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#11
October 4th 04, 04:11 PM
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Lots of (((((HUGS))))) to you for making good soup and eye wash, even though
you probably would like to be in bed. Hopefully, by now, all are feeling much better. Emily 
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#12
October 4th 04, 05:44 PM
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ok...
ya found me out... i just turned 62, and got my very first socsec direct deposit... been depressed and on meds since my company shut down and laid off all 6500 of us.....thanks bush decided to start quilting for therapy... have started a "patriot" quilt-of my own design. 15" -9 patch squares; 5 across;6 down. red/wht/blue-solids/prints. never did this before. suggestions?
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October 4th 04, 08:22 PM
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"Kate Dicey" wrote in her infinite wisdom: : I know : well the hassles of the School Play Costumes That Ate England! 4 years : after a space age version of Midsummer Night's Dream I am still finding : heat bonded sequins stuck to my carpet... And as for what those : benighted sequinned fabrics do to the serger and the sewing machine... : just don't ask if I'm sane! Ooooh.....I despise sequins, too, but fake fur has been where I draw the line now. I purchase the pre-sequined fabric if the show requires a bit of flash, and just remove the sequins for the seams. Can't do that with the fur, though, so our "mink stoles" for Guys and Dolls were just long cuts of the stuff. Ugh. I hate it. Show went well, though. : I put my hoof down with a very firm paw at school and refuse to make : costumes for characters unless *I* have taken the measurements! I say, : 'You *may* be a size XYZ in a Whatever Brand off the peg garment, but as : I'm making this costume based on a paper pattern, I need ACCURATE : measurements, so I will take them. Please remove your heavy jumper and : lumpy shirt, and these ridiculous trousers so I can do that, or we'll : find someone else to fill your part!' Well, she handed me the measurements that were supposedly taken by her aunt, a professional seamstress. I thought they looked a bit off, personally, so I cut the pattern at a much larger size. She ended up having her "professional" aunt sew her up an apron to cover the front so her too-tight bodice wouldn't be seen. This apron was atrocious! Terrible job on it by her aunt, and I have to say, I think that this aunt may have been an imaginary friend of hers. And if I were ever to be seen taking measurements for boys' trousers, I'd be immediately dismissed. Adult female teachers are not to touch boys in that manner over here at all. I tend to have a male member of the stage crew measure the boys. I learned the lesson about touching very well this year. I was "let go" because I hugged a female student. Yep. That's right. A hug lost me my job. What was I supposed to do? Let the girl drive home hysterically bawling? I talked to her, calmed her down, gave her a hug, and sent her on her way. And lost my job for it. Where in the UK are you, Kate? I'm dying to move over there and escape some of the really crazy thinking in the US. : After threatening the boys with : stuck-on leaves and body paint, it's remarkable how well they took to : dancers tights and slipper socks... I hole up in a spare classroom with : the blinds down, and usually the lasses are very interested in what they : will get. I've had lots of 'Can we keep the dresses? I want to wear : mine to Such&such!' I tell them they will have to buy them from the : school at a realistic price, that covers the cost of fabric and my time, : and then only if the head of the drama stuff is willing to let them go. : He did sell on a couple of things that were tailor made for particular : boys (a 1970's suit and a couple of pairs of loons!), but has so far : refused to part with any of the lasses stuff! Everything I sewed for the school stayed with the school. I have a small stash of period costumes that travels with me in order to have some on hand if I end up at a school where there is nothing at all. Plus, being a theater teacher, I rather like playing dress-up myself! : I sew for real money too, and sometimes the general public is as mad as : school play directors! I thought I was going to have a light year this : year as there were no costumes to do for the spring, but no... I had 4 : sets of bridal stuff to do instead, for one of which there were 16 : bridesmaids, the bride, and the most torrential downpour in decades! : The ducks were eying my hat brim... As for the "mad school play directors," you're spot on! Anyone who would subject themselves to fourteen-plus hours per day at school for weeks on end just to put on a show has got to be a little mad. I was nicknamed "The Lunatic" by my students, and I was rather proud of it, since the word actually sounds a bit like my last name, and, oddly enough, earned me more respect among the students than the years of schooling I had had. : Welcome to the light! Please join the fun and keep this group going - : it gets a bit quiet here when we are all busy! Well, since I'm working on that quilt right now, I'm not sure how much I can contribute that would keep my posts on topic, but I'll try! Anastasia
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October 4th 04, 08:54 PM
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With an invitation like that, we 'lurkers' must reply!
These are my current projects: 1. making an Irish dance solo dress - top priority 2. a bridesmaid dress - my first bias cut dress ever! in spite of having been sewing for a millennia already. I pulled out all my sewing reference books last night and compiled notes on bias, so now I can start. This I plan to fit in around all the kilometres of embroidery and appliqué work on the solo dress. 3. and last week, helped DS shorten one of his T-shirts. I only "helped", as he is a teenager - just needed some instructions about using a double needle. Nothing on the go for Xmas or for me. However I did take in the local sewing and needlework show on Saturday. It was lovely, and had a great time. Sheila
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#16
October 4th 04, 09:46 PM
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Teacher gal wrote:
I snipped bits or it would get to complicated... Well, she handed me the measurements that were supposedly taken by her aunt, a professional seamstress. I thought they looked a bit off, personally, so I cut the pattern at a much larger size. She ended up having her "professional" aunt sew her up an apron to cover the front so her too-tight bodice wouldn't be seen. This apron was atrocious! Terrible job on it by her aunt, and I have to say, I think that this aunt may have been an imaginary friend of hers. Ha! BTDT! Never again. I just say, I'll re-take them for my own piece of mind! And if I were ever to be seen taking measurements for boys' trousers, I'd be immediately dismissed. Adult female teachers are not to touch boys in that manner over here at all. I tend to have a male member of the stage crew measure the boys. I do that myself, but I get the boys to hold the tape in place at the top and add an inch to the measurement: easier to lop it off later than add it! I just tell the, Yank your trousers up to mild discomfort level. Now hold the tape at the top, just where the seam is... Ok, now I get to interfere with your shoes... and thank you! I'm never alone with them: there are usually several there waiting, all joking with each other about what I's do to them with the scissors if they messed about! And I use a tailor's tape with the stiffened end bit, when I remember to take it. I learned the lesson about touching very well this year. I was "let go" because I hugged a female student. Yep. That's right. A hug lost me my job. What was I supposed to do? Let the girl drive home hysterically bawling? I talked to her, calmed her down, gave her a hug, and sent her on her way. And lost my job for it. So stupid! I've had hugs and kisses from all the cast, boys and girls alike, for the costumes, help with make-up, general being there to nag them and feed them tissues, hugs and verbal thick ears when needed. Last show I did for them I got a bottle of wine and a huge bunch of flowers as well. Where in the UK are you, Kate? I'm dying to move over there and escape some of the really crazy thinking in the US. It's getting as bad he it's just that the school I've been working with still has the cold bucket of common sense to apply to such situations! Boys grammar school, and rather old fashioned in some respects. Everything I sewed for the school stayed with the school. I have a small stash of period costumes that travels with me in order to have some on hand if I end up at a school where there is nothing at all. Plus, being a theater teacher, I rather like playing dress-up myself! I taught English and Drama on and off for 20+ years (I qualified in '78! AKK!). I think all schools here are insane, and am now mostly in remission!  As for the "mad school play directors," you're spot on! Anyone who would subject themselves to fourteen-plus hours per day at school for weeks on end just to put on a show has got to be a little mad. I was nicknamed "The Lunatic" by my students, and I was rather proud of it, since the word actually sounds a bit like my last name, and, oddly enough, earned me more respect among the students than the years of schooling I had had. Only 14 hours a day? COO! You got off lightly! Try having a full timetable of English up to university entrance level, and organising a school play and 43 costumes to make AS WELL! When I was teaching full time, an 80 hour working week was normal. And people think I don't know what I'm missing... Well, since I'm working on that quilt right now, I'm not sure how much I can contribute that would keep my posts on topic, but I'll try! All quilters welcome! I'm still at the start of my quilting career. -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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October 4th 04, 10:46 PM
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wrote in message ... You can run, but you can't hide... Come out and play, tell us what you are making for the fast approaching holidays. C'mon, we don't bite hard enough to leave an impression! Cea I am making potholders and aprons for the holiday sale at church--boring. I'll go back into hiding! Chris
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#18
October 4th 04, 11:25 PM
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Sheila Heinrich wrote:
With an invitation like that, we 'lurkers' must reply! These are my current projects: 1. making an Irish dance solo dress - top priority snip Wahhhh! This is something I would only ever dream of making! Would you mind giving us the occasional progress report on the Irish dance dress, Sheila? I'd love to keep up with you as it comes together, especially at the embroidery stage. Is it right to assume you'll be doing that by machine, or do people do all that complicated stuff by hand? IIRC, in the olden days (ie when I was a kid), Irish dance was performed in a very plain, flattering dress which might have had a tiny motif on it, but basically left the dancer's legs free to move as they would. How long has the complicated (and in many ways, overdone) modern costume been 'in', d'you know? My DD did a little bit of Irish dance for a while when she was six - she has bum-length flame-red hair, which (in *my* dreams) would have translated very well into The Hairdo after the appropriate treatment. Her little friend, though, had a mop of natural ringlets which only needed wetting and combing and voilá! The Do! Sigh. She decided she preferred to stick with ballet and tap dancing, so my dreams were shattered... However, it does give me the annual Headache over the concert costumes and I usually post about these at length here. This year, the cossies have been very easy! The first is a white unitard with a pink organza overlay tunic. The second, for tap, is an apostasy in black lycra! It's a halter-necked boyleg leotard with dark green 'disco' sequinned fabric frills around the midriff *and across the top of the bum!!!*. This frill is overlaid with some utterly pus-coloured light-fluorescent-green frilled fabric 'so it will show up when we turn the lights off'. All the mothers are wondering why the lights need to be turned off in the first place: we had all sort of banked on watching our daughters, not their bumping, grinding frills dancing in the darkness. FWIW, this style is surely going to make my poor DD (who is a stout young yeoperson) look like 'I'm a little Teapot' with her bum sticking out like mad. Oh well. I whinge every year and nothing changes... -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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October 5th 04, 02:35 AM
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Trish Brown wrote:
This year, the cossies have been very easy! The first is a white unitard with a pink organza overlay tunic. The second, for tap, is an apostasy in black lycra! It's a halter-necked boyleg leotard with dark green 'disco' sequinned fabric frills around the midriff *and across the top of the bum!!!*. This frill is overlaid with some utterly pus-coloured light-fluorescent-green frilled fabric 'so it will show up when we turn the lights off'. All the mothers are wondering why the lights need to be turned off in the first place: we had all sort of banked on watching our daughters, not their bumping, grinding frills dancing in the darkness. FWIW, this style is surely going to make my poor DD (who is a stout young yeoperson) look like 'I'm a little Teapot' with her bum sticking out like mad. Oh well. I whinge every year and nothing changes... They are turning the lights out so they can see the lizard suits wriggle in the dark! Silly Trish - you should know that by now! Did that sequined stuff give you machine indigestion? I *HATE* that stuff!!! Especially in puss green... -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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October 5th 04, 07:38 AM
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Trish:
First, you dream - then you make it and that's when the dream becomes a nightmare! I don't know how involved Sheila's will be, but it took me well over 20 hours to do the machine embroidery on the Irish dress that I made for my oldest daughter. Of course, dummy here went for the velvet so it was a lot more work putting the design on! I watched the video the other day and I do have to admit that it was worth every hour and curse word uttered.... Last year for the Irish dance group in town I made them some dresses more like 'River Dance' and with only one design on it - much easier on my sanity! (There is good reason for the cost of an Irish dress....) Cynthia "Trish Brown" wrote in message ... Sheila Heinrich wrote: With an invitation like that, we 'lurkers' must reply! These are my current projects: 1. making an Irish dance solo dress - top priority snip Wahhhh! This is something I would only ever dream of making! Would you mind giving us the occasional progress report on the Irish dance dress, Sheila? I'd love to keep up with you as it comes together, especially at the embroidery stage. Is it right to assume you'll be doing that by machine, or do people do all that complicated stuff by hand? IIRC, in the olden days (ie when I was a kid), Irish dance was performed in a very plain, flattering dress which might have had a tiny motif on it, but basically left the dancer's legs free to move as they would. How long has the complicated (and in many ways, overdone) modern costume been 'in', d'you know? My DD did a little bit of Irish dance for a while when she was six - she has bum-length flame-red hair, which (in *my* dreams) would have translated very well into The Hairdo after the appropriate treatment. Her little friend, though, had a mop of natural ringlets which only needed wetting and combing and voilá! The Do! Sigh. She decided she preferred to stick with ballet and tap dancing, so my dreams were shattered... However, it does give me the annual Headache over the concert costumes and I usually post about these at length here. This year, the cossies have been very easy! The first is a white unitard with a pink organza overlay tunic. The second, for tap, is an apostasy in black lycra! It's a halter-necked boyleg leotard with dark green 'disco' sequinned fabric frills around the midriff *and across the top of the bum!!!*. This frill is overlaid with some utterly pus-coloured light-fluorescent-green frilled fabric 'so it will show up when we turn the lights off'. All the mothers are wondering why the lights need to be turned off in the first place: we had all sort of banked on watching our daughters, not their bumping, grinding frills dancing in the darkness. FWIW, this style is surely going to make my poor DD (who is a stout young yeoperson) look like 'I'm a little Teapot' with her bum sticking out like mad. Oh well. I whinge every year and nothing changes... -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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