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Sun, Feb 16, 14 at 18:06
| Translation into US speak: new sweater has been mistreated by vicious roses. Having barely finished knitting (at turbo pace thanks to the drear weather), the merest sniff of a sunny day was all the reason I needed to race down to the allotment and start the spring takedown.........including the 60 sweet pea canes parallel to my rose 'fedge'. A wet and mild winter has encouraged the roses to turn into monsters, chomping great snags and pulls in my new knitting. Once again, cursing my failure to insist on tight twisty wool (and not loose fluffy stuff). Have rewarded myself with some more superlative wool but obviously, only enough for a pair of socks since another jumper would bankrupt us (Auracaria Tepa for those who like to know these things). New seedlings germinating every day: lathyrus niger, aconitum lycoctonum, chaerophyllum hirsutum today! |
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| I've (more or less) learned not to wear good things in the garden. While extricating my sleeve from one thorn another thorn will already have snagged me and after a few such encounters my tendency is to just rip my arm away, no longer caring what happens. The only time I ever had to actually throw my clothes away was when I fell into my largest bush of Le Vesuve and tried to take it with me as I rolled down the hill. That outfit went straight into the trash can. Ingrid |
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- Posted by cemeteryrose USDA 9/Sunset 14 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 17, 14 at 0:53
| I even warn the Sheriff's work project guys not to wear anything nice when they are working for me in the Sacramento cemetery rose garden! I wear denim shirts and jeans or twill overalls. The shirts can only take so much, and then begin to shred. My husband thinks that I need Kevlar. Anita |
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- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Mon, Feb 17, 14 at 8:58
| I wear the worst rags in the garden until they give out completely. |
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- Posted by jeannie2009 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 17, 14 at 9:52
| www.yarn-paradise.com. Shipping usually runs 1/2 the cost of wool. Tuesdays are major sale day. I've ordered from them for years. The quality is fine. The problem, selection is huge. Have fun. Jeannie |
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| Agreed - I never wear nice sweaters into the garden. They would be ruined in no time. I prefer sturdy denim and twill. If it is cold, I also wear a sweatshirt. Not sure what you call sweatshirts in your part of the world -- a sewn hooded garment, often with a zippered opening in the front, made of a sturdy cotton knit fabric that is smooth on the outside and fleecy on the interior. Worn by workmen and also as athletic warm up wear. Folly |
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Mon, Feb 17, 14 at 14:03
| My DH is a general contractor, and he had a great idea. He took me to a contractor supply store. They had "painters jackets" there. They are made of heavy white 100% cotton denim, and are lined with warm cotton flannel. They have nice cotton corduroy collars in a medium blue. The buttons are metal and big enough to handle with gloves on. They are cheap. I bought two, and took the flannel lining out of one of them for use on warm days. They are truly indestructible! No rose thorn has ever penetrated them. I am about to replace one of them (the one I took the flannel out of), because after 15 years, constant washing & drying has made it fray a bit at the hem. Jackie |
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- Posted by kittymoonbeam 10 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 18, 14 at 0:08
| The worst was when I wore a pretty gauzy vintage skirt out to pick roses. All was fine until the wind kicked up and blew it into a bunch of canes with the hooked climbing thorns. I should have known better. After trying to sew up the tears, I saw that it would never look right and recycled it into a baby dress. |
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- Posted by melissa_thefarm NItaly (My Page) on Tue, Feb 18, 14 at 0:28
| I agree with Pam: I wear ratty clothes when gardening (if I don't, they rapidly BECOME ratty). When it's cold I just pile on layers, topping it off with my oldest fleece. When it's hot I wear a long-sleeved, heavyweight linen shirt. I have two of them that I picked up at thrift shops. They protect me from sun, bugs, and thorns and are a very tough fabric, impervious to the attacks of the roses. Cotton is just not in the same league. Wearing a new sweater to work in the garden sounds insane. You must be a much faster knitter than I ever was. Melissa |
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| All my clothes are tatty. But yeah, it was the sight of the sun....it completely destroyed even the smidgeon of common sense I usually possess. Once over the shock and dismay (my fault for buying the wrong wool), the jumper sits quite well alongside the rest of my clothing.....the socks are underway and I quickly knocked up a cardigan for Grand-daughter from my leftover stash. I consider myself quite a slow knitter although it took a couple of weeks to knit my jumper (it was miles and miles of mindless stocking stitch though). Can do a child's in an evening.....so I would say my pace has picked up. I calculated it at 0.015mph. |
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