FOR WHOM---MISS LORETTA

Hi Deanna, I will have a play on my "Old Girl" (my old freehand sewing machine) & see what I can come up with... of course it will be a one off as most, if not all will be doing pre-digitised embroidery. I thought it might be a bit of fun to have "what the embroiderer's on the old non computerised machines used to do. I was trained the old way, with a knee press, hooped & maybe stencilled design, on a machine with no safety shields, or other helpful aids they have now-a-days... I know, it makes me feel ancient but I originally used to do the artwork for an embroidery place & watched the girls doing the embroidery & started to pick it up.... when I left that job, I could only do freehand script writing... here is a sample of a past piece of my work.
I will try to get it done ASAP, just depends on my hands, etc.
Take care,
Regina
PS. also a close up of my "Old Girl" as I call her.

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by reggirl 04 Jan 2010

Oh & the Tiger is 8" x 10" approx. & took 3 solid hours to do from a scetch done in chalk on the black fabric.
The machine is approx. 95yrs old & ONLY does satin stitch... It's an industrial machine & still going strong.
Reg

by castelyn 04 Jan 2010

Reg, that is fantastic,

by mops 07 Jan 2010

I love that tiger!!! did free hand embroidery on my 1963 Elna, but nothing as elaborate and beautiful as this tiger. GREAT work!

Oh do please count me in, just saw this post, been away from computer for a week or so...on holidays.
I will search asap and get back to you....
I am passionate about LOVE so am sure to find something suitable....you are one great lady Deanna.

This is the design that I will be doing for Miss Loretta - Have not yet made up my mind what shades of pinks I will use - Hugs Yvonne

It is H 3.38 and W 2.46

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by camylow 03 Jan 2010

this will be wonderful...love how you put your name within

by castelyn 04 Jan 2010

Thanks Deanna

Still looking through designs...trying to decide which one????
Hugs

I am still trying to decide. H&*

I would like to contribute also. I would like to do the one I did for Veronika. However, it is yellow with green leaves. I think she will relate to it because it resembles my avatar. It is similar to Shirline's but slightly different. It is from this Cute site. I posted it in the other posting. Let me know if you would prefer not to use it since it is yellow.

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by camylow 31 Dec 2009

its ok......Its the rose and your avatar that counts....

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Deanna, I missed out on Project 1 but I would like to be included in this one . Please me know exactly what I need to do. (PM). Nancy

Deanna, I definately will do one. Let you know when I get back home what I plan on.;)

count me in

Count me in for this project Deanna :o) !!!!

I'm in also. Will have to search for the perfect design.

Count on me too!!!

This is what I'm doing Deanna. Lillian (I did it, I did it) only u will know what I'm talking about. Yea!!! You can teach an old dog new tricks.

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by camylow 28 Dec 2009

i knew you could....

by castelyn 04 Jan 2010

Lillian this is lovely

Count me in too. I think we should (if possible) also contribute toward the cost--maybe by each person sending $2 with their square? I'm not sure that would even cover cost of back fabric and batting.

I would like to be included in this project, but I don't know what is required. Do I just emb a block? Or do I quilt it? Do I emb my name on it? Where do I send it? Please let me know? Thanx!!!

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by camylow 27 Dec 2009

pm to you

I am so happy that it is going to be for Miss Loretta, Meg and I guessed and kinda hoped we were right. Yea. Gosh gotta go search. Hurry up Meg i cant find anything !!!! in my stash hheheheheh. Golly you will be getting HEAPS of squares. Mabey it will have to be a reverse quilt. Just a thought. Thankyou Deanna :)))

I'm in. This is from Sue Box Such a worthy receipiant and I think you did a great job on the last project we would be hard pressed to go passed you for this one also

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by dlonnahawkins 29 Dec 2009

Oh, love this one.

What a grand idea! I think I might be able to do this. Give me the address to send the block to and I will do my best to make something that will fit in the size and design you are asking for. Sounds like a great surprise for Ms Loretta. Just send me a PM with the address. Does this have to be quilted or do you do that when you put it together? Sorry I am new to this! LOL Thanks Sara

I wish I knew how to quilt.

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by blhamblen 28 Dec 2009

You don't have to quilt...just embroider a square on a block...cut block at least 6 x 6:)

Good morning Deanna, just read this post.

I'll certainly be in it.

Love and blessings Chris

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Hi Deanna, I'm in, Miss Loretta, will love it. Will have to let you know what I will be doing once my son has a look at my computer with all my designs, as I can't open it at the moment.. - Hugs Yvonne

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by castelyn 03 Jan 2010

Ok my computer is upand working now

I only became active on "Cute" after Miss Loretta" left as a regular but what I have read about her and what little she has posted since being in the nursing home(?), I have found her to be a very nice and extremely likable person. I have gained alot of respect for her from her delightful post only once in a while when she can use someone's computer. Having been in a nursing home for 8 months after my horrible surgery gone bad,at 57, I do have some inside ideas of how much you can miss your regular life before being put in a place that is so confining. I was treated very well and after the first couple of weeks my meds were diluted to a point that I got settled down. What I did see and was a part of was 3 different room mates that were terminal. There is an awful lot of sadness inside along with the not so very bad place to be. One of my room mates passed away from Huntington's Disease. She had not tried to speak since she had been there until they put her in the room with me. I talked to her and made sure she was cared for when there was a mess of any kind. She started trying to talk to me and to a couple of the nurses and her sons were shocked when they found out that she could still talk some where you could understand what she was saying. I was even the one that had the nurses call her family and tell them it was time to come and visit that I did not think she was going to make it much longer. Her boys came and then her brother and his wife and she was gone. The family asked me to stay in the room with them after she passed away and I got up and we formd a cirle and all said prayers for her. This family hugged me and thanked me for taking up so much time with her when it was so close to her time. They were black and the family treated me like I was one of the family toward the end. I even got a letter from her brother and his wife thanking me for being so kind to her and to the family. You hear the horror stories about nursing homes but I can tell you that is not always the case. My horror was the pain I was in for so many months and having to leave my furbaby with my son and of course the rift between my son and I at the time. My best friend of many many years admitted me to the hospital, stayed through the surgery and visited everyday until I went to the nursing home. While there she looked after my bills visited 2 times a week and brought me everything I needed while I was there. The nursing home was almost an hour away from her home. If it had not been for her, I know that I would not be here today. I know that Miss Loretta's life has changed drastically but she seems to have charmed the staff with her personality (computer use) because she has been privy to the home computer and she also seems very well adjusted in her new home. Shirlene has kept her life as normal as possible being there in the home. Shirlene, you are her angel! I can say a heartfelt Thank You for being there. You can never know how much that means when you are confined to a strange new home! Mine lasted only 8 months and I was mentally alert after the the initial meds right after the surgery. I was confined to the bed but as I got stronger, I began to get up some even though I got scolded alot for wandering off and down the halls when I was confined to the bed except for the potty thing! They would fuss a bit but never made me go straight back to the bed. Yes, I did see some horror stories to tell about but it did not come from the staff. I was shocked at the extent of the problems some of the patients had, never to get any better. There was 1 elegantly dressed black lady that wandered the halls and would visit the rooms and talk of finding the stairs so she could escape before the bombs killed her. All the windows in her room had been bombed and she just got out before the room blew up. I can't find the stairs to get away! That was her almost a cry for help. The nurse would come and get her and take her back to her room and try to show her that nothing was going on. Maybe the next day, she would be perfectly normal acting and then again she would cuss you out if you apoke to her. That was not the only crazy thing that went on but no one was dangerous to anyone but themselves. There was one boy about 16 that had been horribly burned in a car fire. When I left he was there waiting for the surgery to give him a face again. He was very nice and polite and talked to everyone that talked to him first. You could see the pain and fear in his eyes! The CNA's were sometimes slack in their duties but most of them were nothing but children themselves. The R.N.'s were all just great! There was only one harsh and rough one that I always prayed would not be the one to change my bandages and I did not get her but a couple of times.

I did not intend to write a book but I am first hand knowledge of what Miss Loretta is going through by just being there. Even if the staff is 1st rate and kind to all, that does not mean that the horror stories don't walk in or is carried through the doors for you to see and hear all! We even had 2 old ladies fighting over a male patient and I do mean fighting. The staff had one of them in one hall and the other as far away as possible but they would find each other and get in a real cat fight! The old man was ugly as could be and nasty looking all the time and had no interest in either of them. Anytime we saw the 2 ladies on the same hall walking, we had instructions to call the desk and let them know so they could stop the fight before it started. I am talking about OLD! They had to be 80 to 90 yrs old and fighting like teenagers!

This is a whole new life and very different one that Miss Loretta is living now and I am sure, not by her choice. Any and everything that any of us do to let her know that she is missed and cared about will be very important to her! I will try my best to get on the bandwagon this time. I was just not ready before. I sat down at the machines and did several things for Christmas and it made me feel really good to get into the sewing thing again. I do have one mess I need to clean up but we will not get into that! I thank all of you for being caring and giving people! This is the most wonderful group that I have ever been a part of! Thanks, Linda

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by katydid 27 Dec 2009

Qh sweetie, what a terrible time, Im sorry.

by sarahrose 28 Dec 2009

You poor thing, I bet nothing like this is happening to Miss Loretta.

by lflanders 31 Dec 2009

Actually it was not as horrible as it sounds. Weird was more like the feeling I had as this went on. I felt so sorry for these people that could not do better and had to stay out their lifetime there. I knew as soon as my wounds healed, I would be able to go home and I also had the dearest friend in the world that was there for me all the time. My family visited when they could but they were a long way from the nursing home. I missed my son but at the time it was better that he did not visit very often. I was running between angry, hurt, and so disappointed with lifestyle he was trying to live at the time, I got furious at him everytime he came around me. We had been so close all through his life and he did not leave home until he was 37 and made such a drastic change when he did leave that I was very angry at him! His wife that he finally settled down with has made a wonderful turn-about in him but she does rule the roost and now I do not get to see him very often although he is well on his way back to the way he was raised! I do hope that Miss Loretta does not see the type things that I did but I am sure that there is some crazy things that do happen. So many of these people are in nursing homes because the family can no longer deal with the things that trained Dr's and Nurses do. We did have alot that would leave the home to spend week-ends with their families. They were the ones that were is fairly good shape but needed some medical help and supervision all the time. When families work, the nursing home is usually the answer. If I had been home during the time I was re-cooping from the horrible surgery, I would have had to have someone to be with me 24 hrs a day. I lived alone so the only answer was to be put in the Nursing Home. I really did not miss anything but my Pekingese. My son had here. I worried all the time that she was not getting the attention that she needed but she adores my son and cries to go with him when he leaves (or did) but she has cancer and it is now just a matter of days before she will leave us. She has had it for 4 yrs. and it has only become really bad in the last few months. All I can do is just cry and love her! I asked my son to come get her last night and have her put down. It has turned very bad for her in the last 2 days although she has been very quiet today.
The nursing home is a wonderful place for those that do not have family able to care for them. Of course there are some very sick people there as well as some that do not always know what they are doing. This a very nice thing that is being done for Miss Loretta! She was gone when I first started being active on Cute but she would visit sometimes when she could get her hands on a computer. I am sure this will mean the world to her! Hugs to all Linda

I would love to try, I'll get busy now.

Deanna, I also thought of Miss Loretta when you mentioned this project - it is perfect!!! Count me in too!!! We going though a temporary move which means my embroidery machine will be packed up for a short while. But, I will do my best to meet the deadline!!!! This is a wonderful idea!!!

I will do one of the roses called "Fantastic Roses" from DesignsbySick. If this is OK, let me know one way or the other. Loves.

Deanna, I am in, so happy it is for Miss Loretta, she has been a blessing for many of us here at "Cute". It will be wonderful for her to know she is loved, and not forgotten. I am also wondering can the design come from any site? H&*.

Deanna, she will be blown away - of coarse. I am not sure - but I might use the same rose as I did before - she loved that so much. How exciting!

I would like to do one. I don't know how to send you a picture. I will do Romantic rose from African Sewfari I will need your address

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by camylow 28 Dec 2009

pm to you

the perfect person to make for, great idea!!

I'm in on this. I will pick out my design and let you know. I will get busy after January 2nd. I thought it might br for Miss Loretta. Wonderful idea for a wonderful person. Thank you Deanna. Hugs Mary

Oh I just knew you had Miss Loretta in mind, I am so thrilled my guess was correct. Count me in, I'll search my designs ASAP, may even digitise something.

Pauline and I will send ours in together like we did last time.

I would love to take on more but being in Australia doesn't make it feasible.

Besides you did such a phenomenal job on the last one, as long as you wish to do it again and are not out of pocket for expenses.
I would like to contribute financially so let me know (PM) or email me your PayPal a/c so I can send some money as soon as the Aussie dollar picks up again.

OH, I can just imagine beautiful dusky pink and deep maroon roses, with touches of green, it will be so lovely.

Actually I just purchased a design from Embroidery Library that I think might be really lovely for this but it doesn't fit into roses or angels theme, perhaps for an ex sewer we may be able to extend the design selection to include some crafty machine designs too????

I've just checked it and it is larger than 4 x 4 being 4.84 x 5.86 but it is so gorgeous. I'll add a picture for you to say yea or nay to.

I'll understand if it is nay. I have thousands of others to choose from.

Pls let me know what you think.
Hugs n roses, Meganne

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by shirlener88 27 Dec 2009

Loretta loves bluebirds and Cardinals - so this is perfect.

by dlmds 27 Dec 2009

Meganne, This is beautiful, I love the idea with the sewing machine. H&*

by camylow 27 Dec 2009

Meganne this is stunning...is there anyway you can downsize it some....the clocks were cut down to the 6x6 block but need to have a seam allowances...can your machine downsize to the 20% like others do...

by camylow 27 Dec 2009

make that blocks not clocks...hehehe too early again

by memasanders 27 Dec 2009

This is sooo pretty I love it!

by lflanders 27 Dec 2009

I love this design! If it does not qualify for the design choices, maybe it could be the center design. It is all about sewing! Linda

by sewmom 27 Dec 2009

Love it!

by dlonnahawkins 29 Dec 2009

This is especially special - I think that it would be lovely - even if for the Center block. How unique and special for Miss Loretta.

by castelyn 04 Jan 2010

Great design, Meganne

by castelyn 04 Jan 2010

Great design, Meganne

Deanna u know I'm in on this. Had already run it through my mind when u mentioned it & wondered if maybe this was to be the receipient. Wonderful idea. Lillian

I am in . Can the design come from anywhere or only from cute? Hugs Lisa

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by camylow 27 Dec 2009

anywhere is fine....

This is a wonderful idea! I'm in!

Deanna, I love your choice of whom this should be for. I was thinking yesterday that Miss Loretta would be the one. Great choice. Hugs Lynn.

I will make one and will send it as soon as I know who to send it to. May I add that the white background material should be cotton, it always make a better quilt

First thing I'll get started after the Jan 2nd.