Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style!

[Deborah W.]

It only takes three days to cross Ontario!

:shock: :shock: :shock: Oh my! Is that walking?

Haha Rosemary! Canada is big! When I was in Winnipeg (about 17 hour drive from my home) I was not even half way to Toronto! :lol: :lol:

[Deborah W.]

Scary! Considering we can do Land's End, Penzance, Cornwall to John O' Groats, Scotland in about 14 hours by car (according to goole maps) and those are deemed our two furthest points for Britain going south/north. Mind you we do pack a lot of variety of scenery into our small space :wink:

Although I have been learning about Samuel Hearne recently who did walk over much of Canada and discovered it for the British. An interesting man.

[Hannelore N.]

With big apologies to Vicki for the delay... I have no idea why I'm always so busy.

Anyway, the colours of this mug rug are my all-time favourites (I make an exception for nautical stuff and/or all shades of green - that novel should have been called "Fifty Shades of Green" to attract me, but I'm digressing.... ). It's much too bautiful to put a tumbler of single malt on it. But I do use beautiful things, so it's 'premiere' will be with a 20-year-old Aberfeldy during the autumn half-term holiday at the end of October. In the meantime, seeing that I read a lot, that lovely lace bookmark will get used. Right now it's at page 112 of 'The New Elizabethans: Sixty Portraits of Our Age' by James Naughtie.

Thank you so much, Vicki!!

[Renata L.]

Those colors go so well together--beautiful mug rug, Lorchen and Vicki.

[Rita C.]

Beautiful mug rug Vicki - fabulous colours, reminds me of the fuchsia and montbretia flowering together here in August.

[Rita C.]

I am glad you like it Lorchen!

[E.M. T.]

Luv-e-lee...beautiful colors !

[E.M. T.]

Thank you Renata--I had watched that one but then I saw a different site and it was done like the Fisherman's stitch that Rita had mentioned. So, I thought I would check with the talented ladies here to see if anyone actual had done it and which was correct.

[E.M. T.]

1-Is the guy`s name really Naughtie?

2-and what's an 'Aberfeldy'


3-Also, I'll bet that if you think long enough ( like 20 seconds) you'll figure out why you're always so busy!

Also, if you're too busy, we don't expect an answer too soon.

[E.M. T.]

to put you out of your confusion and seeing that Lorchan might be tied up until the weekend

1. Almost certainly, Personally, I would suggest possibly of Scots descent.

2. Another make of single malt :wink:

[Rita C.]

I am pretty sure his name is pronounced 'Nochty' - not naughty. He is a BBC radio presenter.

I am still puzzled by the 'English Rib'. I must ask my mother if she had ever heard of it. I spent years knitting but never saw it in a pattern. Anyone else out there ever heard of it?

[Renata L.]

Ritzy, not to add to the confusion, but I've been knitting since I was a very young child :shock: and I'd never heard of the English rib. Of course, I knew all the knitting terms in Italian, not English and had to learn the English ones... :lol: To this day I still chant diritto, rovescio when doing a knit, purl. So I found that YouTube and passed it on to you... I watched it and discovered that, like Rita, I had never done that stitch either, which really surprised me. So I could not tell you for sure whether that YouTube video is accurate.

And the saga of the English Rib continues...

[Hannelore N.]

Terrie, Queen of the Boxers, I can send you the book when I have finished, so you can see for yourself what Mr Naughtie has to say I wonder if he is available. 'Lorchen Naughtie' sounds perfect for me. 'Nunn' doesn't quite describe me.

Aberfeldy is a very small town in the Trossachs, a part of Scotland. The single malt that is made there is not available in places like supermarkets. It is not heavily peated, but has strong heather undertones. It's very smooth.

[Hannelore N.]

Oh bother!! The lovely James is married (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_N...#Personal_life)........ big sigh..... Maybe I need to look into the older members of the family of one of the boys I work with..... good solid Irish stock, surname 'Quilty'.

[Hannelore N.]

Talked to my Mum about ribbing of the knitted kind, and she reckons that the fishermans rib variation became named 'english rib', because an English lady taught it to an American lady, who then forgot that it had been called 'fisherman's rib' and could only remember that she had been taught it by an English lady. Jus' sayin'

Another variation of ribbing is knit 2, purl 1 etc to the end of the row, then knit 1, purl 2 to the end of the row (lining up the knits & purls)