http://www.craftbanter.com rec.crafts.textiles.quilting en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:47:17 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.craftbanter.com/images/002/misc/rss.jpg http://www.craftbanter.com http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138813&goto=newpost Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:58:26 GMT My mum is dying 8 time zones away. I haven't seen her in 27 years.....my
5 older siblings (3 sisters and 2 brothers) are there at the hospital
with her. I feel so far away from them all. My mother wasn't perfect
and my childhood wasn't ideal, but she is still my mother, and helped
make me who I am today. It hurts so much to lose her.

-- Jo in Scotland
]]> Quilting http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138813 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138812&goto=newpost Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:48:56 GMT I am so sorry to have been away for so long. I would say that it's because I've been busy quilting, but that's not really true. I've been busy ... raising two puppies, getting son #2 off to Air Force basic training (we went to Texas for his graduation a few weeks ago), getting son #1 started in a new career repairing(wait for it -----) repairing sewing machines, not being very well physically and generally belly-aching and carrying on.

I miss everybody here horribly. Ginger, I owe you email big time. Nightmist, so good to see you are feisty as ever, even if you are a bit laid up right now. Everybody? Oh my how good to see the old gang and all the names and it makes me tear up a bit.

I promise not to be scarce now. I will pop in and say hello and tell you when I get a new project going.

I love every one of you,
Sunny
]]> Quilting http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138812 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138810&goto=newpost Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:50:14 GMT Hi, we'll see if this newsserver works better for me than the last one I
tried. :)

Dragonfly

]]> Quilting http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138810 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138809&goto=newpost Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:12:24 GMT This is from the RCTQ Facebook Page: From Karen Tucker Was just sitting here thinking about Leslie and the Furbabies. Wonder if she finished that cute little house she was fixing up? Karen can no longer get Newsgroups. -- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk This is from the RCTQ Facebook Page:

From Karen Tucker
Was just sitting here thinking about Leslie and the Furbabies. Wonder if
she finished that cute little house she was fixing up?


Karen can no longer get Newsgroups.
--
Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://picasaweb.google.com/SallySeaside
]]> Quilting http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138809 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138806&goto=newpost Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:20:36 GMT I was seriously needing some 50 wt aurifil in pink. I searched the world over . . . and found a really good price. An online shop going out of business. I bought my thread for $ 6.90 each including shipping. Hurts me to see a shop leaving us; hurts me to pay nearly $11 for a spool plus... I was seriously needing some 50 wt aurifil in pink. I searched the world
over . . . and found a really good price. An online shop going out of
business. I bought my thread for $ 6.90 each including shipping. Hurts me
to see a shop leaving us; hurts me to pay nearly $11 for a spool plus
shipping. If you're an aurifil fanatic, see if she has any thread colors
you use. www.sewezdesigns.com . She has other good stuff massively reduced
too. I controlled myself. I may go back. Polly

]]> Quilting http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138806 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138805&goto=newpost Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:23:49 GMT
Yeah the last few weeks have been like that.

I've definitely got an incisional hernia, plus I have tendonitis _again_
this time all up my left arm. So the medicals pretty much want me
sitting around doing nothing. I really suck at that.
Just as a cherry on top I got a sinus infection (I am prone because of
that scar) which sank into my chest. So I am coughing a lot.
No surgery planned at present, unless something bad happens they will
probably just leave the hernia alone. I have been advised that investing
in spanx or similar foundation garments would be a good idea.

I was supposed to make a wedding cake, which the chest cold put the
brakes on. I had to delegate and I felt bad about having to do that. I
would have felt worse about coughing and hacking all over somebody's
wedding cake though.

Poison ivy crept into my garden beds while I was busy being sick these
last couple of years. My garden slaves were struck down most fiercely.
Especially DD3, she got a bit of sunburn on the first day and was
religiously smearing herself down with sunscreen and aloe. Which was
very effective in spreading the irritating resins from the poison ivy
very evenly all over every inch of exposed skin. She was in such bad
shape that we carried her to the doctor and the doctor made both
horrified and sympathetic sounds before prescribing prednisone and
soothing baths. The garden is hash, I just hope we got all the poison
ivy pulled out. DH and I went out and identified and marked it, I just
hope we didn't miss any. Yep, hoeing weeds is probably what did my arm
in. All garden slaves have now been schooled in identifying irritating
and dangerous plants. I even rang the extension to see if we should be
on the watch for anything in particular this year. Apparently there have
been more than usual reports about giant hogweed locally, so I made for
darn sure that DD1 (DGS's mom) knows what that looks like and what it can
do to a child.

On Monday I am going with DD1 to arrange for DGS's kindergarden placement.
For some reason the lady at the school wants to place him in a class that
is not quite right for him. We did the tour, and it would be a wonderful
class for a different child. DGS needs a more restrictive and structured
environment. Why on earth this woman is so keen on placing him there
when another school is holding a place for him in a more appropriate
class is a mystery. Everybody keeps telling us how confused they are by
her behavior and saying that she isn't usually like this. His pre-K
school has actually set up a pro-bono lawyer for us because they are so
unhappy with how things are going, and the kindergarden placement being
held for him is not even at that school.
I am sharpening my claws and reviewing logic and rhetoric.

DD2 totaled another car. She was coming back from a gig with a bunch
gear, a hoop dancer, a fire breather, and Potato in the car when an
oncoming car made a left turn right in front of her. She had been
driving carefully and below the speed limit because a deer had run in
front of her, and there are always more deer somewhere behind the first
one, so it wasn't as bad as it might have been. After making sure
everybody was OK, she found Potato and just sat calming her until the
police arrived. Just bruises and a broken nose in her car, nobody hurt
in the other one. A member of the local constabulary took Potato in for
the couple of days DD was in hospital being looked over to her insurance
company's satisfaction. Apparently the local vet screamed like a girl
when they carried Potato in to see him. The other driver was cited.
Again, I told DD she should get a horse. Now she is looking at mustangs.
*roll eyes*
About a week after she got home, somebody broke into her house and stole
her new snake Peanut. She is very glad it wasn't Potato, who is a more
experienced dancer among other things. I am still waiting for more info
about this.

Just because I clearly have nothing else to worry about, I got a phone
call the other day. It was from the American consulate in Puerto Vallarta
Mexico. An online friend of ours who has given great cause for concern
over the past year or so, had been assaulted there and had given our
phone number as someone to contact. Seems our number was the only one
she gave to the consul. She had walked and hitched to Mexico from Texas.
Why I do not know, as I said over the last year or so she has given us
much cause for concern. I am not even sure what she was doing in Texas
in the first place. I contacted the lady's lawyers, got the appropriate
permissions and emailed their phone number to the consulate. Hopefully
by now she has gotten some money (of which she certainly has no lack when
she is able to remember she needs to tell the lawyer where she is in
order to get some), and some ID and whatever other papers she needs to
get by. It can be very scary when a person full grown goes enough around
the bend that you have to worry a lot. There is just nothing you can do
but watch in horror, and hope.

Being as I can't do much else I have designed and done the math for some
more quilts. I have designed some more knitting projects. I have
designed some needle run laces, some combination kinds, and a couple of
bobbin types. I have sketched out some clothes that I have to do math
for, may as well plan out some flat patterns since I am not going to be
sewing anything soon.
I am allowed to spin for 20-30 minutes a day, treadling the wheel is some
serious exercise for the abdominal muscles and they don't want me to
overdo. I am painting some too, it is not a one handed thing, but I
cannot sit about with my hands folded all the livelong. I am considering
doing some batik, and then teaching one of the DDs to do the dyeing
part. DD1 wants to learn tie dye, so she is likely.

So I have been shopping for a nice cave, away from noxious weeds, noxious
people, and idiot drivers. On a quiet mountaintop that just happens to
have an internet connection and is on a reliable postal route. That
probably violates the rules of the hermit's union, but what the heck! My
cave, my rules.

NightMist


--
I'm raising a developmentally disabled child. What's your superpower?
]]> Quilting NightMist http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138805 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138802&goto=newpost Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:35:52 GMT I've been busy sewing summer play clothes for GD and teaching her sewing at
the same time. That means, at 12 yr. old the first part of July, she has
been helping me and learning at the same time. This week end we will be
making matching headbands, and maybe quilting material to make a tote bag
for gym clothes when school starts back in August and also a quilted bag for
her electronic things. We are both having fun! This is On Topic since we
will be quilting cloth for the bags! Also, we are saving scraps to make a
quilt for her bed. In the past few years I've taught a few people to sew
and to quilt. What fun!
Barbara in SC


]]> Quilting Bobbie Sews More http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138802 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138799&goto=newpost Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:15:16 GMT Polly, when you sew cloth diapers do you use a paper pattern or make your
own using a disposable diaper? Do you make a Semi-fitted diaper or was of
the old fashion rectangles like from 1950's. Don't have time to make any
right now, but I'm thinking I might during the winter for charity. Or I may
stick to blankets------less thinking involved! Thanks, Barbara


]]> Quilting Bobbie Sews More http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138799 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138798&goto=newpost Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:57:15 GMT Hi
New here and just wondering what owners of the Brother SE400 think of their machine.

I have a bit of cash set aside for a new sewing/embroidery machine and a few friends have recommended the Brother.

There's a lot of machines out there, but I like the fact that patterns can be downloaded from the net. It also fits within my budget, so that's another positive!

Anyone got anything good / bad to say about this?

Thanks :) ]]> Quilting popmelainetos http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138798 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138793&goto=newpost Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:08:01 GMT If you are a owner of film company or shopping mall, the Crystal Led movie poster display super slim Led light box is very important for your company. It is widely used in digital photo frame, wedding photography, shopping malls counters, Interior 1, Ultra-thin characteristic, the thinnest... If you are a owner of film company or shopping mall, the Crystal Led movie poster display super slim Led light box is very important for your company.
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]]> Quilting 86handbag@gmail.com http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138793 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138791&goto=newpost Fri, 31 May 2013 10:31:28 GMT I've been trying for a while now to find some orange and black striped
stretch fabric. I'd prefer smaller stripes (say, 1/2" or smaller), but
at this point I'd be happy with anything! I only want a yard or so -
hoping to make onesies for two new babies in the family - but d'you
think anyone out there has anything remotely suitable for sale?

Please let me know if you're aware of a source! Of course, the vendor
would need to be willing to ship to Australia.

(The babies' Daddies play for the same footy team: Wallsend Maryland
Tigers. Hence the need for black and orange stripes.)
--
Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia
]]> Quilting Trish Brown http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138791 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138785&goto=newpost Tue, 28 May 2013 21:38:58 GMT Hello all,

does any of you know of a fabric with cat motifs which cover an area of
about 4 inches/10 cm square? I'm looking for a new 'centrepiece' for a quilt
for DD. I had planned to make her one in the Chinese Coins pattern with
larger inserts or 'medallions' (if that is the correct term for a square or
rectangular one) with a 'Pixar's "Cars" tm'. However, she seems to have
grown out of her 'Cars' phase and since I have all the other fabrics to go
with that red fabric and want to make her one now, Cats (and not too cute
ones) seem an acceptable replacement which might last her for a couple of
years. The colour scheme should be red/orange/yellow. I would be so grateful
for any hints and it would save me an age of searching in the jungle of
patchwork fabrics.

Thanks in advance,

U.

]]> Quilting Ursula Schrader http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138785 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138784&goto=newpost Tue, 28 May 2013 20:48:27 GMT Howdy!
http://texasassociationofquiltguilds.org/pictures/

As explained on the website, TAQG is a collection of Texas quilt guilds,
sharing info & resources. Most of the pics are from various Rally Days, with
guilds displaying their raffle quilts, sharing lunch, and enjoying the
wealth of information & entertainment of that day's (famous) speaker.

Cheers!
Ragmop/Sandy

]]> Quilting Sandy E http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138784 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138780&goto=newpost Sun, 26 May 2013 15:08:33 GMT Updated site for antique and vintage hankies, Welcome ! http://sites.google.com/site/fancyhankies I have have a large group that are not in perfect condition, suitable for recycling ! Please, email for information: pamjdrake@gmail.com Greetings,Pam Updated site for antique and vintage hankies, Welcome !

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I have have a large group that are not in perfect
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]]> Quilting Pam Drake http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138780 http://www.craftbanter.com/showthread.php?t=138778&goto=newpost Sat, 25 May 2013 19:43:25 GMT I found a new product to help your store get more customers: Slim Crystal Led Light box, it is big shock for everyone crossed. I have got some samples from the factory: http://www.86lightbox.com/ Its is Guangzhou Beyond LED Light Box Factory, excellent Led Light Box manufacturer in China. They... I found a new product to help your store get more customers:
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