At last AOL seem to allow me to see the group again. So after years in the doldrums, here comes me again!
Went to Birmingham NEC on Thursday. Yikes, after a while I couldn't look at any more quilts, they were too intimidating. Great stuff though, with huge amounts of gadget hunting opportunities (mostly resisted, DH will be relived to hear!)
Anyway, bought some cotton sateen for handquilting. Normally I wash everything on its way into the house, press and then use. BUT with cotton sateen, I'm not so sure. It would lose that crispness and so on, wouldn't it? But how do I get the creases out, and what about any future grubbiness when it is quilted? Any suggestions, please?
BTW I bought some silk batting to go with it... too scrummy for words!
Love to all, Nel Sartor Resartus Gadget Queen (unless deposed in her absence)
welcome back Nel! I can't help with your question but just wanted to welcome you back and express a tinge of envy that you got to go to Birmingham this year (maybe next year for me...)
I think your seat is still empty and waiting for you to return to it ;-)
oh and you made it back in time to join the directory if you are so inclined.
I keep forgetting to phone you! Oh, and the directory call has gone out, if you want in! :)
Hehehehe...
I wish I could have been there. We were dog sitting this week, though, for Scamp.
Did you ever resolve the storage problem for the quilt frame? And have you finished quilting that lovely blue thing?
Wash and then starch with old fashioned Robin type starch. You can get a machine wash-in version... May have to hunt for it... Here, I think this will do the job:
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Press while still slightly damp, using LOTS of steam. Then wash the sole plate of the iron!>
Isn't it just! I've had no excuse to buy any yet, but I have plans for a silk quilt with a silk batting... Maybe next year! I'm still recovering from buying TWO new overlockers/sergers this month!
Oh no - we don't depose! You may have to rescue your crown from the QI's and dust the fluff off it... ;)
BTW, how are your two QI's doing? The kids were well when I saw them the other week. Did they tell you how much your godson has grown? Tall as his mum now...
I WILL be in touch off group - just let me get the last two wedding customers out the door!
So glad to see you, Your Majesty. There have been some gadget discussions that you really should have been here to attend. We muddled along but are happy to move over and let you take control. (As if.) Polly
So glad to see you again! We need all our Queens to raise the tone of the group :-) I've used cotton sateen and treated it just like any other cotton. My quilts need to be washable. With lots of quilting, wrinkles are not a big issue. Try washing a piece and iron while damp. It will probably remain crisp enough. The shiny surface depends on the weave, not on additives (chintz has an added surface treatment). Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap
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OK -- just HOW did you get AOL to let you read the group again? I'm having to pay to use some other news reader to access the newsgroups! I don't mind paying as it's not much but I'd rather not if I don't have to. I absolutely refuse to use Goolge unless I am away from home since it is such a cumbersome beast to deal with!! CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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Not entirely sure what I did, but I am reading it on a Google Groups Beta interface (I think), but on the AOL page as usual. I Googled RCTQ (I've been doing this off and on for months and months) and it pointed me at the site and let me in. Then I signed in as usual and yeertis. Don't know if this helps.
Also it lets me read only headings or half messages, just like the old OLR used to. So I might even be ablt to keep up.
Though I can't find the Directory link yet (hint) if I'm still eligible
That's OK Plus ca change and all that! :-( Would like to get into the Directory, when was the call?
Give my love the Bennett's. We are visitable, but be forewarned, not all is hunky dory. Kettle's on. (STILL doesn't suit me, and I always get my arm stuck up the spout!)
It's coming on. The quilt frame is on the move again, this time to Heaven (my attic), I want to slap the blue thing in it again. However, I only have about 3 rounds left to do. I watched Barbara Chainey at the FOQ Birmingham. She is so nice. Stood there for ages chatting about tension, threads and lower fingers. Hope to go a workshop with her at the Area Day in October. (Complete with new quilt marked and started and blue one finished)
Thanks for the sateen help, shall try all that.
I suspect a story here... go on ... spill. (Privately if you have already divulged it to the group).
That's good to hear. Just wait till you see my new car (Vectra died at the back end of July). It's a Citroen C5 (estate) and has more gadgets than you can shake a stick at. I just love the automatic windscreen wipers, the headlights that know when it's dark and the boot that raises and lowers itself at the touch of a button! Tickles me to death! I am sure the quilt frame would disappear into the tailgate with room for me, a chair and equipment! I swear I shall have to be careful of the echo in there! Not that it's big you understand... but I have yet to find the button that lets the pidgeons fly out...
Fine, including the Bumble (Joyce's +/- my new English Springer). I gather you put manure in JJ's boots during the Spring to Spring Fashions week!
BTW congrats on the new improved you. The corset looks great.
That's as good as me saying to your DH that he had no idea how sexy I look in a kettle! For once he was silent for a second or two, before he choked! ;)
We will come and see you, but things is a bit strange here too: Alan is going to be working in Peterborough for part of each week for the next few months!
Whoo hoo! Have you website space yet, or would you like me to host pix for you when it's done?
Will do - they know how I wreaked my Huskylock!
Hehehehehe! Them things is a bit like a C130... Think of the FABRIC we could get in it. Think of the trouble we could get into...
I think sending him and Alan to scout camp twice this summer helped too!
Thank you! :) My wedding dress is now TOO BIG! Unfortunately, so is that Elizabethan project. I'll have to ebay it or something, if I ever get it completed! :D
I'm a bit cross-eyed today: been beading a shawl for a customer.
Not sure. Tell me about it. As I said I got rather overwhelmed by all the good things on show. Spent far too much time at the stalls and kinda whisked around the quilts feeling inadequate and wondering why I bothered at all.
Then I came across this wonderful Japanese fabric... then the cotton sateen... and some great patterns for handbags (such a bag lady)...and the wonderful silk batting... and I remembered! ;-)
I love M&Ms, especially the peanut ones. I collect the silly toppers for my office at school. I have two dispensers there too (gadgets of course!) and the pupils can shake the M&M man's hand (like a one-armed bandit; it gives out a random number of sweeties, from two to five) if they have been particularly good. Works a treat. They will work for a whole week with that as a reward at the end. There are strict rules about shaking the Man, and what happens if he only gives out one sweet, or more than five...
Licorice is another matter, I am very fussy. I love the stuff that comes with sherbet fountains and licorice bootlaces, but I can't stand Pomfret (Pontefract) cakes. It's a shame because we are only 20 minutes from the original factory.
However, that at least leaves some for other people. Not that I'm greedy you understand...
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