: "Ruth Anne Baumgartner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] bad luck!
What a sad thing!
Do you ever use a thimble, Bjarne? I never found a metal one I could
stand, they made m
Look at it this way, Bjarne--if you go wearing something old, and anyone
asks you why you aren't wearing something new, you'll have a funny story to
tell them!
-E House
(If I couldn't make fun of my past sewing disasters, I'd have to quit sewing
entirely.)
___
I second that ! Go ! Enjoy the people and the event.
Don't let a piece of fabric keep you home! You can always "beat it
into submission" when you return from your event.
Susan
"Slow down. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel
too fast and you miss all you are traveling f
Bjarne wrote
had hoped to go to an event at the Gustavians in august, but now i am
sure, i wont make it because i wanted to wear something new. I guess
reenacting is canselled this season...
Don't let a difficult piece of fabric get in the way of having a good time.
You recently wr
What a sad thing!
Do you ever use a thimble, Bjarne? I never found a metal one I could
stand, they made me so clumsy, and I usually wound up not using that
finger at all! But now I have two thimbles I use when hand-sewing
(quilting, making a multi-layered seam, attaching snaps, hooks, or
butto
In a message dated 6/20/2006 7:16:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
had hoped to go to an event at the Gustavians in august, but now i am
sure, i wont make it because i wanted to wear something new. I guess
reenacting is canselled this season...
I do sympa
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 5:36 pm, Bjarne og Leif Drews wrote:
[snip]
> I always starts to make the sleaves of a suit, as it is so easy going. I
> had just finished both cuffs, and was sewing the buttons on to the cuffs
> and sleaves, when i stuck my hands so badly and bleeded all over on the
> inner
That ribbed silk sounds like it would make good pillows. :-)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Bjarne og Leif Drews
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [h-cost] bad luck!
Hi,
Its ben a while since i last
Hi,
Its ben a while since i last posted here. I had almost lost all my good
patience with a projekt i started.
It is such a lovely ribbed silk, but its so difficult to work with. I think
its the worst silk i have ever tryed. I had cut out the forepart, and the
back, the sleaves, and the cuffs.
