"Red" Work Embroidery

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......

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......

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

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......

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.

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)
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"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

LOL!!!!!

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Kathyl (KJ)
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"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.

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.

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.

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......