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Busy knitter offers up holiday sweater kits

By LINDA D. COLE and INGRID L. KOHLER
Published March 26, 2005

What is your definition of maturity? (No, we aren't talking age here.) Here's the staff's: Maturity is the ability to assess realistically what you're likely to accomplish and to jettison the stuff you admit you'll never get to.

Reader Irma Richards is a striking example of maturity in this context. She has two kits to give to knitters who want to get a head start on projects for Christmas. Both are Mary Maxim kits for women's Christmas pullovers. The first is made of white four-ply sport weight yarn; a Christmas tree pattern adorns the front. This kit will produce women's pullovers for chest sizes 32 through 36, and it includes all the materials needed to decorate the tree, including the lights.

The second kit is for a white pullover with a red holly and hearts design that circles the waist. Above this design, a lacy pattern extends to the sweater's neck. This kit is for women's sizes 30 to 40 and uses four-ply worsted weight yarn.

Now we get to the part of Irma's letter that indicates the wisdom self-knowledge brings: "I love to knit but know I will never have the time to get the sweaters made. I'd love to give them to someone who could use and enjoy them. Happy knitting." Irma, by recognizing you can't do it all, you are an example to all of us. Christmas knitters can reach Irma by e-mailing igrichards@earthlink.net or calling 727 376-6064.

Mary Hohl of Beverly Hills needs the address and/or phone number of the company that makes the doll pattern "The Foster Children." The company also handles the material for making the dolls' bodies. The last Mary knew, the company was in either Alabama or Georgia. If you have the information she needs, please call 352 746-9390 or e-mail chohl@tampabay.rr.com

Celia Conlin of St. Petersburg has Lifetime stainless steel cookware that is obviously not lasting a lifetime because some of it needs to be replaced or repaired. Unfortunately, like Mary above, Celia needs an address to which the cookware may be sent. The last address Celia had for Lifetime Cookware was in West Bend, Wis., but it's no longer working for her. If you know whom to contact, please let Celia know by calling (727) 323-5143.

P.S. Celia is offering some antique buttons that may interest you.

Jean Schmidt has unused writing paper and all-occasion greeting cards that she would like to pass along to a person who can use them. Please call (727) 586-4839 if you are interested.

Do you have a spare radio that receives only AM and FM? Rosemary Kareck of Pinellas Park is having trouble locating one. Her number is (727) 546-5352.

Here's an item one doesn't see every day, which is undoubtedly the very reason Virginia Dunham is looking for it. She needs help finding some old-fashioned wood curtain stretchers. For those unfamiliar with this device, which has certain similarities to instruments used in the Spanish Inquisition, it is a wooden frame with pins stuck in it. One hooked the newly washed curtains over the pins, pulling the fabric taut, so that while the curtains dried they kept their shape. The frames could be adjusted to fit various sizes.

Virginia has a crocheted bedspread she would like to stretch to its maximum size, so she hopes you have a stretcher you are willing to part with. Or maybe to lend? Virginia will pick it up; please call (727) 539-1811. Jack Hauser remembers hearing a poem many years ago, but he recalls only two lines of it: "I saw a girl and she was blind, I have two eyes and the world is mine." Jack would like to know who wrote this poem, as well as find the poem's complete text. If you have the answers, please either e-mail Jack at jhauser@tampabay.rr.com or call (352) 238-1878.

Carole Young is looking for an old pattern for baby doll pajamas, size 10 or 12. She may be reached at (727) 392-4247.

Florence Galgano of Seminole has craft magazines you are welcome to. Please call (727) 398-2295 and ask for her.

Kathy Iwanowski, a Dunedin artist, has been asked to speak at a creativity conference in July and needs two items to prepare for it: a laptop computer in working condition that can handle a PowerPoint presentation, and a camera tripod. If you have upgraded or just aren't using these items, please contact Kathy by phone at 727 224-5318 or by e-mail to artsygirl2U@cs.com

Jim Morris of Redington Shores would like to give his 27-inch black wall unit microwave-oven combo that works just fine to a person who could use it. Jim may be reached at (727) 391-3340.

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