Ping Jeanne

"Polly Esther" wrote... Here's how the bee began. I took 3 pieces of bumble bee yellow. Has to be just the right yellow - not timid but Bold. Put them on top of 3 pieces of black. (Pieces are about 3" square just for a beginning.) With a pencil, I drew an oval Catty Cornered on the top square. Does everybody speak 'Catty Cornered' ? The oval just Has to be at a 45° angle against the straight of the weave so it will fray just right. Don't cut the oval yet. I stitched across the bee's body at 3 places. Then cut out the bee oval. Stitched on those 3 places again to firmly fix him to the base fabric. ( A sturdy batik.) Then cut out (carefully) the oval And between the stitching stripes. When brushed like fury - taDah! we have a black/yellow fuzzy fluffy bee. The instructions called for 1/8" black rick-rack for antennae. None of that on hand so I did a satin stitch for them. Now I'm busy as a bee =) testing just the right fabric for sheer bee wings. I think I have them done but am going to stitch them to whatever's in the next laundry. Won't be any good at all if they can't withstand serious washing. Jeanne, this is just SO cute. I hope you can find a 'where' to show our friends here what chenille appliqué is. Polly

Thank you, thank you, Jeanne. I just Knew it was somewhere but you just wouldn't believe how long I hunted and finally decided I'd have to holler "Help". Polly

"J*"

Disclaimer: Nothing in this thread, preceding, foregoing, real, imagined or implied has the intent or purpose of making you feel that you are not out of your mind. What were you thinking? Polly

"NightMist" I assume that your bee is made in the same way. Only instead of doing

I'm okay. We had some bad air quality and they closed the vents at work, which made my 4th floor [top floor] courtroom pretty warm. The smoke and fire were visible from our floor, to the east of our building.

Thanks for asking!

G> Hey Ginger, =A0I saw a fire in your part of the world on the news last ni= ght.

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there will always be someone to find what someone needs. Ginger found one of those for ya out there on the net. j.

"Leslie& The Furbabies in MO." ... I need Jeanne, too! A friend asked me about an organizer for handbags. Something you can put your checkbook, pens, Kleenex, etc. into and then just lift it out from one handbag to the next to change with your outfits.... an insert type thingy??? I had a link for making one but lost all my 'stuff' when I got a 'corrupted' message for Windows. Now all I can find are the handbag organizers for sale and no instructions to make one.

Help, Jeanne???

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Oh, I do so love it when Jeanne finds what people are looking for - I have a baby quilt to do with a lamb on it and this is just perfect.

Thanks for asking the question Polly and thanks Jeanne for the reply.

I was thinking of bats hovering over a graveyard in the depths of the night. Then I got to thinking that I could get some of the sparkley eyelash yarn and stitch it into the furrows by hand to make stars and as accents. Then I thought that running the straight stitch lines around the pictures after the manner of echo quilting to make the chenille would give a pretty nifty effect.

OK, I guess maybe I am out of my mind after all....

NightMist

There. You see? How's the mumps doing? Did you manage to share them? Polly

"NightMist"

Ginger, Taria, our fire season has just gotten underway. Thankfully, so far we've only managed to burn up 20,000 acres or so of Big Horn Sheep habitat -- nothing nearly as important as houses or utility sheds has been threatened. I hate fire season. DH, thanks to his chosen profession, gets phone calls in the night, during supper, one hour before he has to get up to go to work at 4:30 a.m. ..... and all in between, any time a poof of smoke from a fire is visible in this general circulation area. I know fires scare and thrill people, and those big tanker planes and helicopters make for good front page photos when they're dropping that big plume of red retardant on the blaze. But in my heart of hearts I'm really unsympathetic.

Ginger I'm really glad to hear that so far your hearth and home are safe. I suspect your fires (like most of ours) are set by idiots doing stupid things on top of crispy dry tinder that grew back during the spring rains and then turned into the perfect fire-starting material just in time for really hot weather. You live in an area that is even more vulnerable than we are up here. Wild fires seem to thrive in Southern California like nowhere else.

Hugs, Sunny

I don't _think_ I gave them to anyone else. Um, has anyone heard from Gen? They were here long before I should have been contagious. The doctor said five days before the onset of symptoms, and about 10 days after were when I could have given it out.

I am much much better. The swelling is about done with, though my jaw, and around the ear on that side still aches quite fiercely. The swelling must have bruised the dickens out of it. I think I cut the inside of my mouth on my (last remaining) wisdom tooth too, what with bits getting pushed here and there and all.

NightMist

Today our temperatures on the coast are over 90, and just inland easliy over 100. Where I live in CA, if you look at a relief map, is where the coastal mountains come basically right to the ocean. So, on hot days with inversion and all, we get afternoon thunderstorms over the hills, with accompanying flash flood warnings and possible fires started by lightning. The fire the other day was started at a homeless encampment.

G> Ginger, Taria, our fire season has just gotten underway. Thankfully,

I think you guys get hit harder at 90 than we do at higher numbers since you just aren't used to it. It was 109 here today. This is just not normal. Actually lots of clouds, some thunder and lightening and a bit of sprinkles. It is just not pleasant. I am getting sewing done since it is too hot out to do anything other than water and pick up dog poo. There is an occasional dash out to the pool and that helps but sheesh it is miserable. I have been thanking God all day for the AC inventor. I know other areas have been hit tough with the heat lately. It would be interesting for folks to put their area and temp along with their messages. Misery loves company. The lightening will cause some fires if it keeps up. I can't imagine the homeless are dumb enough to hang out here in any numbers as it heats up. There is a ton of problems in San Diego with them. Heck, homeless can live almost anywhere, why not go to the beach? I couldn't afford to live there but they seem to do ok. Lots of drugs they like too I hear. : ( Taria, not a dry heat here today.

"Ginger in CA" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@k1g2000prl.googlegroups.com... Today our temperatures on the coast are over 90, and just inland easliy over 100. Where I live in CA, if you look at a relief map, is where the coastal mountains come basically right to the ocean. So, on hot days with inversion and all, we get afternoon thunderstorms over the hills, with accompanying flash flood warnings and possible fires started by lightning. The fire the other day was started at a homeless encampment.

Ginger in CA battening down for a long fire season

On Jul 15, 9:05 am, Sunny wrote:

We are at 65 right now [5:30AM] with a high expected about 90. Some light high clouds right now, and expected mountain thunderstorms/flash floods this afternoon.

You're very right this area is nice for weather, but like Seattle we often go months with little sunshine during midday which is fine for my lupus! This time of year we suddenyl go from "low hung mung" to sunny all day in a flash. My apartment has cinder block wall on the common walls to my neighbors, with no A/C. Yep, it is pretty warm when I get home from work. Cannot have a bird or fish in here, they wouldn't survive.

G> I think you guys get hit harder at 90 than we do at higher numbers since = you

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On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:19:02 -0500, Taria wrote (in article ):

We're 79F right now at 10 a.m. with a heat index of 87F. The heat advisory from yesterday has been canceled, so in theory, we're better today than yesterday.

I still think it's too muggy and hot to do much of anything. Of the three cats, the General has taken himself into the dark of the linen closet to sleep. Katie Mae and Maggie Belle still somehow think it is preferable to be out in the heat on the patio.

Maureen

Here in the wonderful Valley of the Sun, we are again under an Extreme Heat Advisory/warning. Low temperatures in the 90's, over 100=B0 at

Pati, in Phx.

Howdy!

Yee-haw! Glad you had a good time, Gen. Glad to see you home. ;-)

Ragmop/Sandy