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10-25-2008, 11:59 PM #1Master Dollar Stretcher
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November Needle Arts Challenge
Okay, time to start thinking about your projects for November!!
I'll give you a choice - it can be autumn-themed or winter-themed. For those of us who are still experiencing 87F days, it is hard to think of winter just yet, but I know some of you are already huddled around your heaters.
So, this month has a theme. Which means, a plain old scarf doesn't cut it, but a scarf with a snowflake pattern does. Or a quilt with a falling leaf pattern. Or orange socks. You get the idea.
Who is in? You have one week to think of your project and to post it here!!DH aka Mad Hen
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- 10-26-2008, 10:01 AM #2Technical Support Sleuth
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I'm in! I'll go through my sewing basket and see what fall/winter things I can work on. It'll be something cross-stitched again.
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10-26-2008, 12:07 PM #3Master Dollar Stretcher
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I am going to try my hand at latch hooking a rug for the kitchen. I always start all the Christmas cookie baking around the middle of November, and I stand in there for hours. It makes a world of difference to have a soft rug under my feet!
The pattern I am looking at is a cornucopia, so that is my autumn-themed project!DH aka Mad Hen
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11/12/13 Challenge: PAY OFF ALL CC's!!
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10-26-2008, 02:46 PM #4ParsimoniousTourist
Does a pair of slipper socks count? After all, slipper socks are in themselves winter-themed
(This would be a major challenge for me. I have never followed an instruction when crocheting, and I've only found an ENGLISH one for slipper socks. Believe me, that's tough! They don't teach you needlework-slang at school)
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Well I will be working on my winter themed wall hanging. It has snow people giving gifts. I just have to finish handsewing the border and then I can add the trim.
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10-26-2008, 08:06 PM #6Master Dollar Stretcher
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I will allow slipper socks if they are: a) winter blue; or b) have little white "snowball" pom poms on them.
Originally Posted by Parsimonious
Does a pair of slipper socks count? After all, slipper socks are in themselves winter-themed
(This would be a major challenge for me. I have never followed an instruction when crocheting, and I've only found an ENGLISH one for slipper socks. Believe me, that's tough! They don't teach you needlework-slang at school)
DH aka Mad Hen
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March no-spend: 15/15 2012 LAPAW: 8.2/15 2013 Get-Thee-To-The-Gym Challenge: 6/52
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Total debt (with mortgage, HELOC, and cc's): Jan 2013: ??? (Jan 2012: $285,105) (Jan 2011: $292,750) (2496 days until retirement)
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10-26-2008, 08:10 PM #7Master Dollar Stretcher
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Here is a pic of the rug I am going to try to complete by the end of November. I'm going autumn for my theme, since I am still sitting around in shorts every day. Someone forgot to tell California that it is almost WINTER.
If I don't end up in the nut hatch from trying to complete the rug, I'm also going to try another shrug. I have a pattern that I've done before, and really like, but I didn't much like the colour. So I found a different colour that I do like, and it is called "autumn red".
DH aka Mad Hen
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10-26-2008, 09:26 PM #8
Hmmmm. I'll probably have to give up trying to think of a winter-themed project: I'm already on the hook to knit gifts for EIGHT of the kids' friends. Plus hats and wristwarmers for both kids.
10-26-2008, 09:44 PM #9Master Dollar Stretcher
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Well, if any of them are blue, orange, or white, I'll let you off the hook for the "theme." Originally Posted by Early Bird
Hate to lose a challengee just because she is swamped.
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Hmmmm, I might have to think of something for this one. I just picked up some cream, brown, and orange skeins of yarn from the thrift store (separate skeins of each color, not all those colors mixed
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I am in. i have to think of what to make
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I'll join, but I'm totally going to have to think of something. Nothing is coming to mind right now. I'll get back to you on this one.
10-27-2008, 12:26 AM #13ParsimoniousTourist
How about hedgehog-shaped slipper socks? Would at least solve my I-don't-like-to-follow-instructions problem Originally Posted by madhen
I will allow slipper socks if they are: a) winter blue; or b) have little white "snowball" pom poms on them.
10-27-2008, 12:35 AM #14Master Dollar Stretcher
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That's why I called it a "challenge!" Originally Posted by Goodwin17
Make you people sweat it a bit. October was way too easy.
DH aka Mad Hen
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March no-spend: 15/15 2012 LAPAW: 8.2/15 2013 Get-Thee-To-The-Gym Challenge: 6/52
Monthly budget total: $1400 - Amt expended: 735.05 = Avail balance: $664.95
Total debt (with mortgage, HELOC, and cc's): Jan 2013: ??? (Jan 2012: $285,105) (Jan 2011: $292,750) (2496 days until retirement)
11/12/13 Challenge: PAY OFF ALL CC's!!
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10-27-2008, 12:36 AM #15Master Dollar Stretcher
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If you can justify, in your mind, how a hedgehog is autumnal or wintry, I say go for it. Or maybe make him orange. Originally Posted by Parsimonious
How about hedgehog-shaped slipper socks? Would at least solve my I-don't-like-to-follow-instructions problemDH aka Mad Hen
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March no-spend: 15/15 2012 LAPAW: 8.2/15 2013 Get-Thee-To-The-Gym Challenge: 6/52
Monthly budget total: $1400 - Amt expended: 735.05 = Avail balance: $664.95
Total debt (with mortgage, HELOC, and cc's): Jan 2013: ??? (Jan 2012: $285,105) (Jan 2011: $292,750) (2496 days until retirement)
11/12/13 Challenge: PAY OFF ALL CC's!!
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want. Anna Lappe
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