Unused Stash Survey

Well, I'll give you a hint. For the latter, you need to trade in your DH for someone who makes a million a year.

Then start your own proofing business while he's at work, and it won't matter how much or how little you make because you're already scraping by on a mere $30,000/month.

Thanks Tamara,

I have several different colors of sewing thread which I will use to baste a grid on the fabric. I think that will help me get all the kloster blocks in without having to frog stitch long, long paths. I finally had to do the grid on another of Janice Love's designs from a class I took. My problem was that everything was on the diagonal...I took those blocks out FIVE times before I learned. So now I am planning to use a different color for different counts on the grid. Yellow for the first twenty, Green to mark forty, Blue to mark sixty, Purple to mark forty and Red at each 100 threads. I am hopeful that by taking the time to make a grid I will have less frogging to do. I learned on the first hardanger I ever did that I have to check my count all the time.

I got around and it didn't line up. I've

If you have some long ground fabric threads you can reweave the areas where you cut fabric threads that should not have been cut. I hope you can do that kind of repair and finish the tree skirt.

Alice

Some are just for the eye candy they contain and others are for

Thanks for the offer but I tend to be a slow reader. I tell people that I like to savor my books. :-) That said, I just listened to "Blessed Are the Cheesemakers" and it was absollutely WONDERFUL! ! ! Very good for stitching background or mindless stuff, but I definitely needed to pay attention to the story so as not to miss any of the twists and turns of the plot. Liz from Humbug

The cutting was not the problem, the kloster blocks are two threads off. The mistake is way back on the first side where I did some cutting to see what it would look like. I could fudge somewhere I suppose but the two sides don't line up. I'll get back to it someday. Meanwhile, I've inherited the tree skirt I made for my mother, so I'm set.

Absolutely!

Wasn't that a great book - makes me wish there was another one. C

I've read a few folks on here saying they don't use their mini craft irons much - I was thinking of asking for one for the holidays since I'm getting fairly proficient at finishing small items and thought it would be helpful. Can anyone provide pros/cons or why theirs sits unused?

Thanks- MelissaD

I do use it on rare occasion, and when I do, I like it. Perhaps it's because I don't always wash my pieces when I'm done that it isn't as useful. I figure, if the piece looks clean and no one needs to eat off it, it's okay to put it in the frame without a soaking. That way, I just do a very light ironing on a fluffy towel and don't have much of a problem with flattening the thread.

If I ever get around to doing the several crewel pieces that are in my stash, I think it would be more useful so as not to flatten the wool.

It is handy to get in tight places, but if I didn't have it I don't think I would miss it much.

Lucille

Middle DD is a quilter (isn't it just the way for a kid to pick the one needleart the mom doesn't enjoy?), and I was thinking about getting her one of these irons for Xmas. So that she can do the seams quicker and easier then setting up the ironing board and my big iron.

Do you think it would be useful to a quilter?

Caryn

Definitely. I think I would love it for turning and/or flattening the seams. I think if I owned it when I was making most of my clothes, I would have used it a lot.

Like you, quilting isn't my thing. I find it extraordinarily boring to do. I love the finished products, so I think I would like it better if I could start from the end and work my way back to the beginning.

Then again, I've always wanted to make a crazy quilt. Isn't it nice how quickly I can change my mind about something. lol

Lucille

I'm operating on the theory that if I give DD the materials, I'll get the quilt I have no interest in making myself! lol

Caryn

I'm operating on the theory that if I give DD the materials, I'll get the quilt I have no interest in making myself! lol

Caryn

I never bought one because they seem to have only one temperature - VERY hot. If I need to get into smaller places, I just dig out the travel iron.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I, OTOH, am a very fast reader. A normal, average 300 page novel only lasts me about a couple of hours. Fortunately, I have a friend who "haunts" the secondhand paperback stores, and shares with me. I long since read everything our local public library carries (Everything which is to my taste, that is). Having also been a newspaper reporter, typos tend to jump out from the page at me, which does rather tend to interrupt the flow of the story.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

IIRC, the first ones only had one temp. I didn't buy it when it first came out because of that. Mine has a little knob that goes from low to high.

Lucille

I know how you feel. I still "speed read" because part of my civil service job (computer programming) involved reading masses of documents (written by civil servants for whom brevity was a character flaw) and producing a precis of their contents. Any grammatical or spelling errors seem to leap off the page and stop me in my tracks. My wife gets infuriated because she will read the paper a day or so after I've read it and ask me if I saw something in the letters page, only to have me reply "yes" and give her the gist of the letter's contents.

I think that is a good thing. Right now she won't feel she is competing with you since it is strictly her own thing; yet it is a needleart so someday she may pick up others that you also enjoy. Skills transfer.

We saw the same in our family. My grandmother loved to sew -- she did knit and crochet, but sewing was her main thing. Her granddaughter (me) hates sewing. Aunt Paula tolerated sewing, but loved to knit. HER granddaughter sews like an expert and hates knitting.

And then she can branch into crazy quilts with the surface work.... C