Knitting!

Have any of you ever first looked at a pattern and thought "There is no way that I'll ever knit this thing," only to find need or reason to actually knit it sometime later? It's happened to me, recently. After a friend of mine went into the hospital to have a hysterectomy, I thought it might be nice to knit her something as a get-well present. After some thought, and also after asking her partner whether or not the recipient might find it in bad taste, I made the decision to knit from a pattern I had previously thought to be silly.

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This showed up in a discussion thread on another forum I read. The thread title is "Your stupid joke here," so don't say I didn't warn you.

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Can somebody with a copy of magazine 40 please let me know if the pattern for "Arwen" the unmistakeable ball gown of kid silk haze how the ball gown is constructed? I just want to know if it is knit in more than one piece and how many pieces it is knit in.

does anyone know any good yarn stores in japan, in or around nagahama, hikone, or kyoto?

my friend just moved to japan, and she found one store, but their selection wasn't very good.


any help would be much appreciated!
thanks!