Not using Gutermann sewing thread?

Thanks. It was a bit dramatic, but is going down nicely now. :)

It's getting better all the time, thank you. I just DO NOT want any more!

There are at least three C&C Dual Duty threads: hand quilting, machine embroidery, and general purpose. Don't particularly like the hand quilting, but I know several award winning quilters who use it regularly. I use the machine embroidery for buttonholes when there's a suitable color...the range seems to be limited. The general purpose was my mainstay for many years and never gave me any problem. I did begin buying Mettler when the Bernina dealer told me my new machine 'liked' it better, but still use C&C when a color match is in my stash.

I must have been lucky thread-wise. The only thread I can remember ever being unhappy with was an early all-polyester, probably in the 60s. Seems like the brand may have been Lily.

Doreen in Alabama

Drima seemed to melt far too easily too. At least Gutermann poly will take a hot iron, Drima was a nightmare thread. I only bought it if it was the only good colour match and colour match was absolutely vital.

Lizzy

I suppose we were lucky none of those on the back porch got inside, considering how many times the door is opened, especially when DS uses the grill. We don't picnic where deer are, but if we did, that sounds like something that would happen to me. I'm glad the wound is healing properly. Emily

Well, it probably is part of the same range, as the general sewing thread is bad as well, imho. I used to be able to get a polyester general sewing thread branded by Talon which was very good, strong, low lint, but I have not seen it stocked anywhere in years.

me

a few years ago i got chased up my back deck stairs by a tom turkey....scared me to death..then i saw the hen and chicks under my grape vines...i just ran in the door and locked it, lmao!! now my family gobbles at me when they see me on the deck. amy

Oh, a big turkey can be a scary thing! And the are BIG! But the birds I'm never too sure about are white peacocks... Look like ghost birds and scream like children being murdered!

No, we are in agreement there. It sounds like the more common bee-sting allergy. I have lots of wasps here, but they're not agressive, and I have had a live-and-let-live policy with them for nearly 30 years. They're paper wasps and do keep down some harmful insects. My one rule is that they may not build a nest over a doorway or on the mailbox. So I sometimes remove a nest - veeeerrrrrrryyyy carefully. So far, knock wood, we have not had a stinging encounter.

I do have a blue denim dress that seems to drive one bee crazy - with love. It makes it a bit difficult to sit on the patio in that dress. He hasn't been nasty, but he keeps searching for the pollen.

Deer outweigh the wasps.

For wasps in the house, you might get a wasp trap, and talk Alan into finding out if there is a nest somewhere or a way they're getting in. If you have a fireplace, that's a good place to start looking.

The antique glass wasp traps are being reproduced and used, though I think it would be lovely to have a real antique one. ;-)

It will likely be awhile, I just received an large order of thread from shoppersrule.com. I would like to order a cone or two of white and/or black in the Sylco, just to test it out.

Beverly, thinking I should have left the shoppersrule.com URL alone...:-(

I am a firm believer in snapping up things I know I'll be using when I find them on a good sale.

Peacocks always sound like a woman being murdered/strangled to me. I once owned a house where the neighbors behind me had sizable acreage, and fruit groves, and kept those bloody birds in the groves.. They used to "scream" in the night, and until I found out what the source of the horrendus screams were, I was quite disquieted and upset.

me

Considering the sound of your reaction and how the symptoms seem to be increasing, I would want an epi pen... I am very allergic to bees ( and some wasps), and have carried a pen for years. It beats the daylights out of being afraid of living your life (going outside on picnics, etc.) Before I got the pen, I had become afraid to go out into my own garden, for fear I would wind up stung and in hosptial again (or worse)...

Many "bees"(wasps inclusive) will be quite content to leave you alone as long as you leave them alone, but there are some very aggressive species around, that will seek people out and attack for no good reason. btdt, and wound up in hospital with a tube down my throat..

me

It's on my list of Things To Nag The Quack About next time I go. :)

Scary! I Have a friend who is allergic to wasp stings... Unfortunately she's also allergic to antihistamines! When she had some allergy skin tests, they came back as 'Allergic to everything, except the distilled water - and that's marginal!'

jusme wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

oh? hmmm. i think i need to get myself some peacocks... is it the peacocks or the peahens that scream? lee

This is the sort of thing that makes me suspect that our ancestors came here from another planet.

Both. I used to live in a place where someone had some peahens, possibly some peacocks, too, but the peahens would get on the roof below my bedroom window and scream. I would come flying out of that bed in the post-dawn light, looking for the poor woman. Only to see a peahen strutting across the roof.