Posted on 04/01/2021 6:06:54 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I have 2 projects that need to be finished, one by this weekend. The larger project involves weaving in ends & sewing on pockets, finishing details that are ‘least favorite’ things to do. Sigh. Some project magic from Glenda the Good Witch would be fantastic!
I love to sew and machine embroidery....
Ah, yes...but most of the fun is in STARTING them! LOL!
I start them and get bored. Then go back to them later, work a little, start something else... well, you get the drift.
I think I have seven in various stages of completion. Must be my Adult ADHD. ;o]
OK, put down the knitting needles and back slowly away.....................
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That’s no fun.
There’s a lot of satisfaction in doing them.
“but most of the fun is in STARTING them!”
No kidding. I have 10+ quilt tops hanging in my closet. I must move on and complete them, but I hate doing the “quilt sandwich”. I’m pretty sure they make fun of me when I open the door.
Uncommon uses for embroidery hoops:
From Better Homes and Gardens
https://www.bhg.com/decorating/do-it-yourself/accents/embroidery-hoop-projects/
Truly miss the magazines of years ago.
WOMAN’S DAY
FAMILY CIRCLE
BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS
SOUTHERN LIVING
etc.
They’ve either gone with the wind or morphed into
nothing of interest. The craft ideas and the recipes
offered via print were sought out each month. The glossy,
colored pages filled with images. (Sigh) Yes, the Sears Roebuck Christmas Catalog was just as dog eared every year.
:-)
Have a Bless-ed Easter.
I have a friend who lives north of me by about 300 miles and quilts for a living. I find it very hard to keep up with her, even on FB. She has two long-arm quilting machines that she uses as her money-makers (she had to find something to do after her divorce because her husband refused to pay child support or alimony, so she began to sell her hand-made quilts) but she probably has four or five projects going on them for her bread and butter, and at least as many for fun. I think she does it all for the rush she gets.
Me? Mine are all my different forms of “therapy.” Not nearly as expensive as a shrink, but far more time-consuming!
I read somewhere that you can send your quilt tops to the Amish in Lancaster to be quilted. Wish I knew more, but maybe you can find the ladies who offer this service. There are a lot of quilt shops up there, so maybe they would know, or are online. Don’t know if their prohibition on electricity keeps them offline...
Southern Living still has great recipes. I also miss my granny's favorite magazine, The Workbasket. Nothing but knitting and crocheting patterns. I have a couple of old copies stashed around here.
I’m OK with the quilting itself, I just don’t like to do the layering part. I only do hand quilting which is my therapy; it takes me in to a mental zone and my blood pressure immediately drops. I just finished one I started last June, and now am quilting a smaller wall hanging size.
My Mom would love that! She’s 83, and though she’s given her trains away to a nice family, she still goes with them and ‘assists’ when they run them somewhere.
She went to ‘The Domes’ in Milwaukee a few weeks ago. It’s a big Botanical Garden under three bio-domes. She ran ‘her’ Circus Train with the young man she’s gotten hooked on trains.
I think she’s seen all of the big, remaining locomotives that are on display in various states, too. Her Bucket List is very full, LOL!
She faithfully cut those out for me every month. We had hours of fun playing with Betsy.
I grew up in a family of five girls. There were some epic tussles over Betsy McCall every month!
JoAnn’s sells a water-soluble spray glue that you spray on the layers to arrange them before quilting. It washes out when you’re finished. Haven’t tried it; but it sounds like it would cut the prep handling time considerably. I once used hundreds of safety pins to assemble the layers.
Paper dolls were our entertainment. I used to love playing with them! I remember the Betsy McCall dolls.
Oh! Yes. Betsy McCall paper doll clothes. LOL - S/R catalog
was used for paper doll clothes, paper doll house furnishings. The only item not found in print was the story
line for the day of the paper doll family. Hours spent setting up house keeping for that family (they had everything from frig to cars. Which pic is more pleasing this one or (flip to opposite side) this one? Such heavy decisions!
Subscriptions and popularity for these mags began to fade during the Clinton years. When they began to openly show political bias + began to repeat the information or be inconsistent and go down the opposite path. Bit by bit it was found they were not needed and reading them caused B/P spikes. (Sigh) Not all changes for the better.
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