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Al helps me hem a neck
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. Joy Beeson -- http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ -- needlework http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson59...HSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ -- Writers' Exchange joy beeson at earthlink dot net |
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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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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 -- Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.katedicey.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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