Looking for Printed Duck

Cea, try home dec fabrics. I have made aprons from what were supposed to be drapery fabric, 100% cotton, that I would call a med. weight duck. Lasted for years; in fact, one is still going strong here. I covered some terrycloth layers for matching hot pads.

Re: Looking for Printed Duck wrote: =A0=A0My herb-printed butcher's apron finally died, riddled with huge holes, and I've decided that someone, somewhere, must sell printed cotton duck, so it must be true. :) =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0I have in mind something like quilter's prints: the spring catalog from Hancock's, page 14 and 15, has some great, vivid veggie prints, along with coffee cups and the like. Dog bone-dog/ chicken patterns would be great, too. Anyone know a source for this type of print on a medium weight cotton duck?

I really _want_ to make (not buy ready-made) some aprons with those luscious, true-to-life all-over prints of chocolate candy, and fresh sliced veggies, and coffee cups. I Googled all evening yesterday, and did find some ready-made aprons with such prints, but I want to find yard goods. (Sigh.) Cea

Can you find those prints in regular cotton? Would making your apron from two layers of that work? What about putting a layer of duck under a layer of cotton print?

Did you look at

? I'd bet they have prints like you want. (they have darn near any kind of print.)

I understand you want what you want, and you deserve to have what you want. :) Trying to figure a way to make that happen if you can't find duck...

Sharon

---will keep an eye out for it.

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That's a good idea - the wild bees around here have been hit by a virus that has decimated the population. Domestic bees are inoculated and safe. I don't know how widespread this is, nor if the virus affects the African bees - could this have been someone's bio-assault on the Africanized bees that went terribly wrong? Who knows. I doubt the government would tell us if it were true.

Right now, I'm canning pears. Made 2 batches of pear preserves with local pears. It's dark in color, hearty in flavor; and one of pear honey, which is a soft-set jam,

Thank you, thank you! I have oodles and oodles of pears, right now two bushel baskets and more on the way! All from my orchard of apple trees that wouldn't produce. (This was the year for pears and with two pear trees, I'm up to my ears!).

DN is coming by in the next few weeks to show me how to can these babies and you have helped tremendously!

You're such a sweetheart!

Mike and Shar> Right now, I'm canning pears. Made 2 batches of pear preserves with

We really enjoyed it. DH said his great-aunt used to make a cake with pears that he **loved**. So I've looked for years for something close to her recipe. This is as close as I've been able to find. If you really want to make it a food crime, serve it warm with some real vanilla ice cream on each slice. (not frozen yogurt, not low fat ice cream. This is so good, it calls for the real, high octane stuff. ;} )

I hope you enjoy it as much as we have!

Sharon

Oh my goodness!! That's wonderful that your pear trees took off like that for you! My two did all right, but not that much! You must have some super dooper pear trees. lol

I'm glad to be of help. You've been at the top of my mental thank you list this week! Thank you again for telling me about the arnica gel! The iron fell over on my arm when I was bending over to pick up something on the floor last weekend. It's right on the inside of my bicep. Looks like one of those around the arm tattoos, gone seriously wrong. lol The arnica gel has saved me so much this week!

I know there were more pear recipes on that site. go to

and just put pear in the search box. You will get a mess of them I'm sure. Look and see if they have a pear butter recipe. If they do, try to make some of that! I was really hoping that I would get enough pears to try that this year. I've gotten maybe a quarter bushel of pears all together, but I get one or two at a time, then nothing for a week.

*sigh* Pear butter is marvelous stuff. It's like apple butter. Best things ever on hot biscuits. I bet you would just love it.

I'm drooling again..... I really must stop this. lol

Sharon

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Where are you? I have a good friend who keeps bees, but she's in WA state.

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