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Skriven 2013-06-08 16:41:38 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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-> -> I don't buy the salad bar at supermarkets with the exception if we're
-> -> getting lunch at some place like Whole Foods but yes, I've seen the 
bean
-> -> salad there. I've also seen it on salad bars at restaurants.
-> 
->  RH> It doens't turn up all that often here.
-> 
-> I can't say how common it is here, I just know that I see it. Could be
-> I'm also thinking of places we've eaten at while travelling too.
-> 
It's like pickled herring here; you can still get it, but most customers
are 
older than I am by a fair margin.
 
-> ->  RH> I'm eating my way through my stash one quilt at a time.  That
-> 
-> The lighting caught my screen just right and it looked for a second like
-> yous said guilt, instead of quilt so I looked again & saw the q, not g.
-> (G)

I do get guilt trips from my mother aout the hoard!
 
-> -> The red muslin I bought last week will be made into a shirt, probably 
in
-> -> a week or so.  Other fabric I've had longer, some, lots longer.
-> 
->  RH> There's a piece of lace buried in there that my next door neighbor,
->  RH> who died
->  RH> 30 years ago, gave Mom. It's nice, but not too useful.  I also have 
a
->  RH> piece of mom's wedding gown fabric.  That goes back to 1965.
-> 
-> Incorporate the wedding gown fabric into something for your niece. The
-> lace, I don't know--background for a collage? Part of a crazy quilt? I
-> don't know how big it is or what color, so just throwing out ideas.

That fabric I'm holding on to, just in case.  The lace is a good-sized hunk 
of reimbroidered alencon.  
 
->  RH> I find some pieces at tag sales or rummage sales.  Those pieces
stay
->  RH> around until they find friends.
-> 
-> I understand. I've been working on the 2nd shirt, should have it done
-> today (started yesterday). It's going a lot faster than the first.
-> 
I hit a rummage sale today where they gave everything away.  No clothes for 
me, but some friends made out like bandits.  No fabric either, fortunately.
 
-> -> I save are the metal ones; I've a friend in Savannah who sews for a
-> -> theater group there. They prefer metal zippers because they're 
sturdier
-> -> for quick costume changes.
-> 
->  RH> The plastic things just break.  Better to use a real one.
-> 
-> For that, yes but for other projects I'll use plastic or nylon zippers.

I have some around, but haven't made clothes in a long time.
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