Lace Party Aug 13 to Aug 28 WIP and Hawaii with Babalou

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Babalou

Discussion Starter · Aug 13, 2016

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Greetings Lace Party-ers and guests. A note to the newcomers: the Lace Party grew out of a workshop hosted by Dragonflylace (a/k/a DFL). The workshop is still here on KP. Everyone is welcome to join us as often as you like at the Lace Party. We share our daily goings-on and, of course, our knitting projects. We do love to see photos, finished projects or WIPs. If you have a question, just ask; someone is sure to answer. Every two weeks, on a pre-arranged schedule, someone hosts a new Lace Party. Sometimes we work on the same project, but we always share whatever we are working on, lace or not. We hope you will join us.

You are invited to join us in knitting lace and sharing your projects. We enjoy pictures, seeing progress Our main requirement is mutual respect for everyone.

This session we are working on WIPs and seeing pictures from my trip to Hawaii. I think we all have things we are trying to finish.

In February, my DH and I decided to spend a month on the big island of Kona in Hawaii. He is an outside kind of guy and feels trapped in the winter. We managed it by inviting our very close friends to spend part of the month with us. My DH is the seeker of great places to stay and found an oceanfront condo for us in Kailua-Kona. One evening I was catching up on the phone with my wonderful friend, Kathleen, in Houston. We decided to have a real girly conversation with wine. As the conversation went on, she asked what trips we were planning. Eventually, I blurted out "you should come for a week!" It took her about 10 seconds to say, "are you kidding me?" And the rest is history.

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Miss Pam

· #841 · Aug 25, 2016

Babalou said:
Good news is that the new mattress pad fits. YAY!????????????????

Finally success! :sm24:

Bonnie7591

· #842 · Aug 25, 2016

run4fittness said:
There was one year I tried salting the slugs. I think table salt must have been the wrong choice! They slipped their "skins" and kept going! I thought salt was supposed to make them "slime to death", but it didn't work that year! That is why I now just use the egg shells and that works for me.

I saved egg shells all winter & put the around the tomatoes but didn't realize how bad they would get this year & they are into everything else. So far, any I salted certainly slimed to death

Bonnie7591

· #843 · Aug 25, 2016

Great pictures from Hawaii, I would love to see those garden.
Have any of you visited Buchart Gardens in Victoria, BC, they are made around an old gravel pit, truly amazing

eshlemania

· #844 · Aug 25, 2016

Well, this is just too many pages to catch up, so I am just going to jump in here. We had a wonderful time. We survived 3 thunderstorms about 1-2 hours long, snug and dry in out tent. Not much sleeping was accomplished though. We got back on Tues morning and have been playing catch up all week.

I have seen some of your pictures, Barbara. They are wonderful. It must have been an amazing trip.

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Babalou

Discussion Starter · #845 · Aug 25, 2016

run4fittness said:
Absolutely beautiful! Such bright and vibrant colors.

Thank you, JanetLee and Pam.

Lurker 2

· #846 · Aug 25, 2016

eshlemania said:
Well, this is just too many pages to catch up, so I am just going to jump in here. We had a wonderful time. We survived 3 thunderstorms about 1-2 hours long, snug and dry in out tent. Not much sleeping was accomplished though. We got back on Tues morning and have been playing catch up all week.

I have seen some of your pictures, Barbara. They are wonderful. It must have been an amazing trip.

A very touching photo, Bev!

Babalou

Discussion Starter · #847 · Aug 25, 2016

Bonnie7591 said:
Great pictures from Hawaii, I would love to see those garden.
Have any of you visited Buchart Gardens in Victoria, BC, they are made around an old gravel pit, truly amazing

We did go there. What a gorgeous place!

Babalou

Discussion Starter · #848 · Aug 25, 2016

eshlemania said:
Well, this is just too many pages to catch up, so I am just going to jump in here. We had a wonderful time. We survived 3 thunderstorms about 1-2 hours long, snug and dry in out tent. Not much sleeping was accomplished though. We got back on Tues morning and have been playing catch up all week.

I have seen some of your pictures, Barbara. They are wonderful. It must have been an amazing trip.

Oh, such a sweet picture. Thanks re the pictures.

tamarque

· #849 · Aug 25, 2016

Bonnie7591 said:
I saved egg shells all winter & put the around the tomatoes but didn't realize how bad they would get this year & they are into everything else. So far, any I salted certainly slimed to death

Forgot I had 2 containers of crushed eggshells saved and made rings around the tomato and chard plants. How finely do you crush your shells?

I have salted slugs that hitchhike into the house and they die very quickly. Don't like doing it though.

tamarque

· #850 · Aug 25, 2016

Barbara--yea for the mattress cover problem getting resolved.

Miss Pam

· #851 · Aug 25, 2016

eshlemania said:
Well, this is just too many pages to catch up, so I am just going to jump in here. We had a wonderful time. We survived 3 thunderstorms about 1-2 hours long, snug and dry in out tent. Not much sleeping was accomplished though. We got back on Tues morning and have been playing catch up all week.

I have seen some of your pictures, Barbara. They are wonderful. It must have been an amazing trip.

Sounds overall like a great vacation. Wonderful photo! :sm02:

kaixixang

· #852 · Aug 26, 2016

There's a 3rd variation now of the Eloomanator pattern...which brings my expected 24 squares down to 18 of each pattern. Whew!

Bonnie7591

· #853 · Aug 26, 2016

tamarque said:
Forgot I had 2 containers of crushed eggshells saved and made rings around the tomato and chard plants. How finely do you crush your shells?

I have salted slugs that hitchhike into the house and they die very quickly. Don't like doing it though.

I didn't crush them too fine, just squished then a bit & sprinkled about. So far I think they are helping.
Janetlee, how much did you crush yours?
My DH suggested I buy some oyster shell at the farm supply store, they have it for feeding chickens to make egg shells harder.
I don't feel the least bit guilty salting the slimy little buggers????

Better get off to bed as I'm to be in town at 9:00 for a pie making bee at the church 100+ pies to make for the Blueberry Festival the next day, we are having a tea & pie sale as a fund raiser for the church.
The Blueberry festival on Sat.is a big outdoor market, car show & entertainment on the Main Street of town,
It starts tomorrow night with an ethnic supper, booths with French, German, Ukrainian & Chinese food available followed by a dance which I won't be going to.

Normaedern

· #854 · Aug 26, 2016

Babalou said:
Good news is that the new mattress pad fits. YAY!????????????????

Great! I was following the story with fingers crossed :sm24:

Normaedern

· #855 · Aug 26, 2016

eshlemania said:
Well, this is just too many pages to catch up, so I am just going to jump in here. We had a wonderful time. We survived 3 thunderstorms about 1-2 hours long, snug and dry in out tent. Not much sleeping was accomplished though. We got back on Tues morning and have been playing catch up all week.

I have seen some of your pictures, Barbara. They are wonderful. It must have been an amazing trip.

That is so cute :sm24:

tamarque

· #856 · Aug 26, 2016

Bev--you must have a really good tent. My memories of tents in rain is they always had a leak.

Bonnie--that is a good idea to buy large bags of oyster shell. Sure beats having to eat all those eggs. I am not a big egg eater so it takes a long time to accumulate large amounts of the shells. I ground some up in a little seed grinder but also had some just pounded down but coarser in texture. Will see what they do, particularly with the chard which had been seriously decimated. I treated the tomatoes with a remedy for slugs and did not see any new damage yesterday but the remedy does not work for snails. Next year will try a different one that was suggested to me too late to order it. Will be harder to see if the egg shells work but given the snail damage to the chard that may be where the evidence will be.

Had an idea to plant with plastic skirts around the plants next year and put the eggshells on top of it. Hopefully the eggshells will last for a long time that way instead of getting buried into the soil which happens pretty quickly.

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eshlemania

· #857 · Aug 26, 2016

Thanks all for the comments on my mom and baby.

Tanya, Gary really sets up well. Our tent has a rain fly, then there are two tarps tied together that goes over the tent sideways to protect the side windows and finally, a large one from back to front and out over the picnic table.

Our large one blew back in one storm, but the rest stayed up and kept us dry.

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tamarque

· #858 · Aug 26, 2016

eshlemania said:
Thanks all for the comments on my mom and baby.

Tanya, Gary really sets up well. Our tent has a rain fly, then there are two tarps tied together that goes over the tent sideways to protect the side windows and finally, a large one from back to front and out over the picnic table. Our large one blew back in one storm, but the rest stayed up and kept us dry.

Excellent! Lots of good fun and memories.

Normaedern

· #859 · Aug 26, 2016

eshlemania said:
Thanks all for the comments on my mom and baby.

Tanya, Gary really sets up well. Our tent has a rain fly, then there are two tarps tied together that goes over the tent sideways to protect the side windows and finally, a large one from back to front and out over the picnic table. Our large one blew back in one storm, but the rest stayed up and kept us dry.

That looks snug :sm24:

Lurker 2

· #860 · Aug 26, 2016

My main WIP, as it is now- at the end of day 4 - WFR pattern about to start second wedge of lace short rows.

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