tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post114313994065706707..comments2024-03-18T20:56:05.132-04:00Comments on The Panopticon: I Used to KnitFranklinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03670441931649806878noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-43349234983178884742015-02-02T15:24:12.412-05:002015-02-02T15:24:12.412-05:00obat kencing nanah di apotik obat herbal gonore ca...<a href="http://goo.gl/r4FwGt" rel="nofollow">obat kencing nanah di apotik</a> <a href="http://goo.gl/uFMp5l" rel="nofollow">obat herbal gonore</a> <a href="http://goo.gl/2SUrkH" rel="nofollow">cara menyembuhkan wasir</a> <a href="http://goo.gl/XLGzP9" rel="nofollow">obat peyakit wasir</a> <a href="http://goo.gl/eupmxh" rel="nofollow">obat herbal wasir</a> <a href="http://goo.gl/7gJOqB" rel="nofollow">obat wasir alami</a> <a href="http://goo.gl/iJMzat" rel="nofollow">obat wasir atau ambeien</a>Obat Wasirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15058804349609353972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1922929711913728092011-10-31T13:56:09.579-04:002011-10-31T13:56:09.579-04:00I suppose everyone must browse on this.I suppose everyone must browse on this.personal injuryhttp://www.raunchyrhythms.com/uncategorized/sex-shop/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143350884543157392006-03-26T00:28:00.000-05:002006-03-26T00:28:00.000-05:00If you think Herdwick is tough to knit, try spinni...If you think Herdwick is tough to knit, try spinning it!<BR/><BR/>I innocently bought some at Straw Into Gold (RIP) back when I first started spinning. It seemed nice and smooth when I stroked the fibers, but OHMYGOD when you spin it, it just turns into scratchy rope.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11191461685108268438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143317459345163202006-03-25T15:10:00.000-05:002006-03-25T15:10:00.000-05:00selma, (hm.. Franklyn..) its time to call Knitters...selma, (hm.. Franklyn..) its time to call Knitters Anonymous!<BR/>:-)<BR/><BR/>by the way- why "The Panopticon"HPNY KNITShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01364973961188155339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143218720596121922006-03-24T11:45:00.000-05:002006-03-24T11:45:00.000-05:00I believe he was locked in the linen closet.I believe he was locked in the linen closet.dpastehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10813652943621759603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143216337978691002006-03-24T11:05:00.000-05:002006-03-24T11:05:00.000-05:00The date 2002 has just clicked with me - in 2002 t...The date 2002 has just clicked with me - in 2002 they may have been burning the wool. In 2001 the Government was burning the sheep, in that whole ghastly state-sponsored farce of Foot and Mouth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143215738123666852006-03-24T10:55:00.000-05:002006-03-24T10:55:00.000-05:00This post brought tears to my eyes -- not because ...This post brought tears to my eyes -- not because of the unbought yarn. I suspect, as other commenters have hinted, that it may have been unusably bulky and scratchy. But for the excellence of the pictures. After THREE MONTHS.<BR/><BR/>My brother-in-law is currently trying to teach me how to tell a camera how to see what I'm seeing. He's got an uphill job. And that leaves the major problem: how to SEE in the first place. Which is what you can do.<BR/><BR/>You're right about Ms Potter. She's brilliant. My husband, however, who has a taste for all things obscure and French, differs on the subject of Girodet, and wishes he could see the exhibition currently spread before you.<BR/><BR/>Love JeanJeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143214187476879672006-03-24T10:29:00.000-05:002006-03-24T10:29:00.000-05:00I do feel the actively disturbed if separated from...I do feel the actively disturbed if separated from needles (or my spinning wheel) for too long. That's probably why there is almost always a sock in progress with me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143214060699357772006-03-24T10:27:00.000-05:002006-03-24T10:27:00.000-05:00Speaking as Vivienne's Mother - too right I made h...Speaking as Vivienne's Mother - too right I made her knit the Herdwick. My Mother gave me the yarn and I made a complete sweater for my husbasnd, and my fingers took months to heal.<BR/>That which comes off the back of the sheep is not necessarily snuggly!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143213551491723352006-03-24T10:19:00.000-05:002006-03-24T10:19:00.000-05:00I had a very similar experience just a few days ag...I had a very similar experience just a few days ago, remembering a trip to Shanghai. All that lovely Asian yarn!Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01574796135165024866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143211718336320822006-03-24T09:48:00.000-05:002006-03-24T09:48:00.000-05:00We should start a petition forcing Congress to mak...We should start a petition forcing Congress to make the burning of wool a felony. I think I am crossing the line. I am angry at my lawn and warm weather for pulling me from my needles. I think I may plant a yarn full of flax.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06259704108735369434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143207715167597042006-03-24T08:41:00.000-05:002006-03-24T08:41:00.000-05:00Not sure how it happened to me, but somewhere in t...Not sure how it happened to me, but somewhere in the last six months I discovered the needles. Now, burning?...Sorry can't get my head around that one.Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440682058585122650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143207261717374392006-03-24T08:34:00.000-05:002006-03-24T08:34:00.000-05:00When I was in Scotland last year, I saw the same s...When I was in Scotland last year, I saw the same situation. If I had seen wool, I would have bought it, but there was none to be found! Maybe in another part of the country, but we covered a lot of land . . . I'll just have to go back and look some more!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143202122841470912006-03-24T07:08:00.000-05:002006-03-24T07:08:00.000-05:00Interesting. I had a slightly different take on L...Interesting. I had a slightly different take on La Harlot's definition of non-capitalized and capitalized knitters. I thought it was more the willingness to take The Great Leap and steek or knit yards of lace or some other feat of knitterliness, rather than the actual skill required to do it.<BR/><BR/>Granted, it's a pretty fine point. But I've been wrangling with lawyers over annual report language of late, so I guess I've got my point-spotter set to "fine," or perhaps "infinitessimal."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143201027235889772006-03-24T06:50:00.000-05:002006-03-24T06:50:00.000-05:00Yup, most of the sheep around here are meat sheep....Yup, most of the sheep around here are meat sheep. And wonderful mutton and lamb it is too: Border Lamb is famous across the UK!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143191784113178602006-03-24T04:16:00.000-05:002006-03-24T04:16:00.000-05:00If it were not essential to shear sheep from a wel...If it were not essential to shear sheep from a welfare point of view it would not be done at all (other than "proper fibre" sheep) You have to pay for a shearer and then the fleece has a market value of approx zero. I could fill my entire house with fleece for free but for spinning most is of highly dubious quality. However great for peg loom rugs etc. I think "that man" is with the woman who took her entire stash to the charity shop a coupla years ago coz she "quilted now" <BR/>Sal xsal the spiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07932662431580429014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143183538205759302006-03-24T01:58:00.000-05:002006-03-24T01:58:00.000-05:00Does it really matter what happened to him? Isn't ...Does it really matter what happened to him? Isn't the current incarnation better?Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18047049720897209506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143168029152015352006-03-23T21:40:00.000-05:002006-03-23T21:40:00.000-05:00On my one trip to England, long years ago now, I w...On my one trip to England, long years ago now, I was in a mysterious non-fibery state of life. I saw wool shops in Brighton and York and didn't go into either. :-( I can't believe that now - and I would agree with your thought about transforming from one who knits to a knitter. I can't imagine not knitting now. Needles and yarn have become a necessity.<BR/><BR/>We didn't get into the Lake District, but around Stratford and York, we saw many, many sheep. Maybe some of that wool is being used now? (And I would love to retire to a cottage in England . . .)<BR/>SherriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143165988835248492006-03-23T21:06:00.000-05:002006-03-23T21:06:00.000-05:00I was just referred to your blog. Verrry interest...I was just referred to your blog. Verrry interesting. Just reading the last few entries looks like familiar ground to me. My son lived in Boston for a few years, then Chicago. I enjoyed visiting Boston.....loooove Chicago (plus only 5 hour drive). Now he is in Atlanta.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143165615559283562006-03-23T21:00:00.000-05:002006-03-23T21:00:00.000-05:00Ah, thank you for this post! Like Tabitha Twitchet...Ah, thank you for this post! Like Tabitha Twitchet in one of Potter's stories, I admit to being an anxious parent--and sometimes an anxious knitter, but definitely a knitter. I was once a person who knits, and then, for too long a time, a person who used to knit, with that same sort of remorseful seeming finality...and now I read Peter Rabbit stories to my daughter and knit and knit, and I, too, hope to retire to a thatched roof, and a few sheep, and lots of wool! Thanks!Allieswhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498922034856527140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143161468317175822006-03-23T19:51:00.000-05:002006-03-23T19:51:00.000-05:00He's getting a second chance at Life as a Knitter ...He's getting a second chance at Life as a Knitter so don't waste any more worry on him, nice as he was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143155892095538682006-03-23T18:18:00.000-05:002006-03-23T18:18:00.000-05:00Even your bad photos put other folks' good ones to...Even your bad photos put other folks' good ones to shame. Love the self-portrait, you handsome, hairy, broad-chested, slim-waisted dog, you!Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651035210994960810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143155811272382652006-03-23T18:16:00.000-05:002006-03-23T18:16:00.000-05:00Hey Franklin, there's a few of my knitting group t...Hey Franklin, there's a few of my knitting group that go to Woolfest (or wool heaven) each year and have a fab time.<BR/>The blackface sheep in Scotland are reared for meat (very fine it is too), and apparently the wool is too coarse to spin into yarn.<BR/>I'm having a giggle here - you are looking very handsome in your photo taken in the Grave yard, but must be the only visitor to the Lake district to wear a suit and not hiking boots and a woolly jumper! <BR/>Talking of Woolly jumper - if you know Wallace and Gromit (and woolly jumper the sheep) - I think of Dolores as Woolly's wild American cousin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143152074103897982006-03-23T17:14:00.000-05:002006-03-23T17:14:00.000-05:00ragnar is correct. Sheep are generally classified ...ragnar is correct. Sheep are generally classified as meat, wool or dual purpose breeds. Lots of sheep are raised for meat only; their wool is too coarse or too short to do much with. Often it is too expensive for the farmer to try to sell or process the fleece especially if the fleece is not of high quality. My hay supplier has a couple of years worth of fleeces if anyone wants them. Check out http://www.westernmaryland.umd.edu/sheepandgoatbreeds.htm<BR/>for an excellent description of sheep and goat types and breeds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10901468.post-1143151942089203352006-03-23T17:12:00.000-05:002006-03-23T17:12:00.000-05:00It is Herdwick sheep in the Lake District, and Bea...It is Herdwick sheep in the Lake District, and Beatrix Potter was instrumental in saving the breed from extinction. <BR/><BR/>I knitted with Herdwick wool once for a school project on wool - my mother had made all my other knitted samples for me, but she said I had to knit the Herdwick myself. It made my fingers bleed. <BR/><BR/>Apparently it makes excellent carpets. It might even make good jumpers if you can wear it so that the garment never touches your skin, and don't mind it being bullet-proof.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com