HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ron.parker@uttsbbs.uucp (Ron Parker) 
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: Seattle Textile Compu
Date: 23 Dec 92 08:54:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
Reply-To: ron.parker@uttsbbs.uucp (Ron Parker) 

 Newsgroups: alt.sewing,rec.crafts.textiles
 Subject: Re: Seattle Textile Computer Users Group

 On Date: 19 Dec 1992 18:55:24 GMT mberteig@cco.caltech.edu (Michelle
    Berteig) wrote:

 MB. I have tried twice to reply to Ron via e-mail, but it kept bouncing, so
 MB. I'm posting this, sorry!

My uucp address seems to fail sometimes.
Try   ron.parker%uttsbbs%boo@pacbell.com   which always (maybe) works

 MB. I read the post on the Seattle Textile group and I have some questions.
 MB. Does it have a BBS or any type of on-line services?  I'm going to spend
 MB. the holidays in Seattle and would like to check it out, if it exists.

No STCUG has no on line service.  You can phone Giselle Blythe
(Sec./Treas.) in Seattle at 206-789-6772 or newsletter editor Susan
Oldham at 72147.2637@compuserve.com

 MB. Also, what is Fibernet?  (I have heard several people mention it) Is it
 MB. also in Seattle?  What is the phone#?

Fibernet is a BBS specializing in all aspects of fibers, much like a
como of alt.sewing and rec.crafts.textiles, but with only minor activity
in sewing as compared to other fiber areas.  It is in rural wstern
Minnesota, phone 218-583-4337 at 8N1, and up to 9600 bps - or possibly
14,400 bps if I get a new modem working by the time you read this.
There is no charge to use Fibernet except the cost of your phone call.

 MB. send me!  Please email, I'm leaving for Seattle Monday and so won't have
 MB. a lot of time to collect responses...thanks!

I sorry that I didn't see your article untile today (12-23), but i hope
the info will be of some use to you or others.

Ron Parker
ron.parker%uttsbbs%boo@pacbell.com
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From: roder@cco.caltech.edu (Brenda J. Roder)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: canceled postings
Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:28:16 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain) writes:


>Can anybody tell me how long a posting should remain in the network
>system?  I came in to work today planning to print out all the answers
>to the "remnants" question, only to find that everything posted before
>last Thursday has been canceled already.  I thought that things were
>supposed to last a week here.  I am often too busy at work to read all
>the postings, but I figure if I get on once a week I will catch everything,
>but is this right?  So postings get canceled automatically, or does
>the moderator have to do it?  I'm probably going to miss quite a bit
>over the holidays if the postings don't remain on for a week---during
>the holidays, more than a week would be nice.
>Can someone enlighten me as to how the system works?

I am posting since I expect many people don't really understand how their
news system works.  Disclaimer:  I am not a system/news administrator but
I have read the newusers.questions groups, and the news.admin groups off
and on for most of a couple of years.

There is something called expire which deletes news articles as they age.
Each system administrator sets the expire on their system to whatever they
want.  Some places it will be a week, some 3 days.  It depends on how limited
disk space is and how much news is received.  If there is a problem or a lot
of extra news comes suddenly (news is somewhat lumpy I believe), they may
run expire more frequently or just delete whole sections (especially something
big like the GIFs (i.e. pictures) newsgroups).  Expire can be controlled on
a newsgroup by newsgroup basis also, so that some things (like news.answers
and other moderated groups) may stay around for a month, while others are
expired much faster.  Expire would generally run once a day or so I think.

Once an article has been expired on a news system it is basically 
unretrievable since it has been deleted off the disk.  Some groups that are
considered particularly worthy (like sources groups) are archived, so that
their articles are available essentially forever.  But this is rare and 
generally only for a moderated group of a high enough quality that someone
is willing to allocate permanent disk space for it.  Generally, a group which
is archived will have a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list or a Periodically
posted article which tells where the archives are available.

If there are any news admins who wish to make corrections, feel free please.
I would be interested in any misunderstandings of the system I may have.

-- 
-- Brenda (roder@cobalt.caltech.edu)
Thought before action, if there's time.
    _The Edge_  Dick Francis
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: nancy@world.std.com (Nancy C Reynolds)
Subject: 1993 projects:  Mine and Yours
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:30:20 GMT

Are there any projects you didn't finish last year and really want to try to
get done this year?  Or is there something you're just dying to try at
long last?  What's uppermost in your mind to do this year regarding sewing
or crafts?  Here are some of mine:

1) Finish about 6 cross stitch pictures that are more than 50% done
2) Work on a massive cross stitch project (Rainbow Row, about 28" long in 18
count) that will probably take me all year, if not into 1994 or 1995 to do
3) Finally make my winter coat, suit and yellow silk and pansy blouses.
4) Get framed (or otherwise finished off) all craft projects that are
already 50% stitched and GET THEM UP ON THE WALL!  (What a concept!)

If there are other folks out there who work on something, then put it
aside and work on something else, sometimes not getting back to the first
(or even second or third) item, I suggest we offer each other
encouragement to keep plugging away.  Meanwhile, I think it would be fun
to have an overview of people's projects and new year's resolutions relative
to our newsgoup. 

Happy New Year!

--Nancy Reynolds
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: remanants - new life :)
From: miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:41:36 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University 

In article <TIGGER.92Dec17232021@satyr.Sylvan.COM>, tigger@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Grace Sylvan) writes:
> In article <Dec.16.14.06.05.1992.16280@net.bio.net> charleen@net.bio.net (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes:
> 
>    I've got four BIG boxes full of all kinds of remnants, from 100% cotton to
>    taffeta to felt to silk.  Every now and then, I drag them out and dig
>    through them, hoping inspiration will strike and I can free up some storage
>    space.
> 
> You might want to dig through and give some away to your local
> elementary or middle school's art department. I bet the teacher could
> find a use for them in art projects.
> 


Do you have the problem of what yo buy "friends who have everything?" 

Well for this charistmas I bought a lot of smallish size plain
teddy bears and diving into my remants box, dressed them individually...
as a result I now have a vampire bear, a "Christine" (from Phantom),
an Eric Claotin Bear, A Scarlett O'hara bear, a knight and his lady,
a bride and groom.... the list is endless.  My friends were deligted
to recieved something that little bit difference, and were also pelased
that I had been prepared ato go to the trouble of creating something for
them myself.

Next year I am hoping to be more organised, and have a few to spare for
the local charitites..... :)


Just a thought,


Morgana
From: lrs@cs.utexas.edu (Leona R. Slepetis)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: Hot Knife (was Re: ballgowns)
Date: 23 Dec 1992 12:06:58 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: im4u.cs.utexas.edu

In article <1h89usINN5g0@agate.berkeley.edu> pora@hera.Berkeley.EDU (Pora Park) writes:
>Hey, thanks for mentioning the Hot Knife,
>Karen Robinson.  I just called Jehlor and they
>are, indeed, $25.25 ($28.75 w/tax & shipping).
>
>My question:  Anybody ever used one of these things???
>Any last-second warnings before I lay out the cash?

I use a hot knife very often, mostly on thin nylon ripstop.
It does a great job of keeping the edges from raveling, but
there are a few things to watch out for.

Hot cut nylon becomes hard and brittle.  You don't want these
edges next to your skin, so use something like felled seams
in those areas.

If you expect the hot cut edge to be thick enough to give the
fabric body, note what I said above about brittlenes.  It will
crack (at least on nylon) and not give a smooth line.  This
depends on technique and the fabric.  Something like chiffon
probably can't get thick enough to be a problem, but I have
found that hot cut spandex looks just awful.  Trimmings could
be used to cover the edge, of course.  As for technique, if 
you go just fast enough to cut the fabric, there probably won't
be much buildup of melted stuff.

Keep a damp rag or cellulose sponge around to clean the burnt
remains off the knife.  Otherwise, it will eventually start
coming off on what you are cutting.

Lay the fabric on glass or something smooth.  Formica is fine.
If the fabric sticks to the surface, it may distort when you
pull it up.  Use a thin ruler laid flat on the surface to "slice"
it off.  This causes less damage to the fabric than pulling it
up.

Ventilate!  The fumes from melting synthetics are not good for
you.

Practice!  Try the knife on scraps before you cut your masterpiece.
Every weight and type of fabric behaves differently.  I have worked
almost entirely with nylon; polyester may be different.

Good luck.

Leona Slepetis   lrs@cs.utexas.edu    lslepetis@mcimail.com

Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: fran@Cadence.COM (Fran Peterson)
Subject: Re: Finishing chiffon, & other info
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:47:04 GMT

In article <119450002@misty.boeing.com> karen@misty.boeing.com (Karen Robinson) writes:
>
>THEY DO MAIL ORDER, and a catalog is available.  Their phone number
>is 206-575-8250.  Address is Jehlor Fantasy Fabrics, 730 Andover Park W,
>Tukwila, Wa.  98188.   There are currently out of catalogs, but
>watch for an announcement in Sew News about their 1993 color catalog.
>
Thank you so much for this posting.  I have been looking for just such
a place and service.  It's great to know it's so close to California.

Does anyone else know of places like this?  If so, pls. post or send to
fran@cadence.com.

TX again,

F [:)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: What is a Serger??? :)
From: miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:05:25 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University 

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a Serger? :)


Morgana
Down Under
From: cb522@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cathy Atwood)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: using silk remnants
Date: 24 Dec 1992 05:48:40 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I think it was this newsgroup that had a recent discussion on the
use of remnants.  My special horde is different size pieces of 
silk, and I've almost decided to make a light weight coat out of
some of the stash.  

Does anyone know of a good fabric to line this with?  I think it
should be slippery, and maybe it should have the same shrinkage
rate as silk?

Also, there was mention a while ago about what thread to use 
when sewing silk.  Many people felt that silk thread should not
be used.  But silk kimono have been sewn with silk thread for a
*long* time.  So is it a difference of sewing with a machine
versus by hand, when choosing the thread?

Thanks for whatever help you can offer.
Cathy Atwood
From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re:  Storing spools, cones and bobbins
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:20:35 GMT
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization

In article <1992Dec29.174048.27520@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> xxbeth@lims01 (Beth I. Mittelstaedt) writes:
>Hello, 
>
>  I was wondering if anyone has found a good way to store 
>spools of thread, bobbins and cones?  I am currently using a 
>plastic storage case that is stashed in a drawer below my 
>machine  that keeps the thread clean and out-of-site.  
>I  was considering one of the wall-mount organizer units that 
>allows the thread to be displayed more decoratively.   Will 
>exposure to light and maybe a little dust ruin the thread?  Is a 
>peg-board a reasonable option?  Any  ideas? 

A few days ago I changed from in-drawers-boxes-on-shelves-unavailable-where-
did-that-red-spool-go-or-did-I-use-it-up-already? to a wall-hanging pegboard.
What a difference!  The thread is easily available and I am encouraged to put
thread I'm finished with right back on the pegboard instead of in a heap that
gets a life of its own while I try to decide which of several inadequate
places to put it.  Some of the thread I own has sat openly (in one of those
heaps) for long periods of time, and some of it I inherited from my mother
so could be as much as 30 years old.  I have noticed no degradation.  If dust
has you worried you can tack a piece of transparent plastic on the top edge
of the pegboard and let it drape over the spools, etc.  The plastic would
also block UV rays, if your pegboard is exposed to them.


Carrie		ceb@rechenau.unify.com	x6244		---------------------+
|   "Technical work needs reviewing for the same reason that pencils need    |
|   erasers."			- Daniel P. Freedman & Gerald M. Weinberg    |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: emilia@natinst.com (Emilia Hezari)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: The Pile-Up Begins :-)
Date: 1 Jan 1993 23:13:05 -0600
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: falcon.natinst.com
Summary: This is one way of dealing with it...

My mother has a neat way of dealing with her stacks of fabric. She got a bunch
of cheap plastic clothes hangers and she neatly folds each piece of fabric
and hangs it on the clothes hanger. It provides easy access to each piece and
good visibility too. I hope this is useful to others too.

Emilia
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: I got a serger for Christmas!!!
Date: 29 Dec 1992 19:07:10 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu

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


>The subject line says it all.  My boyfriend (the most wonderful man
>on the planet)

SECOND - next to my fiance :] :]

>Of course, I was sort of expecting a ring.  After 2.5 years, you
>can't help but expect it.  But a serger is fabulous!  I love it!  I
>really do!  I can't wait to try it.   

Well, back in September my boyfriend bought me a serger for my
birthday (about three weeks before my birthday).  

We got engaged at the end of October.  

So - just wait about 1.5 months and you never know.

>JUST KIDDING!!! NO FLAMAGE!!!

HEY

Take it from me (and all the other seamstresses out here)

HE'S A KEEPER

--
Dear Santa,
     I want it ALL!!!!!  {after taxes}
            Love,
            Mary

    Mary Allison (mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu) Urbana, Illinois
From: mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: The Pile-Up Begins :-)
Date: 30 Dec 1992 23:07:10 GMT
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu

A friend of mine uses an interesting idea for storage of fabric.  She
uses those plastic closet organizers that hang in the closet and have
little shelves for sweaters.  Anyway, it's a great place to put fabric
because then you can see what's where (and might get tempted to do
some work :] )
--
#4 Silent Mice
#3 Fluffy, the Snowman
  -- Shoebox Greeting's list of Cat's Top Ten Favorite
     Christmas Songs

    Mary Allison (mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu) Urbana, Illinois
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: "sonia brock" <sonia.brock@canrem.com>
Subject: i got a serger for ch
Reply-To: "sonia brock" <sonia.brock@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 30 Dec 92 20:47:38 EST

>
>Well, back in September my boyfriend bought me a serger for my
>birthday (about three weeks before my birthday).
>
>We got engaged at the end of October.
>
>Take it from me (and all the other seamstresses out here)
>
>HE'S A KEEPER
>

MD>Sigh.  I guess it's the way to a woman's heart.  How much IS a serger
MD>these days?

MD>Mitch.

  About $800 after taxes up here in cold country Canada.

  Free Trade ain't free but I sure hope it evens out the exchange rate.

  Having a Serger is a bit like having an extra arm.  Comes in handy and saves
  time.

Sonia Brock
---
  DeLuxe 1.25 #4202  "When I want your opinion I'll read your entrails"
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: I got a serger for Christmas!!!
From: cscmd@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:31:22 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

In alt.sewing article <1hq7kuINNogg@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison) writes:
>psburns@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (MAUREEN BURNS) writes:
>
>
>>The subject line says it all.  My boyfriend (the most wonderful man
>>on the planet)
>
>SECOND - next to my fiance :] :]
>
>>Of course, I was sort of expecting a ring.  After 2.5 years, you
>>can't help but expect it.  But a serger is fabulous!  I love it!  I
>>really do!  I can't wait to try it.   
>
>Well, back in September my boyfriend bought me a serger for my
>birthday (about three weeks before my birthday).  
>
>We got engaged at the end of October.  
>
>So - just wait about 1.5 months and you never know.
>
>>JUST KIDDING!!! NO FLAMAGE!!!
>
>HEY
>
>Take it from me (and all the other seamstresses out here)
>
>HE'S A KEEPER
>
>--
>Dear Santa,
>     I want it ALL!!!!!  {after taxes}
>            Love,
>            Mary
>
>    Mary Allison (mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu) Urbana, Illinois

Sigh.  I guess it's the modern way to the modern woman's heart.  How much IS 
a serger these days?  

Mitch.

[And will it cost me less than a decent ring? <Only kidding>]
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: charles@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Charles Jacob Cohen)
Subject: Re: remanants - new life :)
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:58:10 GMT


This is going to sound really silly, but how about using remnants as
wrapping paper for holiday gifts?  You wouldn't need much fabric, and
you can be as creative as you want.  Just be sure that you leave a way for
people to get their presents out!  - Chuck


-- 
"I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect, had intended for us to forgo their use." - Galileo
"I'm an engineer, not a dictionary!" - Me
Xref: sparky alt.sewing:3589 rec.crafts.textiles:2409
From: chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing,rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: canceled postings
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:07:58 GMT
Reply-To: chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain)
Followup-To: alt.sewing
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD


Can anybody tell me how long a posting should remain in the network
system?  I came in to work today planning to print out all the answers
to the "remnants" question, only to find that everything posted before
last Thursday has been canceled already.  I thought that things were
supposed to last a week here.  I am often too busy at work to read all
the postings, but I figure if I get on once a week I will catch everything,
but is this right?  So postings get canceled automatically, or does
the moderator have to do it?  I'm probably going to miss quite a bit
over the holidays if the postings don't remain on for a week---during
the holidays, more than a week would be nice.
Can someone enlighten me as to how the system works?

Anne
From: chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: The Pile-Up Begins :-)
Date: 30 Dec 92 17:08:51 GMT
Reply-To: chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Once when one of our local knitting shops was going out of business,
I bought a floss display cabinet---a nice wooden box with plastic drawers,
each drawer about 2"x2"x6".  There must be about 16 drawers---great
for sorting snaps, thread, needles, ribbons, etc.  Something different
in each drawer.  Come to think of it, the same type of box in hardware
stores would work.  They come in all sizes and shapes in the hardware
store.

I also use plastic zippered sweater bags to store knitting yarns.  These
are great because I can see the yarn inside each bag without having
to open it up.  They were hard to find---finally ordered them from the
"Hold Everything" catalog.

But the bolts of fabric just pile up in paper bags.  (Not bolts---yardages)
I don't have a good system for them.

Anne
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: t-laurap@microsoft.com (Laura Penberthy)
Subject: Velvet
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:16:06 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Keywords: Velvet

My sister said that she would make me a long black skirt
for a concert, and I would like it to be velvet.  She 
hasn't worked with velvet before, and wanted to know if
anyone has any comments or helpful tips.  Please reply 
to t-laurap@microsoft.com.

Thanks!  Laura
From: pora@hera.Berkeley.EDU (Pora Park)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Hot Knife (was Re: ballgowns)
Date: 22 Dec 1992 23:56:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hera.berkeley.edu



Hey, thanks for mentioning the Hot Knife,
Karen Robinson.  I just called Jehlor and they
are, indeed, $25.25 ($28.75 w/tax & shipping).
I am going to send them a check immediately!

My question:  Anybody ever used one of these things???
Any last-second warnings before I lay out the cash?

Pora Park
pora@hera.berkeley.edu


Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: vmzmeu@halcyon.com (Zmeu Vladimir-Martin)
Subject: speaking of silk, where can I get a scarf rehemmed?
Summary: question about hemming a silk scarf
Keywords: rehemming fine silk scarf
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:02:52 GMT

I have this fine silk scarf which needs to be rehemmed, but 
I haven't a clue how to do this.  The edges which are still
hemmed seemed to be rolled and then hand stitched so that the 
thread can hardly be seen.  Also, I think it is hemmed with 
silk thread.  Is there anyone in Seattle who could fix this
for me?  Also, where can I find pale grey silk thread?

Toni Benjamin
(borrowing the account of Vladimir-Martin Zmeu)
vmzmeu@halcyon.com
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: mlinda@novell.com (M'Linda Taylor)
Subject: Re: The Pile-Up Begins :-)
Organization: Novell Inc., Austin, TX.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:21:37 GMT

In article <29120@oasys.dt.navy.mil> chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain) writes:
>
>I also use plastic zippered sweater bags to store knitting yarns.  These
>are great because I can see the yarn inside each bag without having
>to open it up.  They were hard to find---finally ordered them from the
>"Hold Everything" catalog.
>
>But the bolts of fabric just pile up in paper bags.  (Not bolts---yardages)
>I don't have a good system for them.
>
>Anne


Hmmmmm, you just gave me a idea.  I've accumlated several of the plastic
zippered bags that blankets and some sheet sets come in.  Sound ideal to
stash fabric in.  Not to mention yarn.

M'Linda
*I'm OUT of current projects!!!!*
Red alert, red alert.....project shock.....  %>
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