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Penny S
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Pity I went out and bought that fabric. I have now noticed that one of my sheets has developed a thin patch in the middle. The traditional thing was to 'turn it sides to middle' at this stage of its career, but while that is fine for a couple, where the seam runs between them, it's not so good for only one person.
But there's a huge amount of not-thinning dark blue sheeting left if I buy a new one. I could use some of it to line something made with the left over trouser fabric, but there would still be a lot. (And I think I have a pale blue sheet in the same state.)
It won't go with the part done quilt I've inherited and have to finish, though.
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Penny S
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I have finished the trousers. Carefully cut so that the vaguely horizontal pattern matches around the legs and in both legs. Then I found that there is an even vaguer vertical feature which I have not taken into account, so one of the seams looks a bit odd. Fortunately, it's an inside leg seam, and I doubt if anyone is going to be applying GB Sewing Bee judging criteria when they see the garment. (And if they applied Miss Rowlinson criteria, I wouldn't get 'O' Level for the interior finishing. However.)
I have discovered a problem, though. The trousers this pair is supposed to replace were an old rose pink, and none of the things I wore with them go with this pair, nice though they are. So I now have to go to the fabric shop and find something more old rosy for another pair of trouser, and somethings else for a couple of tops to wear with this pair.
I was going to go this morning, and was looking forward to it, but the weather is treacherous - I don't want to be driving down tree-lined lanes where the trees are a) in full leaf, b) sodden with heavy rain, c) not regularly managed for safety, and d) being whipped around by sudden very strong gusts of wind. And, beyond that, a crucial road junction was completely seized up, which has also prevented me seeing a friend.
Plenty else to do, though.
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jedijudy
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I'm thinking about fancying up a casual top for an elderly friend of mine who loves sparkles and bright colors. What should I look for in the way of little fake jewels and/or sparkles? What is the best way to attach them so that they won't come off in the wash?
I've tried this before, but have had multiple failures with glue that just doesn't stick!
(My crafting skills are hopeful, but not very effective some times!) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Brenda Clough
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It is hard for glued-on things to take washing, especially in machines. If your friend is not willing to commit to hand-washing for the lifetime of the garment, sewing is a safer option. Sewing on things is quite secure and not difficult. Imagine a string of something shiny, sewn on and pretending to be a necklace.
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Huia
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It might seem obvious, but I would suggest she wash the top in a 'delicates' wash bag (the kind made of netting) so that if anything does come adrift it doesn't damage the machine.
I often get a mad urge to buy the wonderful crayons and fabric paint I see to decorate clothing, but having absolutely no drawing skills is a bit of a limitation ![[Frown]](frown.gif) .
My latest project is making small banners for Christmas. I'm using mainly aida ribband, which needleworkers will know is a strip of evenweave material which comes in different widths, and I'm backstitching and cross stitching small Christmassy designs or words onto it.
So far I have banners with JOY (vertically, with a manger on the O) to the world (smaller letters horizontally, PEACE (vertically) with a dove at the bottom, HOPE (vertically with a candle in the O) and LOVE (vertically with a manger or heart in the O). I also have some Jo Verso shepherds Wise man and angels some of which I will arrange vertically down the banner. If I stitch the manger scene I'll have to change my material (which I can do easily enough) as it doesn't fit within the 26 stitches that the ribband I have allows.
I also have designs with a kiwi, a mouse and a moose wearing santa hats and an Angel blowing a trumpet, which I can add words to so they fit into my chosen format.
I welcome any suggestons for words to attach to the trumpet blowing angel. I'm selling then at a Catholic School Christmas fundraising, so religious stuff is OK.
Huia - keeping busy ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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jedijudy
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Thanks for the advice! I was thinking that sewing the sparkly things on the top would be wisest, but was hoping for y'all to share a sekrit way of doing it quickly and easily! Something like MagicGlue or MiracleStick that only serious crafters would know about. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Penny S
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While wandering round the various haberdashery departments looking for stuff for my trousers, I'm sure I saw a gadget for fixing glittery things through the fabric. However, I wasn't intending to do any such thing myself, so didn't pay a lot of attention.
Looking online, can't find anything, except a gadget for sliding gems onto cards.
And I've seen feet for sewing machines for adding sequins and pearls to fabric.
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Brenda Clough
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Yes, you can rivet studs, gems etc. to fabric. This forces the fabric to be fairly sturdy -- denim jackets do better than tee shirts. Careful washing is called for.
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St. Gwladys
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Has anyone else made fiddle mats or muffs for dementia sufferers? We are hoping to make some in our craft group, and I'm having a go at crocheting a muff.
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Lothlorien
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St Gwladys, do you think it would help if you asked this also on the dementia specific thread? There may be posters there who might not see it on the craft thread. Just an idea.
I did see something in the last week, but do not think it was a pattern or anything. It may be good for easy washing if cotton were used, or superwash wool.
Dementia thread is in All Saints.
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Jengie jon
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Sequins and fabric glitter paint should allow you to make the top as colourful and sparkly as you like.
If you want more small shiny beads could be stitched on
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I've just spent a day putting together "lots" for our church picnic (in the rain!)-cum- silent auction tomorrow...
A little box of 15 surprises (various wrapped gifts - some new, some re-gifted, some second hand); a bag of 10 surprises; a pack of 10 handmade Christmas cards; a pack of 10 handmade other occasion cards; a colection of 12 envelopes, each labelled with a month, containing a hand written "encouraging Bible verse" and a little surprise gift, and finally a box of 52 Bible verses,all handwritten (That took longer than I'd anticipated!) The box is a lovely little wooden, painted box that once held a blown and decorated egg, boght in former Yugoslavia over 30 years ago. I decided to put it to good use. I hope to raise about 100 € with these lots, as the gifts add up to more than 20€ in each bow/bag etc.
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Wow Dormouse, you put me to shame - what lovely ideas!
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Has anyone else made fiddle mats or muffs for dementia sufferers? We are hoping to make some in our craft group, and I'm having a go at crocheting a muff.
Yes! I am crocheting a muff, too. I am tied to the house much of the time, but this lets me keep in touch with my knitting group which makes a wide variety of things for charity. (I crochet much better than I knit.) I have not yet decided what to add to fiddle (or twiddle) with, but I was thinking of large buttons, possibly laces or ribbons to knot or make a bow, and anything with an interesting texture. What are you adding?
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I found a few patterns for fiddle muffs when I looked. It seems to be the current request for knitters from hospitals (which means it might be our Guide project to teach the Guides how to knit).
This is a sales site for commercial products. According to the article some of the most effective muffs are made in the shape of pets - and those are illustrated.
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Landlubber
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Thank you, Curiosity killed, for the link to the safety advice; I've bookmarked it. I have a crochet pattern but it lacked any practical advice and I'd not got beyond the risk of swallowing buttons.
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I am proud of myself.™
We have decided to put up curtains in our living room (glass door into the corridor, curtains would be nicer for people who are sleeping on the sofa). We have discovered that commercially-made curtains come in standard sizes, and if your windows are not of those dimensions, too bad for you. The only obvious solution is to make one’s own.
With the aid of a handy youtube video, I have learned to make eyelet curtains. They actually look like proper curtains out of a shop and I am deeply proud of them. I have now turned into a pestering child: “When’s the man coming round to put the curtains up? When’s the man coming round to put the curtains up?”
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Firenze
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It occurs to me that I've made all the curtains in this house - albeit there were already curtain rails (of various sorts) in place. Roman blinds are also fairly simple to make.
Another wheeze I discovered some years ago for Instant Tidiness was nailing cheap readymade split bamboo blinds to the top of shelving (in which was stored all manner of bits and pieces). Unroll blinds and mess, what mess?
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St. Gwladys
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Landlubber, I have done two rows of a soft tinsel yarn, I've got a teddy bear fur yarn, some pom-poms trim and some feather boa trim, some large beads and large buttons and some jingle bells. I'm not going to put everything on one! I've been looking at the patterns on the net, and I'm going to make at least one pocket on the inner layer.
I'm going to suggest that the less able in our craft group do some weaving with interesting textures. The pieces can then be sewn onto plain muffs.
Our "dementia champions" also suggested cutting the sleeves off jumpers or sweatshirts, tidying the cut ends and embellishing them.
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St Gwladys you have prompted me to go on a yarn-buying hunt! At present I have some mohair-type for texture and some very bright colours for visual impact, but as I am still crocheting the lining the fun of planning the outside is still to come.
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St. Gwladys
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There's a thread in heaven entitled "Gastroporn". I had an equivalent on Saturday when I went looking for some more embellishments for twiddle muffs. There's a lovely old fashioned haberdashers in Hereford, and the assistant brought all the velour pom-poms edgings to the counter. ooh, the colours! Darllenwr suggested a shop like that, with all the gorgeous colours of yarn and trimmings, is guilty of chronoporn, a real sensory overload.
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St. Gwladys
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Just re-read my post - I think it should be "chromoporn"
We had a very productive craft group today - 2 people have started fiddle muffs, one lady used a donated varicoloured crochet cushion front and added all sorts of bits and will turn it into a sensory pillow, another person is making a sensory apron, and others are making embellishments. Two of the ladies from our church are also knitting muffs - one of them has a mother with end stage dementia. She has a muff which she plays with all the time.
I'm on my second muff. I had a bright idea - I have some large clear plastic key rings to put crafts in - I'm going to attach them to muffs so that photos of family can go on the muffs.
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Huia
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Brilliant!
I've stitched 7 of the mini -banners I'm making as Christmas decorations, and made up two of them.
I've also found a small Grinch pattern that I am going to stitch Bah! Humbug underneath especially for a friend who finds it all (including my banners) a bit much. It will be perfect for the Christmas tree his wife insists on each year. ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Penny S
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I am very peeved. I ordered some trousers from Lands End, from whom I have had lovely things in the past, in a colour range I liked, and sizes that fitted. They say the sizes are American, so to get size 18 UK, I have to order size 16 US.
So why is this is the crafty thread?
Their size 18 UK is now at least one size smaller than the size 18 UK in Marks and Spencer. Their not slim line trousers are shin-tight - goodness knows what the slim ones are. (I have peasant's legs. There's a reason I wear trousers a lot. But their previous trousers were ample.) And instead of offering the plus sizes in the same colour range as the regular, they only offer burgundy and navy. And I wanted orange, and cream.
Nobody else does colours.
So I've ordered lengths of cord to make my own. But I'm a bit cautious about this. It isn't like making loose summer things in which the rise and other inverted curves don't matter. Fitting the things isn't like anywhere else on the body, because if you get it wrong, you can't alter it by trimming it a bit. So I've got to make a toile - old sheets may well come into their own here. Extra, extra work.
And I'm peeved.
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Brenda Clough
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I trust you returned the product to Lands End with a stinging comment.
If you have a pair of pants that you like and than fit perfectly (and are of a similar fabric to what you are proposing to sew), you could use them as the pattern. Pants lend themselves to careful seam-to-seam folding and then being traced onto sheets of newspaper taped together. Then you add seam allowance...
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Penny S
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I have the package ready, with message inside, and have also submitted a review on their website - though I suspect it won't make it through the moderating. Someone has a comment praising the new sizing because they used to be too big for her.
I have pattern paper for the tracing onto. Research is needed for the best fit first. Their last ones had a curious mismatch* between hips and waist size which required work, so I might not use those, though the legs were fine.
*Might not have been one if styled for a Kardashian.
PS My shoe providers have a similar idea about colour, and in this case, foot width. I like colours. I have, and have always had, wide feet. We used to have to trek the whole length of Folkestone's shopping street to find fitting pairs, from the superior shop that stocked Clarks and had an X-Ray machine to check fit down to the cheapest at the foot of the hill.
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Huia
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I've made up 6 of the cross and back stitch mini banners because I'm taking them to school tomorrow to see if the teacher who wants to fundraise for a class camp next year thinks they are saleable. I only realised after I had bought the backing fabric that they say it can't be ironed ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) so I used a pressing cloth and ironed it on the back. It seems to have survived.
I have also committed a cardinal sin as far as needlework is concerned in that I have glued some material to keep it in place, rather than tacking/basting it before sewing.
They look OK though.
At this rate I will have to make some soup or muffins to bribe the friend who drills holes in the dowelling that the banners hang from, as I am running out.
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Brenda Clough
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If no one notices, is it a sin? Yeah, God in Heaven sees, but He's not fingering the banner to learn how the things are attached!
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At this rate I will have to make some soup or muffins to bribe the friend who drills holes in the dowelling that the banners hang from, as I am running out.
I wish we were nearer - I reckon your friend is getting the wildly easier end of the deal ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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(I might add - I'm in awe of all the sewing people on here. I still have not acted on the 'seams' info you all gave me for a tent flysheet, a while ago. I approach a sewing machine feeling like a pretty handy kind of guy, and walk away sadly feeling like a tw*t, every time.)
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Huia
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My difficulty with sewing machines, as with most machinery, is that they move too fast, hence mistakes happen quickly and need more unpicking
Mark the trouble with the dowelling is that a drill press and a way of clamping the dowel is needed and I have neither the equipment nor the skills.
Making soup is something I am good at and I have necessary the equipment to do. It's difficult to stuff up although as my youngest brother says, If you're stupid you can do anything.
Brenda, you're right of course. One of the things about needlework is that it's easy to become perfectionist about, but these aren't works of high art. When I stitch wee things that aren't mass produced for friends I tend to take more care than I am with these as they are more of a means to an end.
Huia - off to take the bacon hock out of the freezer so soup can be made.
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Been away from home for 10 days: finished my last knit on about Day 3 so have had to spend an entire week with nothing to work on. Aargh.
The Sea Knit (a mixture of plain and bouclé yarns in a range of blues) is a cuff to cuff batwing with another band of knitting round the bottom. I put as many variations of plain/ purl patterns in as I could think of plus frequent bands of drop stitches. Given it was totally without a pattern (or, indeed, much recollection n the second side as to what I'd one on the first), it turned out rather well.
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Maybe my crafting might not be in line with this thread, but I have loved adult coloring books for decades now. Dover press used to publish some brilliant ones: motifs from ancient civilizations, mandalas, costume designs. So amazingly relaxing.
So I found a new app on the App Store called Pigment and I am in heaven right now. I am only using the free version, but considering forking over $52 for the premium annual subscription so I can output some of my work. Plus now tinking this is a good justification for upgrading to an iPad because four inches is just not enough.
This app has everything! The markers, pencils, airbrushes, color palettes, designs. It's like having three hundred dollars' worth of materials in your iPhone or iPod. I can do this anywhere! For free!
It even enables you to import your own images and embellish them with the tools.
I imported an image of a textured stucco white wall and am now a certified graffiti artist.
This is so freaking exciting I'm about to bust.
I just had to share.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Been away from home for 10 days: finished my last knit on about Day 3 so have had to spend an entire week with nothing to work on. Aargh.
The Sea Knit (a mixture of plain and bouclé yarns in a range of blues) is a cuff to cuff batwing with another band of knitting round the bottom. I put as many variations of plain/ purl patterns in as I could think of plus frequent bands of drop stitches. Given it was totally without a pattern (or, indeed, much recollection n the second side as to what I'd one on the first), it turned out rather well.
I want to see it! Is it a pullover, or a cardigan?
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I'm venturing into making bookmarks for an upcoming charity fair, and have bought various designed papers and cards, and some glue and ribbons. Now I just need some inspiration.
This is something I've never tried before, and I've really enjoyed looking at all the ranges of wonderful ingredients available that you can buy and combine to make (hopefully) beautiful things that people will want to buy. If nothing else, I'll have some fun experimenting at home.
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Huia
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AFF, That sounds amazing. Does the App mean you can print out your finished work? I have been amazed to see the same design coloured by different people, and the effects each managed to achieve.
Ariel I love pottering around like that too. Will you have them laminated?
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Yes, I will be laminating them if I can get some ideas that work. So far I've come up with one that's quite pretty but looks like a saw-toothed comb, so I guess my own collection of bookmarks will be growing in the next few days.
I was thinking of making little lavender bags but they take a while to hand-sew and my usual source of lavender has, er, dried up. But there's still plenty of time to work something out.
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A Feminine Force
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Originally posted by Huia:
AFF, That sounds amazing. Does the App mean you can print out your finished work? I have been amazed to see the same design coloured by different people, and the effects each managed to achieve.
Yes you can output your work.
The free version enables a lo res output that overlays a watermark of the Pigment app logo in the lower right corner.
The subscription enables a hi res output sans watermark. If I do anything that I think is marketable I would want the hi res output (thinking my original work on a blank "canvas" - I emailed the developer and they were kind of excited by the idea of including textured blank pages based on my feedback about using the textured wall).
I could get around the watermark in Photoshop but it's just a lot of extra work, and it wouldn't be a hi res output anyway.
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Huia
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Wow, and texture adds a new dimension.
I'd like to thank both Mark in Manchester and Brenda Clough for comments on the unconventional gluing of needlework. Somehow thinking about it more led to me discovering a few less conventional ways of hanging the wee banners too, which frees me from resorting to bribery as they are things I can do myself ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
I have long believed that the more people you tell about something you're a bit dubious about, the better the ideas come out of it, either from the people you tell, or them sparking further ideas in the asker.
Today I realised that all my banners are in either English or Maori and there are also children at the school whose first language is Tagalong or Samoan, so I'm going to need to find Merry Christmas in both those languages as well. This small project has taken on a life of it's own.
Huia
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In Tagalog it is 'Maligayang Pasko'
(My Son's Ex wife was Filipina)
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Yes, it is good to get people in slightly different areas of expertise to throw in two cents. Crowdsourcing, our friend!
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Quite right Brenda and Kitten just proved our point nicely
Thanks Kitten.
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I've just converted a square pillowcase to rectangular. I had been sure I had two matching ones last time I used my winter duvet, which is a different size from the summer one, but could only find one (probably displaced when I had to clear the airing cupboard for the plumber - unless I have had a senior moment and never had two). To my delight I found someone on ebay was selling the same desogn, only square. So I thought about whether to trim two sides to match the way the pattern sat on the original, or just one and end up with something a bit useful. I went for one side, sewing two lines of pretend overlocker stitch, and cutting between them. This means I now have a long thin bag with a housewife end, and I can't think of long thin things to put in it.
Or I could turn that into two shorter bags, and use them for storing pairs of pillowcases.
Any ideas?
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It has hung untouched in my workroom all summer, but I vow that this weekend is the weekend I will sew the sleeves onto a jacket I am constructing. I need to wear it the following Saturday, so I have left it very late.
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Originally posted by Penny S:
I've just converted a square pillowcase to rectangular. I had been sure I had two matching ones last time I used my winter duvet, which is a different size from the summer one, but could only find one (probably displaced when I had to clear the airing cupboard for the plumber - unless I have had a senior moment and never had two). To my delight I found someone on ebay was selling the same desogn, only square. So I thought about whether to trim two sides to match the way the pattern sat on the original, or just one and end up with something a bit useful. I went for one side, sewing two lines of pretend overlocker stitch, and cutting between them. This means I now have a long thin bag with a housewife end, and I can't think of long thin things to put in it.
Or I could turn that into two shorter bags, and use them for storing pairs of pillowcases.
Any ideas?
I've seen such bags with both ends left open, used to stuff plastic bags in for reusing.
Alternately, use as a draft dodger at the foot of a cold door (fill with kitty litter).
Keep chopsticks or tent stakes in.
Stuff and sew shut for use as a neck pillow.
If large enough, insert wine bottle and use as a gift wrap.
Use for packing (stuff undies or socks in and they won't disperse themselves all over your suitcase).
Stick a rock in the end, sew shut, and take with you when walking the dog at night in dangerous areas. Conk assholes on the skull.
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Thanks - It's about 26 by 6 inches, so a bit long for chopsticks. Would do a door, but I only have one with a gap, and I need to keep that open to feed the gas heater. Don't have enough plastic bags for one of those to be necessary any more.
It's pretty - fake patchwork with various blues with 'brushmarks' and some superimposed silver stripes about thick felt tip width, close together.
The packing idea looks a likely one. But that leaves it spending most of its time in the airing cupboard with the laundry bag.
Think I may have it - wrapping paper rolls! Though I think it would only take five of them.
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Would it take toilet rolls? If so, you could hang it on the wall, as it's so pretty. Put a drawstring at the open bottom end, or a snappable or velcro flap.
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Actually, I've sorted it. I went into my tiny third bedroom to try the wrapping paper, and tripped over one of my spare Nordic walking poles. It is exactly the right size!
And I have spares because when I was going to Iceland and huge jams meant I had to shift from the taxi taking me straight to the terminal to crossing the Thames on the wee ferry, I left my original poles in the taxi boot in the rush - we had to park on double yellow lines, verboten. So I had to buy some more in Orkney.
And now they are neatly under control.
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