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From: dlittle@sscvx1.ssc.gov (DENNIS LITTLE)
Subject: Re: Public Domain COBOL Package
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Keywords: COBOL
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:53:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.154114.7303@digi.lonestar.org>, dhetheri@digi.lonestar.org (Dave Hethe writes...
>A couple of friends of mine who work with business applications expressed an 
>interest in learning COBOL. I found a public domain version "COBOL650.ZIP" 
>on UUNET. The compiler seems to work and looks as if it generates p-code. 
>I believe the interpreter is in the included library "COBOL650.LIB". 
>The linker for this package is missing.  Just for grins I tried the Turbo-C 
>linker with the expected failure results.  The author of this package claims 
>to be dying of AIDS.
> 
>      1) Can someone send me the linker for this package or maybe the
>         complete package? The author claims the source has been posted
>         to the "AV-SYNC BBS" in Atlanta, Georgia. 
> 
>      2) Has anyone used this package or a previous version? Is it reliable
>         and really ANSI compliant?
> 
> 
>-- 
> 
>Dave Hetherington                      
>dhetheri@digi.lonestar.org 
If by chance you do find the linker and get this package working,
please let me know... I'd like to find the same thing and have version
6 of the same software with the same problem.

me
From: sallyh@StarConn.com (Sally Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: confessions & request for help/advice/solace
Date: 30 Aug 92 21:52:39 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA  415-949-3133

george@webb.psych.ufl.edu (Stephanie George) writes:

> ...[Lots of stuff about horrid experiences cutting out plaid
>  rayon]...

>Please tell me that I'm not alone.

Stephanie, you are not alone. 

I just threw away a half-completed project for the first time in about
15 years. The rayon had a mind of its own when I cut it out, and it
walked all over the place when I sewed it. 

Back to cottons and silks for me!

Sally Holmes
sallyh@starconn.com
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: lois@athena.mit.edu (Lois B Bennett)
Subject: Re: Fabriholics Anonymous
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	<1992Sep2.190634.26570@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
	<1992Sep2.194439.24718@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
	<1992Sep2.205452.28356@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:45:19 GMT

This is very reassuring to me too.  I am lucky enough to have an
entire basement to devote to looms, sewing corner and collecting fiber
of all sorts.  My worse offense is my inability to throw away thrums
(the ends of a warp left when a peice of weaving is cut off the loom).
I have found a use for some of them though.  I cut the wool ones into
short peices (1"-2") and card them then card them sparingly into some
fleece it creates lovely yarn.  just what I need more yarn :-)

I also knit crochet lace, and make bobin lace and I just signed up for
a pottery class.  The good thing about the pottery is that I can't
bring it home to work on.  

Yes it's very good to know I am not the only one.

Lois


Lois B. Bennett, System Manager, Parsons Lab, MIT
email: lois@mit.edu
office: 48-205
phone:	253-5484 or 643-7515

Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: joannl@vlsisj.uucp (Joann Loos)
Subject: Re: Gloves pattern ...
Reply-To: joannl@vlsisj.uucp (Joann Loos)
Organization: Compass Design Automation/VLSI Technology, Inc. (San Jose)
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 00:04:00 GMT

How about buying an old pair at a second-hand store
and pulling them apart?

  joannl@compass-da.com
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Friday, 28 Aug 1992 14:51:30 EST
From: Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Help: Source for Porcelain Doll Heads

Some kindly sewer suggested that I seek the collective
knowledge of alt.sewing for a reliable mail order
source of porcelain doll heads.

My mother is looking for small finished, or at
least fired, heads suitable for making Christmas
angels.

If anyone knows of an outlet in southern Ontario
this would be great, but mail order - either
Canadian or US - would be just as good.

Thank you, please email at the address in the header.


Linda
From: gmclucki@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gemma McLuckie)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: re: fabricholics
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:55:45 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

Subject: re: fabricholics
From: nixon@intenz.ogo.dec.com (Vicki Nixon)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: Quilt Programs (IBM-PC)
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:48:42 GMT
Reply-To: nixon@intenz.ogo.dec.com (Vicki Nixon)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

--
To answer your questions on Electric Quilt;

1. Yes, I own a copy of the software and recommend it highly!  It's
extremely user
    friendly, has nearly unlimited possibilities, and uses minimum
system resources,
     (your 286 machine could run the software if it has a VGA monitor),
uses less than
     1 meg of storage etc.

2.  I've tried a couple of other quilting programs (PC Quilt, another
who's name escapes me)
     and found them simply not up to the level of the Electric Quilt
software.  The designing of
     the software was assisted by Penny McMorris, who is the hostess of
"The Great American
     Quilt" on PBS.  Her husband designed the software.

If you have any other specific questions, I'd recommend giving them a
call.  They are very
helpful and will answer all your questions.  Their telephone number is
(419) 352-1134.  

Vicki

  ====================================================
   Vicki Nixon			| "All opinions are 
   Digital Equipment Corporation	|  mine and mine
   nixon@intenz.ogo.dec.com		|  alone!"
   (508)496-8351			|          - Vicki	
  ====================================================
  "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate."   - Dante 
  ====================================================
  
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: aptp@sscvx1.ssc.gov
Subject: Re: RAW SILK SOURCES??
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:35:03 GMT

In article <oebIiLC00WBKE6xZ1L@andrew.cmu.edu>, Anne Marguerettaz <am2f+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> I remember reading a post where someone was mentioning THAI silks and I
...
> Patterns and before I spend $20.- on their swatch book, I would like to
Anne:
   Thai silks will also send you a swatch packet of only the fabric you're
interested in, say, raw silks.  Those ususally cost under a dollar, and
include all the colors they currently stock.  Definitely a cheaper 
alternative.
   Good luck finding the color you want!     Cheers,   Andrea
From: sallyh@StarConn.com (Sally Holmes)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: Fabriholics Anonymous
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:49:45 GMT
Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA  415-949-3133

riggle@adobe.com (Kathleen Riggle) writes:

> ...  I used to be a normal type sewer.  I'd buy a pattern,
>buy fabric, sew it up and either throw it in the closet unfinished or
>actually finish something.  

Is this normal? Really? I just assumed that all `normal' people bought
fabric because they loved it and it was there and it might not be on
sale again and I'll find a use for it one day, I'm sure...

BTW, I note that no-one has touched on the problems that can come with
applique or piecing other than for quilts. There's a whole world of
pieced and appliqued clothing out there, and I have just the fabric to 
make it!

Sally
From: Marina.Salume@Corp.Sun.COM (Marina Salume)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: sewing  on plastic
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:26:20 GMT

>Can anyone out there please shed some light on how to handle clear
>plastic?

This may not work, but you could try putting a piece of paper 
(like typing paper) on top and under the plastic while you stitch.
The machine may have an easier time feeding the plastic through.
After you're done stitching, you tear away the paper. Also, be
sure you are using a large, sharp needle (denim needle?) and fairly
heavy-duty thread.

You could also take a couple of scraps of your plastic to a show repair
guy and see if his leather stitching machines do a better job than yours.

--marina
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: Available Color Choices
From: kristen@telerama.pgh.pa.us (Kristen McQuillin)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:00:27 GMT
Organization: Telerama

My father was in the textile industry when I was growing up (once
again, fabrics for furnishing and decorating), and I remember his
coming home once to tell us that the fashionable colors were shifting
to earth tones from more primary colors (remember those garish red,
blue and black plaids in the early 70's?). I thought this was really
funny since my best friend's parents had just redecorated their living
room in those awful primaries!

I also remember the story of an argument between two of the designers
at the company my dad worked for -- over which (nearly identical)
shade of tan should be used in a warp. The choices were "636" or
"honey beige." They really did look exactly the same in the light I
saw them in! I wonder if fashion designers make such fine
distinctions, too?
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: CA.LJL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Leslie Laurent)
Subject: Re: Fabriholics Anonymous
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:21:33 GMT


 ctopp@cup.portal.com (Carol F Topp)   Writes:

>so I bravely attempted to ***throw away*** several scraps left
>over from outfits I have completed. Usually I avoid the problem of
>scraps by buying more than I need for a project so I have a real
>piece left over, but there was evidence of three frugal purchases.
>I got the scraps into the wastebasket and my husband asked me why
>I was throwing it away. He thought that if we have a daughter (I'm
>expecting in Nov.) wouldn't this fabric make great doll clothes?
>I had to agree and took it right out of the trash.

Yes!  Even when it's finished it won't go away.  I don't quilt
but I visualize some time in the future when I'll be so happy I
saved all those scraps.  What if the dog happens to chew a piece
out of that skirt? ( I don't have a dog )  Yup better add that to
the pile... Looks like there's just about enough material in the
skirt of that dress to make a blouse... on the pile  .. better
take off those buttons before I cut this one up for rags...on..
on..on..on

Leslie ( who went to New York just to go to Tender Buttons)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: riggle@adobe.com (Kathleen Riggle)
Subject: Re: Fabriholics Anonymous
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:29:33 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.155930.421@cbfsb.cb.att.com> motto@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (mary.rita.otto) writes:
>
>
>It's not just sandwashed rayon, you know.
>
>It can be anything.  Like the six different pieces of Halloween fabric
>that cried out "Make us into 100 bean bags for the Kindergarten and
>First Grade Halloween parties!"  (The kids toss them thru a target and
>then get to keep the bean bags as a "treat".)  Like the printed Halloween
>banners to hang on front and back doors.  Like the pheasant and grouse
>print panels for pillows that would look great in my Dad's living room.
>Like the printed panel to make a stuffed "bass" to mount as a "trophy"
>that my son really, REALLY, oh, please, Mommy, wanted.
>
>I brought it home on the last day of August and put in on the pile on
>top of the Christmas in July Sale purchases.  Right next to the cut out
>pieces of a sleeveless dress for my daughter.  And on the other side of the
>room from the trunk full of purchases dating back as far as 1985.
>
>AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>And now, Service Merchandise has a White Powerlock Serger for sale for
>only $279.  I admit that I have lusted in my heart for a Serger for
>about a year.  But my budget!!!!!

Go for it!!!

>Can I be saved?  Or will my condition worsen, leading to ... it's almost
>too awful to admit ... quilting?

Sorry, there is no cure.  But, please, don't start quilting.  Here's
my sad storyy.  I used to be a normal type sewer.  I'd buy a pattern,
buy fabric, sew it up and either throw it in the closet unfinished or
actually finish something.  Then I learned to quilt [insert
appropriate ominous music here].  I now had an excuse to actually go
out and collect fabric for entirely no reason at all!  You buy just
because you like it!

I have a small closet filled from top to bottom with quilting fabric.  
Here are things you can now say:

"You know, you won't be able to get this shade of yellow next year."
"It's for a scrap quilt."
"It will go with [xyz] fabric."

The list goes on.

Last weekend I had the fortune to visit the Daisy Kingdom store in
Portland, OR.  I was ready to move!  Anyway, I was buying some fabric
for a dress for my daughter (don't have kids; just one more excuse to
buy fabric) I couldn't decide which colors of a certain print would
look better on her.  The first fabric I picked up was what I would
call watercolor colors.  It was beautiful, but a little pale.  The
second print was bright purple and teal.  The saleslady and I agreed
that the second print would be better.  But, after she cut that, I
said, "Well, I just have to have some of this first one too.  I'll put
it in a quilt or something."  Of course, the saleslady, being the
excellent trained person that she was, said, "Yes, if a fabric speaks
to you, you have to have some of it."

Kathie
-- 
riggle@adobe.com
Newsgroups: sci.chemistry,alt.sewing,alt.fashion
From: anne@dolores.Stanford.EDU (Anne Paulson)
Subject: Re: Sewing / Sealing Heavy Soft Clear Plastic
Organization: Stanford University
Date: 3 Sep 92 13:52:47

Where do you get the plastic?  I may need to make a new cover for my
son's bicycle trailer, and it'll certainly need windows.

-- Anne
From: conib@peri.gvg.tek.com (Coni Britten)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: Stabilizer behind buttonholes
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:19:21 GMT
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

In article <1992Sep1.220217.6598@adobe.com> riggle@adobe.com (Kathleen Riggle) writes:
>
>appears that the lady that made it used some sort of stablizer for the
>buttonholes that I guess tears away after the buttonhole is finished.
>I noticed just the tiniest bit of white under the buttonhole stitch.
>
>Does anyone know what she may have used?  I've never used a stabilizer
>for buttonholes (other than the interfacing that is behind the fabric)
>and wonder if my buttonholes might be stronger by using something
>extra.

It sounds as if she used what I usually use for making buttonholes and for
machine applique, etc. -- "Stitch 'n Tear".

It gives me a stiffer surface for my machine satin stitch and the results
are wonderful.  There are other products that can be used, but I've still
not used up my Stitch 'n Tear yet so I haven't tried anything else. For
example, if you don't want the little white hairs, there's a water-soluable
stabilizer called Solvy that I haven't tried but that many people like a
lot.


Coni B.
conib@peri.gvg.tek.com
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: cfeem@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Eleanor Midkiff)
Subject: Re: Washing velvet
Summary: Try velveteen 
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 22:10:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Expires: ?
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
Keywords: washing
Followup-To: net

When my kids were little (sigh), I had good luck making Christmas-type
clothes out of cotton velveteen, which is washable.  There was one pretty
red dress with a white lace collar ... Sigh.  Oh, well -- pretty soon I'll
have grandchildren to dress up!


-- 
Eleanor Midkiff
(cfeem@eiu.edu)
From: chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: Available Color Choices
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:12:18 GMT
Reply-To: chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD


I remember reading or seeing on television a story about "a group" that
met and decided which colors would be "in" a few years down the road.
But haven't brought it up because I couldn't remember specifics.  Now
other posters have made me believe that what I read was true.  That
explains why all of a sudden wallpaper, bath towels, fabrics all seem
to be in the same color schemes---such as dusty pink and pale blue for
the last few years.  Or am I out of date already again.

Why are so many of the posters in alt.sewing named Anne?  I never run
across any other Anne's in real life.
Anne C.
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: svr@gumbee.mlb.semi.harris.com (Susan Richmond)
Subject: Making puffed sleeves puff....
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:48:33 GMT
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL

  I am having a problem getting puffed sleeves to puff.  I've
  used the heavier weight interfacing cut just like the pattern
  calls for but my sleeves droop.  The fabric is lightweight cotton
  so I didn't think that would be a problem to keep puffed...

  Does anyone know of a remedy or an alternative that would keep my
  sleeves puffed?

  Thanks
  susan r.


From: ber@otter.hpl.hp.com (Brenda Romans)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:36:12 GMT
Subject: help: buttonholes on a thick coat
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: alt.sewing


I am attempting to make a coat out of VERY thick woollen material.  There is no
pile on it to speak of but it is going to be an interesting job to get it
through the machine.  Any tips on handling it would be welcome but my main
concern at the moment is the buttonholes.

My machine (a basic electronic Burda) does buttonholes very well but I think
I'd better do these by hand.  I am embroidering detail on the pockets (and
maybe other places later) and I'd like to use the stranded embroidery silk on
the buttonholes but I don't think that it will be strong enough.  I doubt that
I will be able to get a button thread in a  colour to match the material
(mushroom with a hint of pink) or the silk (burgundy).  Thick thread seems to
come in black, white and bottle green.  Any ideas?

Another question - I have never attempted a tailored item before but the
pattern instructions don't look any different from a dress pattern.  I have a
good book but do any of the coat/jacket patterns that you can buy come with
better instructions?

Cheers

Brenda
From: marg@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Margaret Minsky)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Speaking of fabric weight measurement, what about thread measures?
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:25:57 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: /u/marg/.organization


Following up on the question about fabric weight...can someone explain
the thread measurements for shirt fabric, e.g. "140 threads per inch
(I understand that part) 80's singles". I suppose "singles", "doubles"
refers to the ply of the cotton thread.  Is the 40,60,80 etc a weight?

What are examples of this as a description of shirt fabrics e.g. oxford
cloth)?
From: tbachman@hamline.edu (Toni Bachman)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Happy to be sewing after all these years!!!
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:48:23 GMT
Organization: Hamline University, St. Paul, MN.

Hi!

I just have to share my exceptionally good mood with you all!

I took last week off from work to sew and I had the best vacation!

I have three boys who can all wear different sizes from multi size patterns
and I made them each three pair of pants, two vests, and three shirts.

I hadn't really done much sewing since high school and am I ever happy
I decided to give it a try - they have great patterns these days for
boys too!!

Now, I get to work on my own clothes!!  YIPPEE!!!

Toni
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: psburns@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (MAUREEN BURNS)
Subject: Re: Sandwashed Rayon
Followup-To: alt.sewing
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 26 Aug 1992 10:52 EST  

In article <4823@rosie.NeXT.COM>, szakhour@next.com (Sharon Zakhour) writes...

>If you do decide to use this stuff, be sure to pre-wash it as it has a nasty  
>chemical finish on it.  If you try to use it unwashed, you will have trouble  
>with needle holes.  They will create little pulls every time the sewing machine  
>needle punctures the fabric.  Even if you change your needle and use a brand  
>new and very fine ballpoint needle. [I made many many tests with different  
>needles.]  If you pre-wash the fabric, this is not such a problem.
> 
>Forget making buttonholes in this stuff.
> 
>Never iron it on the right side.
> 
>It ravels badly.
> 
> 
>Sharon
> 
> 
> 
>In article <1992Aug21.135712.26517@terminator.cc.umich.edu> vln@icpsr.umich.edu  
>(Victoria Neff) writes:
>> 
>> Actually, rayon IS a nice soft fabric, and it is on the borderline between
>> synthetic and natural.  It is manufactured from cellulose by humans.  It
>> is NOT a petroleum product.  I find that clothing made from rayon is as
>> comfortable as "natural" natural fibers (and I won't wear plastic clothes).
>> It IS irritating when you can't find what you're looking for (be it silk or
>> yellow), but please don't lump rayon in with polyester!
>> 
>> (Can you tell that I, too, have fondled the sand-washed rayon in my Minnesota
>> Fab??  I haven't actually purchased any.  Yet.)



HMMMMM....
Last night, I was working on a dress I am making from rayon challis.  The 
fabric was on sale, which is why I bought it, and I am really not thrilled 
with it.  It wrinkles and frays like crazy.  I don't know what caused me to 
buy it, because I've worked with it before, and I never have been satisfied 
with the results.  

But what caught my eye about this posting was the little pulls that show up
 as I am sewing.  I thought 
it was the needle (which I replace at the start of EVERY new garment, so it 
still is a new needle).  The problem didn't go away, and I have these 
little pulls along the whole lenght of the zipper!  I never thought that it 
could be due to the finish of the fabric.  

Thanks for the insight...

Maureen

PS... What's the difference between sand washed rayon and rayon challis?
From: Marina.Salume@Corp.Sun.COM (Marina Salume)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: sandwashed rayon
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:17:37 GMT

>But what caught my eye about this posting was the little pulls that show up
 >as I am sewing.  I thought 
>it was the needle

Has anyone who has tried sewing on sandwashed rayon tried putting
some type of stabilizer under the seam as you sew? (like a strip
of paper or something). My machine instruction book says that some
fine fabrics will actually get pushed down into the hole by the
needle and that could cause those little "pulls". So I'm wondering if using a
stabilizer would help. Or maybe spray starch and press the seam allowance
area before sewing--then you'll have to wash it out of course. 

--marina
From: jareed@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Judith Ann Reed)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: crotch length adjustments
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:43:00 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Greetings. I'm trying to come up with a pants pattern (simple, elastic waist
for now) that fits, and both i have tried so far are too short from crotch
to waist. I have a third pattern, supposed to be adjustable for small, med.
and large hips, short, med. tall height, and none of the crotch lengths 
are right. Would one of  you please tell me where to add depth to the 
pattern so I can get sufficient crotch-to-waist length, front and back?
Also, please note if I add same in front and back, or what. 

Thanks Kindly!!!

Judith Reed

--
 Judith Reed - sysmgr - Syracuse University High Energy Physics
 judith@suhep.phy.syr.edu
 jareed@rodan.acs.syr.edu
Newsgroups: alt.sewing