[Nfb-krafters-korner] Tea Cup Auctions and Knitty Knottys

[Dixie]

A tea cup auction is on in which you purchase numbered tickets.  You know
the kind you put in a drawing and the other with the same number you keep,
like the ones they use for door prizes and the like.

Anyway, you purchase the tickets, say $1 per piece.  Then you walk around
and look at the items that are up for auction. Each item has a tea cup next
to it.  If you want a chance to win the item you put one of your tickets in
the corresponding tea cup.    If you really like the item you put more
tickets in the tea cup in hopes to have a better chance of winning it.  At
the end of the auction, one ticket is pulled out of the tea cup and that is
the winner of the item.    

To keep this on topic. The tea cup auction I won the yarn at was at the
Connecticut Sheep Breeder's holiday dinner.  Many of the items were wool for
spinning, hand spun yarn, and things like knitting needles and knitty
knottys.

I know...  the next question is: "What is a knitty knotty?"

This is an item one uses to wrap handspun wool into hanks.  It is shaped
like a print letter I.  About 18 inches long.  The 2 cross bars, the top and
bottom of the I are perpendicular to each other.   To wind the yarn you hold
your non-dominant hand in the middle of the upright of the I.  Then, hold
the end of the yarn against the upright.  Now with your dominant hand, you
wrap the yarn up and over the left end of the top crossbar, down to the
right end of the lower cross bar, up to the right end of the top cross bar ,
and then down to the left end of the bottom cross bar.  Then you go back up
to the left end of the top crossbar and continue on.  When your yarn is all
wrapped and you ease the yarn off the knitty knotty, you have a large 3 foot
in diameter circle of yarn.  You then twist it so it twists against itself
to make the hank.



Dixie
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Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 5:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] What is on my needles?

Dixie,

You say, " I had won it at a tea cup auction".  What is a tea cup action?
Do tell!

Joyce

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Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:53 AM
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Cc: Dixie <cobaltblueheron at gmail.com>
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] What is on my needles?

Well, 
 
I am breaking into my yarn stash, using quite a bit of yarn right now.
 
I am as a friend says on a yarn diet.  That means no more purchasing until I
eat through some of the stash.
 
 
I am knitting a grocery bag dispenser in Ramona's email class.  I am though
changing it up a bit and adding a couple of cables to add some texture to
the finished project.  For this I am using a hank of water buffalo yarn in a
bright blue.  I had won it at a tea cup auction and thought it much to
scratchy to use in a garment.
 
 
I am also working on a couple of dish cloths to see how they work up for
classes later this year.
 
Of course these are done in cotton.  I have several cones of cotton for
these projects.
 
I am also taking Barb's loom knit shawl class, but, have just ripped back
and will start over again as I wasn't happy with the work I had done on that
.
 
For this I am using 2 threads together.  A friend of mine goes to a shop
where they get cones of mill ends.  She gets them for about $2.50 a cone and
I am going to use them for my prayer shawls.
 
I too am looking forward to Annette's and Karen's upcoming classes.
 
Finally, I have just designed a new cabled wine bottle cozy  , that I am
looking into teaching later this year.    I am quite pleased with the way it
is turning out.
 
 
I unfortunately missed Joyce's mitten class last week as I had to take a
training for my position as membership database manager for GDUI.  I did
though see your directions here on list Joyce, and will be ready to go on
Thursday evening.
 
This I will be knitting with some of my homespun yarn.  This particular yarn
has much of the lanolin left in it so it is more waterproof when knitted
into mittens.
 
 
 
 
Dixie at -> ~ <-@
 
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