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lady sporky rat of the ms holding and sporkington ([personal profile] sporky_rat) wrote in [community profile] knitting2010-12-05 12:37 pm
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Knit Swap 2010 Announcements!

Guess what, folks! Today you'll be receiving your partners! I'll be sending them out by PM, but I'm going to leave this post for everyone to say what they can and can't have - for example, if you've got a wool allergy, post it down here.

Everyone ready?

GO!
jazzypom: (Default)

No alpaca, or mohair please.

[personal profile] jazzypom 2010-12-05 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
No alpaca or mohair in my yarn. Not even in a mix, please. I can't get on with it at all. No acrylic either, I have enough.

But for the rest, I'm all good. :D
wednesday: (Default)

No alpaca, mohair, acrylic or laceweight, please!

[personal profile] wednesday 2010-12-05 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm allergic to mohair and most alpaca. (This may or may not apply to angora, too -- haven't verified against more than one brand.) My skin doesn't get on with certain types of acrylic, so it's easiest just to rule it out.

Laceweight is too fine for me to manipulate without a lot of hand pain. Learned that one the hard way. :/ Sport on up is best, but I can work with nice fingerings on a good day.

So looking forward to this :D

thicker yarn; no acrylic, please

[personal profile] wunnerwmn 2010-12-05 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'd prefer heavier yarns (just no really fine ones like for lace). No acrylic if possible. You can send me the alpaca and mohair someone else doesn't want... :D
zvi: self-portrait: short, fat, black dyke in bunny slippers (Default)

[personal profile] zvi 2010-12-06 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
I am allergic to wool. Also, I'm not very good at crochet yet,so I frog a lot.
dragonfly: stained glass dragonfly in iridescent colors (Default)

[personal profile] dragonfly 2010-12-06 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Also allergic to ordinary sheep's wool. AFAIK, I'm fine with alpaca, angora, all those other wools out there. Not sheep, though. *g* Thanks!

(my knitting instructor used to hand me skeins of uncertain lineage because I could tell after a few seconds of fidgeting with it whether it was wool or not)
snippy: Lego me holding book (Default)

No acrylic please

[personal profile] snippy 2010-12-06 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
And I'm allergic to cats, so...if you happened to have somebody's hand-spun cat yarn, save it for somebody else! :)
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[personal profile] bercilakslady 2010-12-06 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not fond of acrylic, but am happy with any natural fiber.

Thanks!
minxy: Teal'c raises a hand to say "hey". (Default)

[personal profile] minxy 2010-12-06 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello!

I must also report a sensitivity to pure wool, but I do fine with superwash. I also have hit and miss problems with alpaca (the llama silk I just knit a cowl with was fine, for instance.)

(also I'm katieintheworld on Ravelry, if you want to see the kinds of things I've been knitting...)
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[personal profile] fallingbooks 2010-12-07 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Dear Swap Partner Person:

I'm fine with pretty much whatever. :) I'm Fallingbooks over on Rav if you want to see what I generally get up to.

Danke-
-S
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[personal profile] quartzpebble 2010-12-09 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
I prefer natural fibers if possible. Any weight up through lace is fine by me--my Ravelry username is the same, though I don't have nearly enough photos up right now.
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[personal profile] shadowwolf13 2010-12-10 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'm absolutely thrilled with pretty much anything. I have mostly acrylic but that's not by choice, just what I got for free, though I don't have much use for the fun fur / eyelash stuff that I have.

Blessings,
Shadow
tantekoo: (glee flash)

[personal profile] tantekoo 2010-12-10 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I like everything except for mohair (weirds me out) and cotton (dries my skin), adore natural fibers, and prefer any weight but bulky, just because I do more fine-gauge knitting than anything else. Please feel free to check out Ravelry, I've the same username there as here!