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I assigned each colour a number:
1 - blue
2 - grey
3 - pale green
4 - red
5 - white
and used the numbers in pi (ignoring 6-0) to decide which order they would come in; to decide how many rows per stripe I used pi a little further on, using only numbers between 3 and 7. And then I cheated a little towards the end because I could see how much I had left of each colour.
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Thank you Fishy dear
Currently I am winding silks onto cardboard bobbins to stop em making an 'orrible mess
Being clever I even wrote the colour and colour number onto the card that fits in my new box for embroidery silks
I am worried about myself getting organised!
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So you know (I found that I still have it because I forgot to delete it) the numbers I used went
3 - 3
1 - 5
4 - 7
1 - 6
5 - 4
4 - 3
2 - 4
5 - 7
3 - 6
5 - 3
3 - 4
4 - 3
2 - 6
4 - 5
3 - 3
2 - 5
3 - 6
4 - 3
1 - 5
2 - 3
1 - 4
4 - 6
3 - 3
2 - 6
4 - 7
(and on)
First figure is colour, second is number of rows. But you would have been able to work that out for yourself.
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Thank you so much - Iwas worried about my scatty memory and number of rows
Hey presto a kind friend gives me the way to go
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If you find you need more, let me know; I have another eight stripes.
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Thank you
I am casting on a hoodie in really chunky yarn that should knit up fast
The cotton stripey jobbie will be a Summer wearing number
I am spoilt for choice of things to do
Carinthia I got creamish linen and cotton to embroider ye olde peacock on
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Be careful with āspoilt for choiceā that you donāt end up starting severial projects & then abandoning them/casting them aside/forgetting what you are supposed to be doingā¦
The linen/cotton sounds nice
Carinthia.xx
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Knitting is my portable craft and my full size embroidery embroidery is my cosy snuggled down for winter craft
Dress making is a mixture of both
Wait for plaintive wails about what to do with a knitted fabricā¦
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Carinthia asks me to point to āMadeMeUKā, a sort of UK-based etsy, and in particular wooden yarn bowls.
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Thank-you very much, Dunnock.
I thought that they would die laughing if I mentioned knittingā¦ 
The site is a sort of UK version of Etsy & allows crafty people to sell their wares
Some of the stuff is fabulous, like the bowls, IMO, whereas other things donāt appeal.
Itizz certainly cheaper to belong to than Etsy
Carinthia.xx
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I have a knitting bowl on order through Etsy and I also got a few things through Etsy that were delightful gifts
That MademeUK site is now bookmarked
One thing I got through Etsy was a hand made notebook for the Bullās radio log book
Buffalo hide cover hand made paper and a gorgeous thing that he adoresā¦
And fair trade too
What is not to love?
Paper High is the company
All sorts of nice things
Ooo get me talking as if I am an expert on the interwebby shops!
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Calling our Chatelaine
I have a remnant of grey wool knitted fabric 2 and a bit metres long
I am worried about cutting it in case the knitting runs
Just an A line skirt to ankle length is my plan
Any tips about handling it?
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How wide is it, Twellsy ?
Carinthia.xx
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140cms I think
The Bull has it in his lair to keep the cats off it
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not so wide as a church-door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
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This suggests to me that your opportunities for wearing the eventual garment could be somewhat limited. Lair visits only?
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Itās now beside me and is 140 cms wide and 288 - ish cms long
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This has reminded me of an answer purportedly proffered by a schoolchild asked to state the advantages of breastfeeding: āthe milkās at the right temperature and the cat canāt get at itā.
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Itās now back in the lairā¦
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