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OT Stay Cool?
105° at 10 pm? Good gracious! My goodness! Awesome. We do the 110° bit
but by 7 in the evening, things are bearable outside. However - we've learned a cheap trick for keeping down the power company bill. We have 3 cheap (less than $10 ) little plastic electric fans going. One in the sewing room, one in the kitchen and one in the hall. They don't use much power but they do immensely help the big ac keep the house cooler by moving the air around or something. With the lights, iron and me steaming over a 5/8" seam, the ac and budget needed some help. I highly recommend the little fans for a helping hand. Polly "Pati, in Phx" signed with Have fun, and stay cool. (We are in the midst of an extreme heat advisory.... started Sat. morning early and may end tonight late. Even the dry heat is hot when it is 110°F plus, and 105° at 10PM. sigh........ but we don't have to shovel it...... |
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OT Stay Cool?
even less power used here when it gets hot for us.
open all the doors and windows, stand in the shade somewhere outside or put your feet into a bucket of cold tap water works too. j. "Polly Esther" wrote... 105° at 10 pm? Good gracious! My goodness! Awesome. We do the 110° bit but by 7 in the evening, things are bearable outside. However - we've learned a cheap trick for keeping down the power company bill. We have 3 cheap (less than $10 ) little plastic electric fans going. One in the sewing room, one in the kitchen and one in the hall. They don't use much power but they do immensely help the big ac keep the house cooler by moving the air around or something. With the lights, iron and me steaming over a 5/8" seam, the ac and budget needed some help. I highly recommend the little fans for a helping hand. Polly "Pati, in Phx" signed with Have fun, and stay cool. (We are in the midst of an extreme heat advisory.... started Sat. morning early and may end tonight late. Even the dry heat is hot when it is 110°F plus, and 105° at 10PM. sigh........ but we don't have to shovel it...... |
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"Red" Work Embroidery
I have stitched several of Crab Apple Hill's patterns but didn't
follow their directions to use the double layer. I just made sure that my fabric was thick enough not to show the thread in those small areas of carry over. I also used the Sulky 12 wt thread. It is easier to use it directly from the spool rather than cutting a length and separating the strands. The only drawback is that since you are working with one strand of 12 wt you do not have the flexibility to drop down to one strand for detailed areas like you do when using two strands of floss. Susan Price On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:06:38 -0400, deschuit wrote: Pat in Virginia wrote: It is nice to have a hand project to take to meetings and such. For quite a while I've had a plan to work on "Red" work squares. Mine will feature green thread, though, because I will be stitching foliage. I did try to start this but did not like how the fabric (plain muslin) took to the project. Now I need to select a different (better) fabric and get started. Yesterday I saw some Kona quilt weight cotton. I also saw some Kona muslin that was very, very smooth. I wonder if anyone would recommend either of these? Comments on those or other fabric for this project will be welcome. Thanks bunches. Pat in Virginia I am doing a redwork using different white on whites. The pattern designer suggested using white muslin behind the white on white. THe pattern is by Crab Apple Hill and is the Winter Wonderland pattern. There are snowmen and snowflakes so there is some traveling being done. I thought the extra layer of fabric would make it harder to stitch but it has not. I would recommend this method to everyone. Also I am not using embroidery floss but 1-strand of Sulky 12 wt thread. The thread comes in all colors. Kathy in NH |
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OT Stay Cool?
Clearly Pati lives in the hot part of the desert. She wins.
I don't think we have hit anything over 102 here yet. It usually doesn't do that until early afternoon. We cool off in the evening and all night usually and that saves us. Around here most folks have ceiling fans in a lot of the rooms in addition to the little carry around fans. More than a few swamp coolers too. I don't know how you folks in humid climates can take it. I can go the dry heat but that humidity makes me more than a tad cranky. I gotta have the cool evenings too. I am jealous of ds in San Diego. If houses get cheap enough I could find myself back there. Taria "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... 105° at 10 pm? Good gracious! My goodness! Awesome. We do the 110° bit but by 7 in the evening, things are bearable outside. However - we've learned a cheap trick for keeping down the power company bill. We have 3 cheap (less than $10 ) little plastic electric fans going. One in the sewing room, one in the kitchen and one in the hall. They don't use much power but they do immensely help the big ac keep the house cooler by moving the air around or something. With the lights, iron and me steaming over a 5/8" seam, the ac and budget needed some help. I highly recommend the little fans for a helping hand. Polly "Pati, in Phx" signed with Have fun, and stay cool. (We are in the midst of an extreme heat advisory.... started Sat. morning early and may end tonight late. Even the dry heat is hot when it is 110°F plus, and 105° at 10PM. sigh........ but we don't have to shovel it...... |
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That's why we're so pretty. The steam is good for our complexions. Polly
"Taria" wrote, in part I don't know how you folks in humid climates can take it. I can go the dry heat but that humidity makes me more than a tad cranky. |
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"Red" Work Embroidery
OH I remember those days! Yes....hot is hot...humidity/no humidity....it's
HOT! We set a record on my DD's birthday back in the 80's at 122 degrees. It was HOT HOT HOT! The pool felt like bathwater. We had popsicles for supper....no one wanted to eat anything else. Shoveling ain't all that bad.....they make handy machines that do it quickly and very well. Be careful in that heat Pati! Hummmm I wonder where that quilted steering wheel cover is????? Is it still packed away here? Or did we give it away when we moved? -- Kathyl (KJ) remove "nospam" before mchsi http://community.webshots.com/user/kathylquiltz "Pati, in Phx" wrote in message ... You're welcome,Polly. Although I have a feeling that it isn't often that you don't know what you are talking about. G When the mood strikes I can discourse at length on most any textile related subject. If it bothers anyone, skip the messages. VBG The "teacher" shows up at any time, but I do try to control that aspect some. Have fun, and stay cool. (We are in the midst of an extreme heat advisory.... started Sat. morning early and may end tonight late. Even the dry heat is hot when it is 110°F plus, and 105° at 10PM. sigh........ but we don't have to shovel it...... Pati, in Phx On Jul 12, 11:53 am, "Polly Esther" wrote: Wonderful! When I don't know what I'm talking about, Pati does. How great is that? Thank you, Pati. Polly |
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OT Stay Cool?
LOL!!!!!
-- Kathyl (KJ) remove "nospam" before mchsi http://community.webshots.com/user/kathylquiltz "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... That's why we're so pretty. The steam is good for our complexions. Polly "Taria" wrote, in part I don't know how you folks in humid climates can take it. I can go the dry heat but that humidity makes me more than a tad cranky. |
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I knew there had to be a good reason for it!
-- Louise in Iowa nieland1390@mchsi dot com http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... That's why we're so pretty. The steam is good for our complexions. Polly "Taria" wrote, in part I don't know how you folks in humid climates can take it. I can go the dry heat but that humidity makes me more than a tad cranky. |
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Hey! mutter, mutter....okay, so is that a shot about my desert rat
complexion??? ;-) Michelle in Nevada, where is was still 100 degrees at 9PM last night. Polly Esther wrote: That's why we're so pretty. The steam is good for our complexions. Polly "Taria" wrote, in part I don't know how you folks in humid climates can take it. I can go the dry heat but that humidity makes me more than a tad cranky. |
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Taria wrote:
Clearly Pati lives in the hot part of the desert. She wins. I don't think we have hit anything over 102 here yet. It usually doesn't do that until early afternoon. We cool off in the evening and all night usually and that saves us. Around here most folks have ceiling fans in a lot of the rooms in addition to the little carry around fans. More than a few swamp coolers too. I don't know how you folks in humid climates can take it. I can go the dry heat but that humidity makes me more than a tad cranky. Taria, I'm with you about the humidity. I used to live in southeast Kansas. It was hot AND humid. I have no idea how I ever withstood it now. Best regards, Michelle in Nevada, USA I gotta have the cool evenings too. I am jealous of ds in San Diego. If houses get cheap enough I could find myself back there. Taria "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... 105° at 10 pm? Good gracious! My goodness! Awesome. We do the 110° bit but by 7 in the evening, things are bearable outside. However - we've learned a cheap trick for keeping down the power company bill. We have 3 cheap (less than $10 ) little plastic electric fans going. One in the sewing room, one in the kitchen and one in the hall. They don't use much power but they do immensely help the big ac keep the house cooler by moving the air around or something. With the lights, iron and me steaming over a 5/8" seam, the ac and budget needed some help. I highly recommend the little fans for a helping hand. Polly "Pati, in Phx" signed with Have fun, and stay cool. (We are in the midst of an extreme heat advisory.... started Sat. morning early and may end tonight late. Even the dry heat is hot when it is 110°F plus, and 105° at 10PM. sigh........ but we don't have to shovel it...... |
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