tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63074845841690210452024-03-06T00:44:12.705-08:00French Odditiesjeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-49398968363018961342020-11-03T09:14:00.000-08:002020-11-30T07:40:24.716-08:00A Halloween Jacket<p> <span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Recently I took an
on-line class from a woman named <a href="https://debcanhamstudio.com/" target="_blank">Deb Canham </a>on making an embellished jean jacket
using both the sewing machine and serger. The pattern she was making for the
class was called the <a href="https://www.stylearc.com/shop/sewing-patterns/stacie-jean-jacket/" target="_blank">Stacie Jean Jacket</a>. In the lead up to the class, we were shown
examples of ideas of what we could make. The two examples she showed us were a
jacket made from Kaffe Fassett fabrics and a seasonal fabric jacket made from
Halloween fabric. Before her class, I was thinking maybe muted Kaffe colors,
but when Deb showed her Halloween Jacket I got all excited. Sulky had had a
<a href="https://www.sulky.com/education-events/sewing-online-with-sulky-sos/">webinar</a> with a woman by the name of <a href="https://www.desireesdesigns.com/" target="_blank">Desiree Habicht of Desiree’s Designs</a> a couple
of weeks before. During the seminar she made a steampunk Pumpkin Pouch. During the seminar
she showed off her Halloween fabric line. </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">After the webinar was over I searched and
found most of the line of her steam punk Halloween fabric. I bought it to make,
I don’t know, I just liked it. I don’t buy without a purpose often anymore but,
I really liked the fabric. The fabric line came with a panel of assorted steam
punk pumpkins as well as a bird, an owl, butterflies and a cat. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jpA105_CsUQbqVWcPxt8-EhcLDVStPVV0kPjZD20mljP9RDh870S6WphyphenhyphenhJal8pP-Tt5JDYa4JoAV0xrgQhZwW5RWyUWYcp7TeXj-ReE4YLeF50P7wkf6XHyEcuaxheFQOKeF-WnpxJ8/s1290/panel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jpA105_CsUQbqVWcPxt8-EhcLDVStPVV0kPjZD20mljP9RDh870S6WphyphenhyphenhJal8pP-Tt5JDYa4JoAV0xrgQhZwW5RWyUWYcp7TeXj-ReE4YLeF50P7wkf6XHyEcuaxheFQOKeF-WnpxJ8/w224-h400/panel.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The
coordinating fabric included a range of gear fabric in assorted colors and a
border print of the cat owl and bird in one border and a range of pumpkins on
the other border strip.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Quickly it became apparent
that the Stacie Jacket pattern was not going to work. The three-piece front design
would not allow for the use of the pumpkin pieces from the large panel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">In my stash I have
two jean jacket patterns that I have never even cracked open. I settled on the
Jacket Express #218 by Janet Pray, but it would need to be modified, to use the
designs from the panel. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXq0r-vkF8DilowNQx0wvTukgtD-O_4PiQZgjQYv-Xbs1iE2BG6MubyQZVLM7vpgNuMbQykwOv-WlDBYYBeh8WtCpBMXMy20F3J_WMdEqrBo8phWNliVw0-U5NqxfdCPl_vmIHlFBii4ir/s2048/IMG_4759+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1327" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXq0r-vkF8DilowNQx0wvTukgtD-O_4PiQZgjQYv-Xbs1iE2BG6MubyQZVLM7vpgNuMbQykwOv-WlDBYYBeh8WtCpBMXMy20F3J_WMdEqrBo8phWNliVw0-U5NqxfdCPl_vmIHlFBii4ir/s320/IMG_4759+%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">If you look at the pattern cover, there are welt
pockets on the piece that would be best for the panel pumpkins and it has a
curved bottom hem. I dislike those. On the back, the center back piece was ¾ of
an inch too narrow so it would need to be modified as well. for the final jacket, the welt pockets were deleted and side pockets were inserted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">In my stash I
found a light brown denim that perfectly matched the fabrics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">This is what I
started with:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmCaebLE2tcKk-WMV09eJU7D0HIMsnFUWbEcfCME3ycTTCDavosWZmC-m1Y0Lm5oHldA5E2mM5-KoyLOTyTzePCAErlS5MHEHtm3xFUj8PNtcrNU4jmsryFg_RAkpymlblgrBF6u7tEykq/s2048/IMG_4756+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1520" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmCaebLE2tcKk-WMV09eJU7D0HIMsnFUWbEcfCME3ycTTCDavosWZmC-m1Y0Lm5oHldA5E2mM5-KoyLOTyTzePCAErlS5MHEHtm3xFUj8PNtcrNU4jmsryFg_RAkpymlblgrBF6u7tEykq/w298-h400/IMG_4756+%25282%2529.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I ended up not using
the black and white stripe fabric which incidentally was not part of the fabric
line, but I thought I might use. It turned out to have too much white.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">There were not
enough smaller steampunk designs on the panel for the entire jacket so, from <a href="https://www.urbanthreads.com/products.aspx?productid=UT18912" target="_blank">Urban Threads</a>,
I found a steampunk gear embroidery design that worked perfectly for the upper left front
of the jacket next to the pocket.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Speaking of the
upper pockets, the pocket flaps were fussy cut from the border fabric. The
cuffs were first cut out of the pumpkin part of the border, but like the black and
white fabric, it was too white and did not work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgr-p9uP_KrDw6VCpmpo7rpgWXEN8GS_KJeC7wQl2uaIkR4tXPoj0M6wgTDXLYwu8Hf0zl0gEe_dJdTxQo8QQvqR8epCELtgyoT3vcACp6NOj79MIt1pCoUHwdClH2t208NXGRSGawMBn/s2048/IMG_4758+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="2048" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKgr-p9uP_KrDw6VCpmpo7rpgWXEN8GS_KJeC7wQl2uaIkR4tXPoj0M6wgTDXLYwu8Hf0zl0gEe_dJdTxQo8QQvqR8epCELtgyoT3vcACp6NOj79MIt1pCoUHwdClH2t208NXGRSGawMBn/w400-h208/IMG_4758+%25282%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> Instead, the cuffs were
substituted using more the border print used on the pocket flaps.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Deb Canham’s
jackets have lots of embellishment done on the serger. Unfortunately, for me, I
do not have the correct size needle for the serger to do a proper chain stitch
so I had to switch to couching the threads down using my sewing machine. This is
what I used:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilESOtkyf8xa2pJntkwxBnNtHawbSoKkD39ZUFiB5dTRmBAT8JcaVxtl7CWwEQteeM4A_i4gCNWjwj3prMVtPMzhxswxWPXNMnscuJte8Hqr8Eihf0zyvtzUVxQNBxo2jxDjTEjRK03a1s/s2048/IMG_4757+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilESOtkyf8xa2pJntkwxBnNtHawbSoKkD39ZUFiB5dTRmBAT8JcaVxtl7CWwEQteeM4A_i4gCNWjwj3prMVtPMzhxswxWPXNMnscuJte8Hqr8Eihf0zyvtzUVxQNBxo2jxDjTEjRK03a1s/s320/IMG_4757+%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Dazzle and
Wonderfil soft poly for the couching and not shown a Sulky metallic for the
curved vertical lines and a brown Blendables 12 weight for the curved lines on
the jacket yolk and center sleeves.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Here is the result.
Super cute!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ6YSUTMAR4HzZSchIsTtkGQDSSJYgg367qQwb3KLRZwriwIoVDpHNpHSrnypVkAcHMEm8UcgiR9IDtFCd9FU6Gwn9TzlV5lXwq1FsYdj_Anbi5jfcw0-T518LdCTqGFoH6-kWZPSCbe3O/s2048/IMG_4760+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1485" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ6YSUTMAR4HzZSchIsTtkGQDSSJYgg367qQwb3KLRZwriwIoVDpHNpHSrnypVkAcHMEm8UcgiR9IDtFCd9FU6Gwn9TzlV5lXwq1FsYdj_Anbi5jfcw0-T518LdCTqGFoH6-kWZPSCbe3O/w290-h400/IMG_4760+%25282%2529.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKzKlLNhwa9SRZda1Ed22CfHssQTV-y5WX6ttgW34Q9U2jB_nxFdPgyVdl3velebq9QPEWgzRacHvfOzwHn52Xg2uK-4j5cB106JhWQw4r1PU93DKMZ16Tb4y_1oBkqZtb03BQyVKZuC3_/s2048/IMG_4761+%25283%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1231" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKzKlLNhwa9SRZda1Ed22CfHssQTV-y5WX6ttgW34Q9U2jB_nxFdPgyVdl3velebq9QPEWgzRacHvfOzwHn52Xg2uK-4j5cB106JhWQw4r1PU93DKMZ16Tb4y_1oBkqZtb03BQyVKZuC3_/w240-h400/IMG_4761+%25283%2529.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXRqdxdt55suEu3SgEBdzMy0nPO2E9JQTQJ90J-3SYFTwS99kko-_U-nF5sXG1ZS8EeVY-jsV8X4Ehk7dHEfxb135rxi8-fF4s3kPYTT8TDeVzYZFI3Gxb9UfmU26jqVVTpyVEn_KDUKf9/s2048/IMG_4762+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1745" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXRqdxdt55suEu3SgEBdzMy0nPO2E9JQTQJ90J-3SYFTwS99kko-_U-nF5sXG1ZS8EeVY-jsV8X4Ehk7dHEfxb135rxi8-fF4s3kPYTT8TDeVzYZFI3Gxb9UfmU26jqVVTpyVEn_KDUKf9/w341-h400/IMG_4762+%25282%2529.jpg" width="341" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhDxyWsUCyoaGCLEDBQtxFbreS4R3htLAyIENbFPv7AhTI8x3KaxCFOUl1O_-13GwnKxhD8QxCuXBAXsRwkLE12JKcO0TbAbQDxhukKiH8285KD8aX-1KjYBjCQtTyCef1grsnYz6toHYh/s2048/IMG_4763+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1580" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhDxyWsUCyoaGCLEDBQtxFbreS4R3htLAyIENbFPv7AhTI8x3KaxCFOUl1O_-13GwnKxhD8QxCuXBAXsRwkLE12JKcO0TbAbQDxhukKiH8285KD8aX-1KjYBjCQtTyCef1grsnYz6toHYh/w309-h400/IMG_4763+%25282%2529.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><br /></span><p></p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"></span><p></p>jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-68967231463653404012020-08-22T11:10:00.001-07:002020-08-22T11:10:22.650-07:00Tablecloth Re-Do<p><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I have been
collecting tablecloths, damaged are better but, anything really, if I find them, I buy them. I
have many ideas in mind for them, things I want to try to make. Living part of
the year in France and Germany, between you, me, and the wall, Germany is
better the better country for finding colorful embroidered tablecloths and
France is better for more dainty or delicate embroidered items and white on white.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Here is a small
sample of what I mean. These are from Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgBcxBqAWzDdTYn34kYVts0to56p9gMMfI1ILqm-NMTziYphMUXGNUzZTOi1ElapavULpIQf0nP0q_u_O_tHlnQMZDJ5gQzobJKGmTNLkEaGlYfLjFj8268yLSceH2MaRYayIFFafmzYqq/s2048/IMG_4559+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1832" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgBcxBqAWzDdTYn34kYVts0to56p9gMMfI1ILqm-NMTziYphMUXGNUzZTOi1ElapavULpIQf0nP0q_u_O_tHlnQMZDJ5gQzobJKGmTNLkEaGlYfLjFj8268yLSceH2MaRYayIFFafmzYqq/w458-h512/IMG_4559+%25281%2529.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And these are from
France.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1onGClQPN8V1c1GSuekGH7p5RgEBhdPQmpsP-3_XmxCzE1-zNGVVVPezhA2AoVv1eWO1hLyi5i7q95vanK_vEbkvaPZjwmEetR_xGzjaOLAyGBCy7IhjmSmv_cvKgeChSjhBIZeFfcDu/s2048/IMG_4576.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1onGClQPN8V1c1GSuekGH7p5RgEBhdPQmpsP-3_XmxCzE1-zNGVVVPezhA2AoVv1eWO1hLyi5i7q95vanK_vEbkvaPZjwmEetR_xGzjaOLAyGBCy7IhjmSmv_cvKgeChSjhBIZeFfcDu/w512-h384/IMG_4576.jpg" width="512" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Now I am not
saying that it is always like this, it’s not. However, if I were to generalize, if I want colors on my embroidered tablecloths, most likely they came from Germany.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">A couple years ago,
I bought a garment; it was made in India using modal (a form of rayon). Although nice, the
length was not quite right for me. Due to the length the way it tapers in at the
hem meant that I really could use a couple of inches in width to fit me
correctly and be at its flattering best. I am not fat, its just the length is
not, well …right. Most irritating was that the garment did not have pockets. I
need a Kleenex pocket or a place I can put my hands. I cannot stand sweaters
without pockets, as I do not normally carry a purse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I copied off the
pattern from the modal ready-made garment. I added inches to the side bottom,
adjusted the length and found a place to insert hidden pockets. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Having shopped in Germany last year where my selection looked something like this:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRwTqbdj8caTtuga5vQvx53ZZ-6d14lIYvafRtsOnC3fjOFnoJbLsxGig4Eqx8ZRFORFsppkA6-dqnloB2nMDl5UDhv-ICUlJ7DXTIxYwYYlvfp9IF2FJC-2OAdWMT4ZabvaxBfpdQ3ipn/s2048/IMG_0647.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRwTqbdj8caTtuga5vQvx53ZZ-6d14lIYvafRtsOnC3fjOFnoJbLsxGig4Eqx8ZRFORFsppkA6-dqnloB2nMDl5UDhv-ICUlJ7DXTIxYwYYlvfp9IF2FJC-2OAdWMT4ZabvaxBfpdQ3ipn/s640/IMG_0647.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I have a sizable tablecloth stash. I
pulled several similar in color tablecloths and removed the heavy lace from the
edges. I thought I might add it back later, but once I completed the garment, I
found it did not need it. It went together fast with few seams and super easy to sew.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">This picture shows my starting point, This is the same picture as before.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvp3GWAa7YgY2keLa9QX02-Y5-JZfJVEvrC-RvMqLsDMtXIyy3YM_wNj1gpvtiLxYkqZ1FZTXQKjeBF6qro1bvuO98BbR1jZe9fGFOzxON4irUBO6EIqJi0t2NWOYyP7HX8shni1b0ztpx/s2048/IMG_4559+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1832" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvp3GWAa7YgY2keLa9QX02-Y5-JZfJVEvrC-RvMqLsDMtXIyy3YM_wNj1gpvtiLxYkqZ1FZTXQKjeBF6qro1bvuO98BbR1jZe9fGFOzxON4irUBO6EIqJi0t2NWOYyP7HX8shni1b0ztpx/w458-h512/IMG_4559+%25281%2529.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">All are similar in background and embroidery color. The bottom left and center bottom pieces were not used. Notice the bottom left one has a hole in the fabric. I had to be mindful and work around holes and stains on all of the pieces.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">So, here it is
completed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHiLZvwn0ECWHuMvj9Y4QS-jw2yBFIBwzFaAKL-_aLzXJnSBdmhXxGlszrHV-hVpCPCP6h_piRbOIaHjdd5atKfATnPTHq8R8k9fDkkDQDargNve6rRjlBvMSqEkVFLxa0DNxnZyWRw7ov/s2048/IMG_4561+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1530" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHiLZvwn0ECWHuMvj9Y4QS-jw2yBFIBwzFaAKL-_aLzXJnSBdmhXxGlszrHV-hVpCPCP6h_piRbOIaHjdd5atKfATnPTHq8R8k9fDkkDQDargNve6rRjlBvMSqEkVFLxa0DNxnZyWRw7ov/s640/IMG_4561+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The fit is nice and once the weather gets a little cooler, it will
be a nice casual jacket to get comfortable in around the house or out and about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-14799232572927763352020-05-08T07:35:00.000-07:002020-05-08T07:35:29.568-07:00Are you being productive right now? <br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">It’s been a little more than a month ago that I
found myself back in the United states. I was in Australia, Heron Island to be
exact when the news came that the group I was part of was being recalled back
to the United States. There were 70 of us, students and professors, trapped on
the island for the 5 days after the recall. Trapped due to a category 2 cyclone
spinning of the coast heading down in the direction of Brisbane. We were fine. There was
lots of sunshine and wind but no rain and importantly, no ferries to get back
to the mainland. In those 5 days walks on the beach were wonderful. One could
not snorkel or scuba dive due the very rough seas but the turtles were hatching
and late at night, if you were lucky you could see turtles coming to shore to
lay eggs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So I am back.
Adventures stopped for the time being. The kitchen upon arrival was empty of
everything from spices and other shelf goods to what goes in the average refrigerator
after it is plugged in. I have become reacquainted with my sewing room. Like
everyone I have made a few masks and in doing so have noticed that certain
sewing items are hiding on me. All in all after a month I have settled right
in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Someone told me
that among sewers, most are not making something new; instead, they are pulling
out UFOs and are working on them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I am no different. In the basement I
found a UFO that was intriguing enough for me that I picked it up to finish it.
There is a good reason it was a UFO, but heh, what else to I have to do right
now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">At least 15 years
ago I was visiting an aunt of my husbands. She led an interesting life
following her husband around as he worked in the diplomatic service. It was on
that visit I noticed the rug on the floor under the dining room table. It was a
rug of dragon designs. Getting permission, I copied the designs off the rug
onto white kitchen garbage bags with a sharpie. I was super careful as to not
in any way damage the rug.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">At home, I reproduced
the center dragon. I made that block twice after figuring out the best way to
construct it after the many mistakes of the first. I took notes on what not to
do. The first of the center dragons was made into a wall hanging and was given
away. The second dragon was put away in a box along with the left overs of fabrics
used as the amount of work to make what I wanted was daunting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Fast forward 15
years. Challenge taken! I think I mentioned that the amount of work was
daunting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But heh, what else do I have
to do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So here is the
starting point, a white kitchen trashbag with the dragon drawn on with a red
sharpie.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">First step was to
redraw the dragon onto paper. When I redesigned my sewing room, I used Ikea furniture
for the shelving. Between each of the pieces in the box was a piece of lightweight
brown paper. I kept them all figuring I could use it for pattern drafting
later. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Years ago the place
I worked was getting rid of things they no longer used. One of them was a huge
wooden light box that had been used to proof electrical designs for circuit
boards. I took it, brought it home and later used it once before this project.
It is very large and heavy. It is also very useful and a big help.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So the dragon was
redrawn onto paper and then cleaned up. Then using a black sharpie, the lines
were drawn. Did I mentioned that the amount of work for this project was daunting?
Drawing the one in the picture onto the paper took a day. But heh, what else do
I have to do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Finally, the fun
part began. Even though I had some of the original fabrics used when I made the
first dragon, there was not enough for the entire quilt. As luck would have it
I have a large fabric stash and was able to find enough fabrics to make all of
the dragons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So here is one of the dragons in the process of being assembled and sewn together:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">I figured that I
could use the center dragon that was already completed but when I laid it out
on the bed it was clear that the background was ok, but not spectacular. The tone on tone that was bought to go with it 15 years ago wasn't going to be my first choice it was ok, but just ok. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">My
style had changed a lot in the last 15 years. I took a picture and looked at
it. The quilt on the bed under the dragons is pastel and suddenly, just like
that, a new background was decided. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Pastels, like the quilt on the bed wouldn’t
work, but a mixture of tone on tones would. Daunting just took another step up,
but heh, what else do I have to do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">Good thing I have a stash:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">This project is
still a work in progress; Every day gets a little closer to finishing. The 3 of
the 4 outer dragons are complete, the last one is on the sewing machine being
attached to the tone on tone background.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The center dragon
has been redrawn on the brown paper and construction has started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">More to come… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-27296028975324908202019-10-20T06:30:00.001-07:002019-10-20T06:30:10.484-07:00Using Flea Market Finds<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Constructing the Christmas
ornaments this year I received comments from friends and even strangers on the train
about my use of recycled items. Seldom in what I construct do I use new
materials. The abundance and cost of items at flea markets and second hand
stores make an inexpensive alternative to buying new. If what I make turns out,
I have saved something from going into the rubbish bin. Most things turn out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">This morning I
went to a flea market here in town. The specialization of this market was on
clothing. I was on the lookout for old jewelry. I was fortunate, it was worth
the walk in the rain to get to the market.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">So what did I find?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">For starters, I
bought a crystal hair jewelry piece. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">This piece will be deconstructed. The hair
comb portions will find a use someday, but the strands of hanging crystals will
work in all kinds of projects. Crystals, when found in a hobby shop, are
expensive. Cutting the crystals apart, leaves the perfect place for a needle to
pass through the bottom of the casing to sew the crystal to whatever is being constructed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The hanging crystals
are small and very useful. To the right are larger ones from a previously
bought necklace found a couple weeks ago that has been cut apart. The metal
that holds the crystal casings together was cut using a pair of wire cutters
and then the, now cut, interconnecting metal cut pieces were removed from the crystal
casing using a small pair of needle nose pliers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Some of the metal pieces can
be seen just below the larger crystals. After a couple snips, you become
proficient at removing the metal interconnecting pieces. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Ya, so, what will
I do with them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ornament. Made using the same construction method as the stars from the last
blog post. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I found the felt trees
on clearance at a local shop. After covering them with vintage lace, the larger
crystals were used as some of the Christmas ornaments on the tree. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">From the necklace,
there are enough crystals to make a second similar tree. I paid one euro for
the necklace. The ornament is two sided and both sides are identical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">What else did I
find?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Earrings and a
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The necklace was a pain to detangle which is why it was not worn by
the previous owner. I bought it for the birds. The chain can be used for
various projects later as well. Good chains are a nice find. No idea what I will do with it but it will go
in my stash for later when I want to use it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The last item was
a pair of earrings. Just thinking of wearing them makes my ears hurt. Those
earrings will be caught in the wind and pull as they are worn. I owned a pair
of wood ones years ago, that went to Goodwill for that exact reason. Four small
metal pieces make up each earring. Looking at the construction one can see that
just a couple of rings, that can easily be removed, holds them together.
Jewelry pliers will separate them. I see uses, due to the type of metal, they will not corrode, on a crazy patch quilt or perhaps a Christmas ornament for
next year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-85938324689847532372019-10-08T08:25:00.000-07:002019-10-08T08:25:45.224-07:00Christmas Ornament 2019<br />
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this week that I have a blog and that some people I know miss it. I have been
greatly neglecting this blog and will, at least until the end of the year, attempt
to fix that. As happens so much life, life got in the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">It would be nice
to start with this year’s Christmas ornament. Every year I am in an exchange
with eight like minded women. We all put lots of thought into what to make. The
rules are we can send the ornament off any time after August. We beat the higher
cost of Christmas postage that way, if we choose to. I knew that I had a trip to Boston
planned for early September so that was my deadline. The cost of mailing them
from France would be high and the next time I had planned to be in the states
was going to be in December for Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I am a collector, not
to the point of being a pack rat, but close. When I collect, it is for a
purpose. Sometimes I do not know what that purpose is when I start. Whatever
the item is, it percolates in the back of my mind for months, sometimes years
until one day I know what to do with it or by then, do with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">One such example is
the collecting of broken rosaries. For years, I have been collecting them. They
are cheaper to buy broken. For example, last year I found two crosses from
rosaries in a second hand shop in Germany. The price was right, as my goal is
to buy them for less than 3 euros each. Normally in France, I find them for 5 euros each. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Here are some of the ones I have found:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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without the cross is a common find at flea markets in small town France. I buy
them for the beads and the metal medallions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Once in a while I buy something that doesn't quite make sense to me but once home and can do a little research can find what things are. For example in France it is not uncommon for a young girl to receive a bracelet such as the one below for either first communion or more probable confirmation. They are normally made of silver and fit a wrist smaller than 6 1/2 inches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Once a year, in
August, my little town in France has a sale where vendors come from outside the
city but also the shopkeepers sell of things that are on clearance at especially
low prices. At least 5 years ago I bought a package of eight thick felt brownish grey stars
and another pack the same size and color of Christmas trees. The color is probably
why they did not sell. A brownish grey Christmas tree is rather an odd color and not very festive. The felt
stars and trees languished in my sewing room for years. This year I pulled them
out as well as some wide pieces of lace I had in my stash. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">As I began with my idea, everything I thought I might need was placed on the table:</span><br />
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tree and star, first to one side and then after it dried and trimmed, the
method was repeated on the other side of the tree or star. </span><br />
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place at the sides since the next step was to sew on the beads along the edge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> In the picture above, with all of the medallians you can just make out the beads sewn to one of the stars after the lace was applied. The needle went through the layer of glue with no problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Now, the decorating began. Rosary
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cross was placed on one side and a medallion sewn to the other side. They actually went quite quickly, unlike the trees which are becoming a time sink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-83560861261714287162018-12-12T08:13:00.003-08:002018-12-12T08:13:56.446-08:00La Mode Illustrée, 1903<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">A couple of weeks ago I went with a group to the Christmas markets in Strasbourg and Colmar. Both were delightful, Strasbourg being a larger cityhas a lot to offer when there is no Christmas market because of its many interesting stores, restaurants and cafes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Colmar is smaller and quaint. It has a nice covered market much like the one in my city. It also has a cobble stone old town. The Christmas market can be visited in in just a couple hours. Again, when cold, there are many fun shops. Walking past a book store that sells old books, I saw that there was a book in the window about fashion written in the mid to late 1800s. I have visited many book stores like this and have always come away empty handed but due to the book in the window I went in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">In the store was the owner and a middle aged french couple that were in the final stages of buying a book and a couple of old postcards. They had interrupted his lunch. On a old wood table pushed up against the wall under a shelf of books was the uneaten parts of his lunch on a hand thrown dark blue pottery plate. The knife and fork left in a position as to say "I am coming back". Next to the plate was a half of glass of red wine. I am always pleased to see this type of thing since it is so, well, French.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I said Bonjour and then listened in to the conversation the three were having about the postcards. Besides greeting me back there was no move to help me. You always say hello to the shop keeper when you enter any small shop. This is very French. This is just how it is done, greet, then start looking around or in my case take my time and wait and listen to the conversation. After a couple minutes the man of the couple turned to me and told the shop keeper that he should really help me. The shop keeper turned to me and asked me in French which language I would like to use, French, German or English. This was way too fun so I answered him in all three languages but then in German told him that my best language was English.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I then inquired in English if he had any La Mode </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Illustr</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">é</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">e</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"> books. He thought about it and then said he had three books I might be interested in. The first was the book in the window. In pencil on the front inner cover was the price and how many fashion plates were contained within. I paged through it was he went to find the other two. Fashion plates and the descriptions of the dresses in french was not what I was interested in but it was a beautiful book with a breath taking price. The plates were beautiful and still had the thin sheet of tissue that separates the color page from the print on the previous page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The second book was sort of the same, only smaller. the plates were not as nice but it was a sewing book. Again interesting to look at but not what I was searching for. The descriptions of how to construct things assumed that you were an expert seamstress. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">While paging through that book, the shop keeper was on a step ladder next to the table with his forgotten lunch reaching a book off of the very top shelf. As he brought it down he exclaimed that he was sure he had one of these up there somewhere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">He actually had one of the books I was searching for from 1903!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The conversation with the french couple started up anew as I was allowed to look at the three books at my leisure at the table next to his cold and neglected lunch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">La mode </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Illustr</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">é</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">e </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">started publication in 1859. What years they published the books of the entire year I have not been able to determine. The books do not include the much sought after patterns but come in a nice bound book cut down just a little from the original magazine size. Starting mid year in 1897 the cover drawing for each weeks issue turned to color. I own a 1897 book which is why I know this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"> The French couple finished picking out postcards, their book was placed in a plastic bag, several hundred euros changed hands, they bid me adieu and were gone. The owner of the shop then turned his complete attention to me. We negotiated the price down from what the inside cover said. He gave me a brochure on the upcoming antique book sale happening in town early next year and let me know he is in my town several times a year selling his books. There is a big antique market shamefully I have never been to once a month at the nearby convention center. Next year I will need to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Notice the fold line. None of my other books have this so I wonder if they were bound by individuals and not the publisher. I would think that if they were different, but all of mine have the same outside cover with letters spelling out the magazine name and year on the spine and are the same size. The fold is interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Darn we all missed this Monday, 30 March exposition of new fashion of the season by over 100 years. Seeing the price of the jacket made me wonder how much would that accordion pressed taffeta jacket cost in today's dollars? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Searching on the web I found that in 1901 dollars 150 Fr would be approximately 572 Euros or about $652 USD in today's dollars. OK, a little pricey but you are in Paris and it is made out of yards of accordion taffeta. Not to mention the height of fashion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I suppose we could buy the hat but hair styles and age must be taken into account:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Old ladies get boring hats. Some of these hats one needs to watch the door as you enter a room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Continuing through the book, the wedding dress was really something:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Love those sleeves! There are variations to those and here they are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Elsewhere there are drawings dissecting the sleeves so you at home can draft them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Continuing on I have decided I want that shoulder shawl thing:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I would wear that with blue jeans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Now the reason I buy this particular magazine is not for the fashion. Instead, I learn a lot of things about items I find at flea markets. Take this piece:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Notice how this can be wrapped around for say, a sleeve, maybe at the wrist and tacked so it looks like one continuous piece of lace. I have found these and thought they were lace bits when in fact if I had 2 of them I could put them on a blouse at the wrist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">People are beginning to have this belief that I am an expert at dating lace. Here is a good example of something I might find bits of and now I can date it if I actually found a piece. Don't laugh, it is not that uncommon that I do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Then there is the other items one might find. It is nice to know how these items were used:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">There is a nice issue on the Catholic first communion:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Girls and the dresses is pretty normal to see. But what about the boys? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Several years ago I saw something odd at a flea market and inquired into what it had been used for. It was a band with a bow on it made of satin and just a touch of lace across the bottom. Here it is, this is what the boys wore for first communion from the magazine:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I can and will be pouring over this book for hours but I thought you might enjoy this little peak.</span>jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-40131152172572376802018-12-08T02:03:00.001-08:002018-12-08T02:03:43.921-08:00Autumn Adornment and other things<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Sometimes I don't sound my own horn. It is a bad habit I have had since, well forever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Lets start by going back to last year. If you have read this blog you know that from August through December, for the past three years, I have been back in France. It is the best time of the year starting with warm sunny long days and ending with the threat of snow while drinking mulled wine at various Christmas markets in both France and Germany. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Last year I had lots of time while there to be creative. France truly does bring out the creativity in me. At the end of the four months here I sent several items off to Classic Sewing magazine for consideration. They published me! In the fall 2018 issue there was an article about embellishing shirts with lace bits, one of my specialties, as well as an article about a jacket, an article called Autumn Adornment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Its about Autumn Adornment that I want to focus on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Several years ago I found three old yearly review books of the weekly magazine "La Mode Illustree from the years 1893, 1897 and 1905. In the one from 1897, during the months of May though August there were a series of four filet patterns depicting people in court clothing. I immediately saw jacket. As I don't "do" filet, I thought it would be nice to convert the pattern to "red work". First off it is a fast form of embroidery and best, it is not too hard to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I took the original from the magazine:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">And redrew the design so that all of the extra was removed and it was just a simple line drawing:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Transferred the design with a water soluble pen on to my fabric and embroidered it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Finally I made a jacket using the four designs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Far better than any picture I can take, you can see part of the article using the link for </span><a href="https://www.classicsewingmagazine.com/downloads/classic-sewing-autumn-2018-downloads/autumn-adornment/" style="font-family: "comic sans ms";" target="_blank">Autumn Adornment</a><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"> from Classic Sewing Magazine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">That was sew much fun to make and I should gets lots of wear out of it as well.</span></div>
jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-31132523264410651532018-12-05T08:55:00.001-08:002018-12-05T08:55:33.222-08:00Round Place Mat Bag<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">It has been a good 4 months here in France. At my patchwork club we worked on several projects. The one you are about to read about has been my favorite this year. One of the ladies started with a picture of a purse she liked in a store window or catalog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">We could all make this, she thought. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The bag is basically two round plastic like woven place mats for the table. The leather handles are a bit problematic but there was a work around for it which made a bag just as nice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The seam allowance throughout was 1 cm. Each place mat is lined with a light weight interfacing backed round cut of fabric. The interfacing is cut scant to the round size of the place mat and is ironed onto the wrong side of a square of fabric which is at least 1/2 inch (1 cm) larger than the the place mat. The square of fabric is then cut round with a 1/2 inch seam allowance. The fabric is then folded in at the interfacing to the interfacing side of the fabric. It is placed on the wrong side of the place mat and is clipped in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Here you can see the inside of my bag. I added a pocket to the center of one side of the inside of the bag. You can't see it in the picture, but across the top of the doily where the button is there is a strip of ribbon sewn so that the top of the pocket will not sag or stretch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Handles for us were the heavy webbing you can buy for bags. I only had a thinner cotton web in my stash so I backed the web with the same fabric used on the bag side to strengthen it. I backed the fabric with interfacing and cut it wide enough so that it had a seam allowance that folded so that the fabric just peeked underneath the cotton web.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">What is critical no matter the size, the handle placement is 15 cm apart. I had to take into account the pocket so that it was straight up on the inside of the bag. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The ~80 cm finished handle includes the length needed for the ends in the seam allowance of the body of the bag between the place mat and the lining fabric. Just a word of advice (how do I know this?), make sure that the end of the outside of the handles fall inside the edge seam. Also important is that the handles be straight up at an angle to the curve as the drawing shows. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Sew the lining to the place mat and handles. An edge foot makes this really easy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The second measurement that is important is the 10 cm down from the other side of the handle on both sides. Mark those places with a pin. With a ruler, measure around the bottom of the place mat from one pin to the other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The place mats come in different sizes so the side band measurement was different for everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Mine measured 82-1/2 cm just as a reference. Add seam allowance to both ends so it was 84-1/2 cm for me. Cut two 12 cm wide strips to that length. I had to piece mine as the fabric was directional.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Line the strips with interfacing, place them right sides together and sew all the way around the edge leaving open, somewhere in the middle, a 10 cm opening. Trim the corners and turn right side out. Press making sure that the 10 cm opening is neatly pressed in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Clamp the side fabric to one of the place mat starting at the pin ending at the other pin. Sew starting at one pin ending at the other. Back stitch at both ends. Sew the other place mat to the other side of the side fabric. Its a good idea to check and make sure that the handles line up before sewing this part.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Add a snap at the top center and you are done. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So what did ours look like? Here are some examples of what our group made:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">And this is what mine looked like:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Not as fancy as some of the others but I like it and it was fun and fast to make.</span></div>
jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-54835881057425975352018-09-06T01:00:00.000-07:002018-10-31T09:59:17.626-07:00Back in France 2018<br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The town looks the
same, a couple new additions of stores or restaurants and a couple closures as
well. Once you live in a place for any period of time, you begin to notice the
repeats of parts of life, like openings or closures of shops, festivals or
shows as well as</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"> other things that happen at a
certain time each year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Here in my area of
France we have something called the Mirabelle Fest. All in celebration of a distinctive
tasting little yellow plum. The fest ended last week, but the balloon launching start right after that. If the wind is right they fly over the
apartment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have skirted my area, but they are fun to watch even from a distance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Our
cathedral also gets into the act with a laser light show on selected evenings as well:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">As for sewing, let
the season begin! My little trusty Bernina was retrieved from a French friend who
watches over it.</span></div>
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at a second hand store for the poor. Certain things are not appropriate for the
poor and are thrown out. Once such item she took home to give to me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">It is a curtain.
The work”woman”ship is beautiful. Wonderful examples of white work, Battenberg
lace and bobbin lace. It needs to become something. I am thinking shirt right
now but who knows. I have washed it and it is now displayed in the apartment
where I walk by it several times every day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">This year I am focusing on using
up lace bits. I have a nice collection of religious metals and beads and d</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">ue to a class I
took in August in Huntsville Alabama with Gloria McKinnon, I now have lots of
silk ribbon and beads to play with. These are super hard to find in France.</span></div>
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sewing table last week as I sorted through what I brought with me to play with
and hopefully augment with new stuff this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">What ever it is, I have to make 10 of them. If I
choose to join the Martha Pullen Yahoo group’s exchange as well, I need an additional
5 or 6 made. Should I do that, they get something a little different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Speaking of Gloria Mckinnon,
if you have a chance to take a class from her, please do. In August we were
making a memory book. She gave warning that she did not put everything in the
kit that was needed. It was supposed to be our memories. Also, on here projects, she uses vintage things she has found in her travels. From experience I know that it would
be close to impossible to find enough of, say, a certain vintage doily 100 times to
put in kits. Same with carved buttons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">As luck would have it, there was a lot of sharing going around. One of the participants brought a little bag of lace goodies for everyone. Someone else had been busy on their embroidery machine making and then dying some lace motifs to hand out to everyone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Several of the ladies in my class had
not brought doilies that we needed to make several of the pages. Gloria did not
have them for sale either. It was my turn to share. I took them to my
room and assigned a couple of doilies to them so that they could continue with the pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">On the left bottom was one of the items in my goody bag. It was a beautiful linen handkerchief</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">. The picture and frame were part of the kit as well as some of the laces. the other laces were from my stash. On the right the top looks like a doily but it is not. Instead it is rayon edging framed into a circle Some of the beads came with the kit, others were added. The three ladies was in the kit. The doily at the bottom came from Oxford England a couple months ago. I found 3 of them at a shop and it worked beautifully. The other 2 were given out and are now in use on someones pages.</span></div>
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<br />jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-3518353078779114982018-06-18T13:28:00.000-07:002018-06-18T14:26:17.039-07:00A Package in the Mail<br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">My husband’s family is an old American
family. When we were dating he told me that one of his relatives came over on
the Mayflower. In making conversation with his parents when I was invited to
lunch so that they could meet me, I inquired as to whom off the Mayflower they
were related. My husband’s mother looked at my husband and told him it was not
polite to tell people that you had relatives off of the Mayflower as they might
thing you were being snobby. Then she turned to me and stated that my future
husband was mistaken, it was not one person it was seven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Roots go deep and
one of the things I have always enjoyed in joining this family were the family
heirlooms passed down to us. You may have read about the compote and my finding
a replacement for the broken bit. Well this week in the post I was graced with
a box of lace bits and vintage clothing. All of them in need of a good soaking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">First there was a selections of laces:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">My sister-in-law tossed in the box a couple things from my husband's mother she had stored in the attic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">This child's dress is in not to good of shape. I believe it once was worn by a large female doll named George. The silk under lining is disintegrating but the netting is in very good shape except for the stain. I will work on that to see if I can get it out. from experience I can tell you probably not, but it will not keep me from trying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">A couple more pieces, a crochet collar and one of those neck pieces. I have several from France I have found over the years. I can just imagine it being worn high up on the neck with a nice mother of pearl brooch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Sallie Smallwood</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"> 1857-1924 was the maker of the dress. She was married to a man named Samuel Biggs. We have a picture of her wedding dress, although this is her grand daughter in it in a picture taken in 1937:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The dress was badly damaged, although you can't tell in this picture. A square had been cut out of the organdy by Sallie to make a baby bonnet for her first born child. I was told by my husband's mother that it was damaged across the front as well. After this picture was taken the dress was burned. Too bad since as you know I love lace bits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The dress is made out of a fine batiste. The lace is several different designs of tatting, including the three motifs across the front of the garment. Between the motifs are fine embroidery. The center bottom of the dress has a matching embroidery. The entredeux is not entredeux at all. It is fine hand sewn faggoting much like I have seen on a larger scale on the sheets I have bought in France. The entire dress was sewn by hand, with beautiful french seams and a double rolled hem at the bottom supporting two rows of tatting, one 1/2 inch above the other to give the bottom hem a wider tatted look than the tatting actually is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">The bottom bonnet is, interestingly, made out of organdy. There is no information if this one was the one made from the wedding gown. However, the bonnet is made completely by hand and the lace is of the correct era for the 1880's when the first of her children were born.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">This little dress and an assortment of bonnets have been passed down in the family and worn again just a few years ago. A total of five generations. The dress and bonnets are in very good condition.</span><br />
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jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-40571908798331346842018-05-23T14:11:00.000-07:002018-05-23T14:11:42.790-07:00Fabric Left Overs and What to do With Them.<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Lately I have been
very busy with emptying out the basement of boxes. Ten years ago when we left
for France I put everything I would not be using in boxes and they were stored
in the basement. Added to those boxes were boxes of fun finds I brought back with
me from France and Germany. On top of that were boxes from friends of friends
who wanted to off load some loved ones sewing room. To say the basement was
full was an understatement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I started with the
cleaning, sorting, keeping and discarding last year. I dare say I will be at it
into next year. The garbage can has been constantly full and Good Will and the
Salvation Army love me. Every time I go to the grocery store I drop something
off at the Goodwill drop off conveniently located next to the Kroger near where I
live. Fabric has been making trips to my sister-in-law for her charity sewing
group. I have empty boxes now to show for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">My routine has
been to spend at least 2 hours each day sorting and tossing and then I take a
break to do something for me. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">A couple days ago
I was going through the big plastic box of kits. I have taken many classes in
my life, in fact, truth be told, I love taking classes where they hand me a
kit. I love the way everything is neatly placed in a plastic bag for me to open
and pet. I have taken sewing schools where you just don’t get to all of the projects
offered. Those unopened kits? I had a lot of them.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Years ago I had a 3
year rule. This rule got put on hold while I lived in France but simply put, at
the end of 3 years I had to take whatever it was out of its plastic bag and ask
myself “Am I going to make or finish this?” If the answer was yes it went back
in its bag and on the shelf. If the answer was no, it was either tossed,
donated or taken apart for fabric to be used someday on something else and
placed back into my stash.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The problems with kits are that not all pieces
were big ones. I started a box for cotton fabric scraps (suitable for quilting)
and another for linen, silk and batiste. What I ended up with was a heaping
pile of fabric bits.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I have been pinning
my way through Pinterest and <a href="https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/346917977541468181/" target="_blank">this pin</a> from Susan Eastman stopped me in my tracks.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I would love to
own something like this, but in dark colors maybe. Before I make one of those, I though of
trying to remake a shirt that I bought in Vietnam last year. I love the top and
the way it fits and so as step one I needed just a simple T shaped top. Later I
will add a cowl and some of the other things that made this Vietnam shirt one
of my favorites. More on that shirt later.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">First though I
need a good fitting T shaped top. Easy enough to draft. I love the color
blocking look so I started digging through the box to see what I could find.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Here was a small
problem solved quite easily, I was mixing jacket weight linens with handkerchief
linens and silk dupoini. Conveniently in the box was also lots of pieces of Swiss
cotton batiste. Everything I thought I might use was prewashed. If I cannot put
the finished product in the washer, I am not going to wear it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then laid out on top of the T- pattern so that a pleasant color blocking look
could be achieved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The thinner pieces, the silk dupoini and the light weight
linens, were backed with the Swiss batiste so that all pieces used in the shirt
were now approximately the same weight. Fabric blocks were sewn together and
then the seam allowances of the blocks were serged so that there were no raw
edges. The front and back were cut out and then assembled using flat felled
seams.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Not bad for a first
try, the shirt fits well and will be a nice addition to my wardrobe. Best of
all is that I was able to reduce the amount of fabric bits by a small amount.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-10737266653749954712018-01-24T19:24:00.001-08:002018-01-24T19:24:02.394-08:00A New Country to Collect In<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I find myself in Wellington New Zealand for 6 weeks. To date I noticed that with the exception of China, I seem to be able to find fun vintage finds to use in my creations no matter where in the world I travel. New Zealand is no exception. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Here Opportunity Stores, Op-Stores for short or better known as thrift stores in some parts of the world are plentiful and can be really fun. I found two in Wellington and learned that the Salvation Army Thrift store is called Sallies. The Vincent St Paul are called Vinnies. I started frequenting them, you know, just to see what I could find. So far it has been inexpensive and lots of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So here is what I have found to date:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Starting off with very proper ladies finger towels and handkerchiefs:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">Beautiful Madeira applique, embroideries in linen or fine cotton. Just gorgeous. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">As is always my luck, when I pick something up it does not have a price and I have to ask about it, So it was with the set above. The person behind the cash register was a young man. I had another item I wanted to purchase besides this package and it was labeled $1 NZ each. When I inquired about the price, the young man looked at the other packet and guessed $2 NZ. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">As luck would have it, within days of arriving here I found a sewing group that meets on Wednesdays and I was on my way to this meeting when I found the package of finger towels and handkerchiefs. I showed them to the members of my group and was asked how much I paid, they laughed and told me that only a man would price them at that inexpensively. I got a good deal. They are pretty and several of them will be good additions to a pastel crazy quilt I am making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">The sewing group told me about other Op-shops in town. Because of them I know where at least 6 of them are now. Of course I have found fun things to use in sewing and a sort of collectible thing...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">First up I found 7 net hand made large doilies and some pearls. I always look for pearls and beads no matter where I go. Vintage pearls seem to be better made so I collect broken necklaces so that I can use the pearls on some of my projects. These are not broken, but they are fun so I bought them. I have a really nice necklace I bought in a thrift shop in Berlin that I really like so these might be a fun addition to my necklace collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">Oh you noticed the queen? She was on display in one of the shops. I could not just walk by. Made by Portland Ware in England by The Metal Box Company. Not worth much but truly a collectible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">More finds, some smaller doilies, a really pretty battenberg lace collar and a kiwi pin. I have seen these pin in tourist shops and they are not nearly as nice as this one. Not sure what I will do with it, but I will find a use for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">I couldn't leave him there once I took the queen could I?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">I think they will make a good addition on the wall in my sewing room.</span>jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-507262543606070742018-01-09T14:59:00.000-08:002018-01-09T14:59:35.201-08:00Pillow made of Vintage Bits<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I am a collector of lace bits, its part of my 6 step program. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">1. Move to France.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">2. Realize there are lots of vintage linen lace things to be had.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">3. Find the best places to buy said linen and lace items.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">4. Collect lace bits</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">5. Pet lace bits</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">6. Betray lace bits by cutting them up into littler pieces and using them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">You get the idea. The 4 months back in France continued to feed my addiction to collecting lovely</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"> lace bits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">You can't just collect them, well, OK you can, BUT whats the fun of that? Yes, you can pull things out, pet them and then panic over the idea of cutting them. Oh not me. And, yes it is hard to cut things sometimes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Whole linens like these are off limits:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">But Lace bits and broken linens are fair game:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">As I have been collecting lace, I have been collecting inspiration in a folder called </span><a href="https://www.pinterest.fr/jeanga6/pillows/" style="font-family: "comic sans ms";" target="_blank">Pillows</a><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"> on Pinterest. I actually need a couple pillows for the house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">You can see the leftovers from the sachets down the center. The bottom left and right were corners on a pillowcase that was badly stained by some sort of hair treatment. Talking to older women they tell me that it was usually the man's pillow not the woman's that had the staining. Some sort of product men applied to slick the hair back in the 1930-1960s. I have noticed lately that it is being used again. You can see the discoloration on the top right hand side of the photo below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The yellowing got much worse in the center of the pillow. I have learned over time which stains will come out and which will not. This one I know from experience will never come out. Too bad as it had a mate which was in perfect condition. Stained mean permission to cut up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Also on the pillow I was able to include a couple of initial embroideries I found this year. It is common to find these as people tended to save them after everything else wears out. Its like they might use them, re-purpose if you will, someday. But they never do. One of them which was part of a damaged pillowcase had the initials HC. I decided to use it for this pillow even though it was darned. See bottom left of photo:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I have to learn how to darn like that someday. I think it would be a fun addition to some of my sewing, even if it really does not need to be there. A good quality light weight stabilizer was ironed to the wrong side of this piece to strengthen it as it is a fine cotton. Most of the rest of the pillow is bed weight linen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Continuing the tour of the pillow is the really pretty bird motif:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The lace on either side of the top corners were hand sewn down using some of the small lace pieces I found this year in France.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">For the back I got lazy. The back of the stain damaged pillowcase was in perfect condition so why not use it too? It had to be resized smaller.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I may replace the the buttons with something less worn later, but for now they get to stay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I have not done that yet due to lack of time. Of course the pillow and I would need to be on the same continent, which we are not right now. I think it needs it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So here it is stuffed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I made a tiny mistake and that is I made it 20 inches square and it really needs to be 18 inches to match the pillow sham I had at the house. Oh well. Sometime later this year I hope to have the time to make another "matching" one out of my stash. I will also have to invest in a couple of larger pillow forms as well.</span></div>
jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-19506473388240321002017-12-23T03:29:00.000-08:002017-12-23T03:29:12.854-08:00Christmas Ornament 2017<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">If you have been
reading my blog for any period of time you know that every year I join a
Christmas ornament Exchange with like minded sewers in one of my yahoo newsgroup. This year I am doing something a little different. A group of us from this yahoo group text back and forth privately and it was proposed that we get together and and have our own exchange. There are 10 of us in the group and I was not sure I would be able to do the yahoo group one as well as that would have meant doing 15 ornaments. As it was I could handle ten, quite accidentally having bought enough supplies.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The rules for this exchange simple. We can use anything we want to make ornaments but they must be made by
hand. In other words, I don’t have to sew to make them, I just needed to have hunted and gathered up parts and then assembled everything myself.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Every year I try
to push myself to try something new and ever since moving to France I try to
incorporate vintage into whatever I make. Normally that means lace, but not
this year.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">In August I was in
Aachen Germany and while walking through town found a craft store. I found some
bobbins made out of wood. I bought 10 of them. I had no idea what I would do
with them but thought them worthy of my buying.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">In September I was
in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines France (Alsace) for the yearly quilt show and in the
vendor area there was a Dutch woman selling charms by weight. The light bulb
went off as to an idea for this year’s ornament exchange. Another vendor had a
few vintage religious medallions for sale.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I was at a second
hand store in late September near where I live and they had costume jewelry for
sale. This is the best way to find chains for crafting. The price is always
right. Add in a broken rosary or two to add interest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Here are the parts of the rosary I did not use, I am saving these pieces for another project.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">So here are my
starting point, a pile of wooden bobbins, old necklaces, a broken rosary and lots of charms.
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I am happy with the final result this year with a little jewelry for the tree. Hopefully those that receive them enjoy them as much as I did enjoyed making them.</span></div>
jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-39140890072165142892017-11-16T02:48:00.000-08:002017-11-16T02:48:03.371-08:00sachet for my draw<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I was at one of my favorite thrift store here in France last month and I ran a cross this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">A well used, badly damaged, vintage linen sheet. You can see some of the damage on the lower right hand side. It is damaged enough not to use as a bed sheet, but it is in good enough shape to cut apart and make something new. The price was right so I bought it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I want to use the initials for something later, but the embroidery below it was mostly in good shape so I thought I would make some sachets filled with lavender. Right after I bought the sheet, as luck would have it, at the Saturday market here in my little french town, was a man selling lavender by the kilo or by the bag. He had a special on buying 5 of the little bags so that is what I did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I had been thinking about that sheet and what I would like to do with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I have a Pinterest board called "<a href="https://www.pinterest.fr/jeanga6/fun-with-doilies/sachet/" target="_blank">sachet</a>" where I collect ideas. I collected pictures of many sachet bags and since I found the lavender, I thought I would give it a go.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Due to the size of the embroidery design from the sheet, a 6 inch or 15 cm square seemed to be just right. Unlike many of the Pinterest designs, I was dealing with something with embroidered holes so it would need to be lined. I cut the lining from the un-embroidered portion of the sheet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I cut the lining the same size but when I sewed them together I used a 1/2 inch seam allowance. I used a 1/4 inch seam allowance for the outside, embroidered portion of the sachet. I stuffed the lining into the embroidered piece once it was sewn and filled the lining with one of the bags of lavender. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">The last thing to do was to hand stitch shut the lining and then the embroidered section. The sheet top edge gave me 6 undamaged 6-inch embroidered squares. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I got 3 sachets out of the sheet as I decided to make both sides have embroidery</span><br />
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jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-76208717140644249662017-10-14T07:34:00.000-07:002017-10-14T07:34:00.945-07:00Oh look, I’m Published!<div class="MsoNormal">
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back from a class in Orlando with Terry Fox and Louise Cuttings. Ya I know, I am
living in France and I travel to the USA for a sewing class? Hard to explain,
but I am not sure where home is and therefore, within reason, I will go where
ever the classes are. As you can imagine, frequent flier miles help a whole lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">My mom lives near
Orlando so this was an easy choice for me. I sent some time visiting her and 4
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">This class was one
of the best ones I have ever taken. Right down my alley. We started with 2 of Louise
Cutting patterns; Light and Shadow and My Hearts a Flutter. We were asked to make a muslin to our closest size and then
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">We made the top on Light and Shadow and the tank from My Hearts a Flutter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Once we had the fitting muslin, that is when the fun began. Here is an example of the Light and Shadow top after it had been haute coutured:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">We had example after example with what we could do with the two designs. I focused on the other pattern, My Hearts a Flutter and first made the tank. My muslin needed to have the shoulder moved forward by 5/8", the side widened from an extra small to a small and the neck line redone so that there was extra on the shoulders. I am broad shouldered so I have a hard time fitting into tank tops ready to wear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Quality of picture not too good, but it is linen/cotton I bought here in France at a store that sells fabric for curtains. Heavy weight and soft and just enough for a tank. Fits beautifully but I had to leave it in Florida for later. It is getting a little too cold in France for this this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I then turned my attention to another of her modifications to the same pattern and made this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">It needs facings and I will do that as I did bring it back with me to finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I drew off several other pattern ideas that I just have not had time to make yet. It will happen though. Right now though I am busy embroidering:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Ok, now to being published. <a href="https://www.classicsewingmagazine.com/" target="_blank">Classic Sewing Magazine</a> was kind enough to publish something I made. A friend sent me this as I will not see the magazine until December. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><br />How exciting</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">! </span>jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-18731455879129100222017-09-07T21:42:00.000-07:002017-09-07T21:42:50.679-07:00New sewing room, again<div class="MsoNormal">
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retro child’s desk probably from a one room school house somewhere in France.
The piece is too big for me to move to another room, no place for it anyway. It will not fit through the
doorways and it is super heavy, so I decided to see if I could use it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">As it is built it
is too low to the ground and my knees barely make it under the shelf originally
built to store books below the table top. Down in the parking garage that belongs to
the apartment were a couple of pieces of wood. They were perfect to put under
the desk lifting it high enough to make it comfortable for an adult to sit and
sew. The distance from the desk top is perfect and I can’t move the seat back
so it keeps me where I am supposed to be to sew. I can move the machine so that I get it just where it needs to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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picked up my machine from a friend here in town, and with my few sewing
supplies, as the shipment has not arrived yet that has the bulk of my sewing supplies:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Last weekend, in
Paris, at a flea market, I found a vintage sheet. The sheet size is
approximately the size for a single bed and has the initials GB:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Now I am not an expert at embroidery but I do know quality. The maker of this sheet was of average skill. It is not as beautiful as some that I own or have seen. The faggotting fancy edge is twisted and not straight. This sheet was a perfect candidate to make some American style pillow cases. The middle initials will be nice to use on a couch pillow project I would like to do in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">A standard American pillow measures 20 x 26 inches. So a standard pillow case should be around 23 x 31 inches. Because of the design I needed to get it off the main head used area to eliminate the possibility of leaving a face imprint in the morning, I increased the length by a few inches. Using my trusty Ikea paper ruler I cut it out. My good rulers are in the shipment box. For old linens like this it is not possible to pull a thread to get a straight of grain line as the threads fused together long ago. It barely frays when cut as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I took care to match the hem width and then sewed it with my favorite foot:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">I love the hemming foot. For a Bernina it is the #10 foot. You become a professional without even trying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Because I wanted to keep the center initials and due to the small size of the sheet, the pillow case was cut long and narrow. That left the center embroidery intact with lots of fabric around it for what ever it becomes later. It also meant that I had to sew the two side seams. For that I had added an extra inch to my side seam allowance so that I could make a French seam on both sides. The tricky bit was where to cut through the faggotting to make for a nice side seam. For a French seam I like my pintuck foot. After the first seam is sewn on the right side and trimmed, it is turned inside out and pressed so that there is a crisp crease at the sewing line. The Pintuck foot is then used to guide your sewing so again you look like a professional without even trying:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">Turning it right side out and giving it a quick press and v</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">oilà</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">, J'ai fini! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";">What is really fun is that due to taking the design from the two sides of the sheet, the pillowcases are mirror images of each other. For the picture I folded them in half so that the design was the only part showing. Where the design is is now perfect for showing them off on a bed. Now all I need are the American feather pillows that are in the shipment, that is not here yet.</span></div>
jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-5600551258693697192017-08-30T06:54:00.000-07:002017-08-30T06:54:05.668-07:00Ever wanted someone to sew for you?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I recently spent
nine weeks in China, it was the second nine weeks in China actually. Last year
was the first time. In both years, the first three weeks were spent in Tianjin
, a city located near Beijing, the
middle three weeks were spent in Shenzhen, a city across the river from Hong
Kong, and the last 3 weeks were spent in Shanghai. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Where Beijing is
known for its pearl market, Shanghai is known for its fabric markets. Pearls
are not of much interest to me, but fabric is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The day after
arriving into Shanghai, off to the fabric market I went with some friends. </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">My goal was to get a Chanel style jacket made
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I have taken the
Classic French Jacket class from Susan Khalje, and truth be told, the jacket
remains unfinished. Not due to lack of interest, but in the move from France
some of the critical parts have gone missing. I am so close to being complete
it is maddening! The missing parts are in the house. I found them last year and
put them where I could match them up with the incomplete jacket. Now I can't
find either. I am in the process of cleaning the basement and my sewing area so
it really is just the small matter of finding them. If I could be at the house
long enough I know I would find everything, it just has not happened yet. Why hasn’t
it happened yet? Well China comes to mind. So back to China…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">There are many
fabric markets in Shanghai. Some large and some small. The one I went to was
chosen specifically because last year people I know had suits made there.
Although I did not need a suit, I had had time to walk around and buy some items
while helping others who were buying suits. I sew and can tell if something is
not hanging correctly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Last year, I
bought some beautiful silk and wool scarves from a vendor in this particular
market. If you go to the touristy street markets or the market where many
people go to buy fake shoes and handbags you can find lots of “wool” and “silk”
items. They look identical to what this vendor had. The problem is that those at
the tourist markets are polyester based. I wanted wool or I wanted it to be
mostly wool. I wanted something of higher quality. Quality is hard to find in
the street markets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The Shanghai
ShiLiu Pu Cloth Market at 168 DongMen Road was my destination. It is a shabby three storied</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> building. It looks like it was once a small department
store that had been gutted. Inside now are aisles, like in a grocery store. On
either side are booths. Each one is a different vendor selling fabric and/or
making garments. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Garments are shown on manikins or are displayed up on the
walls of the stall. Most of what is displayed are Chinese style dresses,
evening dresses or wedding gowns. With all of the fabric, the floors are clean
and the vendors eager for business. Later it was pointed out to me the ceilings
were filthy, but who looks up?</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span lang="EN">In the basement, accessed by an old creaky escalator, was mostly just
fabric sold by the meter displayed on long cylindrical bolts stacked
everywhere. Choose your vendor and you can choose between silk, linen, cotton
and synthetics. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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In the basement I had found a really fun green poly/rayon sheer. The
models the vendor had looked good and she had a small sewing room in the back
with 4 people busy sewing, what could go wrong? I had the vendor make a duster for me. The
vendor drew a picture of what I wanted. Helpful were images I had on my phone
of what I wanted. Like this one:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I was measured and told it would be done in a week.
Cost fabric and having the garment made, 300 Yuan ($45) You pay 50% down and
the rest when you come and get it and are satisfied with the workmanship. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What went wrong? On pick up a week later, something
was not right with the left side of the garment. It hung funny. Looking into the mirror, I quickly figured
out that the shoulder seam was not right causing the strange look. Also I had
wanted slits on the side and I the garment did not have that. It was hard to
gauge the fit with the shoulder being off, but it appeared to be good. I was
told it would be a couple days to fix it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When I returned I could tell the garment had been
completely remade. The shoulder seam was good and the slit was where it should
be but now it was way too big. Smiling, I
paid for it even though I was not satisfied. You see this was an experiment to
see if they could sew better than I could. For this vendor, the answer was no. They
were very busy in the back sewing so they must have satisfied customers, I am
just not one of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Oh the wrinkled hemlines, the bad puckers near the neck and talk about frumpy! I doubt I will do anything to
it. Not worth the effort. It is large enough that I could actually remake it
smaller. Too bad. I love the fabric and in the correct fit would have been a
nice addition to my wardrobe. I even have the lace I could have sewn on to
the lower edge and sleeves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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duster failure, there was a woman who specialized in linen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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her remnants. Remnants cost 10 Yuan a meter ($1.50). To show that it was pure
linen or a blend she did a burn test. So let's see, I am in the basement of a
building with tens of 1000s of meters of all sorts of fabric and she is burning
something....hmmmm. Setting fire worries aside, the linens were real and very
pretty. I bought a very nice pokka dot
light weight linen ($5 a meter) , a green linen blend ($1.50 per meter) and a
white linen rayon blend ($1.50 per meter). This one is a cotton/linen blend that I brought with me to France to make something with.</span></div>
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the one sewing. I could use a couple linen shirts.</span></div>
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across from the linen woman was a man selling silk. Again he did not make
garments, he just sold the fabric. The one that had caught my eye, I would not
look good in was a beautiful orange/red not blood red classic Chinese brocade
style silk, but seeing my interest he told me it was 90 Yuan a meter.($13).
This was the most expensive type of fabric in his booth. This fabric was a
beautiful 4 ply silk. He did a burn test to prove it. Everyone has permission
to run screaming from the building now! One of our group pulled out another of
the silks and there next to it was something that cried to come home with me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The women selling linen had nothing better to do
than join the conversation that was going on in English and Chinese with the
silk vendor. We were comparing two fabrics, one of them dull or muted in its
color of summer while the other, though muted had fall tones to it. The fall
tone one was the one that caught my eye. The linen vendor told me I needed to
buy 2.5 meters for a nice dress or long jacket. The seller thought I could get
away with 2 meters. A passionate conversation in Chinese started and in the end
it was decided, with no input from me, that I needed to buy 2.5 meters.
Decision made, so that is what I did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quite insistent about it. Do not dry clean he told me, but do soak it to cause
any shrinkage to happen before I sew with it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As a side note, I wash all of my silks. I can't
stand the feel of dry cleaned silk. Also since I travel so much it is nice to
have the ability to wash as I need to whatever clothing I travel with. I am not
sure what it will be yet, I have to soak it first and comb though my patterns. Of course I need to be home long enough to do that as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The cost of having a Chanel style jacket made was 500</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Yuan ( $75) this includes the fabric and the
workmanship.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I was measured and what I
wanted was drawn up. For me the length was important since my body type does
not look good in a jacket that is too short which is why I cannot normally buy
off the rack jackets. The woman making the measurements agreed when she started
measuring me that I needed a couple extra inches on the jacket length. There
was a model there that I could try on:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">It was too small and too short for me,
but it let me know the color was good for me.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">
</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">On a card display there was a selection of buttons that, if I did not
like what came with the jacket, I could substitute. For an extra 36 Yuan (
$5.15) I could choose something else off the card. Or I could go up stairs and pay half that and find what I wanted. On the card, one of the buttons looked really nice
with the jacket so I opted for the upgrade. While there a second sample jacket
caught my eye. It was a black and white woven and looked like it would be
elegant in a long jacket. A longer jacket would cost 600 Yuan ($86). It would
have no buttons meet in the front held shut with frog clasps. Again, I was told
a week and to come back then.</span></div>
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a few of differences in what the vendor was making so let's note the
differences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A true Chanel has a three piece sleeve where as
these have the more common two. A Chanel jacket has a nice and heavy seamless
chain across the back of the jacket to hold the jacket down in the back. These
do not. Fabric; the real thing uses a high end boucle where as these used a thinner
boucle of lesser quality. A true couture jacket has quilting holding the silk
lining to the jacket. Only the side and shoulder seams as well as the sleeves
of the boucle are the only part of the jacket that are machine stitched. The
Shoulder seams are hand sewn and everywhere not quilted, the lining is hand
sewn. If they are ready wear, they are
almost completely machine sewn. In this case, both have a quality silk
lining. The lining needs to be a heavier silk so that it does not tear. The buttons, although I upgraded are nothing like the Chanel ones. The ones in China were OK, but not a real high quality. Also, there is no tag in the back where they fake Chanel. This is strictly a style of jacket that they are making.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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having a straight hem, it v’ed in the front. On a short jacket this would be
nice. On a long jacket it was not attractive. I asked for it to be straightened
and was told it would be completed in a couple days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When I went to pick up the black and white jacket,
the V in the front still remained, but 8 inches had been cut off of the length
of the jacket. I was so disappointed. This is not what I had asked to be done.
Something got lost in translation, even though I had brought a friend who spoke
Chinese with me for the first fitting. They made good on the jacket, making it
again the following week for me. The match is good on the jacket, but if I
nitpick I would point out that at the shoulders the plaid does not match up.
This is something I would have made sure of and on the first jacket it was
lined up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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return to as last year I had bought a cashmere scarf for my mom and I wanted to
buy a couple more. I washed moms right before leaving for China and it washed
beautifully. It stayed soft and held its shape like her more expensive ones do.
A couple more would be nice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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depicted an Italian or European village. Unlike others I own it is square. The
colors are bright and vibrant. The edges were expertly hand sewn. That one was
the easy purchase.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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China? I give myself a B. One failure, one great shorter Chanel style jacket
and one OK longer Chanel jacket. Giving myself some wonderful finds in silk and
cashmere scarves, puts me in solid B range. Should I ever return Shanghai, I
would not hesitate in having something else made.</span></div>
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jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-9481128124891662002017-04-27T10:56:00.000-07:002017-04-27T10:56:43.358-07:00A New Sewing Room<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Last year it was
a remodel to the kitchen and laundry room. This year it is taking over the
living/dining room combination and making it a sewing room. I should have done
this years ago. We never used the room as it was painted a strange sort of
dusty pink color and it was dark. The tree in the front of the house made it so
very little light came in through the 3 windows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the tree in the front yard. The tree is 40 years old and had grown to having
several branches that hung over the house. Not good in a storm. After the tree
was professionally trimmed, two solar lights were installed to help bring light
into the room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and painting began. Bulking the color grey that everyone seems to be painting
walls these days, a light green was chosen. I liked the one called "Positive Energy".</span></div>
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experience is hard to cover. I painted the hallway last year and it needed to
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">I am busy populating the room with all my sewing treasures and also sorting out the basement of all of my packed away sewing room. More on that later. Unfortunately all of this work has left me with very little time to sew. </span></div>
jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-8283707834846461832017-01-19T12:54:00.000-08:002017-01-19T12:54:47.311-08:00Christmas Ornament Exchange results and a New Scarf<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I thought I would show off this years Christmas ornaments I received in my yearly ornament exchange and some others. The blue on on the far left I made at my patchwork club in France. The three across the bottom that say Noel are inexpensive Chinese made ornaments I bought in France. I find ornaments with words other than English to be a rare find. I bought enough for everyone in my exchange. The Santa on the shelf was purchased at a Christmas market in Germany. The rest of the ornaments are from the exchange. </span></div>
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one of my friends showed off some of the purchases she had made at Sewing at
the Beach. Sewing at the Beach is an heirloom sewing retreat that takes place
in mid-January every year. I have never
been, but I hear it is a lot of fun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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taken a class from an Australian woman by the name of Jan Kerton and had
acquired a kit for a scarf. The scarf kit’s name is Acorn Scarf. I loved this
kit so much I emailed Jan Kerton to see if I could buy a kit. As luck would
have it, she was still in the United States and was able to mail it out to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had it in time to do the prep work making it my hand project that followed me
to China. Then it followed me to France, twice. Then back to the US where the
hand work was finally completed. It made a really nice travel project as
everything was included. All I needed to do was hand sew and embroider it. The directions
were easy to follow and the materials were high quality. Earlier this week I
was able to machine sew it and complete it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weather we are having in the south, I should get some wear out of it here this
year. It will need to follow me back to France later this year as it is a very
nice soft scarf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While Sewing at the Beach 2017 was going on I texted a friend to see if Jan had any new kits and ended up buying a pillow kit. Her first kit was so much fun, I hope to be able to make the pillow kit one of my travel kits this year.</span></div>
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sign, it must be time to go back to the United States…</span></div>
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one last stop at a thrift store the way home from the last meeting of the year
for the quilt club in Luxembourg. I was sort of sad leaving that I almost did
not stop. It was getting dark (ok like that happens at 4:30 pm) and it was
foggy (pretty normal this time of year). But it was the last time this year I
would be able to go to a really fun thrift shop. So I stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thrift shop has a small vintage linen section that I dig through when I visit.
Sometimes it is a win and other times I end up with nothing. This was one of
those times I ended up with a win.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was crowded, it always is, and that is for two reasons:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1. It is only open on
select days, 2 days a week</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2. In that part of town, there is a need. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I watched a single mom
buy winter boots for her two children. I listened to the haggling going on
about already low prices between the sales volunteer and a male customer about
another pair of shoes for a child. I saw a lot of people with not much money
and here I was indulging in my hobby. I was in the “fun” section and most everyone else was in the “need” section. It is the time of year. I watched 5
pair of winter boots head out the door while I was there. All of them for
children. The vintage section has a common wall, a series of shelves really, with the shoes
on those shelves and the stool to sit and try on the shoes in the corner
between the two sections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As I had
been to this store just a couple of weeks ago, I was not expecting to find
much. But, there were two button boxes that were in need of being sifted through. I
had the time so I started sifting. Surprised, I had to ask the volunteer for a plastic
bag to hold all of my finds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">It makes
my heart sing. The beautifully carved mother of pearl is especially nice as is the little heart shaped lock. No key required to unlock it. Religious metals I can always find a use for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since I am on a search for utility buttons, of course,they were there:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">I have found these buttons in black, white, red, many shades of blue going to grey, pink and a yellow/brown color. I have found them ranging in size from tiny 2 holes to large 4 holes. I have found that the colored ones are not as common as the white ones. In the above picture you can see how infrequent the colored ones really are. there were a lot of pink ones for some reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">I the boxes there were some fun Celluloid or Bakelite buttons I am not sure and I need to
test them to see which they are. I love the leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then there were metal buttons and more ornate glass buttons as well as what looked like were once pearl earrings. </span><br />
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reject most of the metal buttons I find, but I smiled when I found the “sapeurs pompiers”
or firefighters buttons. The other metal buttons are heavier and nicely made. Hopefully I can play with them later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This last fall during the trip I made to Provence, one of the dealers visited was very knowledgeable </span>about<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> old buttons. The
insignia on the front of the buttons indicated what you were by profession. So
if you were a butler at an estate your buttons on your uniform would be
different from say, the footman. The seal on the buttons would be of the house/</span></span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">family
you worked for. </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">I found a website that
talks about buttons from a historical <a href="http://www.vintagebuttons.net/uniformed.html" target="_blank">American viewpoint</a> so you get the idea. Another website makes <a href="http://www.militaryheritage.com/button1.htm" target="_blank">reproduction </a>buttons. </span><br />
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will never be an expert on old buttons. I found interesting to see and feel the old buttons while in Provence</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. If an old button fell in my lap I might buy it, but probably not as they are
expensive from a dealer and I want something I can play with and use and not
collect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">I know this is becoming a post about buttons, but I did find some not so vintage glass letters beads and I found
some wooden letter block beads as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">There was a bag of smaller wood beads and a bag with 5 larger beads. In playing with them they spell the name Renie or Reine. Renie by the way is
a common last name in the French department 54. I live in department 57 right next door. In a google search I found out that over</span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">5% of people in department 54 have this as a last
name. Reine is a popular woman's name for those women of a certain age. It means Queen. I wonder which it spelled?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">My other find was a small pile of inexpensive jewelry:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">It started as an old machine made collar. I found it in Provence. It had some damage to some sections so I cut some of those parts off and repaired the others. It was then basted my project and out came my beads. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">Any time you see me work with pearls, let it be known they are off of old necklaces. I buy them broken or whole at the thrift stores. As they have been worn, you can see the quality (if it has any) before you buy. I have found the nicest pearl beads that way. I have 3 jars of them now thanks to Berlin and one of the thrift stores here near me. </span></div>
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have been reading this blog, you know that every year I participate in a Christmas
ornament exchange within a yahoo group I am a member of. This year was no
different and as usual, I had to plot and plan about what I was going to make. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Once I get an idea, I have to scrounge to make sure I have the proper pieces to
make whatever it is I am going to do. Sometimes I get the idea from something
that happens. Like in 2013 when I made this angel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">I had bought some lace that turned out to be dry rotted and I wanted to figure out a way to use it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">Or how about the year I found a Zweigart tablecloth in Germany that just said "cut me up and make me something!".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The last two years it has been about using things normally thrown out to make something. In this case it was the foil covers from yogurt containers:</span><br />
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it is all about the buttons. Those utility ones I found in first Berlin and
then here in France. I don’t know what it is about them, I just think they are
too fun not to buy and play with. If needed I also had the standby mother-of-pearl buttons as well. For the top tie I needed some hemp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Also this year was the year of the broken rosaries.
In Provence I ran across so many broken rosaries that I had to buy a couple. Once I had them, what was I going to do with them?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here is one of them. I separated the Our Father metal pieces from the Hail Mary beads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The other broken rosary that needed to be used on the ornament was made up of just small metal beads no Our Father metals. The rosary had broken apart and the cross was missing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been collecting wool felt and have wanted to work with it. I found some nice
ones at the quilt show in Saint Marie Aux Mines France earlier this year and I
really wanted to play. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have a Pinterest board called <a href="https://fr.pinterest.com/jeanga6/felt-fun/" target="_blank">Felt Fun</a> where I collected, am still
collecting, wool ornaments for inspiration. There are so many really neat ideas
out there. Now how do I make an idea my own?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had the wool, the embroidery threads, some hemp thread, the buttons and the broken rosaries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Oh I almost forgot, it has to have some old lace bits. I had some that were crying to be cut up. </span><br />
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followed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But there was a petite problem. I had found some really nice ribbon that said Noel on it. The problem was that it is either lost or misplaced. Either way I can not find it. I have a friend here that owns a Bernina that has two styles of lettering. I ran out and bought some plain ribbon and as luck would have it, one of the two styles fit perfectly.</span></div>
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work on a project, I use a glasses case to store everything that I might need for
the particular project. Since I had so many comments about the contents of my
glasses case, I thought it fun to show it to you what it looked like at the
height of working the ornaments:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">It looks like a mess, but it is not. Here is another view:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">Some buttons and pins, a couple imodiums left from travels in China as well as something for a headache. You never know when you will need them. A thimble comes in handy and the nail clippers are there rather than scissors when I am traveling by plane somewhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">Well enough talk. Here are the ornaments. You can see where the Noel ribbon went as well as the rosary pieces. The ornament is one layer of wool felt and is two sided.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">I made as many as I could until I needed to move on to something new. I found them really fun to make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">The deadline to mail them is 3 December. Mine are going to be late. I sent my group an email about this a couple weeks ago. The reason is I am concerned about them going over the pond after I had this happen to some of the buttons:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh not good! I am going to mail them in the US where they will have less handling as they get to each recipient. I never thought these buttons as fragile, but they are porcelain.</span></div>
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a crazy patch kit a couple years ago that came with no directions as to what
one was supposed to make with it. As I recall it cost me $10 US.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">I brought the kit to France
thinking I would make a crazy patch bag out of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">I have pulled that kit out a
couple to times but I just could not cut the wine bottle Fabric into pieces. After making
the three bags earlier this week I realized I could make a really nice bag using
the fabric. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">This bag has no outside pocket so as not to disrupt the bottle
pattern. Both sides of the bag has upright bottles. The fabric was cut
in half and one of the other fabrics included in the kit was added to the
bottom of the bag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Just a small aside: Years ago my dad went on a business trip. He was a banker and at conferences or trips of this sort he always ended up staying at the nicest hotels. As he packed he realized that all of the suitcases were being used by one of his children. We were all teenagers and were off somewhere with the bags. He packed in the only bag he could find. When he arrived at the hotel he was asked if he needed help with this bag. "No" he said, "I think I can handle it myself". He then put a large brown paper Piggly Wiggly bag with his belongings on the counter. (Pig as we called Piggly Wiggly was a grocery store). My dad always had a sense </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">of humor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On our last flight to Europe I used the last of the upgrade coupons I had received </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">when I made the highest frequent flying status due to the flights I had to make from Europe when my dad was in the late stage of cancer. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For that upgraded flight, my husband (DH) used a wrinkled thin cotton bag for his things he wanted to keep on him after he stored his carry on</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. Later he told me he got some funny looks from some of the others in business class when he pulled out this meager bag. I guess they were used to seeing Coach or Louis Vuitton. He said he felt like my dad and if he was ever going to save face he, he wanted the bag I was making. Good thing he spoke up, I might have given it away. He has learned to stake a claim on things if he wants them as I make them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I reminded </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">him that we were back in cattle class on the trip back to the states next month and no one in the back would notice the wrinkled thin cotton bag. He was quite insistent </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">about this bag. It is, after all, much sturdier and attractive than the wrinkled cotton bag. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">Good thing he spoke up, I might have given it away. He has learned to stake a claim on things if he wants them as I make them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I had a week to figure out what to do. The recipient likes bears. I have the pattern Ted & Dog Quilt. It is a pattern made up of redwork </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">embroidery. Block 9 was the bear you see below.</span></span></div>
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figure out what to do with them. Someone had donated non cotton/quilt fabric. There was a black fabric, 100% cotton but
heavy in nature in the stack. It appears to have come from Ikea. We have one in
Metz and one just over the Luxembourg border in Belgium. I took the fabric home
with me to see if there was something, anything, I could do with it. </span></div>
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cutting the fabric I was able to cut 3 bags. I used the directions from my old
blog post but as I do not have a edging foot for the machine I am using here in France, I used a zipper foot. One needs to
be a better sewer to do that. I tested first to see if it would work:</span></div>
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came from the club they will go back to the club. They are nice grocery bags
and plastic bags are getting scarce as they are beginning to be phased out in
some countries in Europe. I always go shopping with my own bags rather than buy
them at the stores anyway. Since coming back I have noticed that many stores are now
charging 5 cents for a bag even outside of grocery stores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the club can used them. Many times they have raffles (tombolas) at the meeting
and this would be a nice thing to put whatever is won in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
jeanga6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09330322509391184666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307484584169021045.post-38528636429571466292016-11-12T01:29:00.000-08:002016-11-12T01:29:22.824-08:00Making of a Vintage Box<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Last week at my patchwork club we made boxes with using Timtex as
the base. We were asked to bring the fabric of our choice for both the outer
and inner fabrics, matching floss for sewing it together as well as anything else that we might want to add to our
box.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I decided to use some of the fabric I had bought on my trip to Provence.
This one to be exact:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I am told it dates back to the 1800s. I have 4 pieces now, two wide, two narrow strips around 3 meters long. It unpicked a seam on the original two I bought, hence now 4 pieces. For whatever use the fabric originally had, there are holes left
at one of the far ends of both of the narrower pieces. </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">This part of the fabric can be used for small
things, by cutting around the holes so using it for this box was perfect. As I was cutting into the damaged area, I had no problem taking a pair so scissors to the fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I have been collecting vintage buttons, lace bits and trinkets for years. I
love to find broken just about anything, be it lace, or trinkets. Being broken
gives me the ability to remodel whatever it is into something useful. I don't have much of my collection here and I dare say I have added to it somewhat since moving back to France. Here is what I have to work with:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I finally made it over to my favorite second hand store here in
town. I love going there. It is so much fun to walk around among beautiful vintage things. Every visit is different. It much depends on what is donated to them. I have not been to this store for over 2 years. On this visit I found they had piles of old rosaries and religious medallions, vintage jewelry and boxes of threads as well as yarns and buttons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Not so usual, was a bin of old sewing and fashion magazines dating from the late 1930s
through the early 1950s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">In the back of the shop is a series of shelves with vintage sheets. Most have beautiful embroidery across the tops of them. To the right, a hanging rack with vintage clothing. Beyond that are European pillow cases with initials raised work. On lower tables there are displays of doilies and table linen. There are bins below labelled as to it's contents that you can dig through. In the middle of the room are two glass cases used to display vintage lace. The laces were wrapped onto card stock with the length and price noted on each card. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">On one wall, above the vintage sewing books were purses. As I walked around the room touching and feeling the textures of the linens, I noticed that purses were the most popular items being purchased.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I love walking through this
room. There is something of a zen experience to it. Prices are fair and I have all the time I want to look around and touch things. I ended up buying several rosaries and many religious medallions. One in particular was rather ghoulish to me, but it needed to be added to my collections of Pope Metals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">See the blue one in the above picture? It is a metal of Pope John XXIII. He was pope until 1963. He was canonized alongside Pope John Paul II on 27 April 2014.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">You can read about him here:</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XXIII" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";" target="_blank">Pope_John_XXIII</a><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">On the back of the metal it says: Ex Indumentis or Second Class Relic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">There is encased in the back what looks like a blood stained small piece of cloth. So what is Ex Indumentis mean anyway? I looked it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">There are categories of Relics of Christian Saint’s: the First
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">A First class relics is the body or a portion of the body of a
Saint (bone, flesh, or hair). According
to what I have read, these are considered so precious that they are rarely
entrusted to individuals, but are placed in Faith Communities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">A Second Class Relic is an item or piece of an item used by the
Saint while on the body (clothing, Mass vestments, etc). Second Class Relics
are considered precious and are rarely entrusted to individuals, again being
placed in Faith Communities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">A Third Class Relics typically fall into 2 categories. The first
category is a piece of cloth touched by the Saint. The second category cloth that
has been touched by the shrine of the saint. Third Class Relic is usually a
piece of cloth, Third Class Relics may be given to individuals, and may be
sold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I do not believe even with what it says that it is a Second Class Relic. I remember visiting my Grandmother years ago and finding a card on the table with a splinter of wood laminated to it. The card claimed it was part of the Jesus' cross. When I questioned it my grandmother told me to let her have her beliefs and that she knew it was not real, but that did not stop her from believing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Sorry Grandma, what I have is a cheaply made metal someone bought and hopefully believed, like my grandmother that it was a Second Class relic. I would think that Second Class Relics would come in a classier enclosure. This has all the look of made in China. I also found this article on the web:</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_indumentis" style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";" target="_blank">Ex Indumentis</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I have a small wrist and ended up with 3 pink beads left over. One of the other women in the group gave me hers so I had a total of 6 beads to play with. I used 4 of those for the bottom of my box. The glass buttons I bought in the US several years ago. The tassel came from my favorite second hand store years ago. I bought a bag of pearls and the tassel was included in the bag with pearls attached to it much like it is for the box closure. The pearls were hard to work with as they had a very small hole. Threading them was a challenge.</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"> I am pleased with the result. The linen is fun to work with and it was nice to use some of those glass buttons out of my collection.</span> </div>
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