Where is everyone

Avoiding all the trash posts I guess. AK

miss reading the

here are my ideas...

It is spring break week in the U.S. so lots of people on vacation, i do not know how many group members that comprises ?

Everyone is just very busy

alot people , distraught with spam, have figured out how to filter google groups and consolidated access portals like "sewgirls.com" and so never see those post and thus no answers ?

There are many other forums/groups/lists for sewing talk that people are shifting or spending their time with ?

*but* it is very quite as you and others have commented

robb

Sandra Bodycoat a écrit :

I'm sewing and working, plus the camping season (easter being so early!)is on us once again so I have that hat on as well. So not much time for a long while to much more than lurk and add an occasional comment. I guess there are plenty of others in the same boat hence the quietness.

Madly busy, with sewing and other stuff...

Every time I think "I'm going to sew tomorrow" something else crops up that needs doing, like a mountain of washing and end up distrated by knitting while waiting for loads to finish - I've got three knitting projects on the go and yarn for at least two more, but I've also got 2 vests and a jacket for DS, that he needs for winter, part done. To go further with the vests and jacket I need to empty at least one bobin, possibly 2, and that's not my favourite part of sewing, either is putting thread on a bobin. Probably one of the reasons I like the overlocker - I don't have to worry about a bobin.

Been busy with family being sick and there is too much stuff to do around the house at this time of the year. I went and bought a lot of extra bobbins so I'll have plenty when I finally get to sew. Right now I am just doing the mending. Barbara in SC

melinda wrote: To go further with the vests and

I'm guessing I have 60+ bobbins for my machine. I usually try to keep at least two or three empty, but sometimes I have to reel off a seldom-used color. And for my serger I have three or four cones of each of a dozen colors. Plus the random wooly nylon... ;-}

Beverly

I have bobbins for machines I don't have. Bobbin, anyone?

Maybe that's my problem, I've only got 8-10 metal bobbins and 5 plastic ones I don't like using. I suppose if I'm keeping the machine when I upgrade, eventually, it won't hurt to invest in more bobbins.....

Apples, apples, getcher apples....

;-)

I have both plastic and metal bobbins for my Singer 401A, and it is partial to neither, works fine with both. I started 48 years ago with 8-10, whatever came with the machine, and have added many more over the years. I like to be able to just start sewing without fiddling with emptying a bobbin.

Beverly

Nostalgia alert!

Anyone but me remember when the hucksters drove through the alleys selling fresh produce from their wagons? The knife and scissors sharpener came with his pedal-driven wheel? You put a sign in the window, with one corner at the top to let the iceman know how much ice you needed? Of course, the milk man came at dawn and left the milk and cream in the box on the porch.

I loved the (freezing weather) milk bottle's tower of cream topped with its paper cap. Oh the goodle days - Karen in CO

I don't recall an iceman or knife sharpener. Mom rented a couple of large containers in a walk-in freezer facility before we got the first home freezer. But we did have regular home deliveries of freshly baked bread in addition to thrice-weekly deliveries of dairy products. We lived in a small town, so I guess the farmers market was the equivalent of the hucksters.

Beverly

I do understand! You should see my collection of rayon and poly embroidery threads! Fortunately the embroidery machine has the "endless bobbin" and I usually only have to switch between white and black. Except for "lace" or a project like the eyelets, where I wanted the bobbin thread to match the lining because it would "show".... well at least to me. ;-}

Beverly

Hm...

150 Lily bobbins, 75 type 15's, 50+ 66's, 20 Elnas, and a handful of odd ones, plus half a dozen of the long bobbins for those machines...

And I still occasionally have to dump quarter of a bobbin full of something to free a couple up for a new project!

I have the vernissage for my next textile art exhibit in approx. 2 weeks so I am dashing about putting the finishing touches on everything! I chose a Voodou theme this year (the religion, NOT the Hollywood type) and must finish writing up some background info for it. Believe me when I say that the average Swede has VERY little idea about Voodou!!! Hopefully, this will educate people as well as be nice to look at. Even more hopefully, they will be inspired to purchase my Art Quilts, dolls and bags!!!

Erin

We didn't live in an alley but until the 1960s we got fruit and vegetbles from the horse-drawn cart which came down the street. Coal too.

Oh indeed - that still happened in the early sixties too.

Never applied in Britain as far as I know!

The porch? There's posh :-)

Doorstep deliveries of milk are very rare nowadays. A van comes down the street selling vegetables to certain customers on Sundays but I don't know of any other deliveries.

Ah, nostalgia isn't what it used to be ...

Mary

Oh yes, the 'rag and bone' man. Still see him from time to time.

One used to call at our house and offer the odd item from his cart!

Mary