SPAM: Please Read

[Sara]

I have removed the previous message from the website and put everyone
on moderation until this spam has run it's course. Please excuse the
inconvenience. Would the person who's email was hijacked please run a
virus/spyware scan of their computer. You may want to change your
email password.

Thanks,
Sara

[The Walter Family]

Sara, I didn't get the spam so I wouldn't know if it were my email address.  Also, the email address that appears to be highjacked, may not be the one that sent it.  Worms and viruses can make it look like someone sent the spam who did not.

Sally

wal...@wwics.com
Walla Walla, WA  USA

[Sara]

Thank you Sally,

No it was not your email address. You would have recieved a message
from me had it been yours. Asking the person on here to scan their pc
was only a back up in case they did not recognize my address or it
went to spam. This spam has been all over yahoo and now it is
here. I am not going to ban anyone for spam if their email address
has been high jacked (used without permission of the owner). As
soon as it is over everything will go back to normal.

In the meantime, "What has everyone been up to lately?" I have been
working on FSL lessons, Filled design lessons and pattern drafting
lessons. My next digitizing lesson will be redwork. Once I get them
in Embird I will try them out in all my other digitizing software
programs. Got Christmas sewing to get finished up too. Mind you I am
stuck at home in the house 99% of the time so I do this to stay sane.
LOL

Anyone have any ideas for a Christmas project we could all do with
Thred? It might be fun to do something as a group.

Sara

[The Walter Family]

And thank you for taking good care of the list!!  The spam and viruses have been prevalent lately.  It takes vigilance to keep them off the lists.

I sort of shifted gears into quilting and most my embroidery these days is for quilt labels.  I have not been doing any digitizing because this computer is old and it has been freezing up when I try to run programs that require lots of RAM.  I am leery of upgrading to the new Windows 7 because I have lots of old embroidery programs that are running great with XP and some of the programs are not even supported for Vista.  I don't want to lose them.  I don't have room to run a new computer and one that will run XP, too.

I am working on a Bento Box quilt (a gift for a friend who is moving) and I need to get to a label for my Mom's quilt that I made in for it in Embird.   We are visiting my parents at there new house this weekend and I want to take her quilt to her.

You can visit my blog for more details.

Sally
Blog:
http://sewwonderful.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40978700@N06/

[Alfie McCoskey]

Your blog was so interesting I got lost in it for an hour or so.  It's so hard to find time to sew and talk about it both.  Even running embroidery designs gets in the way of just sewing one piece to the next.

Like you, I resist change in my computers.  The laptop I'm using runs Vista, which seems to be the last change I'm going to put up with. It was a one too many.  Marion runs Linux exclusively, but I treasure my old software too much.   I'm still running XP on the sewing room machine, and since I got my Brother embroidery-only machine with a USB port, suddenly I have another reason to keep what works. 

My sewing room is buried under piles of scraps at the moment. I just had a crazy quilt attack and pulled out all the velvet and shiny satin bits.  Fuzz everywhere.  I found an amazing number of precious bits.  Enough to make a lap blanket with way too much left over.  Years of small crochet motifs left after projects, and those silok dupioni scraps.  <sigh>  Currently, I believe I'll give it to DGD for her birthday next month, but like you, I find my target dates sometimes slip. 

All summer I've been making aprons from my scrap cottons. I made 22 during the afternoons when it was too hot to go out to play.  It's got to do with my inability to throw out any potentially useful piece of cloth.  I'm being squeezed out of my space.  The economic situation has pushed my thrifty depression-era buttons.  My grandmother used to say "Use it up, make it do" .  I guess it stuck.

Sally, your Blog is great.  Love the pictures.

Alf

[The Walter Family]

At 09:22 AM 11/5/2009, you wrote:

Sally, your Blog is great.  Love the pictures.

Alf, thank you for your kind words.  It does take time to keep up a blog but I find it easier than trying to tell folks individually.  Also, I am doing it as a example.  I would like to see more of the 4-H leaders and extension volunteer educators, especially in the clothing and textiles area, keeping a blog and using it for tutorials like so many of the young women are now doing.  It is a great way for the kids and leaders to teach skills.  Their demonstrations are great for developing public speaking skills but only the judges and a handful of parents and leaders get to benefit from the instruction.  A tutorial perfects writing skills and makes use of technology, an area that they think the clothing and textile project area is weak in.

Your apron project and crazy quilt sound wonderful.  Do you have any pictures? 

My sewing room really needs to be cleaned out but with the tight times, I can't rationalize throwing out trimmings that the thrift shops consider trash.  I admire your dedication to sew down the stash and make useful and attractive projects from the small and irregular cuts of fabric.  My dedication has not been as fruitful.  Last years potholders from my scrap strips and strings, hardly put a dent in the shoe boxes.  I need to attack them like Bonnie Hunter from quiltville.

http://quiltville.com/index.html

Sally

[Alfie McCoskey]

Your apron project and crazy quilt sound wonderful.  Do you have any pictures? 

Hum, I guess I asked for this.  Blush.  Neither crazyquilt  piecework project is perfect, but I'll post some pictures on Thredworks projects page after I get my backing on the quilt, and finish the bag.   Even foundation piecing is tricky when you use napped fabrics like velvet.

The Quiltville "strings" quilt excited me.

http://quiltville.com/basketweavestrings.shtml

  Last year I cut a few 1.5 inch strips of all my plain or small patterned cotton colors.  Then I stitched them in rainbow order into a piece about 20 inches by 44.  It makes terrific embellishment.  I use it like ribbon strips.  I tend to topstitch along the seams to reinforce it (using clear nylon).  I had never pictured what a quilt top done in strings might look like and Quiltville's pictures really showed me.  Cool.  Another incredibly time and thread consuming project.  But really, really cool!

Alf

My sewing room really needs to be cleaned ........ Last years potholders from my scrap strips and strings, hardly put a dent in the shoe boxes.  I need to attack them like Bonnie Hunter from quiltville.

[Sara Moon]

Oh no you didn't show us that link....  LOL.  I already have too many projects in the works.  I used to do applique and peicing combined using valour and make purses and jewelry for my daughter.  I used double knit polly as a backing and put snaps on for connections.  I checked out your site Sally and think that your work is lovely.  I just finished the coat for the baby yesterday and am starting cutting on a panda bear throw for his older brother.

 

Sara

[The Walter Family]

Alf, what a great idea!  Thanks for sharing.  I can see using small sections for applique projects where a scrappy look would be fun.

Sally

At 08:13 AM 11/7/2009, you wrote:

  Last year I cut a few 1.5 inch strips of all my plain or small patterned cotton colors.  Then I stitched them in rainbow order into a piece about 20 inches by 44.  It makes terrific embellishment.  I use it like ribbon strips.  I tend to topstitch along the seams to reinforce it (using clear nylon).  I had never pictured what a quilt top done in strings might look like and Quiltville's pictures really showed me.  Cool.  Another incredibly time and thread consuming project.  But really, really cool!

wal...@wwics.com
Walla Walla, WA  USA

[Marion]

Hi Sara,

I didn't realize you were still paying attention. I'll get out of the way and let you handle things, and thank you.

Let me know if you need any help.

Marion