Comments on: No strings attached http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/ Watch out. We've got sharp sticks. Fri, 18 May 2012 01:40:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Knitting Granny http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/#comment-3296 Knitting Granny Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:01:59 +0000 http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/#comment-3296 Loved this post! My dilemma is that I very recently gave my 27 year old son a pair of hand-knit socks and now I'm worried that he'll love them so much that he'll want me to knit more! Selfish me - I want to knit more socks for me!!!! :) Loved this post! My dilemma is that I very recently gave my 27 year old son a pair of hand-knit socks and now I’m worried that he’ll love them so much that he’ll want me to knit more! Selfish me - I want to knit more socks for me!!!! :)

]]> By: debsnm http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/#comment-3279 debsnm Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:52:10 +0000 http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/#comment-3279 If the boots aren't leather, and can't be fixed as Monica suggests - try duct tape!!! I had some really cheap shoes that blistered my heel. The only way I could figure out to fix them was the strategic placement of duct tape. And since it now comes in such loverly colors, you could really make a statement! Maurice Sendak always understood his audience, that's what made him such a good children's author. If the boots aren’t leather, and can’t be fixed as Monica suggests - try duct tape!!! I had some really cheap shoes that blistered my heel. The only way I could figure out to fix them was the strategic placement of duct tape. And since it now comes in such loverly colors, you could really make a statement! Maurice Sendak always understood his audience, that’s what made him such a good children’s author.

]]> By: lorinda http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/#comment-3275 lorinda Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:51:24 +0000 http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/#comment-3275 I love the Maurice Sendak story and your musings on what it means to give something away. I love the Maurice Sendak story and your musings on what it means to give something away.

]]> By: MonicaPDX http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/#comment-3252 MonicaPDX Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:37:36 +0000 http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/#comment-3252 Boy, that's something of a quandary, isn't it. What the heck can you do to those boots to make them less hard on the socks? Because I really doubt reinforcing any further socks in that area would help much. If it isn't a point on the boots where two pieces are sewn/otherwise joined, and they were leather, well, you'd have a few options. Like burnishing the leather with a scrap of denim if they were rough, or repeated applications of neatsfoot or mink oil to soften them up. But if they're of manmade material, and it's some sort of seam, you're going to see it happen repeatedly. Drat. (As you might guess, I've had problems like this in the past. ;) Mostly from cowboy boots, but there was a pair of winter 'city' boots with rubber feet and nylon shanks that really tore my socks up like crazy at the join between the two sections. Wasn't all that easy on my heels, either. I finally ditched 'em.) And LOL on the Sendak story! Why can't we feel that sort of reaction when we spend time cooking, and people scarf it down in 10 minutes flat? Boy, that’s something of a quandary, isn’t it. What the heck can you do to those boots to make them less hard on the socks? Because I really doubt reinforcing any further socks in that area would help much. If it isn’t a point on the boots where two pieces are sewn/otherwise joined, and they were leather, well, you’d have a few options. Like burnishing the leather with a scrap of denim if they were rough, or repeated applications of neatsfoot or mink oil to soften them up. But if they’re of manmade material, and it’s some sort of seam, you’re going to see it happen repeatedly. Drat. (As you might guess, I’ve had problems like this in the past. ;) Mostly from cowboy boots, but there was a pair of winter ‘city’ boots with rubber feet and nylon shanks that really tore my socks up like crazy at the join between the two sections. Wasn’t all that easy on my heels, either. I finally ditched ‘em.)

And LOL on the Sendak story! Why can’t we feel that sort of reaction when we spend time cooking, and people scarf it down in 10 minutes flat?

]]> By: Ellen http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/#comment-3244 Ellen Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:21:03 +0000 http://www.knitsisters.com/2007/01/28/no-strings-attached/#comment-3244 Brilliant! By the way, I did not know that Maurice Sendak story, but I absolutely love it. Brilliant!

By the way, I did not know that Maurice Sendak story, but I absolutely love it.

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