Comments on: Really love your peaches

by: Ellen

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:13:07 +0000

Jennifer, leaf lard is actually one of the things on the “No Fly” list of foods. Just to reassure you…

But seriously, the key to surviving the IBS diet is to stop worrying and learn to love the skinless chicken breast. It’s really just that simple.

I do thank you for your concern, however, and I take it in the generous spirit in which it was offered.

by: Jennifer

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:50:42 +0000

Oh, and the sweater. I love the sweater.

by: Jennifer

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:49:55 +0000

The ring is very pretty. Sorry, can’t think of anything for the engraving.

But, a word with you about your diet. It concerns me because it sounds like some set of recommendations straight out of a 1950s health book. Have you gotten a second opinion? Things which were previously thought to be bland and easy on the stomach have more recently been found to cause all sorts of acidic excitement. And, hasn’t everyone decided that ‘oleomargarine’ is little better for you than leaf lard? What with the trans fats and all? I’ll mind my own business if you tell me to, but dear God, how can anyone expect you to live on that??

by: MonicaPDX

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:09:15 +0000

“Too bad Monica didn’t know that those at the shop may have already contributed to this idea.”

ROFLMAO, Sean! Do I sense quite a story behind this?

by: Wanda

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:46:09 +0000

Oh, I’m sorry that your sweater is giving you issues. Definitely work on the sleeves for a bit and then you can have time to chew on the neck edging. Start a pair of socks for the easy portable project is my thought. The rings are very pretty.

by: Kim

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:51:53 +0000

We didn’t get our rings engraved, but I always thought “Put it back on” was a good one. Don’t want to lose those, and if you’re playing with it, you could drop it, it could roll across the deck or down the sidewalk and fall through some kind of grating…and then you’d have to explain to your honey that you were playing with your ring, not trying to lose it, and that it’s not a metaphore, etc., etc., etc.

by: polarbears

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:17:49 +0000

I really like the sweater. As for the neck, too many stitches, especially in the cast off. When you stop cabling, you’ll need to reduce, perhaps by half the amount of each cable repeat. Check out Elsebeth Lavold’s Viking Knits book. She talks about how she figured out how to put freestanding cabled motifs in the midst of plain knitting by playing with increases and decreases. Good luck. It’s so frustrating when a really good idea doesn’t work the way you expect.

Pretty rings. We also just put the date. No regrets 30 years later–the rings or the marriage.

by: Knitting Granny

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:59:39 +0000

When hubby and I got married 35 (!) years ago, the only thing I engraved inside his band was the date of our wedding…I was foolishly thinking that having the date there would prevent his forgetting our anniversary! The truly funny thing is that once, about 7 years ago I got the wrong date in MY head about the actual day of our anniversary and hubby had to take off his right to show me I was wrong. Oh sigh.

by: laura

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:04:02 +0000

Ellen, I have missed you. Here I thought I was being RESPONSIBLE, staying away from blogland, forsaking my blogfriends, growing gloomier and more etiolated by the minute (think of Neville, he who died of ennui). But indeed, in the knitblog I find relief! I have been saved from such a cruel fate by a big dose of Balesian humour!

As always, you do not disappoint. Mwaah!

I’m going to have to give some serious thought to the inside of your rings. Although nothing says eternal devotion like “really love your peaches.”

Best, Laura
“I’m a Legionnaire, camel in disrepair”

by: sean

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:29:11 +0000

Even blocked out do you think the neck won’t work? Perhaps the same idea only 10 or 20 sts narrower? Or am I stubbornly standing by a bad idea? Too bad Monica didn’t know that those at the shop may have already contributed to this idea.