packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
It's been too hot and humid here to do anything the past couple of days. What are your plans for this weekend, other than trying to say cool?
I was encouraged by Faroe, IIRC, hexie project so am digging out my mini hexies and some fabrics I hand dyed to start a mini project for days when even my eyeballs are sweating.
Quilting: Continuing Natalia Bonner's youtube stitch a day year long ruler work tutorial. All the quilt sandwich blanks are marked and finished
I started a feather class on Bluprint with Patsy Thompson. I have bump-back and the regular feather technique down - looking for variations. It is a good class. I need to make more blank quilt sandwiches for practice. I am using a newsprint tablet to practice for muscle memory. I bought a computer sketch pad and software for my other computer, but have yet to be able to set it up successfully. Then I can just practice over and over again and erase it.
Have started the computer/overnight bags for my daughter for her new teaching year.
Quilting: Continuing Natalia Bonner's youtube stitch a day year long ruler work tutorial. All the quilt sandwich blanks are marked and finished
I started a feather class on Bluprint with Patsy Thompson. I have bump-back and the regular feather technique down - looking for variations. It is a good class. I need to make more blank quilt sandwiches for practice. I am using a newsprint tablet to practice for muscle memory. I bought a computer sketch pad and software for my other computer, but have yet to be able to set it up successfully. Then I can just practice over and over again and erase it.
Have started the computer/overnight bags for my daughter for her new teaching year.
Long arm? Other people talk about "frames." Same? I was watching a YT yesterday put up by a woman who works professionally with a computerized machine. She had an antique double wedding quit for a client - it was pretty, but frankly, a mess. She was able to quilt out all the extra poofyness with only minimal tucking. I have mixed feeling about machine quilting antique tops, but can't imagine anyone trying to save that quilt by hand quilting - I doubt hand quilting could have fixed the warping, and probably no one with the skill to do so would have wanted to put the time into that piece. It looked great when she was done.
I don't have a long arm, or a frame to turn my Janome 6500 into a mid-arm machine, I simply do not have the room to set that sort of thing up.
Suggestion - does anyone else like the idea of a room/thread to post patterns, materials, techniques etc?
I was thinking of posting directions to my "Dead Easy" hat but didn't want them to get lost in a larger thread, such a section would also be great to post links to "how too" videos, sewing machine reviews, etc.
Hat is getting there, but I've got things to do today so probably no knitting until this evening.
Still no fibery things going on here. Got the farm on the market for sale last Friday. Hoping to get some showings this week.
Watching one of my rams at the moment. One of our heifers is in heat and decided to ride him on Saturday. I think she stepped on his foot in the process. He doesn't want to bear weight on it. I don't feel anything broken or dislocated, and there is no swelling. Got him on banamine at the moment for pain/inflammation. Think that heifer is going to get turned into hamburger. Shes a runt who we cant breed, born premature and we had to tube feed her for 2 months before she would take a bottle. We had hoped she would get to full size, but at the age of 2 years, she's smaller than her 1 year old half sister. I'll have to think on this, it would break my heart to send her to freezer camp after doing so much to save her life.
Suggestion - does anyone else like the idea of a room/thread to post patterns, materials, techniques etc?
I was thinking of posting directions to my "Dead Easy" hat but didn't want them to get lost in a larger thread, such a section would also be great to post links to "how too" videos, sewing machine reviews, etc.
Hat is getting there, but I've got things to do today so probably no knitting until this evening.
There's always that 4X4 inch gage swatch.
Not always perfect, but they do help.
I’ve tried that, still too small. Seems 5he only things I can knit true to size are socks and scarves.