Cajun Corner – Vol.
4, No. 38 – October 7, 2012
Bon
Jour! Welcome to Cajun
Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.
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Peggy’s Eraser is an embroidery notion that
removes embroidery stitches. There have
been rave reviews about it and the item has been available longer than I’ve
worked with machine embroidery. It is
just that Peggy’s Eraser has always been too expensive for me. This week I needed to rip some stitches and
borrowed Peggy’s Eraser from a customer.
It was really nice and although it did take awhile to remove the
stitches, it was not nearly as long as it would have taken without the Peggy’s
Eraser. It looks and handles just like
an electric razor. George went out and
bought a new electric razor for Cajun Stitchery and it seems to do the trick
just as well as the Peggy’s Eraser. It
is a very handy tool because as much as you try to do perfect embroidery,
sometimes stuff just happens.
We attended a friend’s surprise 60th
birthday party last night and presented him with a gag gift of disposable
underwear. On the front was embroidered
“iPeed” and on the back “iPood”. The
iPood design was found on the internet when I was browsing some embroidery
ideas. They had it on the back side of
baby diapers. I just thought it was
adorable.
Our tablecloth is coming along. I can only work on it during my free time and
there isn’t much of that lately. So far
the tablecloth has about 366,000 stitches and it isn’t finished yet. I’m excited about it. I’m finally able to use some of the heirloom
stock designs that I’ve longed to embroider and never had the opportunity
before. The thought has crossed my mind
to sell them but gee whiz, I would have to sell them for hundreds of
dollars. Perhaps a design that is not so
heavily embroidered would sell better.
Nevertheless, that’s in the future.
Right now I’m working on mine.
This week was filled with robes, shams and
monograms. It is October and Christmas
is right around the corner. Are you
ready?
Ideas for embroidered Christmas gifts: linens, sheets, pillow cases, blankets,
bedcovers; towels, bath, beach, hand, wash, fingertip/tea; kitchen towels, pot
holds, trivets, coasters, napkins, tablecloth, placemats, apron, plastic bag
caddy; and, of course, handkerchiefs, shirts, jackets, and caps.
We have several small cherry tomatoes but I’m
still waiting for the beefsteak plant to form tomatoes. They have flowers, but only a few. Our fingers are crossed.
The horseradish plant is kind of yellowish. Hope that’s not a bad sign. We keep reading that horseradish is pretty
invasive. I sure hope so. I love the flavor of horseradish, not to
mention that it is a natural pesticide for the garden.
We just harvested as many bell peppers as we
could carry and there are still more out there.
It is definitely a bell pepper year.
Have a wonderful
week.
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A Very Nice Trellis with Vines
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My neighbor down the road a bit has a terrific trellis
arrangement that helps out both in the summer and in the winter, and looks
very nice to boot.
They have a large south facing porch across the back of
their home, and put in an open roof structure and trained vines to cover the
roof and some of the vertical surfaces. The vines provide some very welcome
shade on the porch during the summer and also shade some of the south facing
windows. In the winter, with the leaves gone, the area under the trellis gets
filtered sun that is very pleasant to sit in on sunny days when the full sun
might be a bit too bright. The windows behind the trellis also get some
winter solar gain through the vine branches -- this can be adjusted by
pruning. In the fall, the vines put on a very nice fall color display.
The vines take some time to get established -- they
thought about 5 years to get to full coverage. And, some trimming and pruning
is needed each year to keep them in the areas you want. They have trained the
vines to cover both the roof surface and some of the vertical surfaces where
they wanted sun protection.
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Goto http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Cooling/HJTrellis/Trellis.htm
to find pictures of the house and
trellis.
C’est tout, mes amis
Cajun Stitchery
(850) 261-2462
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welcome to stop by and look at all of the catalogs and pass some time with me,
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