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The Show Must Go On / Check out the competition thread
« on: January 16, 2021, 20:40:41 PM »
This month's competition thread is Fit for Purpose - in other words, fitness wear, swim suits, dancewear, etc.  If you're feeling like your stretch fabrics are feeling neglected, maybe we want to take part.

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Today... One thread per day / Re: Saturday 16th January
« on: January 16, 2021, 15:00:40 PM »
It's still dark outside, just before 7.  I need to wash the new fabric I bought yesterday - I have no willpower in a fabric store but I did get the plain cotton for the inside of masks.  I picked up some cute Eeyore fabric for my new masks - I'm beginnning to think that he is my mascot lately.  I'm just a bit (maybe more) gloomy lately. 

But today, I will get out for a walk as it sounds like all is calm outdoors.  It's been storm after storm for better than a month.  I'm thinking I need to bake - maybe a pineapple matrimonial cake.  I might even fit in some quality time with a book.

Just asking but how did we get to the middle of January?  Wasn't it New Year's Eve 3 days ago?  Have I been sucked into the Covid timewarp?

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Today... One thread per day / Re: Monday 11th January
« on: January 11, 2021, 20:02:28 PM »
Lunchtime here on the Island.  A momentarily blue sky before the next storm rolls in.  We've been having a storm about 1 every day and a half for the last month.  The power went out again last night.  It's a day of housework and gardening.

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Today... One thread per day / Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR
« on: January 01, 2021, 22:13:50 PM »
Happy New Year everyone!  I've been sleeping most of the day on the couch.   And I will return there shortly.  Tired and not feeling the greatest but the bucketloads of antihistamines are finally starting to do their job after a day and a half. 

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: The Sewing Place’s year-long stash-busting challenge - 01-01-2021 to 31-12-2021
« on: January 01, 2021, 22:00:09 PM »
I'm in.  Definitely, I need to make a list or I'll forget something important.

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Current Projects / Re: Christmas Craft 2020
« on: December 01, 2020, 06:52:45 AM »
DD1's Christmas pillowcases are done.  DD2's stocking and Christmas pajamas are done.  Mr. Mitch's pillowcase and his stocking are up next. 

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Current Projects / Re: Christmas Craft 2020
« on: November 19, 2020, 21:47:30 PM »
I've finished off and shipped out DD2's advent calendar.  This is the panel Dashwood Advent Bags It's really cute but 24 little bags gets a little tedious.  I've made and sent her a Christmas pillowcase.

On my list are 2 pillowcases for DD1 and her bf, Christmas jammies for DD1 and DD2 (and possibly me too).  And new stockings for the immediate family.  There's also 2 (possibly 3) tree skirts.  I'm ready for a new one - after 26 years, I want something new.

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Hi, I'm new... / Re: Hiya
« on: October 26, 2020, 17:03:21 PM »
Hi HooliganHeart from the west coast.

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Current Projects / Re: Christmas Craft 2020
« on: October 14, 2020, 14:54:31 PM »
She's making a list and checking it twice.  It's that time of year when I figure out who gets what.  While I'm sorting that out, it's time to get ready for Halloween.  I've got "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" on.  I need to get my spooky sewing on - a couple of wallhanging panels to make up.

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The Show Must Go On / Re: Can you see the tumbleweed?
« on: September 29, 2020, 05:58:11 AM »
Well there is hope that I might get to make something this year - the youth dance group that I volunteer for is doing outdoor site specific dance performances.  They just need the sites.

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Current Projects / Re: Christmas Craft 2020
« on: August 19, 2020, 06:57:11 AM »
DD2 came home for lunch to me watching a Christmas movie while putting snow on pink Christmas houses.  Village is complete now.  Christmas plate just needs some more silver drybrushing and then a few light coats of gloss sealer.  I'm taking it to Sister#3 when I take DD2 to the airport.

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Plaids, Tartans and Checkered Fabrics contest - 01.09. - 30.09.2020
« on: August 13, 2020, 00:02:22 AM »
wrenkins, it's a great visual but that's bad.  It has to be a problem with the manufacturing.  Actually, I have attached iron-on interfacing to a knit - very carefully.  So, I have technically ironed some.  If the cut pieces roll, you could try double sided washaway tape to hold them together when you sew.  I've made a set of dance costumes with a striped knit with the structural integrity of wet tissue.  If I looked at it, it shifted out of alignment.  I had to lay it out crosswise because if the stripes were horizontal, they looked like a patch-eyed drunken pirate had cut it out on a ship in a hurricane.

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Plaids, Tartans and Checkered Fabrics contest - 01.09. - 30.09.2020
« on: August 12, 2020, 21:38:08 PM »
Confession time:  I've never ironed a knit.  Spandex does not like heat.  It will do stupid things if you heat it too much. 

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Plaids, Tartans and Checkered Fabrics contest - 01.09. - 30.09.2020
« on: August 12, 2020, 15:02:05 PM »
wrenkins, stretch fabric can sense fear.  Just approach calmly and handle gently but firmly.  Kind of like a puppy. 

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Current Projects / Re: Christmas Craft 2020
« on: July 29, 2020, 18:11:46 PM »
I'm getting out the spray sealer and coating the mini pink Christmas village.  Then I can add the fake snow and it will be done.  Then, it's finding the navy acrylic paint to cover over a Christmas plate that my mom started.  I have no problem repainting it - if she had liked her results, she would have finished it.  After a new basecoat, I'll drybrush it in silver and spray finish it for sister#3.  More astonishing is that I know exactly where the plate is in the destruction zone that masquerades as my sewing room.

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