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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-02-15, Page 28Page 16-7•Cressroada—Feb. 15, 1984 Craft Talk By Louisa Rush Dear Louisa: I knitted myself a pullover, but the trouble is, the arm- holes are too big! Could you tell me what to do to make it sleeveless? — Mrs. I.S., Limoges, Ontario. Dear Mrs. I.S.: I am often asked this same question — what to do with too large an armhole? The simplest remedy is the one you have suggested in your letter, make the pullover sleeveless. Join the shoulder seams, then using the same size knitting needles that were used to work the waist rib- bing, and with the right side of work towards you, begin at one underarm edge of armhole and pick up and knit stitches all along the edge. Work about one inch of rib- bing, either knit one, purl one, or knit two, purltwo, whichever matches the waist • ribbing, then cast off loosely in rib. If need be, use one size larger needles to cast off with, as you do not want an edge that is tight or binding. If you have difficulty pick- ing up and knitting the stitches neatly, try working one row of single crochet along the edge first, working With the right side of work towards you, fasten off. Now again with the right side of work towards you, insert the knitting needle through each chain loop of the crochet row. You will find this a sim- ple and very neat way to pick up stitches along an edge. , s Shirliy)Whittington r delight sh "Okay. You be the lady and I'll be the hairdresser." "Okay. But don't really cut it. Okay?" How well I remember that conversation, held in the • dawning years of this cen- tur,y between my swarthy self and my Best Friend An- gela. Angela was blue-eyed and beautiful, and wore her golden hair in Pickford ring- lets. To be her Best Friend was something of a triumph, which is why I bought her Of course if your armhole is too big, it means you have worked too many rows between the armhole 'and shoulder shapings: To cor- rect this, you will have to un- pick the knitting until the armhole is the correct depth, pick up the stitches, and then work the shoulder shapings again. I admit it is more work, but it must be done if you want the sleeve to fit. 0 0, 0 It seems that just these past few weeks I have had many requests for tatted place mats, so I am running again a pattern which I showed about three years ago. For those of you that wish to learn to tat, I have a, leaflet which gives complete details and diagrams for the hands, shuttle and thread, for each step of making the stitches. The price of the - o • ". cents. If you have thought about trying this art, you'll find this leaflet most useful. For the Tatted Place Mat pattern No. 8152 send 75 cents plus a stamped self ad- dressed return envelope. If you do not have an envelope or stamp, please enclose an extra. 50 cents to cover the cost of handling and print your name and address. Send to: Louisa Rush, "Craft Talk", 486 Montford Drive, Dollard des Orineadx; P.Q., H9G 1M6. Please be sure to state pattern numbers cor- rectly when ordering and to enclose your stamped return envelope for faster service. Do you like your job? friendship by doing what- ever she suggested. When you are chunky and slightly cross-eyed, you'll do ahnost anything to be loved. I agreed to be the Lady. Angela tied one of her mother's tablecloths around my neck, and disappeared behind my back. Humming, she flipped combs and brushes through my hair. Suddenly, something went "crunch" behind my left ear. "Hey," I said. "You promis- ed you wouldn't cut it." By REV. LEE TRUMAN One of the major choic- es people make is the way they earn their living. This can be a sound decision or one of the biggest mistakes of their lives. For most persons this choice :happens by accident. Some people may feel trapped because they find that they are miserable in their job, and have discov- ered that life is too short and too valuable to endure the best third of each day doing something they can barely tolerate. There are many persons who feel their jobs are just work: They wish they could earn their living doing what they enjoy. I see book- keepers who would like to be salesmen-, teachers who wish, they were cabinetmakers, and businessmen who want ---tiib-teachers:-We-grort-and change and what was satis- fying years ago may not be fulfilling today. The problem in this is that people who are in a job they do not like for a long period can become very moody, nervous, or they tire easily and become a victim of in- • digestion and insomnia. If this emotional pressure is continued, they may soon have feelings of frustration and grow sour on life. It's not always necessary to change to a completely new line of activity. A busi- nessman was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Part of the diagnosis was that he was dealing with things when what he basically wanted -to do was to deal with people. I recommended that he stay in the field he knew, which was business management. Using that skill he found that he could find a job where he dealt di- rectly with people. He found a job as a business and per- sonnel manager of a hospital and is now a happy man working with people. The main thing is to de- vise a plan which lets you shift the emphasis on one ca- reer to another area over a period of time. Make time work for you, but when you start making excuses for postponing action you are doomed to stay where you • ard. Excuses are almost uni- versally one of these "I don't have the money," "I don't have the time," or "My fami- ly won't let me." These are things to talk through with a professional counselor. The three factors which decide your success in any job, new or old, are 1. Your capacity for getting along well with the people you work with. 2. Your ability to a the job. 3. Your actual de- sire to do the job. According to studies, de- sire to do the job well is more important than initial ability. Ability can be devel- oped but not so with desire. Altogether too ,much em- phasis has been placed on what we ought to do rather than what we want to do. Whether you are driving a truck, or building a skys- craper, selling sausages, or teaching, your greatest sat- isfaction will come from the fact that you want tremen- dously to do something very well, and you enjoy doing it. • Hollywood Hotline By Nancy Anderson HOLLYWOOD As the Carny barker at the Wheel of Fortune says, "Around and around they go, and where they'll stop, nobody knows." His chant is applicable to television shows, some still in the idea stage; some com- pleted pilots; some scripted and not produced; some ac- tually in production, but not yet put on a network sche- dule. Jim Carrey, a Canadian comic described by his pub- licist as `.'brilliant" and "rubber -faced" is in one of the last-named, an MTM ser- ies called "The Duck Fac- tory", designed for NBC but not yet given an air time. In addition to benefiting from Carrey's rubbery face, the show is blessed with the expertise of producer Allan Burns, who created and pro- duced "Mary Tyler Moore", "Rhoda", and "Lou Grant". Carrey, who does both stand-up and situation comedy and loves both equally,iplays, in his words, "a very green -behind -the - ears, Middle American kid from Duluth, Minn." in the series.' "He's a young cartoonist who's been dying all his life to be part of The Duck Fac- tory, which is an animation studio doing duck cartoons." The fictional studio turns out animated film starring only one duck who, Carrey continues, "looks something like me. He's tall and skinny and . . . uh . . . sort of whaeky." Ontario -born Carrey is seeking his fortune in this country because, as he says, "This is the big time." ,"But Canadians have to see that you've made it here before they'll accept you as a big star," Since moving to Los Angeles last February, Carrey has performed regu- larly at The Comedy Store on Sunset Strip and has made a movie, "Finders Keepers", with Beverly D'Angelo, Michael O'Keefe and Lou Gossett, Jr. 4.• JIM CARREY . Seeking his,fortune in the United States— because 'this is the big time' Angela stopped humming. "Oh golly. Well listen. Just sit still andi'll fix it. Okay?" The crunching noises con- tinued. Angela snipped here, snipped there, and said "Oh golly," frequently. Them my mother came roaring dam on both of us and belayed me six ways from Sunday for al- lowing my Best' Friend 10 turn me int the apparent victim of a nasty skin dis- ease. "Look at you!" she hollered, just as if it was my fault. "Your scalp is show- ing!" Angela got off seot.free, as beautiful blue-eyed children are apt to, although I re'nall her mother complaining that her sewing shears were ut- terly ruined. Hair! What a fascinating, klinriating, frustrating piece of business it is! Few of us are satisfied with what we've got. Either it's too little in the right place or too much in the wrong place. So much time is spent complaining and fussing about hair, that you might think, most folk would be happier without any at all. Yet a man without hair is regarded as unfortu- nate: a woman without hair is unthinkable. I never understood this. Evolution is on the side of the hairless. According to my sci-fi comics, future earth- lings will be taller, skinnier, 431 brainier and tfald as light - bulbs. I live with a Man who is vely close to this evollation- ary ideal and he says that being smooth on top has all sorts of advantages. It is by - genic and saves a lot .of time in the bathroomin the morn- ing. I frequently ponder the merits of baldness as I peer into the bathroom mirror and try to arrange my head into something that won't frighten all the little kiddies at the school bus stop when I step outside for my morning, paper. For little kids, the tempta- tion to cut hair is nearly al- ways irresistible. There are probably as many kids who have gotten into trouble for playing hairdresser as there are little kids who have talk- ed a pal into sticking his ton- gue on the swing set in Janu- ally. Give a little kid 1 pair of •scissors and a playinate with a full head*/ hair, and you have an instant clipping ser- vice. Years ago when I was in my Mother Walton incarna- tion, 1 was busily boiling the' string !roil the Sunday roast into broth for my bairns when there was an angry rap at theback door. I opened it and there stood a pretty (if lopsided), little neighbor child, accompanied by an angry big sister. "Look what your boy .did to my sister's hair!" she said as she point- ed to the ravaged little head at her elbow. "He cut it all off on one side." Aside from braining the boy in question when he got home I couldn't think of a thing to say or do. I pressed a dollar bili into big sister's hand and bade her take the Shorn mite to the Beauty Box for balancing. ( In those days, a dollar was a lot of 'money. You could buy three packages of cigarettes with it) That older sister has grown into a delightful young woman with a little one .of her own. A few weeks ago she told me she had sur- prised her child in the act of de -thatching her Teddy bear, her dolls and herself. "The floor was just covered with these little patches of hair," she said mournfully. "I won- der Why little kids have this compulsion to play hair- dresser?" I don't know, but on ba- lance, playing hairdresser is better than playing doctor. 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