Stitching the pieces together
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Good job, Meece!! There are also "iron on" ones, but surely they'd have the same issue. I've ruined a couple of fab embroidery pieces near the end of completion by a machine seizing up with garbage. I ran the machines in my shop to attract attention and they did!!
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Barbe thank you for sharing your expertise here. It is hard to remember all of the details even when I once knew most of them! Now I have trouble because I have not been sewing and it has gotten to be so long that I think I will have forgotten the content of the many classes I have taken.
Ginger
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Ginger, NO, thank you!! If I didn't get a chance to repeat this stuff every once in a while, I'd forget it too!! heheehheheee
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I used to think the phrase "use it or lose it" was meant for muscles, but as I got older I'm pretty sure it means information you've stored in your brain! I'm sure I've "lost" more information than I still have in my brain.
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Hi reposting this on some threads, may be old news to some, but to good of info not to pass this on,Sassy
Bluebird144…NJJoined: Apr 2013Posts: 39313 hours agoBluebird144 wrote:
Knitted Knockers Charities is a non-profit that exists to provide free patterns for knitters and crocheters to be able to make knockers and help mastectomy patients get freeKnitted Knockers made by volunteers.
I love my Knitted Knockers! They are light and soft and warm. Unlike my silicone prosthetic which is heavy and cold when first worn, then it later causes me to sweat.
I wear my knitted knockers inside a regular bra or tucked in the pocket of a mastectomy bra. They are beautiful, and a godsend to those of us with an uneven mastectomy scar.
Knitted knockers website:
http://www.knittedknockers.info/
Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
Surgery 09/09/2009 Prophylactic Ovary Removal (Both)Chemotherapy 02/06/2013 Adriamycin, Cytoxan, TaxolSurgery 07/19/2013 Mastectomy (Both); Lymph Node Removal: Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection, Axillary Lymph Node Dissection (Left); Reconstruction: DIEP flap (Both)Surgery 08/20/2013 Reconstruction (Right)Surgery 08/28/2013 Mastectomy (Right)Radiation Therapy 10/14/2013 3-D conformal external beam radiationSurgery 01/24/2014 Reconstruction: Tissue expander placement (Right)
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I downloaded the patterns, but will have to look for the yarn. They do look comfy.
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Friend posted this.
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That's perfect Alyson!!! hehehehee
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Alyson, love it! This is me on crafts:
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Hi Folks, I recently found out some info that has pissed me off in re: the drugs given to me during treatment for BC. I was almost killed with my one and only chemo. Taxotere was the culprit. I "failed" all three AI's b/c of s.e.'s. All of this could have been avoided had my MO paid attention to the Cytochrome450 genetic testing. Of the six genes tested, I have abnormalities in three. All are major players in the drugs I was given. Had I been tested, it would have been known. The drug choice and /or dosage modifications could have been made
Rather than rewrite the details here The link below will take you to a thread that has the posts that I have written in the last few days.
I'm not trying to sell Genelex. Other laboratories are doing genetic testing. But Genelex is the only company right now that provides the application of the genetic results to the drugs we are taking. Other companies, I'm sure are trying to build the same business model. It's the future of drug administration.
Why? Patients will no longer except being experimented upon with drugs that can harm them. If the docs won't do this because it's the right thing to do it. Then we have to PUSH them into doing the right thing.
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How about this one?
I hope you will all follow this next time your start sewing!!!
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HAHAAHHAAHAA, I would NEVER sew with lipstick on!!! I'd chew it off in no time, anyway....
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Lol! My mom and grandma were both sewers in 1949. I can guarantee you there were plenty of unwashed dishes and unmade beds, primarily because they were otherwise occupied sewing!
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I must have some weird kind of guilt. I always felt like things were "supposed" to be done before I was allowed to have fun. Not that I did get them done but I sure had less fun because I was delaying doing any craft because I wasn't cleaning the house. Why didn't I hire a house cleaner decades before I finally did????? Oh I know, because I was "supposed" to do it myself. Grrrrrrrrr
Go craft, go sew, enjoy enjoy, wrap your fabrics around you like a stolle. Drape your self, bejewel your self.
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Ginger---Like
Jan
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I always thought that sewing/craft was a way to avoid anything else and I am sure my mother would have agreed though not my grandmother. I am sure the housework and dishes did themselves because they were afraid of her, not that she was scarey - she was just so organised, wish I had inherited that.
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If I were a housewife in 1949, I'd never get around to sewing. A clean dress, hair fixed, make up in place,dishes done. My priorities are just about the opposite. Sew first, then put something in the microwave. That's my day of choice. Jan
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I actually remember 1949, a little. I know everything took way more time and people didnt try to do so many things but sure had to work at what they did do. My Grandma didnt have power or running water or toilet or central heat. It seemed that a lot of things were scheduled by the time of day. Cows had to be milked, Stove fired up and food for the day cooked while it was still hot. Sometime I will write some more about it, I remember so much and I was 4 years old. I could draw pictures of it all. What I wouldnt give to go back to say hello to my Grandma once more.
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Today I was watching some arial pics of ice on the lakes and rivers in the Midwest and suddenly I was in a small plane flying over the Missouri River as the ice was breaking up in the spring. it would have been 1946 and I would have been 4. I can see Mom waiting for us to land. She was holding my infant brother which is what places the date for me. I have several memories before that one but they are isolated and usually associated with pain. (no one could figure out what was causing it until I was 13, apparently I was born with kidney stones) Lots of day to day memories from 4 on.
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Awesome! I love looking at all the art from you talented ladies!!
Oceana
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I recall one day of creating in my sewing room where I did a piece titled "Purple Rain". My DH appeared in the doorway and I was so concerned that he was sick and home early! I was still in my housecoat with my now-cold cup of tea on the table. He told me it was 4:30. What a GREAT day that was!!!!
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Barbe I LOVE your great day!
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Barbe and all, I have a question.
The types of sewing thread have changed over the years. I have some of the heirloom sewing thread, it is quite fine. Most of what I have is the kind on the taller spools, not cones. I just can't remember the name and with this back brace I can't get up stairs to look. Have I mentioned that I am really despising wearing this brace. Anyhow I have been thinking about my sewing room so much! Thread has been on my mind. I recall some seminar where we were told to thread the thread in a certain direction, does that apply to in a hand needle only? or the way it feeds into a machine, over the spool or under the spool. So much of this used to be automatic and has become confusing.
Thanks for any thoughts you have on the topic and any energy if you wish to discuss.My big bushes are starting to bloom just a little near the house, so pretty,
Hugs Ginger
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Ginger,
I think threading the thread one way applies mostly to embroidery thread.
I just finished making pillows for a love seat we are trying to give away. Goodwill, etc wouldn't take it without the back pillows so I bought some pillow forms and fabric (both 75% off). They look good, if I say so myself.
I've also been working on small quilts with seasonal themes to hang in my office. If I can figure it out, I'll post pictures.
J
Edited: Did some more research. If you need to use a double strand of sewing thread, the best practice is to use 2 separate strands, cut off the spool, going the same direction. Instead of using 1 strand and knotting together as the twist will be opposite. Hope this makes sense.
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Ginger, the eye of a handle needle is "punched out" when it's formed, so if you have trouble threading a needle you can turn it around for a better chance. Machine needles can only be inserted one way to avoid the smaller side being presented for threading. Some machines themselves HATE certain threads; metallic threads, embroidery threads and specialty threads like that. In that case it's not the needle but probably the speedtension and/or bobbin that is "at fault". So not sure if you're asking about machine or hand needles.....
As for cotton thread, short fibres cause a build-up of lint pretty quickly in your machine, so expensive Turkish threads and others with longer fibres (don't think I'm using the right term, but it's bloody DARK out right now due to daylight savings time and my brain hasn't woken up yet!) work better in a machine. Remember, your needle goes up and down very rapidly and works against the thread pretty aggressively - you want a strong thread. I avoid using cotton threads at any cost!! They are weak and can't stain easily from washing, or even using pencil to mark out a quilt pattern. Polyester is your best friend in a machine.
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I got my sister's wallhanging done. Like the poppies I posted earlier. This is for all the help she gave me, spent the night at the hospital and at home with me. Taking care of mom because I couldn't drive.
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Smaarty that is gorgeous! I'm sure your sister will love it especially since you have made it.
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Very pretty Smaarty, a lovely gift for your sister.
I watched a quilting arts TV show and they had ice or snow dying featured. The idea was making your own prints to quilt with. Very pretty. The most dying I did was some tie die onesies.
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Gorgeous Smaarty!!! If she doesn't want it (unlikely!!) I'll take it!
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Barbe you would have to fight me first!.....hahahahaha! I would hang that in my lounge no problem at all!
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