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Shelob
Chatty Knitter
187 Posts |
 Posted - 04/05/2005 : 8:18:33 PM
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So if life came with stitch markers, what kind would you use? split rings, solid rings, coil-less safety pins, dangling beaded ones, extra bits of yarn? Which kind and for what purposes -- how fixed? how easy to remove? And does this MATCH what you use when knitting? Or not? Or do you knit without the net in life and in yarn?
Just an extended analogy gone astray -- but I'm curious as to what people think and do! 
~Shelob
"'Tis to create and in creating live
A being more intense that we endow
With form our fancy, gaining as we give
The life we image, even as I do now."
--Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
http://caution-blind-driver.blogspot.com/ |
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Hadjee
Warming Up
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Posted - 04/06/2005 : 04:36:09 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Shelob
So if life came with stitch markers, what kind would you use? split rings, solid rings, coil-less safety pins, dangling beaded ones, extra bits of yarn? Which kind and for what purposes -- how fixed? how easy to remove? And does this MATCH what you use when knitting? Or not? Or do you knit without the net in life and in yarn?
Just an extended analogy gone astray -- but I'm curious as to what people think and do!
~Shelob
"'Tis to create and in creating live
A being more intense that we endow
With form our fancy, gaining as we give
The life we image, even as I do now."
--Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
http://caution-blind-driver.blogspot.com/
Ah, a fellow Tolkien fan and poetry lover!
I love the query. I tried solid rings in both knitting and in life; and found that I prefer little bits of leftover yarn. |
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crise
Chatty Knitter
337 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2005 : 05:00:47 AM
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How about having a lifeline so if you mess up in life you can rip back without too many serious consequences?
Kris
2005 stats: 5 FO, 4 WIP, 3 USO
Finished: Wavy Scarf, lace scarf & 3 hats
Frogpond: Mittens to match Wavy
WIP: sample hat, felted bag, toddler cardigan and lace scarf
In the Wings: Hat to match Wavy, lace scarf & Christmas stocking
How is it that my USO & WIP never decrease, no matter how many FO I create?
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KL
Permanent Resident
6041 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2005 : 05:48:14 AM
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| Shelob- It would have to be with beads for color, shape, sparkle, and arranging in interesting combinations. KL |
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probablyjane
Permanent Resident
United Kingdom
1227 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2005 : 06:50:47 AM
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Oh Dear.. I think mine would be a piece of string, a spaghetti hoop, one of my earrings and if all else fails a deep conviction that I will remember my place and not need a marker...
One day I will be organised, glamorous, serene and smug
...but not half so much fun as I am now
Jane
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RoseByAny
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USA
12598 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2005 : 07:43:29 AM
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If life came with stitch marker, I'd have even more to clean out from the couch cushions of the universe when I stood up....
"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."
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azknitter
Honorary Angel
5539 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2005 : 08:27:56 AM
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If life came with stitch markers...my knitting would be a huge blanket of memories that keep me warm, make me laugh, make me sad. Every marker would remind me just how far I've come through each stage of my life.
...and I'd definitely use coil-less safety pins! Who needs all those extra snags in life, it's tough enough already?!?!
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GFTC
Permanent Resident
USA
6331 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2005 : 08:31:05 AM
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I would have them made in platinum set with diamonds. That way if my lifestyle needed frogging, I could sell them and start again.
GFTC of NYC |
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Garden mom
Chatty Knitter
Canada
115 Posts |
Posted - 04/06/2005 : 09:04:36 AM
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Love your reply GFTC - I was thinking the same thing, but with different precious stones to remember each mark individually.
But alas, in real knitting life I end up using little bits of yarn.
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you are right."
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Marg in Mirror
Permanent Resident
Canada
3204 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2005 : 09:49:42 AM
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My stitch markers would be colourful plastic (the circle kind, not the kind with a slit in 'em) or maybe sterling silver...(I lust after those ones in the KR boutique!!)
-- Marg in Calgary
TLWKOTB
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mokey
Permanent Resident
15375 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2005 : 12:46:17 PM
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MIne would be the ones from beadmarkers@aol.com. And they always contrast with my yarn so I see them better.
"I firmly believe the Bible is the misinterpreted word of God." Mokey
www.femiknits.blog-city.com |
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xmasberry
Seriously Hooked
826 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2005 : 1:11:29 PM
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i'm afraid i'd have to know what i was doing in the first place to use markers.
holly x
"do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose" -Jef Mallett |
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Shelob
Chatty Knitter
187 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2005 : 1:24:07 PM
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You all are GREAT! I've alternated between grinning in sympathetic chagrin, to smiling at the warmth, to trying not to spit my coffee onto the screen!
More things to get lost in the couch?? Yes! Earrings, special precious stones or metals -- and our standard bits and pins as well. Yes! I just in one of those places that I don't know enough of what I'm doing to know where to put the damned things most days -- But I'll remember the advice about safety lines and not being as much fun as am now if I actually got that organized in my life.
Wonderful!
~Shelob
"'Tis to create and in creating live
A being more intense that we endow
With form our fancy, gaining as we give
The life we image, even as I do now."
--Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
http://caution-blind-driver.blogspot.com/ |
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mokey
Permanent Resident
15375 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2005 : 1:52:09 PM
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One thing I forgot! When I am knitting a large item I always mark my centre stitch with beadmarkers on either side. That would be so great if I could do that with this life!
"I firmly believe the Bible is the misinterpreted word of God." Mokey
www.femiknits.blog-city.com |
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Shelob
Chatty Knitter
187 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2005 : 2:21:29 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by mokey
One thing I forgot! When I am knitting a large item I always mark my centre stitch with beadmarkers on either side. That would be so great if I could do that with this life!
"I firmly believe the Bible is the misinterpreted word of God." Mokey
www.femiknits.blog-city.com
Hmmmm I'd be thrilled to FIND my center stitch at this point! Oh, I tried the link to the beaded marker place -- couldn't get it to open; could you check it?
~Shelob
"'Tis to create and in creating live
A being more intense that we endow
With form our fancy, gaining as we give
The life we image, even as I do now."
--Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III
http://caution-blind-driver.blogspot.com/ |
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truly violet
Permanent Resident
6397 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2005 : 2:58:17 PM
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I tend to make new stitch markers for each new project out of pretty colorful beads.
( sounds like my life too as I make a lot of stuff myself)
then after the project I lose the markers somewheres in the studio...
which could explain my mind
oye
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none of this will matter in 100 years.......except I will finally be at my goal weight...vi
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Lace Lunatic
Gabber Extraordinaire
USA
524 Posts |
Posted - 04/07/2005 : 5:29:03 PM
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If life came with stitch markers, I probably wouldn't use them. It would be too easy for me to fixate on the frame to the exclusion of the big picture. In knitting, I use them only when absolutely necesssary and they mostly get in my way; so I suspect the same would apply in life.
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klfrazier
Permanent Resident
1745 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2005 : 09:58:26 AM
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As I told you the other night at B&N, I'm afraid that if life came with stitch markers that would be just one more anal thing for me to obsess on! The LAST thing I need are more things to detail the minutea of my life!
Kristin |
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chris
Permanent Resident
USA
2449 Posts |
Posted - 04/08/2005 : 12:15:53 PM
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There would be a broken one more than 30 years back...first marriage. Two bright, shiny ones, two years apart (my two sons). A dropped stitch amid a bunch of twisted stitches as the marriage fell apart. Then one made of diamond and bamboo, because even though my marriage is the best part of my life, it's totally down to earth, too. Smmmooooth knitting for 26 years...ok a few bumps in there along the way. Then four sleek golden ones, 2 about 3 years ago, bright and shiny and 2 about 6 months ago with a few bruises and tarnish to signify my greyhounds.
The nice thing is that my stitch marker holder seems to have a goodly supply left in it for what's left to come!!
chris
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Licensed2Cook
Permanent Resident
USA
3554 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2005 : 06:10:13 AM
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Stitch markers hmmmm...perhaps like some ones that I recently saw on ebay, they were called "counting sheep" numbered 0 through 9 and had a cute sheep dangling at the end of each one, I would pick these because I don't think I've been getting enough sleep lately.
Dee
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www.Kneatles.com
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celia
Permanent Resident
Australia
2454 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2005 : 06:36:19 AM
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I'd be putting a lifeline at the end of every year. Id have frogged back to when I was 16 and tried again ;) This time, I'd make sure I don't dro the same stitches!
celia
My blog is here
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