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Posted by Ursula Schrader on February 21, 2008, 11:36 am
"Joy Beeson" wrote...
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> Found a picture of it!
> <http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/~joybeeson/LINKS/IMAGES/STARHANG.JPG>
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Hey, yes, that's simple but useful, especially with the clean working
surface. (I have to admit, though, that I'm looking for something more
elaborate.)
> Note also that it's a *big* mistake to put the design in the middle of
> the square.
Yup, I can see that. Reminds me of the old joke: Ask some party guest who's
holding his glass in his left hand for the time... The later, the funnier.
Haha. ;-(
> (Just thought of unwrapping the doll quilt next to my baby doll in the
> bottom drawer, and there was the bag I described, and it's the
> more-precious one. Made it from an embroidered-squares quilt I
> started in 1956. Three of the squares are actually embroidered! Some
> of the others are vintage prints. Now that we have a digital camera,
> I should photograph it.)
Yes, do, please do! I'm just so curious about that one. I think I'll buy a
book about quilting, maybe one fine day I'll find the time to do it
properly. I'm such a perfectionist that many things were left undone because
I couldn't do them perfect enough. (Yes, thank you, the pills work fine, I'm
over the worst and my shrink says I'll be able to lead a normal life in a
decade or two. LOL! No, only joking about pill and shrink, I just worked on
my character, and a workshop on time management helped a lot, too.)
Oh, I just thought that I could use poly chinese brocade for the reticule
workbag as an outer layer. I bought a couple of - don't know what you'd call
'em - pinafores? those little bibs that the ultra-slim, very young girls
used to wear a couple of years ago, just a string around the neck and one to
tie the whole affair on the back. Always thought that I might make a bag or
two out of them one day, although I had thought about something like a
clutch for festive occasions. We'll see, I just have to find them, they're
somewhere in the boxes that I haven't unpacked yet after my move.
U.
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Posted by FarmI on February 19, 2008, 10:16 pm
> it's me again, this time I'm looking for a pattern for a work basket.
> Sounds so oldfashioned, but since I'm running around with my hand sewing
> utensils all day long and already dropped my precious crane scissors I can
> see the wisdom of our ancestors. ;-) I had in mind something made from
> some cotton > fabric and timtex, not too big, with one or two pockets on
> the inside, total dimensions perhaps 20 x 20 x 20 cm with a handle for
> easy carrying. Thanks for suggestions.
I use a workbox made from old 1 litre milkcartons and lined covered in
fabric. It has a octagonal base and a domed lid with a nice posh button on
the top. I keep all my small hand sewing items in there and find it
extremely useful. I have about another 20 which I need to cover so that
some, as yet unknown, 'good cause' can sell.
I recently entered it in our local Show (the equivalent thing to a US County
Fair) is a section for recycled items and took out First Prize for it. The
Steward in that section told me that the judge was very impressed as I had
put in the covered box along with a 'raw' box and lid so that the judge
could see the milk cartons and how it had started its life as well as the
final product once completed.
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Posted by Ursula Schrader on February 20, 2008, 7:05 am
"FarmI" wrote...
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> I use a workbox made from old 1 litre milkcartons and lined covered in
> fabric. It has a octagonal base and a domed lid with a nice posh button on
> the top. I keep all my small hand sewing items in there and find it
> extremely useful. I have about another 20 which I need to cover so that
> some, as yet unknown, 'good cause' can sell.
>
> I recently entered it in our local Show (the equivalent thing to a US
> County Fair) is a section for recycled items and took out First Prize for
> it. The Steward in that section told me that the judge was very impressed
> as I had put in the covered box along with a 'raw' box and lid so that the
> judge could see the milk cartons and how it had started its life as well
> as the final product once completed.
Ah, now that's what I'd call nifty! And praise is well earned here. I fear,
however, that German milk cartons won't do in my case. They are cardboard
and don't clean very well. I guess yours is one of those 'nice' plastic
bottles (nice for re-using, but perhaps not for the environment, but then,
what in modern civilisation is?). Did you glue on the covering? Could you
post a pic? I'm really curious.
U.
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Posted by FarmI on February 20, 2008, 8:31 pm
> "FarmI" wrote...
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>> I use a workbox made from old 1 litre milkcartons and lined covered in
>> fabric. It has a octagonal base and a domed lid with a nice posh button
>> on the top. I keep all my small hand sewing items in there and find it
>> extremely useful. I have about another 20 which I need to cover so that
>> some, as yet unknown, 'good cause' can sell.
>>
>> I recently entered it in our local Show (the equivalent thing to a US
>> County Fair) is a section for recycled items and took out First Prize for
>> it. The Steward in that section told me that the judge was very
>> impressed as I had put in the covered box along with a 'raw' box and lid
>> so that the judge could see the milk cartons and how it had started its
>> life as well as the final product once completed.
>
> Ah, now that's what I'd call nifty! And praise is well earned here. I
> fear, however, that German milk cartons won't do in my case. They are
> cardboard > and don't clean very well.
Those are the ones! Our 1 litre milk cartons are all still made of
cardboard. It's a cardboard with a very, very, very thinnish shin of a
shiny substance on the outside - it may be a very thin plastic material on
the outside.
I've found they clean up very easily and very well. When they are empty, I
fill them with cold water for about a day and then I fill then with warm
water to which a drop of detergent has been added for about another day,
then I rinse them and sun dry them. they come up very clean and not the
faintest whiff of stale milk smell to them.
I also use them for propogating yound plants and trees to get a deep root
run so there are hundreds around this house either in my sewing room, in the
potting shed or in the plant propogation area.
I guess yours is one of those 'nice' plastic
> bottles (nice for re-using, but perhaps not for the environment, but then,
> what in modern civilisation is?). Did you glue on the covering? Could you
> post a pic? I'm really curious.
None of the covering is glued on, it's all sewn. The domed lid is made up
of 8 darts to make sure it forms a proper dome shape and the side are just
long rectangles of fabric and the internal and external base are just
octagonal shapes. The internal dimensions are the best thing about it as it
holds a good quantity of "stuff". They turn out to be 12 cm high and about
18 cms across.
If you e-mail me off list at moura at bluemaxx dot com dot au I will send
you some pics as I still haven't signed up with any photo sites.
Fran
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