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From: Marina.Salume@Corp.Sun.COM (Marina Salume)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: making gifts for others
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:39:27 GMT

I am posting this for a friend.

--marina

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Marina,

I never have figured out how to post, so I'll just mail to you.  I think you
hit the nail on the head when you mentioned that your friend didn't do hand
work.  My sister considers laundry her hobby.  I made a hand knit poncho for
her (back in the 70's when they were popular.)  I have always worked outside
the home, so we're talking stolen moments in the evening when supper is over
and the kid is bathed and in bed.  She washed that poncho in hot water with
bleach (maybe laundry isn't her hobby).  It shrunk (all wool, you see) and the
colors ran - it was primarily ecru with red and green boarders.  I also made
a cable knit sweater for her, which she also ruined in the washing machine.
She does no handwork whatsoever and I will never make a quilt for her.
Although, like you, whenever I see a pattern in her favorite colors, I think
oh, Janet would like that.  Then I remember.  Janet has ruined every hand
made gift I ever gave her.  Gee this brings back memories.  That knitting was
done when my husband and I were poor, poor, poor.  I bought the yarn on
lay away, can you imagine?  My son was about 3-5 yrs. old and I was working in
a library filing those stupid cards in the card catalog.  Ugh!  I felt pulled
in a zillion directions then.  Maybe these people equate handmade with cheap?
I sure don't.  Except for that stupid Christmas ornament my mother-in-law
made out of a joy bottle and an ivory liquid bottle.  Spray painted gold with
a twig attached on top, so it looked like a reindeer's head.  And then the
question, guess how I made this?  Some of things she has spend her precious
time just blows my mind.  However, she is one my biggest fans of any handmade
gift I give her - and she takes good care of them.

Oh well.  Anyway, I now make quilts for my home.  For my husband, my son, and
me.  And I am much happier.

Ida


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Newsgroups: alt.sewing,rec.crafts.textiles
From: jschwarz@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jan A. Schwarz)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Help!
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:31:45 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio


   Hi.  I'm not exactly sure where to post this so I hope no one is
   offended.

   I have a shirt that has a mud stain on it and can't get it out.
   I have tried soaking it in BIZ, but it doesn't help.

   Does anyone have any suggestions?  It's a Polo searsucker (sp?)
   shirt and my son is having a fit to get this mud stain out.

   Any help will be appreciated.

   Jan
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: ljensen@ferris.cray.com (Laura Jensen)
Subject: Re: making gifts for friends
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 11 Sep 92 09:56:15 CDT

This all sounds familiar.  As a {handspinner, handknitter, handweaver,
bobbin lacemaker etc. etc. etc.}, I have come to the realization that
sometimes handmade gifts are downright intimidating to a recipient
who can't reciprocate in kind.  I also realized that I was working
way too hard on projects for friends!  The rule I came up with (broken
twice in the last five years) was to only make handmade gifts for
family, which includes in-laws.  And for those in my family who, say,
are too warm-blooded to wear sweaters and who've already received
a Shetland cobweb shawl, I buy storebought gifts.
From: sallyh@StarConn.com (Sally Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: How to sew with metallic thread
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:36:46 GMT
Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA  415-949-3133

psburns@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (MAUREEN BURNS) writes:

>What's Sewer's Aid?  I've seen it in Nancy's Notions, and I know that it
>advertised as something to make sewing easier, but exactly how does a 
>single drop of something on an entire spool make sewing easier?  

Sewers Aid (no apostrophe on the bottle!) is a lubricant, sort of a
silcone `oil'. You put about 3 thin vertical lines on a spool of thread, 
spacing them equally, and the `oil' penetrates the spool. It gets
carried along by the thread and lubricates the bits of sewing machine it
comes into contact with on its way to the needle.

According to the instructions that come with it, you can also use it on
the bottom of your presser feet to make them glide over `problem'
fabrics more easily. 

Sally Holmes
From: cvtoy@ux5.lbl.gov (Charmaine Toy)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Where to find wool melton?
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:36:33 GMT
Followup-To: alt.sewing
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.116

Winter is fast coming up, and I would like to sew a nice wool melton
blazer and coat for myself.  All the wools that I have seen are either
garbadine or a not so plush flannel, but it may be just due to the fact
that I'm early for the cold weather season.  I regularly visit the
3 New York Fabric stores in my area and have found nothing.  I did, however,
find a small store that had them in just two colors.  Does anyone know of
another source for wool melton (store chain, specialty, or catalog)?  
I admit that I haven't yet visited Britex Fabrics in San Francisco, but I 
suspect that any store a few blocks down from Neimann Marcus and Saks Fifth 
Avenue is bound to be PRETTY expensive.


Charmaine


My mother has always knitted me beautiful sweaters (last one was an
eye-stopping wool aran cardigan that receives many complements); I think 
I'll try to make her that navy blue wool melton blazer she's always wanted.

She knits, I sew (but not exclusively).
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: joxley@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (jody.oxley)
Subject: Address/phone # wanted for Sew Natural
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: bl
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:34:25 GMT

Could someone please post the address and phone number for
Sew Natural. I have been unable to locate it in back issues
of Sew News, or anywhere else. Thank you.

Jody Oxley
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: carolyn@bucket.rain.com (Carolyn Peterson)
Subject: Re: underlining rayon challis revisited
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown Un*x
Distribution: usa
Date:  8 Sep 92 06:56:18 GMT

bekowski@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us (Rebecca Churchbells Bekowski) writes:


>Remember the discussion a while back about sewing with
>rayon challis?  Well, I just finished the dress and I'm 
>soooo happy with it.  I thought I'd share my results.

>I made Vogue pattern 8293 , very easy - vogue sport.
>I underlined the bodice with very lightweight cotton-poly
>batiste (sheer mist if that means anything to anybody)


Your advice to underline the rayon challis is very good.  I think it
would have made a big difference in a blouse I made from that fabric
last spring.  There were two low points in construction for me. 
 
I used fusible interfacing for the collar, but didn't bother to test
it on a scrap first.  After I "fused" it on, the collar had a lot of
vertical ridges.  I pealed the interfacing off and smoothed the
collar out.  It was several inches longer than it used to be!  I had
to cut out another collar and use sew-in interfacing. 
 
The buttonholes were the other problem.  They were in the front --
through the blouse, the sewn-in interfacing and the facing.  I was
able to get sample buttonholes that looked nice, but after a button
went through them a few times they were stretched horribly and
wouldn't return to shape.  Making corded buttonholes didn't help,
either.  I finally tried putting a small piece of Ban-Rol(tm) between
the blouse and the facing for each buttonhole.  After making the
buttonhole, I clipped away all of the stiff Ban-Rol(tm) that I
could.  The bits of it that remained in the buttonhole helped keep it
in shape.  I've been wearing the blouse about once a week since I
made it and the buttonholes are still working well.  But, what is
the right way to make stable buttonholes in challis that does not
have underlining? 
 
On a bright note, I do like the blouse. 
 
Carolyn 
carolyn@bucket.rain.com
From: reginab@autodesk.uucp (Regina Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Fitting pants
Keywords: suggestion
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:10:25 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

A couple of years ago, I took a sewing class at
a local junior college.  I figured that I would just sit
back and finish a couple of projects that I had sitting
around.  The class turned out to be a ton of work and I 
learned a lot.  So, since everyone is discussing fitting
pants, I thought that I would pass along my teacher's
device for fitting a pair of pants.

She had rigged up this odd contraption.  It was made
of 2 tape measures that were joined at the starting ends.
In the center of the joining, she had put a 20" string
with a small fishing weight at the end.  What you did
was straddle the now long tape measure, center the plumb
line right under the direct center of your body, and bring
the tape measures up on either sides of your body.  Then, you
read the distance from the center to the waist for either
side of your body, thus you would have a clear picture
of how much length to give each half of your body for the 
best fit.  What you had to remember is to compensate for
the amount of overlap on the tape measures.

Damnably clever.....

regina(just*had*togetmy$.02in)b
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: kathleen@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (kathleen.s.romanowski)
Subject: heirloom sewing supplies source
Keywords: mail order, quality supplies and fabric
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: bl
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:33:03 GMT

For those of you who are beginning or experienced heirloom sewers,
there is a company where you can mail order supplies and fabric,
as well as patterns for smocking, doll clothing, children's and
women's wear; they also carry lots of books and magazines dedicated
to the heirloom stitcher.

The 800 number is 1-800-SMOCK IT (1-800-766-2548).  This is a small
but fast growing company who stocks quality heirloom fabric, laces,
threads, patterns, and they offer very personalized service.

You can write for their newsletter if you don't want to call.
The address is:

                    Linda's Silver Needle
                    P.O. Box 2167
                    Naperville, IL  60567

Happy stitching!!
From: szakhour@next.com (Sharon Zakhour)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: help!
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:45:40 GMT
Reply-To: szakhour@next.com (Sharon Zakhour)

The product you described is called Wonder Under.  (There may be other brands  
as well.)  Wonder Under is TERRIFIC for doing appliques as you described, but  
it should always be permanently attached to the fabric with sewing -- it is not  
meant to permanently bond the applique to the fabric.  After you have ironed it  
on, you need to secure it with stitches -- usually a satin stitch.  You can  
then decorate it with fabric paints.

Sharon
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: morrison@mistered.rtp.dg.com (Linda Morrison)
Subject: Re: diapers
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 14:23:52 GMT
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC

In article <1992Sep3.134303.16119@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, uxgisd@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
|> Has anyone used the diaper pattern from Nancys notions?  I plan on using
|> cloth diapers (I'm expecting, obviously) and I saw that in Nancys catalog
|> there is a pattern for diapers.  You need 1/2 yard of flannel for each 
|> diaper, a double napped one on the inside and a decorative one on the out-
|> side.  It has velcro around the top of the diaper.  
|> 
|> Has anyone made these? Have they held up.  Were they worth the trouble? 
|> I figure it will cost about $3 each. Thats cheaper than buying it.  But
|> I dont want to spend a lot of time and money on something that isnt going
|> to last or whatever.  Any comments would be appreciated.
|> 
|> Ursula
I am currently using cloth diapers for my 16 month old, however I went
a different route.  Instead of an "all-in-one" diaper, I am using a
shaped diaper with a cover.  I think this diapering method has a
couple of advantages. 

First, I have been able to use my shaped diapers from infancy till
now.  I bought mine but you could easily make them.  They are an
hour glass shape where the top part of the glass is more narrow
than the bottom.  If your interested, I send you a drawing via US
mail, it's kinda hard to draw in ascii!  The center portion has
several layers of thickness.  Since my little one drinks alot, I
do have to add another (regular) diaper at nap time.

Second, with a shaped diaper and a cover, you can change the cover
according to the size of the child.  My biggest complaint about
the all-in-one diapers is that you only get one use out of the
diaper and they do not grow with the child.  With a shaped diaper
and a cover, I can get 2-3 uses out of the cover and throw the
wet diaper in the pail.  I bought my covers and so far I've gone
through 3 different sizes.  But, considering I buy the covers for
around $7.00 and have the same original 3 dozen shaped diapers, I
still think I am coming out cheaper in the long run than buying
the all-in-ones.

I love my diapering system and will definately use it for the new
baby due in January.  I am more than willing to discuss the subject
offline if anyone wants.

Linda Morrison             morrison@dg-rtp.dg.com
Data General Corp
Research Triangle Park, NC  27709
From: ctopp@cup.portal.com (Carol F Topp)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: Fabriholics Anonymous
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 92 09:49:38 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Jill Scott-Piner asked what to do with 11.5 yards of ivory satin.

I admit that I have all the left over ivory satin from my wedding
gown still on the roll in a closet - I haven't worked out what to do
with large triangular pieces  - but my thoughts are to practice
using it and make clothes for dress-up. My neices love to play
wedding with their friends. I know she had been at it a while before
I asked her to be in my wedding and the game continues 3.5 years later.
She is around 10 years old. now. The best thing about sewing for
kids is that they don't care if the seams are straight.

Carol
Newsgroups: alt.gopher
From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
Subject: GREAT LAKES INFO ON-LINE
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:39:09 GMT

THE GREAT LAKES INFORMATION SERVICE is now available for gopher access!

Fact Sheets about various Great Lakes topics and issues, along with two
years worth of new stories from the Great Lakes Reporter, can be found
on the CICNet Gopher server in Michigan. Look for the great-lakes menu
item, and then the cgl item under it. 
You'll find a readme.txt file which explains
and lists what's available in what subdirectory.

Topics covered by Fact Sheets include Great Lakes water diversion, water
quality, waterfront development, pollution prevention, regional and
international agreements such as the Great Lakes Water QUality
Agreement, and the effects of global warming on the Lakes.
There are Fact Sheets on many of the 43 Great Lakes Areas of Concern,
which are the worst toxic hotspots as designated by the two federal
governments.

The Great Lakes Reporter, a regional newsmagazine published by The
Center for the Great Lakes, covers news, trends, and issues relating the
environment of the Great Lakes ecosystem and the economy of the region,
especially when they interact. You will find every major story that has 
appeared in the Reporter since the start of 1990, listed by subject area
with headlines for easy access and searching. Typical topics include
coverage of the historic regional public meetings held in Traverse City
in October 1991; trends in various key economic sectors around the
Lakes; analysis of current water quality planning and activities by
governments, industry and citizen's groups around the region; waterfront
development aroound the Lakes; "invader" species such as the zebra
mussel; the state and future of the Great Lakes' fishery; the status of
proposals to divert Great Lakes water, and so forth.

The Reporter is a part of the Great Lakes Information Service, a public
service of The Center for the Great Lakes. This ftp access is the first
step in a long-range plan to put the Information Service "on-line"; more
Fact Sheets on more topics will be added, Reporter stories will be
continuously added as they are published, existing Fact Sheets are
periodically updated by Center researchers, and other useful and
interesting things are being put on-line as we think of them
(suggestions are welcome).

For more information, or to receive this material by U.S. Mail, send
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and tell us where you heard of us, so we know whether this method of
making the service known is working!
From: jcrowder@morse.cns.vt.edu (Jeff Crowder)
Newsgroups: alt.gopher
Subject: Preconfiguring IP options for umn gopher client
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:52:00 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA



I'm going to install Minnesota's PC Gopher II v.102b client for several
weenies within our department who are even weenier than me.  I'd like to
just hand out diskettes with install.bats which, with a few args, will
install preconfigured gopher, pop, and various other tcp applications.
These applications vary in origin and I don't want the user to have to
wade through varying configuration schemes worrying about subnet masks,
etc.. 	

How can I predefine gopher user options so that the user does not have to       do any configuration.  I suppose I could just use an established gopher.rez     file if there is some way to pass the IP address which the user supplies to the install.bat.

Alternatively, does anyone know of a turbo vision gopher client (i.e.
looks similar to umn) which uses a text configuration file?  Perhaps NU
has done to the umn gopher client what they've done to the umn pop
client.??...

Thanks,

Jeff Crowder
Virginia Tech
Newsgroups: alt.gopher
From: redder@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU ()
Subject: shell scripts
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:31:28 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

     I have tried in vain to get gopherd to execute a shell script when
the proper choice is made from the menu.  How do I go about setting 
up the link file properly?  I have a file in the .cap directory that
looks like:

Name=Print out a fancy list of all users with accounts on the system.
Numb=10
Type=0
Path=exec:/usr/local/bin/user_list
Host=my.machine.name
Port=70

However, when I choose this option from the menu, it says that 
"usr/local/bin/user_list does not exist"!  Well, it does.  I've tried
changing permissions on it and moving it to other filesystems.  No luck.
Basically, I was hoping I could get someone to give me a hint as to
how to get gopher to execute shell scripts.  I am running gopher1.03
on AIX 3.1.5.

Thank you --Greg Redder
	    redder@yuma.acns.colostate.edu

Newsgroups: alt.gopher
From: heycke@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Torsten Heycke)
Subject: Area Code Gopher?
Followup-To: alt.gopher
Organization: Knowledge Systems Lab
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:26:42 GMT

Is there an area code gopher source out there? (The Geographical/Zip Code
source is very handy), an area code one would be nifty too.

Thanks,

Torsten
Newsgroups: alt.gopher
From: broe@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Frank Breier)
Subject: How about Sounds and Pictures ??
Organization: Communication Networks
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:04:56 GMT

Hi,

I need Information about Sound & Graphik - Handling. I only found the
item types for sounds (which format?) and pictures (.GIF?). Is there any
possibility to show these images on a screen (which type of screen) or do
I have to copy these files into my home-directory to show them by another
program ??

Thanks in advance,

   Frank
   
-- 
Frank Breier						 |     C   O   M
Communication Networks, Technical University of Aachen   | --v-^-v-^-v-^-v--
  Phone: +49-241-807921       Fax: +49-241-84964         |   N   E   T   S
  Email: broe@dfv.rwth-aachen.de                         | RWTH Aachen, Germany
From: phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil (Lee Phillips)
Newsgroups: alt.gopher
Subject: Macintosh GopherApp truncates large texts
Date: 14 Sep 1992 06:51:27 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

What gives here?  This program will receive large binhex files and decode
them, but a large (> 50k?) text file causes it to stop with a message that
the file was too large, after asking me for a storage location on disk after
reaching the ~32k limit.  Why is there a limit on the length of a text file,
other than my disk space?  This severely reduces the utility of this otherwise
fine program!

                                           Lee Phillips
                                           phillips@fozzie.nrl.navy.mil
From: adam@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Adam Rosham)
Newsgroups: alt.archery
Subject: Xi magnum legend
Date: 10 Sep 92 04:41:46 GMT
Organization: University of Melbourne, Australia

Does anyone out there have any experience shooting the
xi magnum legend. I am at considering buying one but I have heard that
there are problems in tuning it. Has anyone had any good or bad
experiences in tuning this bow?
Thanks in advance.
Adam Rosham.
 
Adam Rosham - adam@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au="Oh Pointy Birds, Oh Pointy Pointy
Melbourne University, Melbourne Australia. = Anoint My Head, Anointy Nointy."
ph: (03) 853-9720                          = Steve Martin (T.M.W.T.B's)
From: vannostrand@tbosch.dnet.ge.com (Scott Van Nostrand)
Newsgroups: alt.archery
Subject: Stemler Bows
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:27:24 GMT
Organization: GE Technical Communications

Could anyone tell me about a company called Stemler?  
Address? Phone?  I just received a compound bow
for my birthday and I'd like to get more info about
it (kind of a hand me down, no lit with it).

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+   GE Technical Communications   +       intentionally       +
+   Schenectady, NY               +        left blank.        +
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From: shawn@ut-emx.uucp (Shawn Boyd)
Newsgroups: alt.archery
Subject: Re: DOES ANYBODY SHOOT PROLINE?
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:21:14 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas

In article <92254.111143RJF120@psuvm.psu.edu> RJF120@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>IF ANYBODY USES A PROLINE BOW, NO MATTER HOW OLD, PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW YOU
>LIKE IT.
>                           RJF120

 I started on a Proline Zephyr Magnum (70 pounds, 28" draw) and found it to 
 be a good little starter bow.  I grew out of it after about year and a half,
 and traded up to a Golden Eagle.  I now shoot an Oneida.  In my meanderings
 through various bows, I've also shot a Proline Point Blank and am very im-
 pressed with that bow.  It doesn't outshoot my Oneida, but definately shoots
 the pants off my Golden Eagle.  

 I think that Proline has a new lead bow in their stable, but I've forgotten
 what they call it.  I can find out.  It looks a lot like the Point Blank, 
 but I'm sure it's got a new gimmick on it that "improves" it.  I have noticed
 that Prolines don't seem to be available from discount mail order houses.  
 The only place I've seen them for sale is in local distributor's shops.

 I still use my Proline on extended hunting trips to shoot bunnies to put in
 the chile and stews we make.  Bunny-on-a-stick is also pretty good.  I tuned
 it down to about 55 pounds and put an overdraw on it to shoot 23-1/2" 2016's
 and shoot a field point backed up with an adder (roverine).  I wouldn't 
 shoot anything big with it, but it's hell on bunnies.

 Shawn
Newsgroups: alt.archery
From: M.Frith@appsci.utas.edu.au
Subject: Olympics-compounds
Organization: University of Tasmania
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 07:49:54 GMT

Does anyone know how the compound demonstration at the olympics went.

Has anyone an American FITA Target Championship Listing.