didn't even actually say that I was ready to sell it. I just replied to her post where she asked if anyone had one and my location. I was also lucky that I found a great packing and shipping place because a condition of the sale for me was that she would pay for professional packing and shipping. No, it was not my friendly neighborhood UPS store but an independent POC-owned business that is a bit further away. They did a fantastic job per the buyer. -- Jaya http://knitsarina.blogspot.com/

For the first time in some years, Arielle has shown interest in knitting herself (rather than her ongoing interest in choosing yarns and patterns for me to knit her). I think it would help her with fidgeting and sitting and waiting at rehearsals, and so does she. She’s thinking either a hat to start or a shawl. I’m thinking a hat because faster gratification, and am wondering if others have any ideas or pattern ideas to share. Special thanks to Lise for the suggestion on Saturday. Arielle adores Lise, so if she says it, it must be good ? Melisande

We went to t he fair on Thursday to check out how well (or not) I did. Very pleased to report that every single entry placed! I got 22 first place, 12 second place, and 5 third place ribbons. Quite the haul. As always, I was surprised by some of the places, like my felted purse. (It is a “dumpling”—a square with straps that through clever folding and strappage, becomes a small handbag. It was all opened up and displayed flat<?>. Placed 3rd). My infant blanket (Old Shale white baby shawl) was displayed wrong-side out. Whatever. Anyway, that’s the story on the competition. We had planned to eat there, but the smells were overwhelming (and not in a good way). No one was eating. . . 2 bottles of water. $6. But the weather was beautiful. There were a couple of vendors at the far edges that were selling Confederate flags and such, and one that offered photos by what supposedly was the sign from a former Atlantic City casino and a cardboard cut-out of the former owner of said casino. We declined. Ann in PA

Thanks Jaya! Connie On Sep 5, 2021, at 10:08 PM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote: ? Good luck on your negotiations and, I hope, move Connie! On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 12:29 PM Connie@... <connie@...> wrote: What a haul!!! Congratulations! My knitting/crafting mojo has left the building. Sigh. We’ve been so busy this summer that I haven’t even had time to imagi-knit Early this spring, we decided to look for a place in the country with acreage. DH wants a garden and room to build his workshop. I completely understand that. I’m cool with it. But it’s darn hard to find a place that will house my sewing machine collection, spinning wheels, weaving looms, and craft/fabric/yarn stash. During our search, we found a place my daughter loved with 1.5 acres. She’s wanted to get out of town as well. So, we spiffed it up and put the rental up for sale (sold in 3 days) and bought that. It needed work, so we’ve been busting ourselves to get that done to get her moved in before the closing on our rental. Had to move grandsons Playset/jungle jim thing. Thank goodness my BIL has a trailer and equipment. All during this process, I’ve been looking for a place for us and setting up contractors to do stuff here like exterior paint, paver work, etc. It’s been a whirlwind but I think we have found the right place for us. Gotta start the negotiations. Cross your fingers for us! If we get it, it will be months of moving things, not a week like Katie. Don’t think we have that in us again. Lol. Connie On Sep 4, 2021, at 9:17 AM, Ann McManus <mcmanusab@...> wrote: ? We went to t he fair on Thursday to check out how well (or not) I did. Very pleased to report that every single entry placed! I got 22 first place, 12 second place, and 5 third place ribbons. Quite the haul. As always, I was surprised by some of the places, like my felted purse. (It is a “dumpling”—a square with straps that through clever folding and strappage, becomes a small handbag. It was all opened up and displayed flat<?>. Placed 3rd). My infant blanket (Old Shale white baby shawl) was displayed wrong-side out. Whatever. Anyway, that’s the story on the competition. We had planned to eat there, but the smells were overwhelming (and not in a good way). No one was eating. . . 2 bottles of water. $6. But the weather was beautiful. There were a couple of vendors at the far edges that were selling Confederate flags and such, and one that offered photos by what supposedly was the sign from a former Atlantic City casino and a cardboard cut-out of the former owner of said casino. We declined. Ann in PA -- Jaya http://knitsarina.blogspot.com/

Patricia It’s crazy here as well. Most contractors are months out. One is scheduled a year out, but he’s really, really good. And winter will be her before we blink. Ohio winters are cold, wet, and snowy. The painters started today and I found a company that resets pavers that should get to us in October. All of the interior stuff, we will do ourselves. Connie On Sep 5, 2021, at 2:39 PM, Texknitter via groups.io <texknitter@...> wrote: ? Congrats to Ann on the fair results. My experience in viewing the knitted goods at the Texas State Fair over the years is that there is always some beautiful work displayed wrong side up. Connie, I am with you on the moving. With both of our grands in Colorado, and 1-2 years to expected retirement, we have started (casually) looking at places along the front range. Unfortunately this area is wildly popular just now. We also need more work done on the house we live in, and finding good contractors isn’t easy. Out of three people I recently contacted about a bathroom remodel, the only one who responded was booking work 7 months out at insane prices. I see more DIY in our future. (This past year we have already redone a powder room and laundry room in his 1980’s house). Knitting is currently baby stuff. Patricia on Austin On Sep 5, 2021, at 11:29 AM, connie@... wrote: ?What a haul!!! Congratulations! My knitting/crafting mojo has left the building. Sigh. We’ve been so busy this summer that I haven’t even had time to imagi-knit Early this spring, we decided to look for a place in the country with acreage. DH wants a garden and room to build his workshop. I completely understand that. I’m cool with it. But it’s darn hard to find a place that will house my sewing machine collection, spinning wheels, weaving looms, and craft/fabric/yarn stash. During our search, we found a place my daughter loved with 1.5 acres. She’s wanted to get out of town as well. So, we spiffed it up and put the rental up for sale (sold in 3 days) and bought that. It needed work, so we’ve been busting ourselves to get that done to get her moved in before the closing on our rental. Had to move grandsons Playset/jungle jim thing. Thank goodness my BIL has a trailer and equipment. All during this process, I’ve been looking for a place for us and setting up contractors to do stuff here like exterior paint, paver work, etc. It’s been a whirlwind but I think we have found the right place for us. Gotta start the negotiations. Cross your fingers for us! If we get it, it will be months of moving things, not a week like Katie. Don’t think we have that in us again. Lol. Connie On Sep 4, 2021, at 9:17 AM, Ann McManus <mcmanusab@...> wrote: ? We went to t he fair on Thursday to check out how well (or not) I did. Very pleased to report that every single entry placed! I got 22 first place, 12 second place, and 5 third place ribbons. Quite the haul. As always, I was surprised by some of the places, like my felted purse. (It is a “dumpling”—a square with straps that through clever folding and strappage, becomes a small handbag. It was all opened up and displayed flat<?>. Placed 3rd). My infant blanket (Old Shale white baby shawl) was displayed wrong-side out. Whatever. Anyway, that’s the story on the competition. We had planned to eat there, but the smells were overwhelming (and not in a good way). No one was eating. . . 2 bottles of water. $6. But the weather was beautiful. There were a couple of vendors at the far edges that were selling Confederate flags and such, and one that offered photos by what supposedly was the sign from a former Atlantic City casino and a cardboard cut-out of the former owner of said casino. We declined. Ann in PA

Congrats to Ann on the fair results. My experience in viewing the knitted goods at the Texas State Fair over the years is that there is always some beautiful work displayed wrong side up. Connie, I am with you on the moving. With both of our grands in Colorado, and 1-2 years to expected retirement, we have started (casually) looking at places along the front range. Unfortunately this area is wildly popular just now. We also need more work done on the house we live in, and finding good contractors isn’t easy. Out of three people I recently contacted about a bathroom remodel, the only one who responded was booking work 7 months out at insane prices. I see more DIY in our future. (This past year we have already redone a powder room and laundry room in his 1980’s house). Knitting is currently baby stuff. Patricia on Austin

A discussion came up on another group about how to indicate disposition of things when one dies. Of course one can make bequests in a will but the discussion about things like jewelry, furniture, collections, was more interesting and it struck me that while we’ve done a good job with our assets - we have wills, living wills, health proxies, POAs, etc. all drawn up, we really have not addressed other things. In my case, my looms, wheels, espinners, handspun fiber and finished objects, as well as things like Bohus kits are all rather valuable and my collection of books contains a few OOP books. I expect it might all be worth $20K or more including the looms which are probably close to $10K with all their accessories. I don’t really want to burden my kids with having to deal with disposition of this stuff and they would have no idea of value anyway. I’m wondering what, if anything, any of you have thought about w.r.t. such things. Have you? What provision have you made, if you’ve thought about it? One idea I had was to donate all of it to the local spinning guild which includes weavers, spinners, crocheters and knitters. The bequest would say that they could sell the items and use the money for whatever purpose they needed. I’m going to bring it up for discussion next time we meet - as to what any of the others have thought about as some are older than I am. But I thought I’d ask your opinions here because I’m sure you have as much of these things in value as I have.-- Jaya http://knitsarina.blogspot.com/

Not knitting, but this lady produces botanical reproductions with embroidery: https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/factsheets/my-garden-path---lynne-stone/13197374 Mary.

Hi Jaya, I've been thinking about you and your extended family in India. It looks really rough there right now with the pandemic raging. I hope they're all dealing with the challenges and staying safe. Mary.

Just a quick one:. Liam got (and accepted) a job offer with a law firm in New Jersey. He applied last Thursday, Interviewed Yesterday. Accepted their offer today, starts Monday. One less unemployed person. We can’t possibly be more pleased and proud of him. Three years of law school and months of studying for the bar exams have paid off. Ann in PA

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It was really good to hear from Ann, and I can relate to her points that the small things of life loom large at present. I miss hearing from you all too. I think many of us are basically in suspended animation waiting for all this to ease off. Coping with new ways of living and working are sucking all the energy from us and the things we previously did to re-energise are often not currently an option. So how’s it going here in England? Well, the 23 March marked one year since our first lockdown began and we had a day of National Reflection which was a useful chance to process where we are. In summary, of those 12 months 7 have been in national full lockdown (except that schools ran for the short lockdown in the month of November and for the last three weeks up to today. For us, full lockdown has meant no non-essential shops/shopping, no libraries, gyms, swimming, hairdressers or barbers, pubs, cafes, restaurants (anywhere where people might make contact), galleries, cinemas, theatre of any kind. No meeting in groups outdoors, only an hour a day of “exercise” during which it was forbidden to sit down even for a moment’s breather as this is not “exercise”).For large parts of the time you could not even walk one on one with someone from another household. No going to work unless it could not be done from home. No normal medical services. Home schooling for the parents to manage. No going in to another private home or even a private garden. No spending a night away from home, no local or foreign travel (I’m sure I’ve forgotten some things). No using public transport except for a short list of approved “essential purposes”. When we had the snow, sledging and snowballing were “not exercise” and therefore qualified for a hefty fine. It’s been tough. The other five months, some areas have never been out of “level four restrictions” which means no non-essential shops etc but the schools open. Our area has always been relatively low level so we did have shops and (limited) restaurants during the summer (I never went to one). Yesterday was “magic Monday”, we may now sit down outside, play outdoor sports, eat or drink out of doors, meet in groups of up to six socially distanced. Hugging is strictly forbidden as it entering another’s home and we still have to stay in our small local area for all we do. It’s been twelve weeks since we were that free and apart from three weeks in December with limited shopping it’s been like that since early November at least. “Magic” is a relative term, And yet, despite all that, we’ve lost over 150,000 people from a population of 6 million and have had 400,000 plus hospitalised. Which is why we do endure the restrictions because without them it would have been so much worse. It’s interesting to think about the differences between staying home because it is a legal requirement, and staying home as an active choice of prudent behaviour. I hear friends from other countries saying “I’ve been vaccinated, hooray, can hug again and go out and about without worrying”, and I’m so happy for them. Our vaccination programme is going astonishingly well but we are many weeks off going to places as we were used to do (because they’re all closed). It is a very flattening experience. I don’t really miss shopping but I do miss seeing my loved ones and being able to drive to a more interesting walk for me and the dog. I realise how much I do depend on changes of surroundings and also social interaction to keep me bright and chirpy. Still, we keep trotting along and waiting for better times. With DH trapped in Geneva for much of the time it has been too quiet here at home. He’s currently here and just finished yet another ten day quarantine on arrival. Just walked in the door form his first vaccination. Hope you are all managing to find the joy Jenny

Interesting video, singing and playing (felting?) wool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeSrkZfpAjc Mary.

Nothing big planned for here. Mark is corralling the Roomba; I’m doing sheet laundry. The fact that he is cleaning means that I will (soon) need to stop weaving and clear out of here, so I thought I would post while I can. Happy first day of spring, though on the Celtic calendar, Imbolg was celebrated February 1 which could explain the uncommonly warm month! Sheet laundry reminds me of the time a friend in another group asked if it was really necessary to fluff the wash before throwing it in the dryer. Today, the fitted bottom sheet wadded itself into a basketball-sized lump. I did straighten it out (it took a while and some choice language). Can’t imagine how long it would have taken to dry if I hadn’t bothered! Facebookers will relate, I think. 31 days ago, I “snoozed” a couple people from my past. Yesterday, I was reminded why I put them on “Time Out.” Back to snooze! I’d unfollow or unfriend, but there’s a connection I need to maintain. I just don’t need to see all of it. And I got word yesterday that another of my former coworkers is leaving the Food Bank (not unexpected) and that the least likely (my opinion) other coworker will be stepping up as ED in the summer when the current retires. There are 3 (of 14) people still at Second Harvest. One is my age and was supposed to retire before I did. A second is retiring this summer (same age). The third is someone who got a chance (from me) and is working his way up through the ranks. This time next year, he’ll be the last of that dying breed. Vaccination (x2) accomplished. Looking forward to going back to my volunteer gig at the library. Check in, please. I miss seeing our posts. Ann in PA