Shetland shawls are originally from the Shetland Islands in Scotland.
Traditionally, they're also made from yarns made from wool from Shetland
sheep (an actual breed). The two kinds of Shetland shawls with which I'm
familiar are the hap shawls and the lace ones. Both are knitted. Hap
shawls are
Sue Clemenger wrote: and the warmest of all, quiviut, which is *very*
expensive, but a dream for warmth.
There was an interview on the radio this week with someone involved with the
Canadian Oxford Dictionary, and one of the questions asked was about Q
always being followed by U in words, and
As Robin kindly pointed out - you do need a U for later in the word Qiviut,
so I guess you can use it with the Q to make a more well known word.
Whether this has been included in the new English Oxford Dictionary or not,
but had been included in the Canadian version, along with a few other
He has arrived here in Ausutralia and is making his way to you.
Merry Christmas / happy Holidays.
It was a huge 48 here yesterday. 33 today!
Water temperature 24. I will be in the surf before luch.
BTW all temperature in Celcius.
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Oops! sue blushes
I thought the word didn't look quite right when I was typing it, but just
couldn't quite figure out why!
I wonder if it has anything to do with the different languages that use
sounds that we (with this particular alphabet) symbolize with a q. I
don't think (but dunno for sure)
Just good timing is all, I suspect. I started learning to spin a couple of
years ago, and joined a yahoo list for that, and the EZasPI list was an
offshoot of the spinning list. I truly didn't set out to learn to knit at
all, let alone play with lace knitting. I'm s busy with so many fibery
At 10:04 PM 12/23/05 -0800, suzy wrote:
i wasn't going to spin it at all until i shrunk it up. i was
going to take the whole roving and put it in 3 foot long loops, cover
them in a cotton cloth, tie the middle and both ends and then wash and
agitate them in hot water.
GH!
You
Just in case any wants to track santa on his way here is a website which
gives continual updates.
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/default.php
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays* to everyone and I hope you all have a happy
time.
*delete as applicable :-)
(polically incorrect)Jane
Portchester UK
To
Well just arrived home after spending the evening with my daughter and her
family, my mother and my daughters inlaw, and the other daughter had some
lovely duck to eat, and rice pudding as afters, then sang some carrols, then
open up pressents, got me some x-mas golden ornaments, a creditcard
On Dec 24, 2005, at 15:24, Jane Bawn wrote:
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays* to everyone and I hope you all have a
happy
time.
*delete as applicable :-)
(polically incorrect) Jane
Portchester UK
VBG Always knew you were a good un, Jane :) Never had much patience
with all the current
I seem to remember seeing this one before. Or, at least, parts of it
seem familiar... But, since I've enjoyed it again and since it's right
up my alley (non-PC)... :)
I'm stripping the mailing off its cutsey pictures; less than a third of
them were even marginally relevant to the text...
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