Sentences with phrase «of garter»

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

Four prizes were awarded: Rïse Andersen, «Roundabout» (First Prize), Diane Anderson, «Death of the Garter» (Second Prize), Valerie J. Christell & Gary John Gresl, «Mound of Being — Disintegration» (Third Prize), and Gary Niebuhr, «Horse Flies» (Merchandise Award).

McGlothlin's team found that the ancestors of garter snakes gained toxin - resistant nerves almost 40 million years ago.

The Order of the Garter, Britain's highest order of chivalry, honours contributions to national life and is conferred by the Queen.

Last week the Queen appointed two new members of the Order of the Garter, whose numbers are restricted to 24 - Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Britain's most senior judge, and Admiral Lord Boyce, the former chief of the Defence Staff.

Lady Thatcher was made a Lady Companion of the Garter in 1995, five years after leaving office, while Sir John, who left Number 10 in 1997, was made a Knight of the Garter in 2005.

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.

St James's Palace said it was because, unlike Sir John Major and Baroness Thatcher, they are not Knights of the Garter.

Queen Victoria's first prime minister and mentor, Lord Melbourne, once said that he liked his Order of the Garter «because there's no demm'd merit in it.»

«No doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship - not though it be of the Garter - confers so fair an honour.»

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.

And how magnanimous Boris was in saying we should rise above it; well, I'm going to sling the mud straight back at Sir John Major, a knight of the garter who ought to know how to behave better, who has said things about our campaign and then responds by using the most dishonest figure from their campaign about three million jobs...

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

Whip up squares of garter stitch and seam the squares together with a... [Read More...]

Most knitters learn the knit stitch first, and they are used to seeing the... MORE bumpy ridges of Garter Stitch that are formed by knitting every stitch on every row.

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

This will match the six rows of garter stitch you knitted at the very beginning of the scarf.

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).

The bumpy texture of garter stitch means that you can use just about any increase or decrease method you like and it will virtually disappear into the surrounding stitches.

You'll be going back and forth all the way around the tube, knitting, and therefore creating the effect of garter stitch, but without having to purl.

Add a little fun to your exploration of Garter Stitch (and a little color to your table) with these simple three - color coasters.

A: He will not wear a blue sash across his uniform because he is not yet a member of the Order of the Garter.

Each year in June, royals who are Knights and Ladies of the Garter process in carriages from the state apartments down the hill to the chapel for the traditional Order of the Garter ceremony.

On each side of the choir are the 15th century beautifully carved stalls of the Knights and Ladies of the Garter.

I do happen to be a fan of garters and stockings and the cool thing about these is how they are completely sewn together.

Not exact matches

doobz: If you're seeing a garter snake that means you see grass... right now that is simply not fair and we'll be happy to send you truck load upon truck load of our white stuff.

Speaking of weddings, the girl who caught the bouquet and the guy who caught the garter at our wedding are getting married at the end of the month.

Boys in dirty knickers with garters dangling and socks around the ankles spent many a long afternoon on the sidewalks and in the alleys of Flatbush huddled along the shooting line with bottle caps.

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).

This is my second pattern of Melissa's - the first was my garter stitch cardi - and I love them both so much.

Remember that even though garter stitch is considered the most basic of all knitting stitches, there are some interesting things to learn about it.

Check out more great garter stitch knitting patterns that are perfect for beginners and people who love quick and easy projects of all sorts.

The bias method of knitting is an easy way to give Garter Stitch squares a different look.

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.

Liat Gat has a video on her website that shows you how to work Garter Stitch in the round, doing a wrap and turn at the beginning of each round, where the wrap looks like another stitch and makes it look completely fluid and seamless without purling a stitch.

If you want to fancy up Garter Stitch just slightly, throw in a regular (or irregular, if that's your style) row of eyelets.

Kathryn Ivy describes how she knits jogless Garter Stitch by moving the end of the round so you can't see a line where the round ended because it's always moving.

It also involves purling the slip - stitch rounds because that's how you make Garter Stitch in the round, but that makes the slipping even easier because the yarn is already at the front of the work.

Just make sure you knit your gauge swatch in the pattern you want to use, that you cast on the proper number of stitches to make the pattern work and that you understand that many stitch patterns take more yarn to work than plain old garter stitch.

Remembering to knit a round and purl a round in garter stitch in the round can be tricky if you're used to the mindlessness of flat garter knitting, but you'll get the hang of it.

If you repeat this stitch over and over every stitch of every row, you'll have Garter Stitch, the most basic knitting stitch.

When you first learn to knit, the first stitch you learn is the garter stitch, knitting every stitch of every row.

Knitting garter stitch flat means you can knit every stitch of every row, but things are different when working in the round because you're working the right side of the fabric every round.

Now, whenever you see «Garter Stitch» in the title or instructions for a pattern, you know that's just a fancy way of saying knit every row.

When you first learn to knit you learn the knit stitch, and when the knit stitch is repeated for every stitch of every row that gives you Garter Stitch.

For the rest of the project, the edge stitches will be in Garter Stitch and the rest of the body in Stockinette.

Basically, it's a variation on Garter Stitch in which you work with needles of very different sizes, giving you alternating rows of small stitches and large stitches.

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!