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From: marleyt@ccit.arizona.edu (Marley Treadwell)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Cross-stitching
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:41:07 GMT
Followup-To: rec.crafts.textiles
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona

Are there any cross-stitches out there. I would love to trade patterns ! 
Email me!


Marley treadwell
University of Arizona
email: Marleyt@ccit.arizona.edu
2nd email: Marley@hacks.arizona.edu
From: ron.parker@uttsbbs.uucp (Ron Parker) 
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Re: do we want a "welcome
Date: 11 Oct 92 13:39:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
Reply-To: ron.parker@uttsbbs.uucp (Ron Parker) 

   on Tue, 6 Oct 1992 vln@icpsr.umich.edu (Victoria Neff) wrote:    
  
VN . >: >Is there another newsgroup for crocheting and knitting?  I haven't seen   
VN . >: >these subjects in rec.crafts and I don't seem to get much response to the
VN . >: >patterns I have been posting.  Am I in the wrong spot?
VN .
VN . Maybe we should just say "We are nice; any well-meaning fiber-related
VN . chat will be welcomed, not flamed!"  :-)
VN .
VN . If we get too specific in our list, someone might not talk about whatever
VN . we forget to include....  (Dyeing, say?  :-)  )

I'm with Vicki.

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From: ccuppern@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Cyndi Cuppernell)
Subject: Re: Smocking Assistance?
Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:35:42 GMT

marcia@virga.ucar.edu (Marcia Politovich) writes:

>In article <1992Oct16.204647.12712@netcom.com> shannah@netcom.com
(Teri Miller) writes:
>>
>(introductory comments deleted for space...)>
>>What she is looking for is something she described as a gadget
that
>>automatically gathers and sews.  

The store that sells such a machine here in town will also pleat
your fabric for you at a reasonable charge.  If you aren't sure you
want to buy the machine, you may be able to go this route.-- 
                 
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From: JBrandt@AAA.UOregon.EDU (Laurie Brandt )
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: RE: +Stich
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:37:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntp.1992Oct9.153719.21576
Organization: The Polyhedron Group

>Subject: Cross-stitching
>Message-ID: <marleyt-071092104307@scarlett.ccit.arizona.edu>
>Date: 7 Oct 92 17:41:07 GMT

>Are there any cross-stitches out there. I would love to trade patterns ! 
Email me!

>Marley treadwell
>University of Arizona
>email: Marleyt@ccit.arizona.edu
>2nd email: Marley@hacks.arizona.edu

Yes Marley there are other +stichers out here. HI!!!  :-)  Maybe you could
help me find a pattern. It is the one that reminds the men in the house to
please put the seat down on the Jakes. Any idea where I might find one?  I
am also intrested in the styles know as black work and white work, and the
designs that stem from the middle ages and renassance. Such as those seen
on the cuffs and colors in the Holbin portrates or the runners and floor
coverings seen in many religious pictures done at the time. Do you know of
any other sources of illustrations for medieval and renesance patterns?
Pictures, period books.
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: HF.MMX@forsythe.stanford.edu (Marilee Marshall)
Subject: Suggestions for correcting the slide away top
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:50:00 GMT

Got a problem.  Any suggestions are queried.  I made a seersucker
shirtwaist with a blouson top, slightly dropped shoulders which
require shoulderpads.  The dress turned out quite nice, but I feel
like I'm constantly fighting the top.  The front wants to work it's
way up (taking up the slack from the blouson bottom), making the
back of the neck slide backward, creating what I think a hunchback
from the bulk of the pads now riding on my shoulderblades.  At least
that's how I think it looks.  Whenever I walk, I feel I have to keep
a finger hooked between the buttons, weighing the top down.

Is there a solution to this problem?

Thanks for any help you have to offer.

marilee
at stanford
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: vln@icpsr.umich.edu (Victoria Neff)
Subject: Re: Spinning projects
Organization: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:19:37 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.124530.10568@walter.cray.com> ljensen@ferris.cray.com (Laura Jensen) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.164950.18670@terminator.cc.umich.edu> vln@icpsr.umich.edu (Victoria Neff) writes:
>>Want to talk about what we are spinning?  
>> ...nice Romney X fleece that's shades of gray...
>>
>>If I can borrow a wheel with a bigger bobbin, I won't
>>have to have so many knots.....
>>
>You might want to look at Elizabeth Zimmerman's _Knitting Without Tears_

I usually do EZ's sort of knit-with-both, but I'd rather have more than
one ounce to use before I get to a join....

>Still, it's more fun to have a larger chunk of yarn to work with.

yup

>I have noticed that the really fine lace-weight spinners never fill
>up their bobbins to get a consistent twist.  Have any of you had 
>any experience with this?  

I know I have to keep tightening the tension (on my double-drive wheel)
to keep the same twist.  And I'm not making lace-weight yarn, by any
stretch of the imagination....

>> What are y'all working on?

>I am currently finishing up three pounds of Shetland fleece, 
>it's in the grease but not leaving nearly as much dirt on the 
>wheel as Churro does!

Interesting!  I would have thought that Churro was relatively clean because
it's not as greasy as some.  Is the Shetland less greasy, or less dirty/dusty?
Or both?

>                           The Shetland is spinning up very fine, 
>especially from the long shoulder fibers.  (I'm flicking the locks.)  
>I'm hoping to get a lace shawl or two out of the yarn.  

Are you going to ply, or knit with singles?

>This brings me to another question:  Do any of you have
>hints for spinning for stretchy yarn?  In particular, a
>Spin-Off article from a few years ago mentioned keeping the
>fibers _under tension_ as the twist enters them.  Any ideas 
>about how to do this?

I guess I can't see how you'd spin at all with the fibers NOT under
tension....  I think I'd try some samples.  Try spinning it "as usual",
then a LOT tighter, then a LOT looser.  Wash it.  See what you think.
You probably already thought of this.  I was amazed, though, in a 
spinning workshop I took, that it really only takes a couple of yards
(enough to ply back) of each technique to get a good idea how it will
look, which doesn't take much time or fiber to do.....

  -- Vicki
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: X-Stitch pattern of a Beaver needed plea
From: Dawn_Scotting@kcbbs.gen.nz (Dawn Scotting)
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:57:09 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

My friend is still on the look-out for a Beaver x-stitch graph. I asked  
in this newsgroup a few months ago but had no reply. She has even asked  
a few friends she knows in the States but had no luck at all. Isn't  
there ANYONE out there that has one or would be able to point me in the  
right direction please?  
   
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From: HF.MMX@forsythe.stanford.edu (Marilee Marshall)
Subject: Re: Suggestions for correcting the balance
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:48:32 GMT

Thank you for your suggestion on a possible cure for my "creaping"
bodice.  But, the back is not short, it has the blouson also.  The
neck, in fact, is a bit high and I wondered if maybe thats why it
really wants to move backward.  Repositioning the shoulderpads may
well be an answer.  The result would make the shoulder seam to be
misplaced, but I may have no alternative?

Apprciate your help.

marilee
From: daw+@pitt.edu (Deborah A Wirth)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: X-Stitcher needs help finding aida cloth
Date: 7 Oct 92 08:42:21 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


I'm from Pittsburgh, PA., earlier this year the best craft shop around closed.
She wanted to spend time with her family, her business was doing great. I loved
going there, because no matter how long I stayed away, the owner always greeted
me by my name. 
The store was the Thread Connection, on the South Side. I'm looking for a place
that sells a wide range of aida cloth. Please Help.
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: cfeem@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Eleanor Midkiff)
Subject: Re: Other textile news groups
Summary: Thanks 
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:41:21 GMT
Expires: ?
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
Keywords: Thank you
Followup-To: rec.crafts.textiles

>Is there another newsgroup for crocheting and knitting?  I haven't seen 
>these subjects in rec.crafts and I don't seem to get much response to the
>patterns I have been posting.  Am I in the wrong spot?
>
>Linda Casey
>Modesto, California, USA
>
No, this is the right group -- and a belated thank you!  I don't read this
group as often as I'd like, but I really do appreciate the patterns and
other helpful hints.  So thanks to everyone.

Eleanor

-- 
Eleanor Midkiff
(cfeem@eiu.edu)
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From: nowka@leland.Stanford.EDU (KEVIN NOWKA)
Subject: Knitting Pattern Publishing
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: ba
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 16:56:10 GMT

In an effort to support her yarn and knitting
machine habit, my wife has considered publishing
her designs.

Has anyone out there done this?  What's the easiest,
cheapest way to publish?  Is there any money in it?
We'd appreciate any sources of information or
contacts.

Thanks

Kevin Nowka      nowka@umunhum.stanford.edu

Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: dlang@bcars68a.bnr.ca (David Lang)
Subject: RE:  Are there any quilters out there?
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:50:07 GMT


Greetings and Salutations!!!

I come from a family of rather crafty women. Among other things, I
quilt.  I still consider myself a novice, but I'm learning. I'm in the
Toronto area now, but am a Prairie girl originally (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan...
for those of you from south of the border, south of the equator or across
the pond, yes, there really is such a place.)  

I would be very interested in a quilting newsgroup. I have access to 
the newsfeed (Thanks, Dave) but do not have an email account. I'd love for
there to be a quilter's newsgroup!!!


Cynthia Sanoy
(using David Lang's account)
From: sam@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Vicky Hansen)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:10:23 GMT
Subject: Re: sewing armhole in Norwegian sweater
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles

In rec.crafts.textiles, chantal@osf.org (Chantal Eide) writes:
   >I have finished knitting a Norwegian sweater and the
   >instructions are to knit the body as a tube, then
   >reinforce, then cut armholes and sew in sleeves.  They
   >say to machine zig-zag around where you will cut the
   >armhole slit.

   >My problem is that I can sew about an inch before the
   >bobbin thread gets all caught up.

If you zig-zag it over a scrap piece of knit fabric, you should have no
more trouble.  I recommend running over it twice to make sure you catch
all the yarn.
From: paul.ribeiro@rose.com (paul ribeiro)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Crochet Patterns
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:57:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: rose.1992Oct08.195704.3513
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
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Date Entered: 10-08-92 15:51
I am looking for crochet patterns to make stuffed dolls    
of the Sesame Streeet characters and Teenage Mutant 
Ninja Turtles.  I am in Toronto Canada and have not had
any success finding any sort of patterns here.  If
anyone would know where I might be able to get them
I would really appreciate any information.

/Paul
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From: ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Re: was felting mentioned on the possible intro note?
Date: 13 Oct 92 09:15:14 GMT
Reply-To: ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


Seeing this post has raised my curiosity. What is felting (apart from what you
get when you put a woollen sweater on the hot cycle in the dryer)? Is it something
that I can use to get rid of the dozens of tail ends of machine knit wool cones
that I seem to be accumulating (is anyone else a woolaholic?)

Nigel

Email: NTitley@axion.bt.co.uk
Snail: British Telecom Research labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
"Well, I'm disenchanted too. We're all disenchanted." (James Thurber)
From: lcasey@koko.csustan.edu (Linda Casey)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Afghan Crochet Afghan
Date: 12 Oct 92 02:03:35 GMT
Organization: CSU Stanislaus


This is a very nice and warm afghan using a ripple afghan crochet pattern. 
The strips are easy to carry around.

Shaded Herringbone Afghan

Size:  45 x 56 inches
Materials:  Knitting worsted weight yarn 
	      Color A    4 dark
              Color B    3 Medium
	      Color C    3 Light
              Color D    3 Pale

            Afghan crochet size K 

Gauage:  Each strip should measure 5 inches in width.

Pattern Stitch:

Row 1:  Draw up a loop in each st of ch, leaving all loops on hook;
        take off loops as follows:  yo hook, draw through 1 loop, *yo, draw
        through 2 loops *, repeat between *'s 7 times more, yp and draw 
        through 4 loops, repeat between *'s across row; the loop remaining
        on hook counts as first loop of next row.

Row 2:  Skip first upright bar, draw up a loop in next upright bar, draw
        (increase), draw up a loop in each of next 8 upright bars, skip
        next 2 upright bars, draw up a loop in each of next 8 upright bars,
        inc 1 st, draw up a loop in each of last 2 upright bars; take off
        loops as follows:  yo hook, draw through 1 loop, repeat between *'s
        of Row 1 nine times, yo and draw through 4 loops, repeat between *'s
        of row 1 across row.  Repeat Row 2 for pattern stitch.

STRIP:  Make 3 strips of Color a and 2 strips of each of Colors B, C and D.
        Ch22.  Work even in pattern st on 22 sts until piece measures 56 
        inches.  On the next row sl st in each of next 9 up right bars,
        sl st in each remaining upright bar.  Fasten off.

FINISHING:  With right sides facing yo and working in Back Loop only, sew
            strips tog in the following order:  Colors A, B, C, D, A, D, C,
            B, and A.



Hope you enjoy!  Let's see some more pattern postings.  Any craft.

See Ya Soon!
Linda Casey
Modesto, CA
lcasey@koko.csustan.edu
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From: HF.MMX@forsythe.stanford.edu (Marilee Marshall)
Subject: Re: coat making:  any advice?
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:27:40 GMT

Boy do I ever agree with you on New York Fabric's remodeling... I
not only can't find a thing, but I WILL NOT TOLerate standing in
lines waiting for the 2 cutters to help you.  Waited there for 20
minutes to get 1/2 yard of calico, THENNNNNNNNN waited 30 minutes in
their damn check-out line (and I was the 3rd person in line)!!!!!!
I don't need their brand of service anymore!!!  They kept blaming it
on the sale, claiming they didn't even know it was happening until
it hit the newspapers.  I call that bad business.

imhop

marilee
From: jbyrd@chpc.utexas.edu (Jan Byrd)
Subject: Chrocheted Christmas Santa Hat?
Organization: Center for High Performance Computing, Univ. of Texas System
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 16:22:52 GMT

Anyone have some simple instructions for crocheting one of those sorta
cone-shaped Christmas hats - like Santa's?

Jan
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: Marina.Salume@corp.sun.com (Marina Salume)
Subject: x-stitcher needs help finding aida cloth
Organization: Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:39:41 GMT

> I'm looking for a place
>that sells a wide range of aida cloth. Please Help.

A little while ago I posted a mail order source,
Mary Jane's Cross and Stitch. 800-334-6819
She carries a wide range of aida fabric and lots
of other cross stitch fabrics, fibers, and patterns.
(hardly any kits). Her catalog costs about 7.50,
it comes in a 3-ring binder and she sends updates
during the year. One page has sample swatches of
a few of her fabrics glued to it.

Another catalog I just purchased is Marilyn's Needlework,
616-364-8411. She seems to have just as wide a range of
aida and other fabrics as Mary Jane's. This catalog is
also a good source for Stoney Creek patterns. It costs
$6. You can order sample swatches of any fabric 
or thread for 35 cents each.

I haven't ordered from either one yet but if you can't
find a well-stocked store in your area, these would be
good sources to try.

--marina
From: sbowen@gmuvax.gmu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Spinning & Knitting Porjects
Date: 12 Oct 92 12:02:17 -0500
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.


Hmmm, there certainly is a lot of that grey wool getting around...

I am combing out a few pounds of grey wool, too, in preparation for
spinning it on a very old Ashford wheel. I am trying to decide if I want
to spin it lace weight and using the Navaho plying method to get a three-ply
yarn or to spin it bulky. (Or should I spin it lace weight, make a thin two-ply,
and knit it up on my knitting machine - which might be faster? All these
lovely decisions. :-)

I am sorting a Ramboulliet fleece and rolling it in netting to prepare it
for washing - and storage. (My cats will occasionally try to eat my
unprepared wool.)

But my hand knitting project is almost done and it turned out so pretty
that I thought I should post the instructions. These are from Len
Alshan, who also posts here. I used sport weight wool, #4 needles, and
around 150 stitches for a *loose* cap for me (I have a hat size of 7 1/2.)
I also started it on double-ponted needles.

Sue

These are based on instructions in Barabara Walker's KNITTING FROM THE TOP.
 
cast on 8 sts; knit around and join
Incr. Row   Sts. Between   # sts
    1            0          16
    2            1          24
    3            2          32
    4            3          40
    5            4          48
    6            5          56
   *7            6          64
    8            7          72
    9            8          80
   10            9          88
   11           10          96
 
Increases are made every other row,i.e., knit row plain, knit an increase
row -- always increase in first st on increase round

Row 7 (marked with*) works out for me to be the last increase row when working
with bulky yarn on 10 1/2 needles

After the last increase round, start K2,P2 ribbing and keep going until the
whole thing measures about 11" from the top (the crown will usually be about
4")

I have used this for making hats in both worsted weight (about 5 to the inch)
and bulky (about 3 1/2 to inch) -- crown should just cover top of head -- just
how much ribbing is a function of how deep and how much of a turn up you want.


From: sam@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Vicky Hansen)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:14:10 GMT
Subject: Re: help -- another scared sewing maching shopper
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles

In rec.crafts.textiles, dorje@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Michelle Berkowitz) writes:
    2)  Pardon my naivety, but what is an "overlock" stitch on a standard
    machine?  Is this like imitation serging ten times slower and without the
    neat trimmed edge?

That is usually a combination straight and zig-zag stitch:  __/\___/\___/\_
From: shannah@netcom.com (Teri Miller)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Smocking Assistance?
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:46:47 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


A friend of mine asked me today if I knew anything about smocking.
Unfortunately, I don't, because she needed help finding a special
tool for smocking, and I could only helplessly refer her to Linda's
Silver Needle.

What she is looking for is something she described as a gadget that
automatically gathers and sews.  So, instead of having to mark the
fabric carefully, then take needle and thread and pick up each of the
little marks exactly, this tool will do those things for you.

She has a new, top of the line Elna.  I have the Bernina 1230.  If
this gadget will fit these machines, more the better.

Does anyone know what I'm trying to describe here?  Can you give
me a better description, and maybe even a pointer towards where I
could purchase one?

Thanks!
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: cldavies@nyx.cs.du.edu (cindy davies)
Subject: Re: X-Stitch pattern of a Beaver needed plea
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 21:46:33 GMT

In article <10292287.10629.3891@kcbbs.gen.nz> Dawn_Scotting@kcbbs.gen.nz (Dawn Scotting) writes:
>My friend is still on the look-out for a Beaver x-stitch graph. I asked  
>in this newsgroup a few months ago but had no reply. She has even asked  
Try Wildlife Classics Book 63 from Country Cross Stitch.  (I can probably
get you an address if you need one.  This is a small Beaver aprox. 90x90
stitches if I remember right.


--
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usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional
advancement goes.  --Gabaldon, Outlander.
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From: Marina.Salume@corp.sun.com (Marina Salume)
Subject: Re: smocking asistance
Organization: Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:55:15 GMT

>Does anyone know what I'm trying to describe here?  Can you give
>me a better description, and maybe even a pointer towards where I
>could purchase one?

It's called a pleater. It has a cylinder with lots of needles
attached, each one has it's own length of thread. You wind the
cylinder and it pulls the fabric through, basting it into nice
even pleats. You do your hand smocking on the pleats and then
pull out the pleater threads, if they show. One of my books
says that this is "english-style" smocking (on prepleated fabric)
as opposed to "american-style" smocking, where you pick up little
dots as you go. 

These machines cost around $100, depending on which
size you get (they vary in number of needles, the wider ones can
pleat a wider piece of fabric). Some sewing shops will pleat your
fabric for you, for a small fee. So if
you only smock once in awhile, you don't need to buy a $100 machine.

You can find lots of ads for them (mail order) in a couple of
magazines called "Sew Beautiful" and "Creative Sewing". These
magazines specialize in heirloom sewing, much of which has
smocking in it. If you can't find these magazines at any newstand,
I can post some addresses of mail order companies that advertise in them. 
I haven't ordered from any of them tho, so I can't comment on prices
or service.

--marina

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