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Hello, Hatrack people. I've been lurking about for a while and decided to finally join up. I'm very dull. I live in a little blue house in a little town with my Long-Suffering Beloved**, four cats, a million books, more yarn than any sensible person needs, and stacks of gardening catalogues. Say the words, "book sale" or "heirloom seeds," and I turn into a mutant.
Anyway, hello. This is a nice place you have here.
**He isn't actually suffering, you know, he likes having cats sit on his head while he watches t.v. He just doesn't realize it yet.
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That's weird, I could have sworn I posted a reply to this, but when I went back to look it wasn't there.
Anyway, I just wanted to say hello, and welcome to Hatrack! I also love to read, am an obsessed knitter, and am learning gardening by trial and error in the one tiny scrap of my yard that's usable.
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I have started to knit, thanks to Hatrack (and for the record, I blame you all for the yarn stash that has taken over one drawer and is encroaching on a second in my wardrobe...) and also love reading and gardening. Well, I love my herb garden. Bigger gardening is too much work. *grin*
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I keep the excess yarn balls in baskets, but I may have to rethink that, since the cats seem to think I put it there for THEM. Posts: 51 | Registered: May 2006
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Greetings, Sabrina! I can tell I'm going to like you
There are some truly fine gradeners hereabouts, so you should feel right at home sharing both your hobbies.
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(Big W has just started selling 100% Australian made yarn in a variety of colours and makes (some 100% wool) for $2.97 a ball. SAVE ME!!!!)
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My grandmother has converted my dad's old bedroom into the yarn room. She has all four walls stacked with boxes up to the ceiling filled with yarn. Each box is labled with the content and gauge of the yarn.
So far mine fits (tightly) into a large rubbermaid box.
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Softest wool I have ever found - you just want to roll around in it. I can't stop touching it. I just got seven skeins of the velvet grapes to make a shawl for myself.
Yarnzilla got it to me in less than a week.
Welcome!
Kate (the yarn pusher)
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(Last time I bought yarn online *for someone else* I managed to buy myself three balls of 2 ply baby mohair as well - I don't need more encouragement!)
((Although, I have a really nifty idea for using the mohair.....))
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I love books and gardening too! It's almost time to start planting the flowers here in Chicago, and I am getting twitchy just thinking about it.
I store my small amount of yarn (I crochet, not knit) in plastic file cabinet like things. These are also great for the ridiculous amount of fabric I have. (I'm more of a seamstress.)
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Book sales are second only to when awesome used book stores leaves out extra books they don't need for free.
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Welcome! Only one cat, and one dog, here, but my wife has more yarn and knitting projects around the house than I could imagine we'll ever need. Posts: 2848 | Registered: Feb 2003
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I have a blue house with a blue window. Blue is the color, something something. Blue are the streets, and all the trees are, too! I've got a girlfriend, and she is so blue!
quote:Originally posted by kmbboots: Tell us more about you and your LSB? In what part of the country is your little, blue house?
The Long-Suffering Beloved tolerates my piles of books, baskets of yarn, humongous cookbook collection, and the assorted strays of various species that are usually living on the back porch until I find them a home (or end up keeping them). He went with me to plant a baby maple tree in the park because I felt bad digging it out of the flowerbed (I am a world-famous wimp). He suffers my addiction to Costco. I hope he never comes to his senses.
Our house is in NJ, in a little town near the Morris Canal (which is a local historical thing that I can bore you with for hours. So don't encourage me.) The house is actually owned by two bold chipmunks with insatiable appetites for corn.
Oh, we also have a deer who visits in the evening, and she looks through the kitchen window at the cats (which drives them insane). Or perhaps I should say, MORE insane.
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(Hmm. Gracious people actually make introductions? I seem to recall I just barged into a conversation like a bull in a china shop.)Posts: 3826 | Registered: May 2005
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Welcome! It's great when a lurker becomes a poster! You sound like a cool person. We're glad to have you.
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