[Roos_Girl]

Ping to FR Weekly Thread Thread #1

[knittnmom]

Pinging my favorite seamstress - Ellendra.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I’m not much of a seamstress, but your title had me in stitches.

[Hoffer Rand]

Please add me to your ping list. Thank you!!

[Roos_Girl]

Wasn’t clear from your previous responses if y’all actually wanted to be on the ping list or not? I did not include you, but let me know if you want to be added.

[JRandomFreeper]

My grand-daughter turns 3 this week, so grandpa made her a cloth doll out of scrap material. I've still got some work to do on it, but I've got until Saturday to finish up the face, etc...

I got the pattern off of a Japanese web site that I will NOT link to. The Japanese are strange, and I had to modify the pattern to make it appropriate for a 3 year old American girl.

/johnny

[Disambiguator]

I thought this was a thread about posting threads - a meta-thread.

[bunster]

Go ahead and call yourself a seamstress — what’s the alternative? A sewer? — that not good!

[Joe 6-pack]

Well...I haven't done much sewing lately other than some routine maintenance, I'll contribute this thread I posted two years ago from the construction and painting of my Bedford Flag:

My Bedford Flag

[Reddy]

Great job on the curtains!

I was wondering... is there a good field guide to edible wild plants that anyone would recommend?? Thanks!

[RikaStrom]

Roos Girl, please add me to your Thread ping list. :-)

What sort of black out material did you use?

I have a window in my place that faces the street, and I dearly would love to be able to turn a light on in there in the evening and not have the nosy neighbors in there with me!

[NTHockey]

I am going to try my “skills” at making a quiver for arrows I made from branches that fell in my yard. I took a gallon jug and cut it down by half and squeezed another jug in there. I figure it’ll hold 50 arrows.

Now I want to cover it in leather and make a sling for it. I’ve also made several bows from larger branches and strung them with Surveyor’s line. I’m going to try a couple with fishing line. Let you know how that works out.

[Library Lady]

A thread thread is a wonderful idea! Please add me to your ping list. I am retired and have just started to sew again after many years. I’m looking forward to many creative ideas. Many thanks.

[Arrowhead1952]

Our daughter is a very good seamstress. She made a dress for the Reissuance Festival in Magnolia, Texas in 2002. Unfortunately, she was sick that weekend they had planned to go. So she eventually sold the dress for close to $250 to a girl for a bridesmaids dress.

She started her own business sewing and selling scarves and other accessories online. She is making a lot of extra dollars and sewing only when she has time. My wife cannot sew a button on a shirt. I do all that.

[3D-JOY]

Please add me to the list.

I have been sewing since a pre-teen. I made prom gowns and my own wedding gown. I lovingly made all 3 daughters gowns and the bridesmaids too.

Little girls dresses are much more fun than boys shorts. Fly fronts are “zipper tough” to do...just double the fabric and fake the top stitching and put elastic in the back of the pants, or back and sides only.

Costumes are fun and a challenge. Belle and Florence Nightengale are recent ones, but there have been lots of Ghosts, Cowboys, Indians and even Harry Potter and Darth Vader. Burka’s for Freepers were a challenge.

The comments about not stitching through the blackout fabric are correct...seam with iron on “Stitch Witchery” or sometimes fabric glue!

I have done it all!! I would be glad to help anyone with a question, just ping me!

[Sarajevo]

[TEXOKIE]

:-D
LOL! I saw your post about making play clothes for the little ones, then you posted curtains, and I flashed back to the Sound of Music when Maria made play clothes out of her old curtain. My first thought was that this was your material for those play clothes!

Sorry....

My mom tried to teach me the arts of sewing and while I can find my way around a sewing machine a little bit, I am afraid it didn’t take, even though she tried her best.

[bgill]

Please, add me to the ping list.

[LucyT]

[The Bat Lady]

I love your thread thread. Please add me to the ping list.

Hubby just bought me a new sewing machine for my birthday . I think my last one was a lemon from day one. so I didn’t do much. Lately I have been making gardening aprons with huge pockets so that when out there and picking beans I have somewhere to put them.

They turned out really cute and of course one had bats on it.

Thanks for the blackout curtain ideas we have a part-time job where we need to go to bed very early and get up in the middle of the night. It will be very helpful to have those curtains.

I love freepers!