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Post by jwugg on Feb 9, 2017 13:35:21 GMT
I always chuck a bag of it in with any order, especially at £8 - usually I love half the colours, like & am challenged by another quarter, can use 10% more for variety & shading in pictures, so that's only 15% left that I really don't like & that can go in middle layers of something thick!
It's a little gamble, of course, but it's a lot of fun when you break the bag open & it all comes tumbling out!
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Post by zed on Mar 2, 2017 14:54:44 GMT
If they kept the offer of £8 for online buyers, and £12 to buy/choose in person, that would seem fair. After all the unfeltable stuff I got, and often get dull colours, I'm unlikely to bother again.
I was talking to someone on Facebook the other day who had some optim merino and her 'felt' turned out the same as mine, held together a bit, but layers separated. I've still not seen WoW do superwash or optim that isn't white though, so it's still a mystery
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 5, 2017 1:46:49 GMT
Zed have you tried spinning the optimum? someone said it upstretched when you wet it but that doesn't sound right. there wouldn't be any point to it if that was true.
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Post by zed on Mar 5, 2017 12:51:09 GMT
What is 'upstretched', Ann? I have spun with it, I tried it before felting actually, and it felt different there too, I think I asked Leonor if it is usually so difficult to spin from tops, since I'd only tried from my textured batts before that. It's just odd, it feels like really soft, lofty Merino. It looks nice woven
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 6, 2017 1:36:07 GMT
Isn't the optimum stretched merino? they stretch it thinner.
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Post by zed on Mar 6, 2017 11:36:48 GMT
Yeah, Optim is Merino (don't know what micron it started at) stretched to 14 to 16 mic. I don't know what you mean by 'upstretched when wet', stretched even more? Or did you mean 'unstretched'? soz, I don't know if Canadians do it, but Americans add 'up' (or out) to many things we don't and it confuses me a lot.
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Post by Pandagirl on Mar 6, 2017 15:47:06 GMT
Now I'm confused. :-)
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 7, 2017 2:10:45 GMT
by upstretched I mean it returns to it's original length. We could add in some auzy and see if we can get even more confused. Engish is a strange thing. Park on a diveway and drive on a parkway and then there is razing a house to the ground. and we could debate the s/z thing in words like amazing.
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Post by tracey on Mar 7, 2017 6:42:14 GMT
by upstretched I mean it returns to it's original length. We could add in some auzy and see if we can get even more confused. Engish is a strange thing. Park on a diveway and drive on a parkway and then there is razing a house to the ground. and we could debate the s/z thing in words like amazing. Ha ha Ann, when I first read this I thought it said razing a HORSE to the ground! I thought nope, I don't know that one...! It was 6.30am..... and my first cuppa.
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Post by zed on Mar 7, 2017 11:53:54 GMT
So, shrinking? I haven't heard upstretching before. Switching up, Swapping out, changing up, changing out are common ones which get me. Sometimes they seem to be used the same way as the word without the up or out, other times they're used differently like how 'mixing up' or 'mixing it up' are different to 'mixing'. Talking of driving/road related words, I only discovered recently that Americans don't have a Kerb, they just re-use 'curb'.
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Post by halay on Mar 7, 2017 13:24:20 GMT
If all these expressions confuse native English speakers, you can immagine how confused I get, being a non native speaker.
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 7, 2017 14:28:03 GMT
Americans tend to simplify language (change all the ou's to o's) and then add a lot of slang. Nada we get confused too, country by English country. It took me a long time to figure out that in Australia a kitchen bench is what I would call a kitchen counter. I think Zed calls it a work top.
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Post by halay on Mar 7, 2017 17:52:35 GMT
In chemistry laboratories (I used to teach English for chemists) they are talking about labortory benches as well although they remind me of kitchen counters.
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 7, 2017 19:50:42 GMT
Maybe it comes form work bench. I think of a counter as more built in. but I suppose a work bench could be too. and you have display counters in stores. it can be confusing with interchangeable words.
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Post by zed on Mar 8, 2017 10:41:13 GMT
I probably call it a work top as a 'common language' We actually call it 'the side' here. Maybe from when side-boards were popular? I don't know. Most people know the words bench, counter and counter top.
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