We have 110 members! YAY!!! I know many of you, but not all!

so tell us about yerselves!!!

ok I'll start

I'm Elizabeth, I spin, knit, sew, weave, crochet, make dinner & belly dance...next!
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    Thu, May 8, 2008 - 1:09 PM
    I'm Kathy! (beauty queen wave)
    Mom, wife, critter mom, living in beautiful Montana!!
    I spin, learning to knit, have my own fiber critters. I sew, read, cook, shop 2nd hand stores and try not to lose my marbles on a regular basis!
    I home school, trying to lose weight and I am a beginner belly dancer. I have two tribes..The Hafla Hearth and Literature and Art of Belly Dance..check us out!
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    Thu, May 8, 2008 - 2:47 PM
    I'm Raven. Currently in NJ battling with my masters degree, moving to NY in a few months (no, not NYC - I wish!) to (theoretically) pursue a doctorate in religious studies, but I've been wavering on that one lately.

    I've got drop spindles, but no wheel, I knit compulsively, I crochet, and just generally horde yarn.
    I also have minimal skill at sewing (both by hand and on a machine), beading and costume making.
    I do improv tribal, and fusion belly dance, drawing mainly on Turkish Romany and Uzbek folk dance (my teacher is from Uzbekistan, and she's spectacular!!!!!).

    I think the three things in my life that make me happiest are knitting, dancing, and my husband (in no particular order - all three simultaneously is heaven). I also like to put on costumes and run around in the woods. :-D
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      Thu, May 8, 2008 - 2:59 PM
      Just as long as you don't try a "deer " costume in hunting season you should be fine! LOL!
      Have you seen the Turkoman caps that are cut to make bra covers in Tribal Bazaar? Pretty cool!
      I have seen some of them on Ebay under "Uzbek caps". Reading about your teacher I thought I'd mention them!
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    Wed, June 11, 2008 - 6:14 PM
    i just joined this tribe, it sounded interesting! i live in wet and soggy washington and i sew bridal stuff and bellydance costumes, which means i also do beadwork, and i embroider also. but i keep trying to knit and crochet. i mostly try to follow a pattern, but get lost and 'wing' it, so i have kept my attempts small so far. i love those little glovie things, so that has been mostly what i have done lately in yarn stuff. as for dance, i am in a troupe and we do gypsy dance. i like cooking and cookbooks too.
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      Thu, June 12, 2008 - 12:39 PM
      Welcome Cindy!!! I love Washington! I'm always tempted to move to Olympia where part of my family lives. They have such a nice community there. Or Portland where my darling daughter is. sorry wandering...

      I love the glovies too! thanks for posting the picture of yours! Is that the pattern from Melanie Falick's book Weekend Knitting? I love that pattern! It's a great quickie gift when you need one!

      Kathy has a tribe for cooking belly dancers that I have yet to post on...
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        Fri, June 13, 2008 - 9:36 AM
        thanks! washington is great, when it isn't colder than siberia! heh, heh! yeah, i am on kathy's tribe too! the glovies are a pattern that i got off of knitty, i think. it was called 'voodoo' and had ribbing. however, i had trouble following the knit 2 purl 2 and got confused too many times, so i gave up and did all stockinette stitch! lol! i still love them though! and quikie is right...even me, the "knit challenged" made them in an evening.
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    Fri, June 13, 2008 - 3:26 PM
    I'm Chelle
    I knit, crochet, cook, make those hottie halters that Tsingani is currently wearing and belly dance...next!!
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      Fri, June 13, 2008 - 4:16 PM
      well if Tsingani is wearing them I must see them! Please post pictures Miss Chelle!
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        Mon, June 16, 2008 - 4:42 PM
        I am Christine, I am a mommy to six children and an assortment of animals, I am a bellydancer, and a knitter.
        Used to knit professionally for a 3 Suisses boutique when I lived in Belgium. Learned the trade at my grandma's knee at the tender age of 4.
        I like to knit socks and sjawls and armwarmers and my favourite style is faroese.
        I knit for pleasure and give away most of my work as gifts. I haven t bought a sock for about four years, the socks stay with me.
        If needed I think I could more or less support myselve with my knitting.
        And yes I hord yarn as if it were the last thing on earth.
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          Mon, June 16, 2008 - 11:37 PM
          Christine! 6 children! Wow! I'm impressed! I have 4 and I thought that was a lot! Can you post some pictures of faroese? Is it for knitting shawls?

          I like to knit socks too! I used to teach a class in sock knitting at the lys in Ventura, as well as many other random knitting classes. I quit working at the yarn shop when my belly dance life took over. It was a good thing because working at the yarn shop just kept me buying yarn when what I really wanted to do was just spin yarn. I have an indecent stash of yarn both from working at the yarn shop and spinning obsessively.

          I am thinking of selling my handspun yarns at the local farmer's markets soon.
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            Wed, June 18, 2008 - 1:11 PM
            Faroese is where you knit from the outside in and decrease with a gusset down the back.
            It can give you a realy cool stripping/cupping effect when you knit with different colors.
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              Wed, June 18, 2008 - 1:34 PM
              I posted a few shawls. The light colored one the decreasing gusset is very visible, this is a decorated gusset, the other two have plain gussets. Faroese also has shoulders knitted in so the shawl doesn t slide off your shoulders.
              Once you get the techniek down it is a very enjoyable way to knit.
              Many original shawls have a knitted lining of a contrasting color.
              I learned Faroese from Cheryle Oberle.
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                Sat, June 28, 2008 - 11:54 AM
                I'm Carolena. I knit, sew, crochet, weave and spin. Basically anything to do with thread. I have a past life in textiles and had to put it on hold when I started the dance business. A few years ago, around my 20 year anniversary of starting FatChanceBellyDance and ATS, I started getting bitten by spiders at my house. I asked them what was up and they said that I needed to start playing with thread again. So now, every day I play with thread, and the spiders haven't bitten me since! OK, once but I'm pretty sure they were just encouraging me.
                Currently I am knitting socks and small things because I travel on planes a lot and the loom is kind of cumbersome, with the new baggage allowance fees and such!
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                  Mon, June 30, 2008 - 11:19 AM
                  Isn't it great that we can bring our needles on planes? If they didn't allow us to knit on planes I would be forced to knit with pencils!
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                    Thu, July 3, 2008 - 3:13 PM
                    I believe they only recently reinstated the use of knitting needles on planes. After 9/11 that was one of the forbidden items.
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    Thu, July 3, 2008 - 11:00 AM
    I'm Debbie. I first started knitting when I was a teenager and the only stitch I could do was the knit stitch, so I though this is going nowhere so I quit. Later, because I love yarn so much I started to crochet. I always start with the hardest stuff first, so I made a little crocheted baby coat, for lack of a better word, and the most horrible set of booties I have ever seen. I gave the coat but kept the booties. I have been crochet off and on for many years and then about 3 years ago I found loom knitting. I have only done a couple of scarves with the looms but I have so many project I want to do. Then I went back to needle knitting, I am older and understand the stitches better. I hate to say a television show got me started again but it is the truth. I started watching "knitty gritty" and I wanted to do that too!

    I have been dancing about 4 years, and am a student at Devanyi Dance Center here in Birmingham, AL. I have incorporated kntting in my costuming with bra with a knitted top half and coins on the bottom. I am looking for other ways to put the two together. I am currently working on crocheted zil covers for practicing.

    Thats about it!
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    Thu, July 3, 2008 - 8:57 PM
    My name is Sahara Christine. I am many things...Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Dancer, Gardener and Head Cook. I live on a small farm here in Hermiston Oregon. I raise Finnish Landrace and Shetland Sheep, as well as the usual farm animals. I like to spin and crochet. Someday I would like a wheel and loom and learn to knit.
    Next.
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    Wed, July 30, 2008 - 6:32 PM
    I am Yael and I am a wife and mother of three. I knit, crochet, weave, spin and hoard as much fiber and yarn as I can. I have a lotsof drop spindles, couple of triangle looms, ( the smaller of which I am trying to make some hip scarves with) a rigid heddle loom, and an Ashford traveller. I have been neglectful of my fiber and am finding myself slowing drifting into the sea of insanity. So before that happens I have returned, the prodigal fiber art freak, to pick up my spindle and needles and rejoin my family to be reinspired. That and I don't want spiders to come bite me as they had to resort to with my dear dance/fiber sister Carolena. °Ü°

    Peace and shimmies!

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