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Posted by NightMist on June 30, 2009, 4:15 pm
I was going to reply to Kate but pressed the wrong button and deleted
everything, so I will throw everything in one post which will allow me
to get back to my comfy chair more quickly.
Being as it appears that I am going to spend most of the summer
sitting quietly (AGGGH!) I thought I would see if I could get a goodly
sized piece of linen and make a hedebo tablecloth that I have been
promising myself for years. Not a chance of it it seems. Everything I
have found is either too fine, too lightweight, dyed, or priced into
the stratosphere. DH knowing of my search called me from a shop and
asked if aida cloth would work. Apparently the woman who owns the
place suggested it. Um, no. I am to the point of considering things
like scenery canvas and looking at linen weave cottons. It is just
easier to use proper linen, and looks nicer, it is not impossible to
use cotton.
I have had double wedding rings on my mind lately, a result of the
recent wedding and needing to make one for their first anniversary no
doubt. My mind wandered in the direction of two sets of rings, one
set in shades of violet and one in shades of gold, on a neutral
background. It would suit their bedroom, add some color, and not be
too much. This brought to mind metallics and wondering how they hold
up to laundering these days. Especially after I started looking about
and came across some of Kaufman's Ornamentations, and FusionsII. Wow
that is metallic! All over and lots of it! And they immediately put
the idea of a prismatatic star, starting with intense solids and
evolving through prints into metallics shooting out the ends of the
rays, into my head. I would want to know how well they held up in the
laundry before spending money on them and useing them in a big project
though. When it is just metallic highlights you can mourn their loss
when they are gone, and it is not a big deal. When the whole fabric is
metallic I have to hesitate and ask around, no matter how fabulous it
is. I am delighted to see that the days of charging half again as much
when metallics are incorporated into a fabric seems to be passing. The
fusions and ornamentations I was looking at:
http://www.quilteddragon.com/fabricfrm.htm
you have to scroll down on the left and cick on Robert Kaufman (yeah I
hate frames too), cost no more than any other decent quilting fabric.
NightMist
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Posted by Roberta on July 1, 2009, 12:38 pm
Could you be satisfied with a table runner? I have a piece of linen 26
X 42" bought in Denmark many years ago, while I still did
counted-thread embroidery. It's not aida, it's what the Danes might
use for most types of pulled-thread work. 10 threads per centimeter in
both directions (which is about 25 threads per inch, I guess). Yours
if you want it, just send me an address. You would save me lots of
residual guilt, because I'm probably never going to embroider anything
that small again.
Roberta in D
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:15:50 GMT, nightmiste@gmail.com (NightMist)
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>I was going to reply to Kate but pressed the wrong button and deleted
>everything, so I will throw everything in one post which will allow me
>to get back to my comfy chair more quickly.
>Being as it appears that I am going to spend most of the summer
>sitting quietly (AGGGH!) I thought I would see if I could get a goodly
>sized piece of linen and make a hedebo tablecloth that I have been
>promising myself for years. Not a chance of it it seems. Everything I
>have found is either too fine, too lightweight, dyed, or priced into
>the stratosphere. DH knowing of my search called me from a shop and
>asked if aida cloth would work. Apparently the woman who owns the
>place suggested it. Um, no. I am to the point of considering things
>like scenery canvas and looking at linen weave cottons. It is just
>easier to use proper linen, and looks nicer, it is not impossible to
>use cotton.
>I have had double wedding rings on my mind lately, a result of the
>recent wedding and needing to make one for their first anniversary no
>doubt. My mind wandered in the direction of two sets of rings, one
>set in shades of violet and one in shades of gold, on a neutral
>background. It would suit their bedroom, add some color, and not be
>too much. This brought to mind metallics and wondering how they hold
>up to laundering these days. Especially after I started looking about
>and came across some of Kaufman's Ornamentations, and FusionsII. Wow
>that is metallic! All over and lots of it! And they immediately put
>the idea of a prismatatic star, starting with intense solids and
>evolving through prints into metallics shooting out the ends of the
>rays, into my head. I would want to know how well they held up in the
>laundry before spending money on them and useing them in a big project
>though. When it is just metallic highlights you can mourn their loss
>when they are gone, and it is not a big deal. When the whole fabric is
>metallic I have to hesitate and ask around, no matter how fabulous it
>is. I am delighted to see that the days of charging half again as much
>when metallics are incorporated into a fabric seems to be passing. The
>fusions and ornamentations I was looking at:
>http://www.quilteddragon.com/fabricfrm.htm
>you have to scroll down on the left and cick on Robert Kaufman (yeah I
>hate frames too), cost no more than any other decent quilting fabric.
>NightMist
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>everything, so I will throw everything in one post which will allow me
>to get back to my comfy chair more quickly.
>Being as it appears that I am going to spend most of the summer
>sitting quietly (AGGGH!) I thought I would see if I could get a goodly
>sized piece of linen and make a hedebo tablecloth that I have been
>promising myself for years. Not a chance of it it seems. Everything I
>have found is either too fine, too lightweight, dyed, or priced into
>the stratosphere. DH knowing of my search called me from a shop and
>asked if aida cloth would work. Apparently the woman who owns the
>place suggested it. Um, no. I am to the point of considering things
>like scenery canvas and looking at linen weave cottons. It is just
>easier to use proper linen, and looks nicer, it is not impossible to
>use cotton.
>I have had double wedding rings on my mind lately, a result of the
>recent wedding and needing to make one for their first anniversary no
>doubt. My mind wandered in the direction of two sets of rings, one
>set in shades of violet and one in shades of gold, on a neutral
>background. It would suit their bedroom, add some color, and not be
>too much. This brought to mind metallics and wondering how they hold
>up to laundering these days. Especially after I started looking about
>and came across some of Kaufman's Ornamentations, and FusionsII. Wow
>that is metallic! All over and lots of it! And they immediately put
>the idea of a prismatatic star, starting with intense solids and
>evolving through prints into metallics shooting out the ends of the
>rays, into my head. I would want to know how well they held up in the
>laundry before spending money on them and useing them in a big project
>though. When it is just metallic highlights you can mourn their loss
>when they are gone, and it is not a big deal. When the whole fabric is
>metallic I have to hesitate and ask around, no matter how fabulous it
>is. I am delighted to see that the days of charging half again as much
>when metallics are incorporated into a fabric seems to be passing. The
>fusions and ornamentations I was looking at:
>http://www.quilteddragon.com/fabricfrm.htm
>you have to scroll down on the left and cick on Robert Kaufman (yeah I
>hate frames too), cost no more than any other decent quilting fabric.
>NightMist