Vest is DONE!

Yay, Beverly!!! Loud clapping ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Juno

Thanks, Juno! I had a nice visit with DD while we clipped and pulled all the basting threads I had to use for the embroidery. I could have done it here, but I really wanted to get it into their hands tonight. DGD gave me a huge hug and "Thanks Grandma" which makes it soooo worthwhile. I'll put pictures of the vest (maybe with DGD wearing it) as soon as I have a couple of spare minutes. Yeah, like that's gonna happen any time soon....

Beverly

That sounds like a LOT more work than using my eyelet plate! But they sound lovely. I tend to use embroidery thread or something like tyhe YLI 100 weight silk for eyelets and buttonholes. Works a treat.

Pix please! :D

Congratulations, Beverly, sounds like another job "Well Done". Emily

I'm sure mine were much more work. The biggest difficulty was in figuring out how to hoop the vest without damaging the velvet.

I used the embroidery poly for the bobbin because I wasn't sure how the machine would react to normal thread. But it fed the standard stuff fine in the needle.

As soon as I catch my breath. ;-}

Beverly

Thanks, Emily! Her teacher said it was "perfect". DGD wore it for one dance, the Flora or the Lilt, I can never keep them all straight, and won either a first or second place.

Beverly

Hmmmmm....how about a ribbon for costume?

At the PDX Highland Games in July, they actually do have a "best costume" dance-off. DGD will have to advance to the Premier level to qualify, her teacher is urging her to move on up. And it was for the "Flora" she wore the new outfit. It's a lovely dance:

Well, you should get one (or more) of those prizes! That dancing brings back really old memories! I ever mention that my father was the eldest son of the eldest son, etc., and took his Scottish heritage verrry seriously. Wore a tartan tie, had the family crest on the dining room wall, wore The Ring, which my half-brother now has.

Thanks! As far as I know, the costume makers never get acknowledged. Maybe I'll enter another OR State Fair.

My Scottish heritage is minor, my fathers' great-great(?)-grandfather came to the "new world" from Scotland via northern Ireland in the 17th century. It never meant anything to Dad. DGD's paternal family also has some Scots blood.

However, Scottish heritage is not a pre-requisite to dance competitively.

Beverly

I suspect that you couldn't differentiate DNA from a number of European countries. It isn't like they all stayed put, either. Seems like there was a general movement from East to West, with a few incursions by the Vikings coming in from the North. Once removed from the country, I think the culture assimilates fairly rapidly.

Anyone with sufficient interest should be able to join in the dancing.

And they do! There are surnames from all over Europe, Asia, and probably other continents as well. ;-)

Beverly

The business of surnames can be misleading anyway. They are only the family names of the father, the father's father, the father's father's father, etc. What about all those mothers? ;-) And I mean that in the nicest way.

Indeed! I like the Scandinavian naming system: Boys are "Borge Svensson", and Borge's boy will be "Nels Borgesson". And girls are "Brigid Annekesdotter" and Bridgid's daughter will be "Astrid Brigidsdotter".

Or something like that. Must make genealogy research a bitch, though.

Beverly, who mowed the laws, taking a breather before I start sewing.

Thanks from all of us. There were entirely too many, what with Congress and the Legislatures always passing new ones, but never repealing old ones.

Giggle! That one slipped right past my spillchucker. I agree, there really should be a toss-an-old-one-before-enacting-a-new-one rule for legislation.

Beverly