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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on October 15, 2009, 12:32 pm
Ursula Schrader wrote:
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> "Kate XXXXXX" wrote...
>> OK, so I completed the panne velvet dress hems and sleeves, and then made
>> a jacket to go with it. Unlined kimono style open fronted jacket, using
>> an adapted PJ/nightgown pattern from Wild Ginger's iCare patterns.
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> That's a nice one! For whom did you do it? Anyone I know? ;-) I know that in
> the end I will get a serger, too, so that I can do stuff like that, too. I
> had to do the worn inside leg seams of my jogging pants (yeah, well, they're
> called like that, even if you never jogged a step in them, apart from
> rushing to the toddler's rescue). Did that on the Singer but it was a real
> pain. Remembered the graceful ease of the imported serger and sighed.
One day! Just save up a few birthdau IOU's! :)
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>> Toddler dress and Ursula's sleeve samples to be completed before bed, so
>> I'd better print off the pattern for the sleeves and cut the dress out
>> before I go out. And dig a wool sample out of the loft for the sleeve
>> sample. Need something that frays a bit the way her wool and silk
>> broccade does... I bet the box with the wool samples and small bits in is
>> at the BOTTOM of a stack of boxes FULL of real heavy stuff! Weight
>> lifting! Just what you need to be doing in high heels in a loft in your
>> business suit! (And this is LESS weird? :P )
There will be MASSES of the flowery fabric left. Do you want me just to
send it back with the dress, or shall I construct a jacket for her?
Could do something quilted for her...
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> Well, if it's not madness it's a good exercise (don't ask me for what).
> Anyway, I'm dead grateful you're doing this. Slight panic is beginning to
> prevail, including shouting at innocent (and not so innocent*) family
> members. Had a nice conference with the chef yesterday and I really know why
> he isn't very popular. He loves telling you what he can't or won't do. I'd
> have loved to just get up and leave, but that's just a no-go. So I tried to
> get what I wanted as much as I could. Keep your fingers crossed. Edgar still
> hasn't got his suit, but we'll do that on Saturday, hopefully.
Fussy chef! No wonder he's going home... That's the wrong kind of
fussy. You need my nephew George: he's just done a really nice pub menu
and is looking for a step up from his present position. He finished his
catering course back in the summer.
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> You really get the interesting stuff. I bet it'll be just nice relaxed work
> with not much sewing and a decent pay on top. Please do tell all about it!
> Remember, I'd almost have been an architect. ;-)
I hope so! I need TWO sewing machines for this trip, and all the
paraphanalia to go with them... It's almost as bad as moving house!
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> U.
>
> *i.e. DH who doesn't stir a finger in wedding preps but plays with his new
> toy, the wood heating. Grrr!
Singe his beard for him! ;) I *knew* he was Eric the Viking really! :D
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Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
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Posted by Alice in PA on October 14, 2009, 5:33 pm
Isn't it amazing how these projects fall into our laps? You'll feel like a
queen, though, being chauffered around!
My neighbor asked me last week if I could do a "paying job". He just needs
some pillowcases. Well, that doesn't sound too hard, right? Then he told
me that these were actually pillow-case-like covers for a glider airplane's
wings!! He estimates the measurements at 60 feet long and 9 or 10 feet wide!
These would just slide onto the wings to protect them in the winter season.
I haven't gotten all the details yet, such as type of fabric, etc. And, how
would I ever come up with a price? Yikes! I've done some off-the-wall
projects, but this might be the strangest!
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Alice in PA
http://community.webshots.com/user/twosonsatpsu
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> Ok... Got a call from an architects office this morning. They wanted to
> know if I could come and quote for a job needed for a publicity party next
> Wednesday. Something about putting fabric on some frames... Would I come
> down to Folkstone and see if this was something I could do?
> Yes.
> They are sending a car to pick me up tomorrow, as I don't drive and I'd
> have to go by train. I can look at the job and give them a quote, and
> then they'll send the car on Monday and Tuesday next week to pick up me
> and all the sewing kit to do it in situ. This will allow me to sew and
> fit rather than taking all sorts of comples measurements and then not have
> it fit after all if the put it together wrong! :D It also gives me part
> of tomorrow and Friday (plus the weekend if needed) to make sure I have
> all the kit for doing the job. I might need to take an iron and the
> ironing board or the table top cloth as well as the sewing machines and
> etc...
> I admit it. I'm bonkers. But it's money, and I need a couple of nice pay
> jobs right now!
> I'll let you know more tomorrow, when I know what it entails. Meanwhile
> today's lazy morning has gone AWOL as I try to shift out the door what I
> WAS going to do this afternoon and all day tomorrow. That's Ursula's
> sleeve sample, Christine's frock, and an almost finished frock for a pal
> from another newsgroup...
> Looks like FTL sewing again!
> --
> Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
> Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
> http://www.katedicey.co.uk
> Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on October 14, 2009, 7:03 pm
Alice in PA wrote:
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> Isn't it amazing how these projects fall into our laps? You'll feel
> like a queen, though, being chauffered around!
>
> My neighbor asked me last week if I could do a "paying job". He just
> needs some pillowcases. Well, that doesn't sound too hard, right? Then
> he told me that these were actually pillow-case-like covers for a glider
> airplane's wings!! He estimates the measurements at 60 feet long and 9
> or 10 feet wide! These would just slide onto the wings to protect them
> in the winter season. I haven't gotten all the details yet, such as type
> of fabric, etc. And, how would I ever come up with a price? Yikes!
> I've done some off-the-wall projects, but this might be the strangest!
>
See, I said we do the weird stuff! ;) Sounds like fun, and beats my
frame things!
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Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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>> OK, so I completed the panne velvet dress hems and sleeves, and then made
>> a jacket to go with it. Unlined kimono style open fronted jacket, using
>> an adapted PJ/nightgown pattern from Wild Ginger's iCare patterns.
>
> That's a nice one! For whom did you do it? Anyone I know? ;-) I know that in
> the end I will get a serger, too, so that I can do stuff like that, too. I
> had to do the worn inside leg seams of my jogging pants (yeah, well, they're
> called like that, even if you never jogged a step in them, apart from
> rushing to the toddler's rescue). Did that on the Singer but it was a real
> pain. Remembered the graceful ease of the imported serger and sighed.