Christmas request

I have an idea,....I'd like one too, and I am willing to re-paint, re-tile and re-whatever my bathroom to go with whatever georgeous bathmat you come up with. That sounds fabulous!! She is sooooooo lucky!! I wish my friends were talented! Joy

A chennilled bathmat based on her tile design?

I really fancy this idea, and am trying to work out how it would go together, because the design is circles and straight lines. I've only done chennilling on the bias and I don't know if it can be done following a curve.

Off to experiment.

:) Trish

You don't need talented friends, Joy - you're a one-woman production team on your own!

:) Trish

Just find a Toyota 901 knitting machine (with ribber) and pile attachment, and you can knit a pile fabric - with a pattern, even. There! Problem solved. ;-)

Next problem, please?

Been thinking of something like this, too - maybe with some black bias over the appliqués, like stained glass?

:) Trish

to a heavy washable background.

the appliqués, like stained glass?

I dunno. How well will this hold up? My bathmat goes through the washer and dryer once a week (or more, if we have company). Therefore, I have three - the old "one on, one clean and one in the wash" principle.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I have a bathmat that looks like it should have given up the ghost after about 3 washings. It's 10+ years old and still looks good. ;) It's a cotton chenille looking thing. So I'm thinking along the lines of that. How about layering several (how thick will your machine go through?) heavy weight cotton velour towels. Then instead of cutting them like for chenille, what about reverse appliqué? That way, you could do a really heavy (thread intense) satin stitch around where you want to cut the top layer away.

Oh! another thought!!! What if you pieced together several handtowels or washcloths for the second layer of fabric? That way you could get different colors going on in different parts of the piece without having to cut down through two layers. Does that make sense? (I sometimes don't make sense when an idea excites me. LOL)

And I think bind the whole thing around the edges. Maybe a layer of interfacing in there too, under the colored layer. Between the binding on the edge, and a layer of interfacing, it should keep its shape better with lots of washings.

HTH Sharon

---requesting pictures of the finished thing in advance!!

Christmas request (Trishty) OK, so I asked best friend Rachel (of the cashmere ruana) what she wants for Christmas and the answer is: a bathmat. Not just any bathmat. The world's best bathmat. It needs to be mainly blue and white, apparently. And washable, obviously.

Might appliqu=E9 work? But I was thinking of faux-chenille, too, somehow, with the layers in different colours. Cut-back appliqu=E9 in different colour towellings? Gold satin stitching? Vibrant orange and gold bias edging? Ruched tubing applique'd in swirls?

Wow, another idea. Will play with this tomorrow.

For now, unfortunately, I am helping the DH annotate Pearl Harbor for his book on aviation in the movies. This has got to be one of the worst films I've ever seen. What with the gung-ho heroism, sickly romance, truly awful script and historical inaccuracies, I think Steve will have plenty to play with ;)

:) Trish

Now, this sounds nice Sharon, but what is a velour towel?

In England, most towels are Turkish towelling - terry towelling. Dish towels are usually made of linen and companies like the White House sell cotton waffle towels. Do you mean any of these.

I lurve reverse applique-ing.

Will post pix.

Today I have been experimenting with faux chenille and got some good effects with silk shantung, but better with linen and chambray, which the DH thought looked 'warmer'. I've also been making fringing from ribbons and offcuts of knitting yarns, which looks like it might be promising for the short ends.

:) Trish

Isn't that brassieres?

!;) Trish

I tend to have one of those for each day of the week, plus a couple spare...

In the summer, I need at least two bras a day. In the winter, I wear a bra two days.

Naturally, half my bras can be worn only in the winter.

Joy Beeson

Terry which has been sheared to give an icky surface that the manufacturer fondly believes resembles velvet.

Fortunately, they usually shear only one side, so you have a side to dry yourself with.

Joy Beeson

Left or right?

What about turning them over? DH said he did that with his sheets when he was dating....