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From: vln@icpsr.umich.edu (Victoria Neff)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Re: recent/current projects
Date: 12 Nov 1992 17:41:58 GMT
Organization: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
NNTP-Posting-Host: tdis.icpsr.umich.edu

Yesterday I finally broke out my new drumcarder.  I got it all set up,
and then I blended some Corriedale wool with some Corgi dog down (undercoat).
I blended 1 oz of wool with .333 oz of dog, and spun it and plied it (2 ply)
and washed it.  This morning I sat for a while with it around my neck,
and decided it was too scratchy for next-to-the-skin (I'd been thinking
"wimple"...).  I'm really pleased to have overcome my reluctance to get out
the drumcarder....

Maybe I'll try the Corriedale with some angora, or maybe some alpaca.....

So many fibers, so little time!

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From: jbyrd@chpc.utexas.edu (Jan Byrd)
Subject: Re: Ideas needed: sewing for men
Organization: Center for High Performance Computing, Univ. of Texas System
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 15:15:23 GMT

For those of you who are into T-shirt/sweatshirt painting, a friend of
mine made a ton of money at a bazaar I participated in with what I thought
was a most creative and original idea (this was 4 years ago so I don't 
feel too bad about mentioning it here).

She bought a bunch of men's sweatshirts (mostly black and gray, mostly
L,XL, and XXL sizes) and painted really gorgeous and exotic fishing lures
on them (you know how pretty some of those things are).  She sold almost
every one she had and took a BUNCH of orders she was hard-pressed to finish
by Christmas.  I think she charged $30-40 each for them.

Anyway, at that bazaar, this was the ONLY thing for sale that would have 
appealed to men, although several women ordered 1 for their husbands and 
1 for themselves.

Jan
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From: sastoen@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Susan Stoen)
Subject: Re: Current Projects
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 23:27:43 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
Keywords: these are some of my favorite things

>>How many people out there have finished a really fun 
>>project lately?  Or, like me, thought about several 
>>while you're working on 2?  I'm dying to hear what other
>>people are accomplishing.
>
>> 	So many projects, so little time......
>
>Ain't it the truth!!
>

I just finished a Norwegian-style cardigan.  I knit it on a set of
#3 needles and I used Icelandic Lopi.  I used a pattern (sort of)
from a book by the Dale Company, HOW TO KNIT NOREWEGIAN SWEATERS.
Considering the yarn that I used, I didn't follow the directions   
too closely.  It is knit with a base color of dark brown; I
also used a light brown and an ivory, also.  I used a tad bit
of blue towards the neck.  The sweater is incredibly warm and
it is nearly windproof. It took me three years to knit it.  Considering
that I started it when I began my PhD, it is a wonder that it 
didn't take longer.

Well, I've got to run.  Have a nice day.

--Sue Stoen         email :   sastoen@lamar.colostate.edu



to knit it.
From: vln@icpsr.umich.edu (Victoria Neff)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Current Projects
Date: 8 Nov 1992 19:58:16 GMT
Organization: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
NNTP-Posting-Host: tdis.icpsr.umich.edu
Keywords: these are some of my favorite things

In article <1992Nov6.202831.9490@super.org> jill@super.org (Amelia L. Scott) writes:
>How many people out there have finished a really fun 
>project lately?  Or, like me, thought about several 
>while you're working on 2?  I'm dying to hear what other
>people are accomplishing.

I've finished spinning and plying (3-ply) the PURPLE roving my daughter chose
(with mittens as the origianl end goal).  As my mother is working on some 
mittens for her, I talked her into a hat.  That purple yarn is washed and 
waiting to be wound into a ball, so I can start knitting swatches....

> 	So many projects, so little time......

Ain't it the truth!!

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From: Marina.Salume@corp.sun.com (Marina Salume)
Subject: smocking questions
Organization: Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:16:35 GMT

>1) The first piece I learned on was an English lawn.  It was wonderful
>to work with.  Now, I'm working on a piece of thick Hoffman cotton and
>I'm finding that the needle doesn't glide through the fabric that
>easily. 

I haven't done much smocking, but I know there are needles out there
that are smaller in size, but have larger eyes. (Same for machine sewing
needles.) I have no idea what they are called, but try checking the
needle racks and comparing them to the one you are using. It makes sense that
you'd need a larger needle for heavier fabric, actually.

>2) I'm using perle cotton.  That is what the teacher suggested in the
>class that I took.  She gave some reason why she used perle cotton
>over DMC thread, but I don't remember her reasoning.

Most patterns I've seen use cotton floss, but perle cotton has a more
raised look to it and will show up better on a printed fabric, especially.
A teacher of crazy quilting around here, Susan Schwarting, using perle
cotton almost exclusively for that reason. Also, it's shinier and she
likes that look on a fancy piece of crazy quilting.

--marina
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From: marie@paris.erg.sri.com (Marie desJardins)
Subject: Redying faded silk shirt
Reply-To: marie@paris.erg.sri.com (Marie desJardins)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 03:04:07 GMT

I posted a question here a while ago, and didn't get any response.
I thought I'd give it another try (even though I hate those messages
that go, "I posted a question here and nobody answered!!!  Come on,
you guys, get with it!" as though readers have some obligation to
provide answers to every question that rolls past their screen...)

So don't feel obliged to answer this! :-)

I have a washable-silk blouse that used to be a beautiful slate-blue
color.  I left it lying in the sun on top of a pile of clothes-to-be-
ironed after I moved a few months ago.  When I pulled it off the top
of the pile, I found that the part that was exposed to the sun had
faded to a yellowish-blue color.  I'm wondering if it's possible to
redye the shirt -- will the stain still show?  What kind of dye do
I need to use?  Any tips on color matching?

If this works, I have a couple of other articles of clothing that have
gotten faded over the years that I might try to redye as well.

Any tips or pointers are greatly appreciated.

Marie desJardins
marie@erg.sri.com

P.S. I've really enjoyed reading the spate of articles about
interesting projects, and the spinning classes, and weaving
techniques.  I hope that you will all continue to share your
experiences with the group!  (Maybe someday I'll have an
interesting enough project to share. :-)
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From: cfeem@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Eleanor Midkiff)
Subject: Re: My Dream Project
Summary: Yarn? 
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:29:08 GMT
Expires: ?
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
Keywords: these are some of my favorite things 
Followup-To: rec.crafts.textiles

Rats, I forgot to include the previous post!  It was the knitted
tablecloth, which really sounded great.  What kind of yarn did you use,
needles, where did you get the pattern?  I'm all inspired now -- thanks to
whoever started this idea.

So I'll tell you about my project -- it's a pullover with a heart pattern
on the yoke (from a Vogue knitting book, circa 1950) made from alpaca
yarn.  It's soft and gorgeous.  Can't wait to sew up the seams.

Eleanor

-- 
Eleanor Midkiff
(cfeem@eiu.edu)
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From: boojum@athena.mit.edu (Laura Baldwin)
Subject: Re: My Dream Project
Keywords: these are some of my favorite things 
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:10:02 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.202831.9490@super.org> jill@super.org (Amelia L. Scott) writes:
>How many people out there have finished a really fun 
>project lately? 

I'm currently working on the lace sweater from the front cover of this
summer's issue of Knitters, but that's not very exciting.  My project
before that (well, it's still under construction, as it's now too
large to carry around in my bag and work on in spare corners of time)
was a color sweater with Escher lizards.  I got a bitmap of the
lizards, converted it to ASCII, and made the grey into a different
character, then added one duplicate line extra for every two lines
there.  This got it close enough to the horizontal/vertical gauge I
knit to look the right shape.  

Then I added rows and columns (also via duplicating them; emacs proved
invaluable for this sort of thing), and smoothed out the now-jaggy
edges, until I had a lizard pattern that could be tiled together and
was 60x72.  The body of the sweater was 180 stitches in circumference,
and the sleeve where it joined the body was 60 (raglan sweater).  So
each sleeve could be grafted in without disrupting the lizard pattern.
Then I had to use tons and tons of math to start shrinking the pattern
so that it stayed lizard-shaped as the sleeve and shoulders got
smaller.  (taking out one-out-of-every-x stitches, and then taking out
carefully selected rows so that the aspect ratio didn't change).
Anyone who actually cares about the math (it might be useful for
anyone else wanting to scale picturelike things) can email me and I'd
be happy to babble on and on about square roots...

Anyway, I knitted this up in purple/teal/black alpaca (my mother's
choice for colors, not mine :) ), pieced it together, and am now
outlining in light grey with embroidered chain stitch.  The lines on
the back of the lizards, and the eyes, will also get embroidered in.
It looks pretty cool, and I am hoping very hard that it fits... if it
actually does, I will post the pattern; it'd probably be easiest to
adjust the size by changing the gauge, rather than trying to alter the
pattern, which is a flaw.  This is definitely the most complicated
project I've designed, and included writing a C program to subtract
out the every-n-stitches rather than doing it by hand.  (please please
please let it fit...)

"In the midst of the word he was trying to say,		
  In the midst of his laughter and glee,		Laura Baldwin
 He had softly and suddenly vanished away,		boojum@athena.mit.edu
  For the Snark was a Boojum, you see." 


--
"In the midst of the word he was trying to say,		
  In the midst of his laughter and glee,		Laura Baldwin
 He had softly and suddenly vanished away,		boojum@athena.mit.edu
  For the Snark was a Boojum, you see."
From: paul.ribeiro@rose.com (paul ribeiro)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Punching
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:17:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: rose.1992Nov11.021711.22442
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
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Date Entered: 11-10-92 21:11
I was wondering if anyone out there has done any "Perfect Punch"
projects?  I want to make a clock gift for someone and I want   to
punch the design on.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

/Rochelle
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From: ron.parker@uttsbbs.uucp (Ron Parker) 
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Re: Odd and Inexpensive D
Date: 2 Nov 92 10:05:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
Reply-To: ron.parker@uttsbbs.uucp (Ron Parker) 

    
 On 23 Oct 1992 18:01:22 GMT dawn@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Dawn Burgess) wrote:  
   
DB . I once made a spindle out of a stick into which I carved a notch and
DB . a whorl I made of potter's clay and fired in the fireplace.  I felt
DB . so creative!

Great idea! The weight of the clay would be nice for momentum.  One can
also make a 'real' drop spindle by getting a wooden toy car wheel at
woodworking specialty shops.  A 4" solid wood wheel is only $1.75 (5"
for $2.35) out of poplar with red oak, cherry, and walnut for 10, 20,
and 30 per cent higher respectively.  There are even hardwood spoked
wheels which put the weight out at the edge where you want it for $2.95
for a 4.25" size.  The wheels have .5" center holes and you can get .5"
x 24" dowels for $.70, .80, 1.00, and $1.40.  Thus a solid walnut drop
spindle with a 5" wheel would cost you a paltry $2.35x1.3 + $1.40 =
$4.46 (or an even paltrier $3.05 in poplar). The prices above are from a
year-old catalog from Cherry Tree Toys, Inc., PO Box 369, Belmont, OH
43718, 800-848-4363

One can make a nice spindle from half a yo-yo and a dowel, and then you
have the other half to make a second one to give as a gift.  There are
some neat wooden yo-yos out there if you look around a bit.  The
diameter of a yo-yo is a bit small but they are thick so the weight is
still there.

ron.parker@uttsbbs.uucp or ron.parker%uttsbbs%boo@pacbell.com  (Ron Parker)
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From: lcatlett@carson.u.washington.edu (Lynn Catlett)
Subject: Re: Redying faded silk shirt
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 23:46:44 GMT

>marie@paris.erg.sri.com writes:
  asked about dying and [ tragically lost ID ] responded
with great stories about dying, to which I would add two
small points:  

1.  most dyes (*except* Kool Aid) are toxic, so be
    veryveryvery careful to follow instructions, have
    good ventilation, wear gloves, etc.  

2.  The *material* of the sun-faded blouse might be
    damaged by exposure to the light, so don't bet the
    ranch on revitalizing it entirely...  I have in my
    closet several breathtaking early 19th Century 
    Chinese silk embroidered garments that are about the
    consistency of spiderwebs...  SO frustrating not to be
    able to make things of them or wear them (haha!  assuming
    I lost the majority of my body weight)  -- although I
    *do* get them out and >fondle< them from time to time...

A good source for dyes and info about them is
	Cerulean Blue  (206) 323-8600 for catalog/price list*
(*my only connection is:  I wish I could buy more of their
stuff)

Most exotic effect I've achieved:  Rit purple over ikky
orange on an otherwise nice silk scarf  ==>  bronze!
verrrry interesting!!
	
HAVE FUN!!
Lynn

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From: lise@kepler.uucp (80734-romanov)
Subject: recent/current projects
Reply-To: er@oscar.bellcore.com (80734-romanov,elisabeth)
Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 16:22:52 GMT

I'm an addicted knitter who sews, embroiders and does cross stitch with
some enthusiasm as well.  I promised my partner a vest ages ago, bought a
handsome black rayon twill remnant for next to nothing, and let the matter
rest there for a while. 

Saturday I was scanning kids knitting books (I've gotten into colorwork
lately, and my kid likes fancy sweaters) and found a French book (Galler, I
think) with several sweaters fearturing a Man in the Moon. I don't know why
it hit me, but it did--I prepared the vest pieces and am currently 
cross stitching the half moon on the back; I'll put the (highly impressionist)
stars on the lower front, and probably quilt at least the embroidered 
parts of the the vest as well.  

If my partner doesn't love the finished garment to death, he doesn't get 
to keep it :).

Regards,
Lise
oscar.bellcore.com
From: bkeating@ems.cdc.com (Bonnie Keating)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Needlework double sided tape
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:48:39 GMT
Reply-To: bkeating@ems.cdc.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC


The new things that is being done at the framing shops around here is for
mounting needlework pieces onto the foam core board using a double sided
fabric tape.  This is less time consuming than using the lace method but still
allows the pieces to be 'removed from the board in their original condition.'
This method has been approved by the guilds, in Minnesota at least, as an
acceptable way to mount needlework.  My question is, does anyone know where I
can purchase this stuff?  My local needlework shop won't sell it unless
you pay them to mount the stuff for you - something I will never do.  (I prefer
to do my own mounting then I am completely responsible for what it turns out
like)  I offered to even buy it in large quantities like the shops are sold, but
they still refused.  I have tried my local fabric stores and they only sell
basting tape - not what I need.  I don't know where else to try. Does anyone
know where I can buy the fabric tape I am looking for?  I am willing to buy a
large quantity that would last several years if that is the only way I can get
it.  Thanks in advance.

     Bonnie
From: ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Re: Great Storage Idea!
Date: 10 Nov 92 09:21:15 GMT
Reply-To: ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


In article <1992Nov9.121030.52548@gmuvax.gmu.edu>, sbowen@gmuvax.gmu.edu writes:
|> SO I make an effort to have portable projects and pleasant-looking
|> baskets or containers to put them in. Then I select a *few* current projects
|> to work on and store them in baskets. Either they travel with me to
|> different places or different rooms (or both) but they and I both go
|> where the people are. And then I keep company ( or am kept company)
|> and get my projects done at the same time.

Doesn't work in my case, my knitting machine is *Noisy*, especially if
I'm doing Fair-Isle. It would be very nice to work in the same room as
my wife in the evening when she is doing her lesson plans or marking
school books, but she objects even if I sit with the door open.

Ah well, back to the sweaters for Christmas for my nephews....


Nigel Titley

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)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
From: tamitha@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Tamitha Carpenter)
Subject: Re: advice: dressmaker's dummy
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:21:14 GMT

carolyn@bucket.rain.com (Carolyn Peterson) writes:

> 
>A dress form would not be useful for me.  Patterns are designed to
>fit a body shaped like a dress form.  I need to make a couple of
>alterations to the shoulders, change the back width and drop the bust
>line to get the patterns to fit *me*.  Dress forms don't come in that
>shape :-)   Forms can be custom made for your body, but if you have a
>change in weight, you would need a new form.  Even if your weight
>stays the same, gravity often rearranges the distribution as you age. 
> 
:
:
>Carolyn Peterson
>carolyn@bucket.rain.com

If you can find one of the older styles of dress forms, it would
solve that problem.  My mom has one, and it's basically a bunch
of semi-flexible black wires, hooked together forming diamonds,
which in turn form a torso and hips.  It has snaps up the front 
and back, and you put it on (it's terribly uncomfortable, even 
over a leotard) and fit it to yourself.  When your body shape 
changes, you just repeat the process.  The one my mom has is 
called "my double", but I'm pretty sure that company now makes 
the silly dial-a-body forms that fit patterns, not people.

I don't know where you'd find one, except by haunting yard sales
and second-hand stores.  Good luck.

Tamitha Carpenter
tamitha@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
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From: ann@tessi.com (Ann Makarias)
Subject: recent/current projects
Summary: recent/current projects
Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:45:02 GMT

Right now, I am knitting a custom sweater of my own design for a customer
referred to me by a spinning friend.  I am using her wool (a thick undyed
oatmeal-colored 2-ply, and a similar yarn dyed clear blue).  The design is
a men's raglan-sleeved pullover with a simple star design in the blue across
the chest (and over the arms), bordered by a stripe pattern.  The selling
price is (only!) $195, of which about $90 will go to Norah for the
yarn.  I realize that this will result in scant payment for my time.  I
do it more because I love to knit but don't need more sweaters (especially
heavy ones!)

I also have a nearly-finished sweater for myself of my friend's yarn --
this time a lighter weight undyed charcoal grey.  I am mostly following
the pattern #2 (a cable vest) from the latest Vogue Knitting.  I have
finished the pieces and am now doing the ribbed trim.  It's such a pain to
turn every 7 stitches and do 70-some inches of the stuff.  I knew this
would happen :(

About 6 weeks ago I was accosted in the fabric store :) by a beautiful
black, charcoal and purple plaid Pendelton wool -- on sale, no less.  I
eagerly bought 2 yards envisioning a straight skirted jumper, and found an
appropriate pattern.  I am a pretty inexperienced, but have had good luck
with just jumping in and doing things -- but nobody told me about matching
plaids!  I dug into my back issues of Threads and found an article all
about it! 8)  Okay, so it took me an entire afternoon to figure out how to
lay out the pattern pieces so that the plaid would match and I had to rip
out and re-sew a couple of seams, but who's counting.  Now I know how to
do it.  (BTW, anyone have any ideas about what to do with 1/2 yard of this
gorgeous fabric?)

That's what I've been doing... I just hope that Norah doesn't try to teach
me to spin!

Ann Makarias
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From: ljensen@ferris.cray.com (Laura Jensen)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Re: recent/current projects
Summary: Unusual animal fibers
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:15:45 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.

Congratulations Victoria on the inauguration of your new drum carder!
The Corgi down reminds me of a few questions - 

1) Where does one go about finding dog and cat hair?  I haven't tried
to ask the local dog groomers yet, but I was curious about other 
people's sources.         

1a) Who, besides HM Queen Elizabeth II, owns Corgis?  Is their down
nice/fine/crimped?  

2) When someone _gives_ you fibers for spinning, what do you make
for them in return, and what proportion of the finished yarn do 
you use for it?  (This is perhaps more of a manners question 
than a fiber question.)

A few months ago, I started saving combings from our cats.  They
don't have particularly long hair, so I wasn't thinking of spinning
it; I was more thinking about incorporating the hair into a felt
ball for my in-laws' dog!  I kept the fiber in a sandwich-sized 
ziploc bag, not particularly crammed in, and in a few months of
light handling (Izzy picking the bag up in her mouth and running with 
it plus my adding fibers to the bag) the fiber had resolved itself 
into semi-felted shapes _just like hair balls_.  Now, I am wondering 
what is unique to the cuticle structure of cat hair to make it
perform this way, in an enclosure?  Any thoughts?

   - Laura
From: esh2@po.CWRU.Edu (Evelyn S. Hlabse)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles
Subject: Knitting magazines
Date: 13 Nov 1992 15:18:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: esh2@po.CWRU.Edu (Evelyn S. Hlabse)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu



We have lots of good book stores around the area but I'm getting
frustrated in trying to find magazines whose focus is knitters.
There are many for crocheting but not knitting.  Can someone
provide an address (or addresses) for these magazines?  E-mail or
post replies.  I get in this area a lot.

Evelyn
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