I'm sulking for green to match my eyes or purple or gray, my favorites.
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Offical Muffler Sulking Section (and other Various Chatter)
I can do two. I was thinking that mufflers were practical and scarves romantical, however.... And I, too, improvise as I go. I rather like the challenge of doing a clear one...
knitting constantly last winter is what screwed up my shoulder again. (old injury) Muscles got too tight. I"m not allowed to knit but on rare occasions now. IF fingers start to go numb.. i'm suppose to stop. :(
The shoulder injury came from a minor car accident almost 30 years ago; crocheting aggrevates it...as does drawing, painting, writing, winding yarn by hand (I have a ball winder now), anything that requires small muscle movements....knitting is an exception.
I need to find a class. I KNOW I could do it with a little time! I see other students knitting in class.
my shoulder injury is genetic. I get hard spots in the muscles over nerve sites. My arms go numb while i work on teh computer, knit, sleep, drive, write... you name it & it puts them to sleep. Which is better than burning like fire like they occasionally do. We own large wreckers & I've unloaded, cleaned up wrecks & such so many times I did too much & caused the injury. played too hard, worked too hard... now i pay the price & i'm not even 29 yet!
Has anyone crocheted the chicken coat?
http://plumcreekmama.blogspot.com/2009/10/hen-sweater.html
ok you guys, it was me speaking of the loom on facebook.
I just bought the book Loom Knitting Socks by Isela Phelps... it is a great book.. I also just completed my shopping list ans design to make my own extra fine loom, adjustable so I can loom-knit both socks at the same time. I am NOT a knitter.. there is just too much stuff that goes with it.. I can't juggle, count and knit all at the same time. and seems I hold things to tight with crochet cuz my arthuritis friend comes visiting.. but last year while we were playing around with my daughters looms, I had no trouble making hats.. so imagine my surprise when I read you can do every knit stitch on the loom you can do with a needle. So I will try..
But meanwhile...
blueish purples are my fav.
:0) I'll look for that ladies book. There wasn't nothing promising at the craft store but maybe i can find it when i go to KC.
OMG, I study all day, I go out for dinner, and look what happens. All goes to heck in a handbasket. This is just too overwhelming.
What exactly is a muffler? Is it a cowl? What is the difference between a cowl and a muffler. Oh dear me, I have exams to study for. Nothing goes on the needles or hook until after Dec 14.
I can probably draft up some rules though.
That was the plan dearest...
The plan? To turn me into a blubbering idiot?
Oh dear oh dear oh dear
The plan to relieve you of almost all but the stress of drawing up the rules doc...Oh-Dear!!
Oh my ears and whiskers.....!
WHo better to do that then the one who is frying her brain on midterms??? might come in handy??
Now Im confused.... Whats a Cowl?
So I googled it and this is what I found...
I am very pleased with the instrument cowl and case savers, however the brake ... The difference between Sargent and some other places that do seat re-upholstery is ... Only thing I didn't like were Mark's muffler can emblem plates, ...
I've considered just flying it around without the cowl so all the firewall ... The difference in noise between the stock muffler and the Bisson was HUGE
Muffler SquawkIn addition, removing the muffler from the cowl improved cooling a lot. ... This would also explain the huge difference in noise level
So now my dear Moxon..... What is a Cowl???
Now I googled just cowl and this is what I found
Wacky Fun Tube Scarf .... For neck warmer, untie, and loosen all the way, till the circles at the ends of the tie are ... Pull over head, forming neck warmer, or pull just till your face comes through, forming cowl. ...
I like the idea of us all knitting/crocheting automotive parts.....
MissJestr you can shorten that scarf or like I will do just pick your favorite stitch and start then stop when you think it is long enough.
I think would like to try to make one for young Billy. I have the perfect yarn for him- how tall is he and how wide do you think it needs to be. It would be good practice to make a smaller one first.
My shoulder was injured in a car wreck, Had surgery to repair part of it but looks like it did not take.
I think I could make cowls as they are smaller.
I think British autos have cowls, especially - not to be confused with cow-catchers, of course. Were I to be able to knit, I could fashion one for the TR-3 currently succumbing to the Carnot-Clausius effect in the barn.
Knitting one for the poultry waterer might be more to the point right now; everything is frozen out there this morning!
lol!!
Billy's Neck Warming Device (NWD)✓
I am now working on Billy's NWD have a couple of inches. LOL
Heh...I think at some point we'll need a list thread, lol.
Perhaps if anyone has a color to volunteer for they might send me a D-mail? Then I can start a check list thread and edit as we go along...
Wondered...are these to be barn grade NWDs or dressy NWDs...or do we specify? My ideas, they are multiplying like rabbits...
I can not make the dressy NWD's yet, so mine will be COLD weather ones-nice and thick. Thought I might try with the cowls.
I can make any type of NWDs. Barn grade are the fastest and warmer than dressy, but dressy are my favorite as I get to use fancier yarns and some times beads.
I always thought a muffler was a heavier long scarf so you could wrap it around your head and neck several times. I call any I make scarves, but I like NWD better. :oD
On-line definition of "muffler": Heavy scarf worn around the neck for warmth.
Helpful, huh?
I just looked at a lot of pictures of "mufflers" and the important aspect seems to be the warming of the neck--so that one site makes it sound as though it is the "way" a scarf is worn rather than the item itself (wrapped around with ends in front)--while others show a short, thick scarf around the neck. They appear to be very popular in Asia.
We need to establish a consistent terminology. It won't be legally binding: but it will help prevent a long-scarf desirous sulker from weeping into her flan when a short, intricately knitted, silk neck ornament, suitable for the opera, appears on her doorstep during the blizzard.
This message was edited Dec 6, 2009 12:34 PM
a muffler is wide & long so as to be wrapped around the childs (errr... adults) head many times including over their mouth to muffle any complaints about the cold. :)
a scarf is narrower & whatever length you so choose to make it beyond 3 ft (2 ft for child) in length. Thus being long enough to wrap at least once around the wearer's neck.
a cowl.. is that funny looking tube thingy that you put your head thru & it can either be draw stringed up to your neck or lay in layers around your neck & shoulders. Our craft store has several free patterns, one of which is for a hunting cowl. If anyone would care for the patterns let me know & I'll mail them to you on Tues.
Fancy is nice.. so its everyday barn ones that are super warm. I have never heard of a 10 ft scarf. Ours were always long enough to hit about midthigh before we started wrapping them around our necks.
lol here is your laugh for today... all I could fing to measure Billy was a horse height tape....
He is 10.2 hands small pony size. its 4 inches for enery hand so he is 48 inches or 4 foot tall HOLY DOODLEs,, at three years 10 months, he is going to be huge...
I measured from the middle of his ear to his shoulder and that was 1.1 hand or 4 inches and a quarter. that way I could wrap it under his neck across his mouth so he could not cackle...lolol
I measured him shoulder to shoulder and it was 3 hands or 12 inches... one foot...
He will be a bull dogger for sure...
he wears a size 5 wrangler shirts or small panhandle slims... Not sure about the other shirts, I only buy him those.
He would love a NWD, he wears my hat someone made me and trys to get my divine socks but never wins...
This message was edited Dec 6, 2009 9:50 AM
a muffler is wide & long so as to be wrapped around the childs (errr... adults) head many times including over their mouth to muffle any complaints about the cold. :)
Thats what I thought, I am looking for one barn worthy since I am not the fancy type.. Heck I wear my barn boots out to parties cause I forget to change them.. People would freak and run for cover if I ever got fancied up... Wore black wranglers and a pink wrangler shirt to my sisters wedding, atleast I did have clean boots on.. ok I knocked the dust off of them, that made them clean, and they were not my barn boots.
MissJestr, that's so funny! I guess people who love you will take you as they find you, huh?
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you an important question.
Can anybody identify my newly adopted hen (narrow fan-style tail, always very erect, yellow legs, standard comb, reminds me of OEG hens but this bird is standard size). She is very active, a good forager, flies well. White eggs.
Rear view.
last one.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled muffler programming.
Moxon...go look at my chicken pictures on FB if you'd said she laid brown eggs I'd say I have the near twin. but mine are welsummers & lay dark dark brown eggs. She does look nearly identical to my two girls tho. Maybe a cross with a welsummer?
Brown Leghorn?
Down the site: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Leghorns/BRKLeghorns.html
Picture without the "floppy hen comb" the others sport.
not buckeye, surely...reference thread had pics and a link I thought...
my foray into the world of scarves, mufflers, and cowls produced the following:
SCARF being a decorative or warming apparatus of cloth or knit
MUFFLER being a scarf specifically designed to warm necks and surrounding areas
COWL being a scarf more suited to the warming of heads AND necks...
Personally, being a loose knitter, I like to use doubled yarn -so whatever I produce that way will be warm. But I'm rather of a mind to make it sparkly as well...
MissJestr tell Billy that I am working on it but I am slow so it maybe next month before he gets it.
It will be in camouflage colors. I have better get back to work on it.
greykyttyn if the patterns are crochet I would love to have copies of them my address is in the exchange.
Then there is the issue of fringe....I do not, personally like fringe since it always goes stringy and nasty on me with bits of whatever I have leaned over embedded in it.
But it does tend to balance and add a certain elan to many scarves.
So if anyone has strong feelings about fringe--they should speak now (before registration closes) or forever hold their peace.
No, definitely not Buckeye....they have those funny flat combs and are coloured more like a New Hampshire or RIR.
well dang....
see...I have this fabby idea for a sparkly necker-cowl...