Sentences with phrase «as garter»

Not exact matches

Even so unimpeachable a remark as that reptiles lay eggs and mammals birth their young alive needs to reckon with the garter snake and the duckbilled platypus.

Anyway, I was looking for just the right project - something that I could carry around easily when leaving the booth to visit another stage, something that wouldn't require pen and paper to keep track of, something I could be interrupted from without messing it up, and yet, something that wouldn't bore me to tears (no garter stitch this weekend, as much as I sometimes do love it).

Because the right side of the work is always facing you as you work in the round, knitting every stitch of every round gives you Stockinette Stitch, not Garter.

Another easy way to make Garter Stitch more interesting is to throw in stripes, as in this super warm baby blanket.

California Non Stop, for example, offers DJ - centered planners with specialists who «From your arrival, cake cutting, special dances, garter and bouquet toss, and finally your departure, we will make sure that your wedding experience is as you've always imagined it would be.»

If you're using a stitch pattern other than Garter Stitch, you may find it easier to work the increase and the decrease on the same row, as I did with my Bias Knit Scarf, which is worked in Stockinette Stitch.

Garter Stitch Faggot uses the same pattern row as Turkish Stitch, but it is alternated with a row of Garter Stitch, which makes the fabric a little firmer and more solid (it also biases thanks to all those right - leaning decreases; you could alternate a row of k2togs with a row of ssks to reduce this tendency).

With the eyelash and ribbon yarns together work four rows of garter stitch as described in Step 1.

Pick up and knit 20 stitches as before and knit in Garter Stitch for 20 inches.

When you're comfortable with garter stitch, learn how to purl and you can try some stockinette projects as well!

You can counteract the curl if you want to by adding a border of ribbing, Garter Stitch or another non-curling pattern to the edges (as in the washcloth linked above) or use the curl as a design element.

Many new knitters start with a basic garter stitch scarf as their first knitting project because it's quick, easy and a project you're sure to be proud of when it's done.

You can find a knitting pattern for anything you could possibly want to knit worked in Stockinette Stitch, and you can go a lot of your knitting career only knowing Garter Stitch, Stockinette and ribbing, though I hope you'll branch out and learn other things as well!

Yes - a very similar sweater - as in a sideways knit, garter stitch, pullover, knit in white cotton infant sweater.

He outlasted and outlived them all, and his own sense of humour and not a little vanity can be summed up in one of his occasional verses written when he was enrolled as a Knight of the Garter in June 1956: Few thought he was even a starter, There were many who thoughtthemselves smarter.But he ended PM, CH and CM, An Earl and a Knight of the Garter

The highest English order of chivalry, the Most Noble Order of the Garter, was founded in 1348 by Edward III as a re-creation of the round table of King Arthur.

Properly clad at the Tower of London or at Windsor for the garter ceremony, he would introduce himself as: «2306 8802 Gunner McIntosh AR, Sir.»

It seems Tone and Gordo (unlike Thatcher and Major) are not Knights of the Garter and as such get bumped from the official invite list.

«Garter snakes and newts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race where as the newts become more toxic, the snakes become more resistant,» said McGlothlin, who is also affiliated with the Global Change Center at Virginia Tech.

«We think that the garter snake's evolved resistance to the newt's toxin can be used as a model for understanding complex adaptations that involve more than one gene,» McGlothlin said.

Common garter snakes, along with four other snake species, have evolved the ability to eat extremely toxic species such as the rough - skinned newt — amphibians that would kill a human predator — thanks to at least 100 million years of evolution, according to Joel McGlothlin, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

If the mark looks as though it may be arms of some other description, then the examiner will either consult the Garter Principal King of Arms (or, in Scotland, the Lord Lyon King of Arms) or ask the applicant to explain the derivation of the mark.

Red - sided garter snakes famously engage in what can only be described as orgies, forming large «mating balls» of writhing snakes.

Some female strategies for thwarting sexual manipulation by the males are more subtle, such as the vaginal contractions of female garter snakes, which shorten copulation duration and may limit the damage inflicted by the male's hemipenises.

If you happen to hook them up to primary, in that case everything has to come back out of, such as pantyhose plus garter belt, usuallu when you use the restroom.

You Should Definitely Not Knit This If: You are not into garter stitch as a fabric, and the very idea of picking up all those outer border edges makes you cringe.

Getting in touch with my feminine side as I explore the wonders of being «gurly»... the feel of nylons and garters... the restrictive nature of lacy bras... orally pleasuring my fellow gurls and the women and men who admire us... and so, so much more!

I love to wear garter belts, stockings with sexy undies and dress fully as a gurl.

While the casting of Crispin Glover as a disassociated loner who discovers he has the power to talk to rats is sort of inspired, «X Files» expat writer Glen Morgan's Willard suffers (and yes, I feel silly for saying this) from a lack of character development, a forced psychoanalytic structure, and a sort of inbred Comic Book Guy fondness for self - reference (i.e., the majority of the bit characters have animal names — a sort of thing used best in Landis's An American Werewolf in London and Dante's The Howling: Mrs. Leach, Mr. Garter, Janice Mantis, George Boxer, and so on) that grates.

As even a garter snake will send some people ducking under the theater seat, something like an anaconda, the second largest snake in the world, should do just fine.

Thanks for the insight from deep inside the «mating garter snake ball» as Gaughran would put it.

The overall tablet market has continued to grow as expected: Garter says a total of 195.4 million tablets were bought last year.

As a general rule, garters are easy to set up and maintain.

With nearly 30 species, garters display great variability as to size, coloring, diet and personality.

Through volunteering with Park Stewardship, Ron saw first - hand the need to balance recreational opportunity with the conservation of endangered species such as the San Francisco garter snake.

Andrew Lee, General Manager, Clarion Collection Harte & Garter Hotel & Spa, said: «We are pleased to be known as a Clarion Collection hotel and to provide an excellent four - star hotel offering to both leisure travellers wishing to explore historical Windsor and business travellers who want ease of access to Heathrow and commercial centres along the M4.»

In Ireland Doherty also directed the interdisciplinary arts and cultural initiative Artswave, and acted as Visual Arts Co-ordinator for Garter Lane Arts Centre in Waterford.

In addition to its municipal gallery, Waterford also boasts several other major cultural centres: the Garter Lane Arts Centre, the Garter Lane Theatre, Mary Street Gallery, the Pauline Bewick Collection, as well as a thriving annual Arts Festival.

When we spot a harmless garter snake, our brains light up with activity as we process the «threat.»

It turns out that the house is, as advertised, infested with hundreds of garter snakes.

The overall tablet market has continued to grow as expected: Garter says a total of 195.4 million tablets were bought last year.

Oates wants to build on a 1,887 - acre parcel in central California's Natomas Basin, but because of state and federal regulations protecting wetlands and endangered or threatened species such as the giant garter snake, Oates calculates he'd have to pay about $ 4.2 million to «mitigate» the impact of his development.

Healy added that every effort was being made to protect the San Francisco garter snake, which has been put on the endangered list as rampant development eats up its traditional habitat on the San Francisco peninsula.