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Posted by needlearts@gmail.com on August 21, 2009, 1:54 pm
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> Just in case anyone is interested, the EGA is rolling out a student
> membership. I was searching for the details, but can't seem to locate
> them. Sent an e-mail and will post my answer.
> Donna in Virginia
Ah. They are calling it a youth membership. Will be open to children
under 17 or 17 and under?
Cost - $15.
They have not finished finalizing the details of this plan yet. Which
is why I didn't find anything on the website.
Donna in Virginia
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Posted by Dawne Peterson on August 21, 2009, 11:42 am
My mother did several forms of needlework, and particulary excelled at
petit point on silk gauze. She also loved to knit those very lacy baby
sets. She had no interest in or patience with teaching me anything she did,
so there was no love of needlework shared there. I have talked previously
about my horrible home economics teacher. I was younger by 2 years than the
rest of my class, and admittedly had chubby little hands, and she spent two
years ripping up everything I did in front of the class along with a
dripping commentary on how inept I was. My mother, rather than help me
improve, said she was "mortified" by how bad I was, since she did such
lovely work. So again, no great love of needlework there.
After Home Ec I strenuously avoided anything involving a needle until I
married at age 18. Faced with furnishing a home, this hippie girl sewed up
all kinds of things, including a sofa (!!), and embroidered various objects
including weekend shirts for my non-hippie DH. I taught myself out of books
(I love you, Erica Wilson!).
So, what motivated me was the desire to create things I loved, rather than
buy the very ordinary stuff in the stores, the need to save money, and the
desire to differentiate myself from needlework as I had seen it done by Mum
and the aforementioned Awful Home Ec teacher (I have never made a huge
Victorian floral, my mother's favourite theme, or sewn anything out of huck
towelling or cross stitched a gingham apron (the pinnacle of achievment for
the good girls in home ec.) . I guess that involves a little bit of "I'll
show them!!", but my Mum bless her never got the subtext, and continued to
the last offering to show my a better way to knit (she once ripped out an
off shoulder pullover I left at her house, and when I retrieved it, it had
become a "more appropriate for your age" cable knit cardy. I was 40
something at the time)
Dawne
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Posted by Lucille on August 21, 2009, 12:30 pm
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> My mother did several forms of needlework, and particulary excelled at
> petit point on silk gauze. She also loved to knit those very lacy baby
> sets. She had no interest in or patience with teaching me anything she
> did, so there was no love of needlework shared there. I have talked
> previously about my horrible home economics teacher. I was younger by 2
> years than the rest of my class, and admittedly had chubby little hands,
> and she spent two years ripping up everything I did in front of the class
> along with a dripping commentary on how inept I was. My mother, rather
> than help me improve, said she was "mortified" by how bad I was, since she
> did such lovely work. So again, no great love of needlework there.
> After Home Ec I strenuously avoided anything involving a needle until I
> married at age 18. Faced with furnishing a home, this hippie girl sewed
> up all kinds of things, including a sofa (!!), and embroidered various
> objects including weekend shirts for my non-hippie DH. I taught myself
> out of books (I love you, Erica Wilson!).
> So, what motivated me was the desire to create things I loved, rather than
> buy the very ordinary stuff in the stores, the need to save money, and the
> desire to differentiate myself from needlework as I had seen it done by
> Mum and the aforementioned Awful Home Ec teacher (I have never made a huge
> Victorian floral, my mother's favourite theme, or sewn anything out of
> huck towelling or cross stitched a gingham apron (the pinnacle of
> achievment for the good girls in home ec.) . I guess that involves a
> little bit of "I'll show them!!", but my Mum bless her never got the
> subtext, and continued to the last offering to show my a better way to
> knit (she once ripped out an off shoulder pullover I left at her house,
> and when I retrieved it, it had become a "more appropriate for your age"
> cable knit cardy. I was 40 something at the time)
> Dawne
Loved reading this and someone has to ask, so why not me. How do you sew
up a sofa?????
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Posted by Dawne Peterson on August 21, 2009, 1:21 pm
"Lucille" wrote .
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> Loved reading this and someone has to ask, so why not me. How do you
> sew up a sofa?????
Okay well remember this was the 70s and I was a hippie. The sofa was a huge
(very huge) u-shaped tube, probably over 3 feet in diameter, and the length
of your standard 3 seater sofa along the back of the U. This was the sofa
back and arms. The seat was a very large cushion which filled the interior
of the U, and was attached to it by the decorative (okay, tastes differ) use
of nylong strapping. The whole thing was made of a red-orange fake suede
and stuffed within an inch of its life, so it was very firm. You ended up
sitting a couple of feet off the floor, but hey, I was a teenager so jumping
up from that height was no trouble.
It lasted for many years, and eventually did service as my son's bed after
moving from the crib, the low height and soft surround being absolutely
perfect for that.
Alas, I left it with ex-DH when I left him. I believe it did one long
distance move with him to act as DS's bed for visits--another advantage was
it was comparatively easy to move around.
To accomplish this, I managed to sew a napped fabric, use those big curved
upholstery needles, and several other tasks which if I had paid attention in
Home Ec I would have known were "advanced techniques" and so beyond my
capabilities. The courage of youth??You can accomplish great things when
you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do!!
Dawne
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Posted by Lucille on August 21, 2009, 1:41 pm
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> "Lucille" wrote .
>> Loved reading this and someone has to ask, so why not me. How do you
>> sew up a sofa?????
> Okay well remember this was the 70s and I was a hippie. The sofa was a
> huge (very huge) u-shaped tube, probably over 3 feet in diameter, and the
> length of your standard 3 seater sofa along the back of the U. This was
> the sofa back and arms. The seat was a very large cushion which filled
> the interior of the U, and was attached to it by the decorative (okay,
> tastes differ) use of nylong strapping. The whole thing was made of a
> red-orange fake suede and stuffed within an inch of its life, so it was
> very firm. You ended up sitting a couple of feet off the floor, but hey,
> I was a teenager so jumping up from that height was no trouble.
> It lasted for many years, and eventually did service as my son's bed after
> moving from the crib, the low height and soft surround being absolutely
> perfect for that.
> Alas, I left it with ex-DH when I left him. I believe it did one long
> distance move with him to act as DS's bed for visits--another advantage
> was it was comparatively easy to move around.
> To accomplish this, I managed to sew a napped fabric, use those big curved
> upholstery needles, and several other tasks which if I had paid attention
> in Home Ec I would have known were "advanced techniques" and so beyond my
> capabilities. The courage of youth??You can accomplish great things when
> you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do!!
> Dawne
You sound just like my mother. Many moons ago my really expensive,
beautiful, brown silk sectional couch developed a hole in the very corner
little L that wrapped between the back of the couch and the very low arm.
There was no way new fabric would match to fix just the one love seat sized
pillow and really no way I could afford to have the whole thing
reupholstered so my mother said I'm going to fix it.
Innocent me said what the hell do you know about upholtery. Her answer,
which I now know was perfect, was what does a professional use to do it,
said she. He uses two hands and a needle. What can we lose. She
proceeded to cut a piece out of the back which was against the wall and cut
a patch big enough to cover the entire little square that had the hole.
She fixed it with one seam, that on the dark chocolate brown didn't stand
out too much and was easily covered with a throw pillow. She then sewed a
piece of muslin over the hole in the back and stood back to admire her work.
I used the couch like that for a very long time and no one ever knew it was
repaired.
Amazing what a lot of ingenuity and an even bigger amount of nerve can
accomplish.
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> membership. I was searching for the details, but can't seem to locate
> them. Sent an e-mail and will post my answer.
> Donna in Virginia