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Old June 23rd 05, 06:39 PM
joy beeson
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So there I sat in the rocking chair next to the big window
in the living room, hemming down the lining of a mandarin
collar on my latest sloper beta, with scissors, pin magnet,
and ball of DMC Cordonnette #100 beside me, when it got to
be time to do something else, so I stuck my needle into my
work, dropped my thimble into the hollow spool inside the
ball, and left the room.

When I returned, the ball was where I'd left it -- but a
thin white line looped and curved all over the room, twining
around his scratching post and the furniture like the dotted
line in the "Family Circus" cartoon.

I had to lock Al in the bedroom while I was winding it up
again, but bless his little heart, he hadn't tangled it any.
(AND I found the thimble!) I was a bit worried when I
found that he'd gone through the uprights of the treadle
sewing machine, where I couldn't follow, but he'd done that
*first*, so the remaining thread was short enough to pull on
through.

I've never seen the tom-fool tomcat move any of his
*official* toys more than a yard or two!

The sloper beta fits, by the way, but makes me look like an
ill-stuffed sausage. (So does my birthday suit, come to
think of it.) I won't be cutting my nice cotton-linen print
by *this* version of the pattern.

Hmm. I've taken "beta" from the writing groups. It means
to test something by putting it into actual use -- in this
case, by using the pattern-in-progress to make something I
intend to actually wear.

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Old June 24th 05, 12:04 AM
Arri London
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joy beeson wrote:

So there I sat in the rocking chair next to the big window
in the living room, hemming down the lining of a mandarin
collar on my latest sloper beta, with scissors, pin magnet,
and ball of DMC Cordonnette #100 beside me, when it got to
be time to do something else, so I stuck my needle into my
work, dropped my thimble into the hollow spool inside the
ball, and left the room.

When I returned, the ball was where I'd left it -- but a
thin white line looped and curved all over the room, twining
around his scratching post and the furniture like the dotted
line in the "Family Circus" cartoon.


snip

One cat of mine did that years ago too! She found a reel of thread I
left on a shelf. Apparently spent the entire day, while I was at work,
unwinding the thread all over the living room. The reel was empty. A lot
of time was spent snipping and removing thread.
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Old June 24th 05, 07:54 AM
Kate Dicey
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joy beeson wrote:

So there I sat in the rocking chair next to the big window
in the living room, hemming down the lining of a mandarin
collar on my latest sloper beta, with scissors, pin magnet,
and ball of DMC Cordonnette #100 beside me, when it got to
be time to do something else, so I stuck my needle into my
work, dropped my thimble into the hollow spool inside the
ball, and left the room.

When I returned, the ball was where I'd left it -- but a
thin white line looped and curved all over the room, twining
around his scratching post and the furniture like the dotted
line in the "Family Circus" cartoon.

I had to lock Al in the bedroom while I was winding it up
again, but bless his little heart, he hadn't tangled it any.
(AND I found the thimble!) I was a bit worried when I
found that he'd gone through the uprights of the treadle
sewing machine, where I couldn't follow, but he'd done that
*first*, so the remaining thread was short enough to pull on
through.

I've never seen the tom-fool tomcat move any of his
*official* toys more than a yard or two!


Typical, innit! What anice amusing tale to start the day.

The sloper beta fits, by the way, but makes me look like an
ill-stuffed sausage. (So does my birthday suit, come to
think of it.) I won't be cutting my nice cotton-linen print
by *this* version of the pattern.


Better luck next time!

Hmm. I've taken "beta" from the writing groups. It means
to test something by putting it into actual use -- in this
case, by using the pattern-in-progress to make something I
intend to actually wear.

Joy Beeson



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