potholders
Originally uploaded by NcTxweaver
Here are the finished potholders. The black one is the free-motion embroidered one. It is red on the backside.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
quilted potholder
quilted potholder
Originally uploaded by NcTxweaver
Thought I would share my latest endeavor - free motion embroidery/quilting.
Loving it.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Monday, July 19, 2010
Soap and chairs, newest projects to show off ...
Here is a picture of the old caned chair with the honeycomb patterning and what appears to be someone's foot had gone through it. The second picture is the chair after having recained it. You cant see it in this picture, but I ended up with a herringbone pattern, don't ask me how.
I still have to add the binding cane around the edge, but was so excited that I had to share.
Also, I've recently found my old recipes for making lye soaps which I loved to do a few years ago. I thought I'd try a different process. I started making soaps using the double boiler hot process method, however; I felt that I was loosing too much of the glycerine in the process. After making the base I would then rebatch into several different scents and herbals.
Now I've tried the Crock pot method and I'm sold on it. I found an old crock-pot and give it a go. It takes about an hour from start to finish and I have 
a dozen 4oz bars when done. This picture shows three different soaps each one batch.
a dozen 4oz bars when done. This picture shows three different soaps each one batch. L to R: Goats Milk, Lemon zingers, Oatmeal-honey-goat's milk.
I'm so glad to have had a few hours to play. Yahooooo!!!!
Sunday, July 4, 2010
HAPPY July 4th !! What happened to the fore fathers?
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men
who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors,
and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army;
another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or
hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.
Eleven were merchants,
nine were farmers and large plantation owners;
men of means, well educated,
but they signed the Declaration of Independence
knowing full well that the penalty would be death if
they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and
trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the
British Navy. He sold his home and properties to
pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British
that he was forced to move his family almost constantly.
He served in the Congress without pay, and his family
was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him,
and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,
Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown , Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that
the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson
home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General
George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed,
and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed.
The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying.
Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill
were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests
and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his
children vanished.
So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and
silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.
Remember: freedom is never free!
I hope you will show your support by sending this to as many
people as you can, please. It's time we get the word out that patriotism
is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July has more to it than beer,
picnics and baseball games.
(sent to me by the mother of a serviceman).
who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors,
and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army;
another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or
hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.
Eleven were merchants,
nine were farmers and large plantation owners;
men of means, well educated,
but they signed the Declaration of Independence
knowing full well that the penalty would be death if
they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and
trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the
British Navy. He sold his home and properties to
pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British
that he was forced to move his family almost constantly.
He served in the Congress without pay, and his family
was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him,
and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,
Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown , Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that
the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson
home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General
George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed,
and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed.
The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying.
Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill
were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests
and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his
children vanished.
So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and
silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.
Remember: freedom is never free!
I hope you will show your support by sending this to as many
people as you can, please. It's time we get the word out that patriotism
is NOT a sin, and the Fourth of July has more to it than beer,
picnics and baseball games.
(sent to me by the mother of a serviceman).
Saturday, June 12, 2010
on vacation and what did I see ....?????
While winding down for the last of the looooonnnnggg drive home, I was flipping the channels on the hotel tv and came across a very informative PBS documentary. Food, Inc. by Robert Kenner Director/Producer.
Wow, what an eye opener. I agree that we are in a commercially driven state of mind --"sheep". It is up to us to make choices, just like we would morally (good vs. evil/bad).
Holidays, Birthdays, Vacations are other forms of commercialism. Why is everything so complicated anymore? When did life become so "complex" and why do we have to make an effort to make the right choice? Because, if we don't we become "the sheep".
I work for Walmart, I love my job and the people that I work with and for. They are given a good review by organic farmers in this PBS documentary - their effort to supply the demand for better options.
Take a look: PBS "Food, Inc." documentaries with a point of view.
Wow, what an eye opener. I agree that we are in a commercially driven state of mind --"sheep". It is up to us to make choices, just like we would morally (good vs. evil/bad).
Holidays, Birthdays, Vacations are other forms of commercialism. Why is everything so complicated anymore? When did life become so "complex" and why do we have to make an effort to make the right choice? Because, if we don't we become "the sheep".
I work for Walmart, I love my job and the people that I work with and for. They are given a good review by organic farmers in this PBS documentary - their effort to supply the demand for better options.
Take a look: PBS "Food, Inc." documentaries with a point of view.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
CSM ......progress finally :-)
I've been trying for what seems like eons to get a completed pair of socks from this cantankerous sock machine, and voila finally a completed pair of socks!! Eureka it all came together.
The tension is a little loose, but all in all they are comfy, hopefully they will shrink a little bit when washed.
This is a sock that I actually had done ribbing on and was all the way done, but the last row after shortrowing the toe, I dropped a stitch and didn't even realize it till I was done with the waste yarn, so had to undo the whole thing. Darn it!!!!
I have to say tho, that the ribbing part was super easy, just have to keep practicing and it'll become easier much like the shortrowing is.
I am going to look for an old booklet I had which had a pattern for a gusset heel that I did on a flat bed knitter with ribber using circular knitting. Turned out to be real easy and the heel looked hand knit, plus I hear they are better all the way around. I figure if I can do it on a flat bed I should be able to do it on the CSM. right????
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