hem. He could not find his length at Walmart and came home with some way too long. Of cource I will stop my project and change the needle to 100 and thread to navy or gold and whip it out as soon as possible, because he is important. He keeps putting his photo above the cat's on the frig. Ha!Ha! He wants to be #1.
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I am using this time to make gifts making a quilt for my sister and lap quilts for my twin friends and some stuff for the lady I work for I do a lot of hand embroidery I keep a lot stamped off and take it with me every where I go.
I just finished blocks for a red work quilt will set it to gether soon.I am setting together a sunbonnet applique quilt now.
Lenamae
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32767Hi Kay and everyone.....I just did 70 shirts for a model T club and I wanted to scream by the time I finished the last one....had such tears of boredom!!! Next week I get to start on a family reunion client which is 4 T's of the same stuff...it makes money for my craft, but I want to be creating art...whine!!!!!! I also get to watch a mother robin raising her 4 babies out of my sunroom. They hatched a few days ago. I don't know how they are all fitting in that nest. I am keeping an eye that one doesn't get kicked out. She feeds them worms, but she eats the stray cats cat food. She goes right into the cat house and eats it off the paper plate. The cats show no interest in her whatsoever....it's like Dr. Dolittle here.........Hugs!!
261163Now that Spring has finally sprung I am amazing busy outdoors and haven't gotten anything Embroidered in a while. :( and :) lol! I got my baby chicks just over 2 weeks ago so they are keeping me busy. Sunday my hubby was finally able to till the garden and make me a new one for my pumpkins, squash and cukes so they don't overrun my veggie garden. That one I've got raked and put in order to the best it'll be for a first year garden and planted too. Now I've been working on the big garden and mowing. I've got 4 rows potatoes and 4 rows bush beans planted, and maybe 1/3 my yard mowed and now its raining again. Grrrr!! And of course all the raking and yard clean up is pretty much done until the next wind storm. I did get some jeans altered for my hubby and a few for my granddaughter who is a bit short for her size jeans on some. I have discovered that a size 4T pair of jeans can vary up to 4 inches from one brand to another. It don't recall this when my girls where little. So my daughter has to have her daughter try on her pants before buying them, how frustrating!!! And if she buys them at garage sales she has me just shorten them if they are the ones that are 3 to 4 inches to long by taking an inch or two off so she has room to grow without them dragging on the ground all the time. My grnaddaughter hates her jeans rolled up, lol! So grandma has to get creative with disguising the rolled up jeans so they look fashionable. I have come up with a solution my daughter and granddaughter both like, lol! Its actually pretty cute when they're done. I didn't take pictures though, :( oh well. Looks like I need to run some errands for the hubby so later!!! BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!!
22354I am making an other bed spread. this time for the daughter of my son's girlfriend. she is 4 years old and has adopted me as oma(granny).I also am working on some coasters for my daughter (she wants them matched with her curtains (silver on black!) This is between dog walking (my puppy is now 13 weeks old and needs lots of walks) and working some of the days, not forgetting our big garden which should look on his best when in 2 weeks time all the family comes over (also the people from holland) in total 45 for our silver wedding anniversary. The last one is the most difficult as the dog likes to dig up what I have just planted and we have not had a drop of rain for about 6 weeks. Me busy? Of course not!
57492I'm still trying to get the room that I use in my daughter's house during the summer cleaned out enough that I can set up my machines and stuff. They just pitch stuff in there in the winter. Grrrrrrrrrrrr. And I need to be sewing.
22300My great-grand-daughter Fanny will have soon 6 month, so I embroider several cloth for her, and I embroider T-shirts for the 7 years of my GS Pablo at the end of May, and also embroider a gift, I do not know what for the bitrthday of his mother,my DIL at the end of May also.
Hugs Claude
25533Well I'm working on wedding things for a wedding fashion show. Garters,ring pillows, kneeling pillows,bride to be t-shirts and sashes. Then also for wedding gifts, towels,gowns etc.
Plus I'm also working on the charity things, tea towels, bbq towels, toilet paper holders.
This is all in between orders.
Oh, and then hubby normally will bring overalls home for logo's and names to go onto. He always seems to bring these home when I am very busy.
(Must not complain as I get paid for these as well)
My days are not long enough !!!!
Hugs Yvonne
132773Thanks for all you answers and input. We learn so much from each other and it is such a delight. Kay
85867At present I am working on a pretty backpack for my granddaughter. I got the project from AStitchaHahlf recently. It's looking rather lovely! Go have a look at their site I got the Signature Backpack and the dragon one!
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6833Hi, I got burned out at Easter. I made 50 bunny egg
poppers. I put Happy Easter on them and Names in tradtional colors. Then a light bulb came on. Being
from Ala. I made a gray one and Put Roll Tide in Red
on it and an orange one and put War Eagle on it. Boy
I could hardly make enough of the Ala ones. You mash
the tummy and a plastic egg pops out so you can put
money or other goodies in like jewelry. Ready to do
something different now.
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3294He has great timing now doesn't he. :-) I've been working on some throw quilts for grand children, quilting a quilt for a friend and one for maybe our son. May start working on some charity children quilts and then some things to sell at our quilt show in Sept. We shall see. Hope you meet your deadline!
23222I have been working on tote bags and car designs for a quilt that eill be auctioned off. The good thing is I am only doing the designs, not the quilting.
169064Working on wedding presents, baby gifts, etc....but none for sale! Most are for my daughter to give! I DID do a funny bib to have my GD slip in when the baby shower for my daugher is held. Seems her older brother thought they should get a dog instead of another baby! As they can't agree on a name, my son (the uncle) is calling the baby Lassie! So I did a bib with a collie & "Lassie" on it. My daughter will think it's funny.
35675Today I appliqued 2 tea towels for a present. I have T shirts waiting to be done and then sent to the UK - also for presents. This evening I have cut out a shirt for myself, will have to get a move on as I would like to have it finished for a lunch on Sunday.
255050I've been slowly putting our company name on polo shirts for a conference coming up. My DH, son, and contributors need enough to not have to do laundry during the 3 day conference. I say "slowly" because repetition is not fun or inspiring so I take a lot of breaks.
On the bright side, since my DH wears his shirts on a regular basis and I wash them all the time I can see first hand that the lettering is not coming apart and still looks great! Do you ever worry that something you made won't hold up? When my name is on it, I demand quality.
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by katydid
19 May 2011
I know exactly where you are coming from. After I stitch a doz. of something, I get bored. I got so burned out with the Jesus Loves Me baby bibs that I told the Christian Book store that I was going to stop stitching them. A large local church was ordering a doz. at a time and it tied me up in my time so much that I was neglecting every thing else. After you get those shirts finished, stitch something entirely different. It will help.I usually have several projects going on at the same time and when I tire of one, I will switch to another project. Take a photo of all those shirts and post for us.
by ansalu
19 May 2011
I know this "burn-out"-syndrom when I did last year about 150 of my knuddies; short before christmas (best salestime) I took them out of the shop (and still have customer asking for them!). Now I have the same with my angel-lamps :o(
I know I should be happy to have articles which sold so good but if you doing the same 5 angels in just little different combinations each day it is very boring. So I'm always happy when somebody is asking for an absolut different motiv ;o)
Greetings, Bettina
by noah
19 May 2011
yes i need to keep doing many different things all the time .I would go crazy to lol carolyn
by ramona
19 May 2011
Yes I do worry about that. I make a lot of quilts. I get concerned on the colors bleeding or the fabric shrinking or not working well together or something wrong with the batting. I used to prewash all my fabric but now everyone says they don't have issues with that. I don't wash as much as I used to. With embroidery I think about the thread color bleeding in a quilt or the stitches not holding up. All these things concern me but I continue to sew away. I really want things to be perfect but knowing all the time that I'm not perfect.
by sewmom
19 May 2011
I've had a thread bleed once and it was a thread I use all the time. I couldn't figure it out.
For fabric I would check dark and bold colors before I got started just to be sure. Even the pros don't always do it right. My daughter's prom dress had black, white, and dark pink fabric. It said it was cold water washable but the pink ran onto the white. They gave me my money back.
by katydid
19 May 2011
I am so glad pron days are over. I had a nervous breakdown with each formal I made for my daughter.
463411Cute. How your husband puts his photo above the cat's on the frig..... I like it.
My projects are all little family things... grandkids and extended family items. I am so new at all this, I continue to learn something new nearly everytime I sit down at the machine.
Hmmm, or maybe I keep learning the same thing over and over.. and only think it is new because I continue to forget what I have previously discovered. Either way, it keeps me busy enough.
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by katydid
19 May 2011
Oh, he is not my husband. I have been single since 1985. My sweetie and I have been a couple for 18 plus years. He has his home on a small private airport which actually backs up to my subdivision where I have my home. We like it that way. We each do our thing all day. I will admit that the yard work becomes harder for me each year. My bushes all need trimming and the flower beds have weeds in them.
3075I wished I had a special order - I don't have a thing to work on - but I have so many designs that I haven't stitched - I could have something to do - every day all day for the rest of my life.
I am glad to hear - that you will work on the hem of the jeans for your sweetie.
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by mi30kaja
18 May 2011
I am with you Shirlene. So much time and so many designs but which one or two???
by katydid
18 May 2011
I have so many ideas and so little time to actually stitch. I always stay behind. The only thing is people do not realize how much time we have in a simple project and no one wants to pay more than China look a likes.
by nama2
20 May 2011
Exactly-well said-I wish more people understood the thought and care in each single job!
211079Hihi, so funny :o)
One thing my husband has to accept is that I don't iron. When I buy some clothes they have to be "iron-free" means I can hang them on the line or on a hanger and if it is dry I can fold them together and that's it ;-)
Greetings, Bettina
PS: The pic is from our old flat. We had a net cause of our cat and there I hang on Anna's babyclothes on hangers to dry. My sister always said it looks a little bit like in Italy *lol*
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by grossfamilie
19 May 2011
Das ist lustig...ganz neue Art von "Catwalk"!
Hat sich das Katzentier jemals über den
"Missbrauch" seines Netzes beschwert ? :-))
by noah
19 May 2011
wow thats pretty funny .My line in my bush is very long and i have two of them (never saw anything like this)lol carolyn
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