scrounge
Sitter-In-Training
Boo and bullfrogs!
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Post by scrounge on Jun 25, 2013 0:37:07 GMT -5
I was knitting tonight and remembered the other point I wanted to bring up about this book. Granny gives Karen a single knitting lesson, and then Karen somehow manages, in secret, to knit her a striped scarf as a gift in between everything else she was doing on the farm. Scarves take a long time to knit, and after one lesson, changing colors to make stripes would probably be a bit beyond Karen's capability, not to mention, where did she get the yarn for it? It could have easily been one of those funny Karen moments where she's like "I looked at the scarf I had tried to make for Granny. It was very small. I decided it was a handkerchief instead." Instead, it's just like, oh, in between everything else, Karen manages to knit an entire scarf.
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Post by Honeybee on Jun 26, 2013 0:07:32 GMT -5
^ I was thinking, that the other day. Karen just start learning how to knit. She was only there for like 2 weeks. A beginners will take a long time. Unless, they have helped. She didn't have helped. She must have done it at night time, to knit a scarf. To finish it up before, she went home.
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supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Jun 27, 2013 1:15:56 GMT -5
It took forever to try to learn to knit around Karen's age, and I still can't. Anyways, my mom was great at it and would take days to complete sweaters cause she wanted them just right.
I also agree a plane would be safe, you're right. I guess adulthood sucks in general and society.
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Post by maddieruns on Apr 9, 2014 12:37:58 GMT -5
After reading this LS book I am craving for one of Karen’s fancy salads picked from her vegetable garden.
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Post by wenonah4th on Apr 9, 2014 13:25:59 GMT -5
Agreed about the knitting. My daughter Josie is 7 right now and she's been trying to learn to knit. She's getting it- very slowly.
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scrounge
Sitter-In-Training
Boo and bullfrogs!
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Post by scrounge on Apr 9, 2014 21:04:53 GMT -5
I could really go for one of those fancy salads right now too! I love summertime and fresh picked vegetables, I'm tired of cold weather and I want tomatoes fresh off the vine!
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Post by maddieruns on Apr 9, 2014 22:32:50 GMT -5
That sounds delicious! And I agree about the knitting. On top of all those farm chores that scarf was completed awfully fast. It must be one of the benefits Karen found of no tv--- knitting projects are completed 20x faster.
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Post by Honeybee on Apr 10, 2014 1:05:40 GMT -5
Wasn't Karen, just beginner of knitting? She must have caught on, by her step grandma, teaching her how to knit.
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supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Apr 10, 2014 11:19:55 GMT -5
After reading this LS book I am craving for one of Karen’s fancy salads picked from her vegetable garden. Me toooo, I wish we saw a picture of the one she made on her last day. I do like fruit salads better though.
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supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Apr 10, 2014 11:20:23 GMT -5
That sounds delicious! And I agree about the knitting. On top of all those farm chores that scarf was completed awfully fast. It must be one of the benefits Karen found of no tv--- knitting projects are completed 20x faster. So true, I find that too when staying offline and not watching TV, I get creative stuff done quicker too
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msstock87
Sitting For The Braddocks
Here Comes The Bride!
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Post by msstock87 on Apr 10, 2014 19:43:55 GMT -5
After reading this LS book I am craving for one of Karen’s fancy salads picked from her vegetable garden. That does sound good right about now.
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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 10, 2014 21:09:12 GMT -5
I love how we can spend pages talking about how we want salad, lol!
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Post by Honeybee on Apr 10, 2014 21:43:56 GMT -5
I like fruit salad. Mostly, premade fruit salad. Has like 2 or 3 fruits I like, the rest, I don't like. I mostly, eat strawberries.
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Post by maddieruns on Apr 10, 2014 22:07:36 GMT -5
^I like fruit salads too.
But really Karen's salad sounds so, so delicious! She curls the carrots and makes the radishes look like flowers and arranges the whole salad in a special pattern so it's a pretty swirl. And in the back of the book it has the recipes for her special salad dressing. One is called “Farm-Fresh Italian Dressing” and the other “Really Yummy Russian Dressing”.
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Post by Honeybee on Apr 10, 2014 23:10:50 GMT -5
^I'll have to read the recipes for the dressings, in the back of the book.
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