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Old March 20th 05, 10:02 AM
Cynthia Spilsted
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Okay ladies (and gents):
Get out from under your crinolines, prom dresses, quilts and costumes and
check in with us!
I have visions of Tom being rolled down the streets of New York having eaten
too much (sorry, I'm still envious!), Joy getting mugged by American Doll
collectors for her patterns, Cea being locked up for bopping Bridezilla for
one two many outbursts (the first one - it saves us the agony!) and Kate
getting into goodness knows what trouble....
Melinda, I expect, has just been swamped.....(literally and physically!)
Two days and no posts............I might have to go back down and actually
sew those costumes I've been avoiding!
Cynthia


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Old March 20th 05, 02:42 PM
Larry Jaques
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:02:39 -0800, the inscrutable "Cynthia Spilsted"
spake:

Okay ladies (and gents):
Get out from under your crinolines, prom dresses, quilts and costumes and
check in with us!


delurking Larry reporting in, Maam. No crinoline to report.

I just restocked my foam sheeting, 1" velcro, urethane-backed
ballistic nylon, and naugahyde binding for another run of my laptop
glare guards. Having made about two dozen of them so far on the (new
to me) used Consew 210, I'm finally getting used to working on the
machine and really like it.

The exception is the thread. I go along merrily for 20' or so and the
thread loses one of its strands, bunching up against the feed side of
the needle. This is #46 black nylon, new on a 1/4 lb. spool. Losing a
yard of naugahyde binding each time that happens ($55 a spool) is no
fun.


I have visions of Tom being rolled down the streets of New York having eaten
too much (sorry, I'm still envious!), Joy getting mugged by American Doll
collectors for her patterns, Cea being locked up for bopping Bridezilla for
one two many outbursts (the first one - it saves us the agony!) and Kate
getting into goodness knows what trouble....


Perhaps they were all arrested by the Homeland Security forces for
quilting without a license, the nasty terrorists! (I'll let you figure
out who are the terrorists.)


Melinda, I expect, has just been swamped.....(literally and physically!)


Mmmm, good time for gator gumbo.


Two days and no posts............I might have to go back down and actually
sew those costumes I've been avoiding!


Git on it, girl! (Costumes?)


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Old March 20th 05, 03:17 PM
Erin Winslow
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"Cynthia Spilsted" skrev i meddelandet
...
Okay ladies (and gents):
Get out from under your crinolines, prom dresses, quilts and costumes and
check in with us! . . .Two days and no posts............I might have to go

back down and actually
sew those costumes I've been avoiding!


Well, since ya asked! Here's a bit from a letter I wrote my cousin in the
U.S.:
On Sat. Feb 19th, Harri came home from a party, slipped on an icy patch
outside our apartment building and fell against the doorway on his way in.
He had a concussion from this as well as a gash on his forehead so he
threw-up in the stairwell.
At about 4 am I woke-up and started worrying about what had happened to
Harri. I heard something making noise in the stairwell and went to the front
door to check. Imagine my chock when I opened the door to find him standing
there in the dark with blood on his head and vomit down the front of his
jacket! He looked like something out of a horror movie!

I couldn?t get much out of him at first and was more concerned about getting
him cleaned-up anyway, so it wasn?t until the next day that I could piece
together the entire story. Harri didn?t want to go to the doctor and the
wound on his head wasn?t back enough to need stitches, so I just kept an eye
on him at home, checked his pupils, etc. He?s better now, but it took a
couple of weeks for him to stop feeling dizzy when he moved his head
suddenly.

On a happier note I am getting ready for this years Konstrunda (Open Studio
Days). It will be for 3 days (May 5-7) and this year I intend to build a
better exhibit. Last year STUBO was renovating our apartments during April
and that interferred with my preparations, to say the least. Anyway, I am
going to build a "spooky forest" in the hobby room but I can?t do anything
that I can?t undo at the end of the exhibit (like hammer nails into the
walls). There?s a hallway leading into the main area so I?ll set-up tension
curtain rods across part of that and I can hang some gauze curtains from
them. I?ll set-up the tables in the main area so it?s like a banquet hall
but with fabric bowls, etc. Think Judy Chicago?s The Dinner Party without
the ceramics. :-)

Plus I have some ideas on stuff for the kids to do. There are about 10-15
kids who live in this apartment complex and they expect something fun after
last year (when we decorated the little, fabric bags. Plus, I had a craft
day with them on Feb. 19th (that was why I didn?t go to the party with
Harri). The entire exhibit will have a Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter feel
to it (I hope!!!) so I want to do something that will tie-in with that.

**********************

Hope that wasn't TMI!!! Anyway, I will be making my Gandalf/Witchy hat
sometime during the next couple of days. :-) I've sown patches onto an old,
black broomstick skirt and I'll pin it up in places to look even more
tattered. Who knows what I'll come up with between now and May 5th!!!

Erin















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Old March 20th 05, 05:00 PM
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Cynthia Spilsted wrote:

Melinda, I expect, has just been swamped.....(literally and physically!)


I got a bunch of rush work I'm working on and haven't had much time to
write. If this lady doesn't hand me more when I turn it in tomorrow
I'll be back.
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Old March 20th 05, 08:14 PM
BEI Design
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Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:02:39 -0800, the inscrutable "Cynthia
Spilsted" spake:

Okay ladies (and gents):
Get out from under your crinolines, prom dresses, quilts and
costumes and check in with us!


delurking Larry reporting in, Maam. No crinoline to report.


The exception is the thread. I go along merrily for 20' or so
and the thread loses one of its strands, bunching up against
the feed side of
the needle. This is #46 black nylon, new on a 1/4 lb. spool.
Losing a
yard of naugahyde binding each time that happens ($55 a spool)
is no
fun.


Larry, have you replaced your needle? That problem sounds very much
like a burr on the eye of the needle causing the tread to shred.
http://www.a1sewingmachine.com/needles.html

If that isn't the problem, check for a burr on the hole in the plate
where the needle goes through. If there are any rough patches, use
*fine* emory cloth to smooth it.

HTH,

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Beverly
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Old March 20th 05, 08:17 PM
BEI Design
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BEI Design wrote:

much like a burr on the eye of the needle causing the tread[sic]
to...


Yuck! Of course I meant "thread"....

Sorry for the self-follow-up.


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Old March 20th 05, 10:55 PM
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Funny you should mention it. My life has been going to hell in a
sewing etui for some time now, but that's fairly normal, boring stuff,
mixed in with a bare ration of altering items, as I have been ill.
Here's the interesting tid-bits: I hang with a bunch of buds I've
known for years, meeting every Thurs. at a nearby military base to bowl
and catch up on each others weekly events.
Thurs before last, we were barely inside the building before a couple
of handlers brought in a dog. Me, I'm joking the handlers that he
wasn't much of a drug-sniffer, as my purse was loaded with drugs.
(Picked up my prescriptions beforehand.)
Guy jerked his head back and studied me---(now, keep in mind, due to
thyroid, I look like a mad Bette Davis, which alone causes people to
stare.) My disguise of hanging out with fairly normal-looking older
women must have worked, 'cause I'm still on the loose.
Turns out the dog was a bomb-squad dog.
Another guy in civvies props all the doors open...time passes...I
spent most of Feb. in bed with upper respiratory/bronchial
infection...it's cold, I'm seeing my breath on the air...so I approach
the guy to ask politely why he's airing out my lungs. One hand goes to
his hip, the other he sticks in my face, like a school crossing guard,
as he says they are bringing someone in on a stretcher.
Madder and madder, said the Queen to Alice. I've bowled on a walking
cast one league, but...with an armed guard...from a stretcher??
Eventually a heavily-armed armed phalanx of men arrives, with an
ordinary-looking fellow in the middle of the protective ring.
Sub-machine guns, listening devices, all sorts of high-tech goodies.
We were all curious, so when this cute young fellow sat down behind
me Whoa! sez I to myself, mebbe my disguise isn't working as well as I
thought!! then, looking him over: frisk me, please!!
On a side note, his disguise was transparent--nobody here wears
lumberjack flannels unless they are working in their garage on Sun. But
he was cute, emminently take-home- spankable, so I quizzed him. "Hmmm",
sez I," I don't recognize the guy in the middle as one of our Prezz's
entourage...Who might he be?"
Not that I'm stoopid enough to think these guys are going to spill
the beans to Bette Davis' X 2-- yet, one never knows what a fishing
expedition might yield, subtle and clever as I was being.
"Practice.", was the reply. Hah, we said.
None of us are convinced, though. When one of the women answered her
cell phone, which was equipped with a camera, I thought one of the
guards was going to leap upon her from a great height. A bit of
over-reaction for a trial rum, methinks.
So, adventure follows me wherever I go, dontcha think? And, had this
scenario taken place anywhere other than where it did, I'd have advised
all of us to beat a hasty retreat from the scene.
Cea

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Old March 20th 05, 11:07 PM
Larry Jaques
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:14:06 -0800, the inscrutable "BEI Design"
spake:

Larry, have you replaced your needle? That problem sounds very much
like a burr on the eye of the needle causing the tread to shred.
http://www.a1sewingmachine.com/needles.html


No, but I will tonight so it'll be done before using it again
tomorrow. I figure this one has had a few hours of sewing, and
my thicker materials probably wear them faster than thins would.
Thanks for the reminder. I checked and it's still very sharp.


If that isn't the problem, check for a burr on the hole in the plate
where the needle goes through. If there are any rough patches, use
*fine* emory cloth to smooth it.


Thanks, I'll check that, too.


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Old March 21st 05, 05:13 AM
melinda
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Cynthia Spilsted wrote:
Okay ladies (and gents):
Get out from under your crinolines, prom dresses, quilts and costumes and
check in with us!
I have visions of Tom being rolled down the streets of New York having eaten
too much (sorry, I'm still envious!), Joy getting mugged by American Doll
collectors for her patterns, Cea being locked up for bopping Bridezilla for
one two many outbursts (the first one - it saves us the agony!) and Kate
getting into goodness knows what trouble....
Melinda, I expect, has just been swamped.....(literally and physically!)
Two days and no posts............I might have to go back down and actually
sew those costumes I've been avoiding!
Cynthia


It depends on which Melinda you're inquiring about, we're well in the southern
half of Oz so were not affected in any way by TC Ingrid, we did get a couple
days of rain and temps are cooler, autumn may be on the way yet! I have almost
completed a pair of PJ's for DS, the top needs button holes and buttons.
I didn't feel like starting a new project until I had finished the PJ's so I
got out the bits for my second hand pieced quilt top to work on. I've a small
dyeing job to do tommorow if I get most of the washing out of the way today.
My sewing area is now in the dining room rather than the second bedroom, DS
now has his own bedroom, while the sewing area is a little cramped it works
would work better if I had a bigger power board to plug things into.

Begining of the month I went to a national championship competition and
did very well. A fortnight a ago my grandma fell and broke her hip, she
also has a mass near her pancreas that is unidentified, it keeps changing
size so it's apparently not cancerous. DS is very well getting a bit
chubby round the middle so he's probably going into another growth spurt
soon.

--
Melinda
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Old March 21st 05, 08:39 AM
Cynthia Spilsted
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:02:39 -0800, the inscrutable "Cynthia Spilsted"
spake:

Git on it, girl! (Costumes?)
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http://diversify.com Comprehensive Website Development


Dance costumes - 'tis that time of year again! I have almost no ambition
left after making the can-can petticoats (12 of them using 150 metres of
white broadcloth!), 15 pairs of lace-trimmed bloomers, 6 shirred aprons and
matching kerchiefs, 6 old-fashioned vests, knickers and mock-tallits - all
before doing the altering of my own daughter's group costumes and making her
solo costumes! Oh: - I forgot about the black tutu - I had two days notice
for that one! They thought the parents would buy the different components
at the local dance shop and come up with a facsimile of a tutu for their 15
year old daughter (with me doing the magic, of course). Not on your life!
I've sewn for the dear girl for years and she was not going out in garbage
that would cost over $75 and still look like crud - even after I worked on
it. So:- working like a demon possessed (had to be - making a tutu on that
short notice!) I got one made from scratch and ready to present by the
deadline. Then, I took it back and finished the darned thing properly!
Same girl now needs five more solo costumes made.....Also have to make three
other jazz solos for two other girls. None of them dance at the same studio
as my own daughter, but I do my best for them anyway. (In fact, black tutu
girl is at the same level as my daughter and usually takes first place - I'm
almost as happy for her as her own mother is!)
Cynthia


 




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