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Skriven 2013-10-09 23:35:08 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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->  ->  RH> It all depends on what you're going after.  Sometimes the
->  fabric tells you what it wants to be.
-> 
->  RH> Sometimes the fabric develops a mind of its own.
-> 
-> Then you have to beat it with a stick. (G)
-> 
Or give it what it wants.  I just mailed a seriously gaudy flannel blankie 
out.  No pictures taken of this one; I didn't want to risk breaking the 
camera.  It's a mix of red and black buffalo plaid and bright orange tiger 
stripe.  They wanted to go together, so off they went.

->  RH> A lot of greens; it would work nicely as a guy quilt.  Someone's
->  RH> granny cut this out but never sewed it together. The family put it 
out
->  RH> at a yard sale for two bucks, but with no takers.  Somebody spent
->  RH> dozens of hours cutting this out and they couldn't sell it for two
->  RH> dollars.
-> 
-> OK, I saw the postal system notification. It'll be a keep me busy
-> project. Sounds like there aren't too many traditional quilters in your
-> area or they just didn't happen to catch that yard sale.
-> 
Some of both.  Nobody wanted to mess with the thing.  The center squares
are 
all dark brown.  She even included the template, so it went along for the 
ride.  I should have sent the box of triangles too.  
 
->  She also cut a gazillion strips, but I'll make use of those. I need to
->  stack up some baby and other emergency quilts this winter.
-> 
-> 
-> We use them in our QoV group, both as is, and cut up.
-> 
Good idea.  This lady cut herself a bunch of baby quilt jelly rolls.  Like
I 
really needed more fabric, but....
 
-> -> Not planning to; I'll match up pairs before cutting. I'm not sure how
-> -> many different fabrics this Double 4 Patch has in it but there are 4
-> -> different alternating squares to the 4 patch blocks.
-> 
->  RH> You could always paper bag it and see what happens.
-> 
-> Not this one, it's a planned randomness.

I do some random patch work too.  They're jigsawed together rather than cut 
into squares.  
 
->  RH> Mine take up an entire room too, and I still can't do my cutting in
->  RH> it.
-> 
-> We keep our "long arm" set up torn down most of the time as we just
-> don't have the space. Might be better since we took some furniture out
-> of the living room tho. I do my cutting in the sewing room; I've got a
-> cutting table that also collects a lot of other stuff on it. A table top
-> ironing board "lives" at one end and for lack of space in this house,
-> the table only has one side up.

I don't have a table - no space.  
 
-> -> Was he raised in NJ? That's been the only place we've seen it on a 
menu.
-> 
->  RH> Maplewood, in fact. Right on the nose.
-> 
-> So he wanted his taste of home every so often. Just like my dad, every
-> time we went out to North Tonawanda, he would have to stop at one
-> particular sausage manufacturing place and get some.
-> 
Yep.  It's a childhood memory thing.  Those and "salt sticks" -
baton-shaped 
bagels with kosher salt all over them.  I haven't seen them anywhere but 
north Jersey.
 
->  RH> That makes sense, the Oranges are in that same neck of the woods.  
It
->  RH> turns up in Pennsylvania too; I'm not sure how much further South
it
->  RH> goes or how far West.
-> 
-> Hasn't made it to NC that I know of, or as far west as TX (and beyond).
-> I think it's just a relatively localised thing.

Most likely.
 
-> -> shoes. He still can't use NSAIDS (because of the back) and tylenol
was
-> -> barely cutting the hurt for a while.
-> 
->  RH> Ow. Tylenol is good for nothing when stuff really hurts.  I was
told
->  RH> an icepack works better.  Aleve does better on joint pain, I'm
told,
->  RH> although it never did much for me.  It can also wreck your stomach.
->  RH> There are
->  RH> stretching exercises that help feet, but with the back he might not 
be
->  RH> able to do some of it.
-> 
-> He's doing better now that he's been in the better shoes for a few days.
-> Now he's more understanding about all the trouble I had after I broke my
-> foot 8 years ago.

Talk about learning the hard way!  Putting good orthotic inserts in the 
shoes would help more.  I used to like Spencos, but they've gotten hard to 
find.  
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