| | | How to clean a quilt? | | I have a quilt my grandmother made that my dad recently gave to me. It is at least 30 years old and looks like it has never been cleaned. I hesitate to take it to the dry cleaners for fear it may "accidentally" come up missing! It is hand-stitched, appears to be cotton fabric. Is it safe to wash it in a washing machine? If so, would it be better to use a front-loading machine at the laundromat instead of my washer that agitates? I really hate for anything to happen to it! Any advice is appreciated. | |
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| How to Make Your Own Jeans Patch Pants. | | Instructions:Choose a photo or drawing for your patch. Scan the image. If you don't have a scanner, you may find images to use on the internet you would like to use. Size the image to about 3". Decide on a shape for your patch. If you are handy with a computer, put a 1/4" colored border around the picture.
print a test page to make sure you are happy with the image. Print it out on an inkjet transfer sheet, following the directions on the package. Cut your image to the finished size and shape. Ask an adult to help you transfer the image to a piece of white cotton fabric. Cut it out.
satin stitchUse fabric glue to glue in place. To give your patch a really nice finished look, satin stitch a 1/4" boarder all around the the outside of the patch with embroidery floss. To do this, make close together stitches as shown. | |
| | Tags,Elastic,metal clasps Do they bother your skin | | I have so many allergies that I get a rash from the tags on the back of clothes.Some companies are using cotton or hemp tags which are great for me.The hook on bras and other metal fixtures on clothes are a problem for me also as they give me a rash.
Then there's the elastic on bras and under panties.I have to roll them over so the elastic doesn't hit my skin.I have found one company that makes underwear that has the elastic covered with cotton fabric.
Do you have any of these problems? | |
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| A Glossary of Quilting Terms | | These terms will be of great help to those who are just getting started in quilting and even some who have been quilting for years.Appliqué --a piecing process using small cutouts of fabric which are then sewn onto a background fabric in a decorative design. Typically intricate and curved floral and animal motifs are used. Album --1. A quilt, often appliquéd, with designs symbolic to the maker or recipient pieced into each block. 2. A quilt made from blocks which have been signed by friends or family members of either the maker or the recipient (also called a signature quilt). Amish --pertaining to the quilts made by religious cultures of eastern Pennsylvania and the Midwest. Typical of this style are dark rich fabrics, always solids, the heavy use of black as a background, striking geometric patterns, and wide, plain borders. Backing --the bottom or back layer of a quilt, usually a plain unadorned fabric that has been pieced to the width of the quilt. Bargello --a style of piecework in which fabric is first sewn in horizontal strips, then cut and arranged in vertical steps to produce undulating designs. See Deanna Spingola's gallery for examples. Basting... | |
| | Introducing Sydney! | | Here is the newest bear I have done. I will be listing him on Ebay tomorrow. He would be 10 inches tall if standing. He has a wacky tie complete with tie tack. He is jointed. His paw pads and inside of his ears are done in velvet the rest in cotton fabric. What do you think? | |
| | Horizontal stripes and the fat person. Yeah you heard me right . | | No one who is short and over-weight should have to settle for horizontal stripes. For that matter, no one who is tall and over-weight should have to settle for it. We usually do though because our choices are limited. What are these designers thinking about when they see a bolt of soft cotton fabric with stripes, any size stripe from pin to bold? The first thing they do is come-up with a tent like top with all the stripes running horizontally and all the orders of said tops are sizes 1x, 2x, 3x and larger.There should be a law set in place stating no clothing over the size extra large can have stripes running horizontally, only vertically.And for those of us women who are over-weight, yeah; you read it right, FAT. We should not be subject to all our lightweight tops having these revolting plunging necklines and horizontal stripes.For crying-out-loud! I am over-weight, fat is fat, not differently weighted, horizontally challenged or gravitationally gifted. I am toting around about 60 pounds more of me than I need too, and that makes me FAT. Even so I do not want my[i]figure[/i] flopping out the top of my shirt when I... | |
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