JSM's BEGGING FOR BAN THREAD #10

[darla]

Good Night Northern and Cookie God Bless and have a good night.



NRCG, how was your dinner tonight?

[darla]

Goodnight Nrcg, didn't realize you were going to bed also. Guess I am the only nightowl. lol

[darla]

Tevye, I see you up in the rafters. Hope you have had a good weekend and are doing ok.

[no rose colored glasses]

Wow, that is my sewing machine also, that was my grandmas    Good night everyone going to bed.  The only thing that has ever worked for me for dry skin, Eucerin body wash, I no longer have bad, dry skin, and I also take a fish oil capsule which helps tremendously. Hope everyone had a good Sunday 

Hi no rose!

Good night, and sleep well!

Thank-you hope you sleep well also, and everyone else. I was going to bed, and then decided to stay up until 8, late night for me 

[no rose colored glasses]

Goodnight Nrcg, didn't realize you were going to bed also. Guess I am the only nightowl. lol

I'm back  it was good, thank-you, glad your dinner last night went well. How nice to have kept in touch with high school friends 

[Gizzie]

I really wish I had kept that machine my mother wanted to give me. I was only 24 or 25, and didn't really have an interest then. But I should have kept it just for the fact of it being my grandmother's.

I remember her sitting there when I was growing up and she would be sewing my sister's and my dresses. She made us everything! Patterns were always out on the floor, and we'd walk down to Woolworth's to pick out the fabric.

Northern, that's a beautiful quilt! Do they take very long to make?

That one took about 4 months.  However it took my daughter a long time to cut all the strips and she lost interest for a while then got back to it.  My youngest son's took about  a week to cut up the jeans and sew them together.  His pattern was much easier with bigger strips of fabric.  I have not finished his yet.  I still have to sew together the top, batting and backing and do the top stitching.  That will take me a weekend to do. 

That doesn't sound too bad. And I bet the one with jean strips is going to look pretty cool! Definitely for a boy! I like that, and I have a storage tub with old jeans that don't fit my son. I was going to give them to the church down the street, but I think I'll keep a couple of pairs and give this a try! Thanks! 

[Gizzie]

Northern...how many hours of daylight do you have in winter?

Right now sunrise is about 9:30am and sunset is 4:00 pm. 

Ok ...now I will quit whining about it getting daylight at 7 and dark at 5:30. I would be a raving lunatic if got dark here at 4 pm. I hate the winter time when it gets dark so early.

LOL! Me too! Mostly because I can't drive too well at night, but I like sitting on the porch in the summer half the night!

[Gizzie]

I am heading to bed early tonight in case the school buses are not running tomorrow. 

Good Night all God Bless.

Good night Northern, sleep well!

[trimmonthelake]

Good Morning Monkeys. 
I'll be around  somewhere.I am trying to get caught up on my reading.   

Hey Green Eyes.   

[Green Eyes]

Good Morning Trimm

Good Morning Monkeys 

Hope every one has a good Monday.

[joesamas mama]

Greeneyes, I have a treadle machine sitting where my Christmas tree should be. I wouldn't know how to work it if I tried, but it is very pretty. If my Christmas saga palm wasn't in front of it I would take a picture of it. It was left out in the rain at one point so some of the top is cracking, but other than that it is really pretty. The machine itself is in my closet because when I moved it was too heavy to carry up the stairs all in one piece.

I have a treadle sewing machine that belonged to daughter-in-law's great grandmother. It rode from Detroit to up here in a trailer, losing one of its drawers on the way. I used the technology of the 'net to figure out how to restore it. I was totally shocked to learn that our local Singer store sells the belt I needed to make it go. I didn't refinish the cupboard and drawers, I restored them with special soap and a special recipe shellac-like finish. Then, I made a quilt for my grandson, and signed it with his great-grandmothers name (she bought the machine), his downstate granny's name (she inherited it and gave it to me) and my name.

I have 3 sewing machines, and the treadle is my favorite. It's quiet and really fun once you get the rhythm down. It's like meditating, only you're producing something. I find it is best for large projects, like putting the already made quilt blocks together and putting the whole quilt together. For piecing the blocks, I use my electric, as the electric is a 2 speed, the treadle doesn't have reverse!

Here is my treadle and I love it!  I also have 3 machines and this is my all time favourite.  I use it to do the top stitching on my quilts as I have so much control over it and the cabinet helps me roll the quilt for the sections I am working on.  I have found a weblink that lets you know when your Singer was manufactured and where by the serial number.  This one came over from Scotland and how I got it is a whole other story.

Here is the first quilt I my daughter made.  She picked out the colours and design , helped cut the strips and sewed them all together.  I have made a quilt for each of the kids this way.  Youngest has one made up entirely of his oldest brothers jeans.

Northern you quilt is beautiful and your sewing machine looks just like the one I have. Too cool.

[joesamas mama]

Night monkeys. I am going to bed. I got up too early, my legs are tired and Josef is sleepy. Sleep well and God bless. 

Nite JSM! Glad you got to skate today, and if you took less hot baths less frequently, your skin would have an easier time of it. I would recommend the Corn Huskers before you put your tights on.

Or you could be like Doris Day, and slather your whole body with Vaseline...she did that so she'd always look young. (groooooossss!)

Vaseline for real? That is really, really gross.

[Tevye]

Night monkeys. I am going to bed. I got up too early, my legs are tired and Josef is sleepy. Sleep well and God bless. 

Nite JSM! Glad you got to skate today, and if you took less hot baths less frequently, your skin would have an easier time of it. I would recommend the Corn Huskers before you put your tights on.

Or you could be like Doris Day, and slather your whole body with Vaseline...she did that so she'd always look young. (groooooossss!)

Vaseline for real? That is really, really gross.

For real, and really really really gross!

[joesamas mama]

Wow, that is my sewing machine also, that was my grandmas    Good night everyone going to bed.  The only thing that has ever worked for me for dry skin, Eucerin body wash, I no longer have bad, dry skin, and I also take a fish oil capsule which helps tremendously. Hope everyone had a good Sunday 

Hey No Rose, I didn't think fish oil would help. Tevye said to stay out of the hot bathtub, I will also try that because that is when my legs really begin to itch. Just my legs, nothing else.

[joesamas mama]

Good Morning Monkeys. 
I'll be around  somewhere.I am trying to get caught up on my reading.   

Hey Green Eyes.   

Morning Trimm. 

[joesamas mama]

Good Morning Trimm

Good Morning Monkeys 

Hope every one has a good Monday.

Morning Greeneyes It is foggy this morning.

[joesamas mama]

Night monkeys. I am going to bed. I got up too early, my legs are tired and Josef is sleepy. Sleep well and God bless. 

Nite JSM! Glad you got to skate today, and if you took less hot baths less frequently, your skin would have an easier time of it. I would recommend the Corn Huskers before you put your tights on.

Or you could be like Doris Day, and slather your whole body with Vaseline...she did that so she'd always look young. (groooooossss!)

Vaseline for real? That is really, really gross.

For real, and really really really gross!

Well I guess it workes, she the last time I saw her she looked pretty good. (she is still alive right) ?

[trimmonthelake]

Night monkeys. I am going to bed. I got up too early, my legs are tired and Josef is sleepy. Sleep well and God bless. 

Nite JSM! Glad you got to skate today, and if you took less hot baths less frequently, your skin would have an easier time of it. I would recommend the Corn Huskers before you put your tights on.

Or you could be like Doris Day, and slather your whole body with Vaseline...she did that so she'd always look young. (groooooossss!)

Vaseline for real? That is really, really gross.

For real, and really really really gross!

It really works.   

[trimmonthelake]

Wow, that is my sewing machine also, that was my grandmas    Good night everyone going to bed.  The only thing that has ever worked for me for dry skin, Eucerin body wash, I no longer have bad, dry skin, and I also take a fish oil capsule which helps tremendously. Hope everyone had a good Sunday 

Hey No Rose, I didn't think fish oil would help. Tevye said to stay out of the hot bathtub, I will also try that because that is when my legs really begin to itch. Just my legs, nothing else.

I am taking fish oil capsules right now and it does help.

[trimmonthelake]

Poof,Tevye is gone.     I bet she if off to do some skateboarding.