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Brenda Clough
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There are many little fiddles to make cable patterning easier, but one of the simplest is lavish use of markers. These do not have to be purchased ones; little loops of some violently contrasting spare yarn would be excellent. Mark all the places where one cable pattern changes to another (this is assuming it's not an allover pattern). If you incline that way you can also mark the row when you begin a new repeat; then you have a base line where you know the pattern was right, if you wander off the path of truth.
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
There are many little fiddles to make cable patterning easier, but one of the simplest is lavish use of markers. These do not have to be purchased ones; little loops of some violently contrasting spare yarn would be excellent. Mark all the places where one cable pattern changes to another (this is assuming it's not an allover pattern). If you incline that way you can also mark the row when you begin a new repeat; then you have a base line where you know the pattern was right, if you wander off the path of truth.
I've discovered that old curtain hooks make great stich markers.
What I really came on here for, was to ask if anyone knows can you get sharpies off, it they are used on glass/ mirrors? Want to know before I start in case I don't like it!
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I'd try solvent of some description, if by sharpies you're meaning marker pens.
Acetone, ethanol should both dissolve marker pen... if you haven't got access to those, try nail varnish remover, especially if it's one of the ones with a reasonable acetone content.
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Brenda Clough
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An old trick is to get the exact same Sharpie or marker and write over the writing. The solvent in the fresh marking will soften the old writing. Immediately wipe it all off. This is what you do when someone stupidly uses a permanent marker on a whiteboard. I would experiment with a bit first, and only do a small area at a time.
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
There are many little fiddles to make cable patterning easier, but one of the simplest is lavish use of markers. These do not have to be purchased ones; little loops of some violently contrasting spare yarn would be excellent. Mark all the places where one cable pattern changes to another (this is assuming it's not an allover pattern). If you incline that way you can also mark the row when you begin a new repeat; then you have a base line where you know the pattern was right, if you wander off the path of truth.
Thanks for the tips. Since it's a cricket sweater, it's just one cable pattern repeated all the way around, so I just have to worry about which row of the 8 in the pattern I'm on. The tension square came out a bit loose, on the good side this meant a quick shopping run with Mum on Sunday so she got the chance to browse the craft shop before buying the building supplies she really needed ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Violently contrasting yarn is very useful. My recent batch of markers have been a very yellow I originally got for something Easterish when I was in Guides. About the same as the middle of a Creme Egg...
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Brenda Clough
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Many markers is also a good way to manage lace knitting. Do you know the trick about the dental floss? At every first pattern row, or some other fixed point in the pattern, get a long length of dental floss and use a darning needle to run it through every stitch on the needle. Then keep on knitting. This marks the place where Everything Was Right in your patterning. If you get off track you can easily back it up to where you were straight. If you knit on to the next full repeat, or the fixed point you have selected, pull the dental floss out and reuse it.
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I work with looked after teenagers in residential, my life is complete I commented to one of the teenagers that I had my crochet with me. He said that is the one, with one stick. So proud of myself teaching him to know what knitting and crochet is and the difference between them.
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Huia
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Are there any cross stitchers out there who would be interested in some of the Designing Women motifs similar to those pictured on the Christmas tree? I have some of the leaflets that no longer want and they are free to a good home.
Sorry, you may need to search the site for Designing Women as when I checked it came up with a different page.
Huia
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St. Gwladys
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Which ones do you have? I'd be interested in the Christian symbols designs, and if I don't use them, I have a friend who would.
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Huia
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St. Gwladys and anyone else interested I have
- Fifty-Five Christian Symbols Unlimited
- Celtic Christian Symbols (8)
- Sacred Symbols Unlimited (12)
- Sacred Emblems Unlimited(12)
- Christian Emblems Unlimited (12)
- and - designed by Country Crafts Pat Waters - Christian Monograms
The Country Crafts leaflet is readable, but it has some anonymous brown stains on it. The designs are simpler.
All the Designing Women ones have keys for DMC, metallic treads and beads as alternatives - you could stitch them simply or more ornately if you choose. They are from about 29 to 39 stitches in size.
The leaflets are free to good homes, however if you feel uncomfortable with that you could make a small donation to a charity of your own choice.
St Gwladys please PM me your snail mail address.
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St. Gwladys
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Pm sent
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Firenze
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I really must Do Something about the bales of clothes that I no longer wear - nor ever will again. The obvious thing is to bundle them up and take them to the charity shop. In some case that's difficult either because of the Memories, or because the fabric still appeals.
There are a raft of skirts in linens I would love to recycle. The obvious thing is patchwork - aha! Just as I type this, I have an idea. My summer dressing gown is past its best: a kimono style replacement in favourite bits?
Any practised patchers with tips and hints?
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Firenze
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Further to the above, I find Pinterest hooching with examples of patchwork kimonos, many gorgeous in the extreme. Apparently it was even a Thing in northern Japan, with a whole culture of decorative stitching forbye.
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Brenda Clough
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There are also many many patterns for making skirts out of neckties or other random pieces of fabric. (Be careful that they are all of the same weight.) More important might be how worn the garments are. Would it suffice to save quite a small bit, say a square, of the least-worn area, and amass many of them to be a quilt? This is done with tee shirts -- cut out the central logo from the front, and frame it (or several together) to hang on the wall.
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Firenze
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I have just recently made a cover for a kingsize bed - and never, frankly, want to make another.
No, the kimono is the thing. I have already identified 4 skirts which are in nicely congruent colours of creams, browns and blue and of compatible weight and composition.
My gameplan is to unpick them and extract as much on-the-grain pieces as possible. It also strikes me I have a little-worn Vietnamese hapi which could form the basis of a lining.
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Striking in with a (possibly) rude thought:
Why does this remind me of Anna Russell's Women's Club announcement -- 'This week Miss Hamburger is going to teach us how to make patchwork quilts from old skirts; next month Miss Frankfurter will show us how to make skirts from old patchwork quilts,' or words to that effect. I tried to find it on YouTube, but it doesn't seem to be there.
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Firenze
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'And the winner of our cookery competition - Don't Wince at Mince - Frieda, with her Banana Surprise'.
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Brenda Clough
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What this is called is 'upcycling.' Turning something that would otherwise be thrown away into something with a scary big price tag in a boutique.
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Brenda Clough
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Perhaps twenty years ago my mother handed down to me a piece of fabric. She got this in either Thailand or Laos, five yards or so of native silk with sections of fancy multicolor weaving. It is the sort of thing that the fancy border would be made into the bottom of a skirt.
Not my thing. I turned the solid portions of the fabric into a rather slim sleeveless dress. The embroidered strips are turned sideways (vertical striping so much more flattering than horizontal) and have become the back and two side fronts of a jacket. Some odd bits are becoming the sleeves, with suitable embroidery at the cuffs, and I discover today that there is even enough fabric for the facings of the jacket and a narrow collar. Judicious use of seam binding allows me to seal off the loose-woven cut edges.
I have never improvised a garment like this before (there is no pattern; I am cutting by eye) and am rather amazed that I can do it.
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Firenze
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It's fun, isn't it? To begin with, I was working rather blindly, since I didn't know how much fabric I had in total. However, I have now arrived at a schema of alternating 4" and 6" vertical strips composed of random assemblages of my 5 fabrics. From these I just need to make 5 rectangles (back, 2 fronts, 2 sleeves) plus a band. I will put in a cotton lining, and then look at adding decorative stitching, in tribute to the sashiko tradition that started this whole idea. I doubt I'll attempt anything as complicated as the original: it will be more a matter of what stitches the Bernina has in its reportoire ( it should have about 80).
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My dog obsession has finally brought me back to the knitters fold! I used to do fair-isle, arran and very detailed picture jumpers before the kids were born (that'll be 30 years ago!) but haven't picked up the needles since.
But I saw a pattern for a Labrador puppy and I couldn't resist. My needles are long gone to the charity shop so I've ordered some needles and wool.
My 30 year old son is now a keen knitter - he knits in the German style with a weird action and circular needles.
Here he is in his favourite shop.
These are his needles - very posh!
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I think I will have to start improvising patterns, too. In fact, I suppose I already am doing. I realised that whenever I make something from a pattern I spend a long time cutting out the tissue - which I utterly loathe doing - but always leave a bit extra in case the pattern is the wrong shape for me, and to allow me to make French seams.
Once I've cut out and sewn up I then start pinning in places that I think are right, and I end up with something that fits me, but may not bear a great deal of relation to the pattern.
It's quite scary cutting into a piece of much loved material without the apparent reassurance of a pattern though!
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Boogie:
My dog obsession has finally brought me back to the knitters fold! I used to do fair-isle, arran and very detailed picture jumpers before the kids were born (that'll be 30 years ago!) but haven't picked up the needles since.
But I saw a pattern for a Labrador puppy and I couldn't resist. My needles are long gone to the charity shop so I've ordered some needles and wool.
My SiL has a line in not only knitting woolly animals, but in knitting little coaties for dogs.
I, otoh, seem to knitting an octopus. It is not really, but the effect of being halfway through an all-in-one waistcoat shruggy thing with a good deal of intarsia is not dissimilar.
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Brenda Clough
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For this dress (because I knew I could never match the material) I made a dummy, a tryout dress with the pattern in oddball fabric. This was essential, since it turns out the pattern measurements have only a distant relationship to the measurements of the body. However all is well.
I am developing a theory that you are not really expert at a skill until you can riff on it. To play from the score is good. But you are a master when you can play jazz. Only when you fully comprehend Mittens in their Platonic ideal can you sit down and just knit mittens, without a pattern and on pure inspiration.
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St. Gwladys
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Many thanks to Huia for the cross stitch charts. Perhaps we should have a craft version of Secret Santa or the Paschal Penguin, or even a craft swop shop. I don't know what it could be called though.
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Ooooh.... Stash swopping sounds fun!
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St. Gwladys
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Anyone fancy taking it on? Or should it be informal?
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Brenda Clough
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Over in Sundry Liturgical Questions in Ecclesiantics I have posted a question upon which Crafty persons might be able to offer advice. I am ISO an emblem, to sew onto a tippet. I very much fear that it is not commercially available -- if anyone knows where I can buy it I would love to hear.
Failing a purchase, I may be forced to make it.
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You mean like this?
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Brenda Clough
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Exactly. Only the emblem needs to look like this -- not me in the hat, but the church shield.
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Brenda Clough
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That's what I'll do if I have to, because it'd be the easiest. In an ideal universe I'd find it for sale in a store somewhere...
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I think there are kits you can get which will print out from a computer file in such a way that you can use the result as a transfer. You could blow up your picture and do that.
Though I couldn't find one when I wanted one.
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I think there are kits you can get which will print out from a computer file in such a way that you can use the result as a transfer. You could blow up your picture and do that.
Though I couldn't find one when I wanted one.
You can buy the iron on transfer paper at any large business supply store. If you take them the image on a flash drive - reverse the image if you can or ask them to - they will print it out in colour for you. You'll need to be ironing it onto white or a very pale fabric.
What would be much better, in my opinion, is to find someone with a fancy dancy embroidery machine. They can likely buy the digital pattern of it online and then embroider it right onto the stole. A woman in our congregation did that for a bunch of seasonal stoles and the results were lovely.
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Brenda Clough
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I have a line on someone with exactly such a machine. If she says she can do it we are good to go. What I specifically want to avoid is hand-embroidering it myself. My eyesight doesn't allow of fine work like that.
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The war on consumerism continues. I need an outfit for a wedding in early June. I was hovering over a site offering simple but stylish linen separates - at a price. I then bethought me of a little-worn linen dress I've had this decade or so...
It is a simple shift design with patch pockets, in a pale pink chintz. I have opened negotiations with one of the few dress fabric retailers hereabouts and it sounds as if she may have some compatible fabric. If so, I will cut the dress in half asymmetrically, leaving one of the pockets. I will attach the other to a new, flared skirt, which will also have patches? panels? trim? of the dress fabric.
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Brenda Clough
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How, asymmetrically? On the diagonal? In half horizontally? Inquiring minds want to know!
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Firenze
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Diagonally. And maybe a narrow triangular insert in the side seam to give the top a bit of flare to match the prospective skirt.
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I've hauled my sewing machine out from the back of the cupboard this weekend.
A friend of mine has a bookshop nearby, and he has made a lifesize figure to stand outside it, reading a book, from cardboard and papier mache. Last week, he was at the dentists, and saw a picture of a plague doctor's mask in one of the magazines there. He was inspired, and has already sculpted the beak of the mask from cardboard and papier mache. Now he needs a hood to go under the mask and round the figure's shoulders, like a medieval hood. So that's what I've been making today, from the corner of a fitted bedsheet!
Also, I was given a gorgeous pair of curtains in bright scarlet one side and a darker red the other, so I have made a sash for my Young Man's Steampunk character, and tomorrow I will be making two skirts, one with the scarlet on the right side, and one with the darker red.
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Brenda Clough
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You inspire me. I must and shall finish the sleeves for this jacket. This is the jacket for which there is no pattern. The body of the jacket is straight and ornate brocade, and the collar is a plain fold of the background material, a deep red. The sleeves can be long, out of the red, with a band or two of brocade-ness at the cuff. But I come to a halt when I consider their shape. Should they be just ordinary shirt-style sleeves, slightly fuller at the top and a barrel cuff with a button or two at the bottom? The brocade could be the cuff. A straight loose sleeve, like pajamas? I haven't the fabric to make them any wider. I could make them very narrow, of course, quite slim and Asiatic, no cuff but just a hem...
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IMHO if the jacket is straight and elegant, then so should the sleeve be. Brocade cuffs sound perfect- especially if any buttons /piping/ornamentation are done in the same material as the body of the jacket.
I am putting together Mother's Day gifts for a sales table. Sometimes the charity for which I volunteer is given strange oddments to sell. Feeling rather pleased that I have remade lots of small unwanted photo frames into cute tray table messages to go with odd brocade or quilted placemats and flowers for perfectly wonderful Breakfast in Bed trays. I will be interested to see how they go. Stay tuned!
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Very happy crafter today. We raised $1800 for charity and I had much fun doing my bit. The tray table settings sold very well, so I will definitely be doing that again. Sometimes odd little things that no-one will give a few cents for can look great when put together in a cellophane packet with the right printed/photocopied message.
"Thanks mum...I turned out awesome!" proved very popular.
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BL, if my mum was still alive I would have bought that ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
Actually we didn't really do Mothers' Day, but the sales for it allowed us to buy her some brilliant birthday presents.
Slightly off topic, but a brothel In Taranaki (North Island NZ) had an open day recently with money charged going toward a charity feeding children in need.
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We need to set up a SoF Pinterest page or something, so that we can post and admire each others' projects. I want to see those hot-selling craft items!
Meanwhile, I am going with a friend to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival this coming weekend. This is a place of almost supernatural evil, radiating a Cherynobl-like corruption. All the wool and yarn providers on the Eastern seaboard appear and sell their fiber, acres and acres of booths full of temptation. Knitters as far away as New York charter buses to come down. The last time I went I drove a minivan, and it was barely large enough. This time my friend is driving and I hope her car is small. Even a roof rack will be too enabling; we need to limit our purchases to what we can wedge into the vehicle. And the doors have to shut!
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Even a roof rack will be too enabling; we need to limit our purchases to what we can wedge into the vehicle.
And to what you can use in a lifetime? Or is like my sister-in-law's quilting group where the person who dies with the biggest stash wins?
Huia
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I have sackfuls - literally - of old clothes waiting to go to charity shops. One result is that I notice things that go. Today it was two sleeveless dresses - one black linen with an embroidered hem, the other black with a floral pattern in orange - plus an orange tiered skirt.
So this afternoon I chopped a front panel and back out of the black, edged them with strips of the floral, turned the bottom embroidered strip into wide kimono sleeves, attached the bottom two tiers of the skirt to the now drop-waist bodice and finally added a couple of patch pockets in the floral.
It would not win prizes for finish, I grant you - but it's turned things I haven't worn in years (and never would again - arms are over at my age) into something both comfortable and striking.
Now I just need a change from the fleece and gortex weather we've been having.
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I call these Frankenclothes...I get great satisfaction out of taking things I once loved but are now unfit for purpose and recycling them into something else that I can use. Or taking op shop clothes and up cycling them.
Last week I saw a thick stretch shirt on sale for a pittance, but it had T-shirt sleeves on it. I cut these off, fitted long stretch lace sleeves, cuffed them using the T-shirt sleeve bits and added some swing panels on the side in stretch lace. With the right scarf it looks great and is very comfy.
Also had some success with taking old polo and crew neck pullovers where the necks are beyond help and replacing them with fun patterned stretch fabrics. Sometimes the ideas don't work, but it is surprising how many simple marriages of materials really do.
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
We need to set up a SoF Pinterest page or something, so that we can post and admire each others' projects.
Yes! I lurk here and love to read what everyone is up to.
Recently I completed a quilt that I started around 26 yrs ago and put to one side, now I'm working on another which I plan to finish this year. I'd share a photo but my online photo album is giving me challenges, so Pinterest would be great!
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