Cajun Corner – Vol. 6, No. 11 – April 27, 2014

 

Cajun Corner – Vol. 6, No. 11 – April 27, 2014

Bon Jour!  Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.

 

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As mentioned last week, I did embroider our tee shirts with the Pledge of Allegiance.  They turned out so good that I took pictures and posted on our Cajun Stitchery Facebook page.  Not long after posting one lady commented and purchased a tee shirt with the embroidery. Another friend has purchased one, too.  However, as the first lady and I were commenting back and forth, another person decided to comment. That comment was not very nice and basically said I was wrong to use the Pledge of Allegiance for monetary gain.  I didn’t feel the post deserved a comment.  Not long after that someone else posted a very lengthy post regarding the controversy of the Pledge of Allegiance.  I deleted both comments.  A little while later, another person commented that she was pleasantly surprised that no one had posted controversial comments.  Nevertheless, that post received over 1,000 hits.  More than I have ever had for a post on Facebook.

We went to a friend’s home for Easter.  Since George and I ALWAYS color Easter eggs and hide them at her house, she asked that we please refrain from doing this.  Instead, one of her guests was bringing her two little boys and would we please hide the eggs for the children.  We were delighted to do so, of course.  Well, not without a little bit of good ole Cajun fun.  We did color the Easter Eggs.  We did hide them for the little boys.  We did tell our friend that there were 22 eggs – 2 dozen shy 2 eggs that broke.  We did actually only have 20 eggs.  Hahahahahaha!!!!  I wonder if she is still searching for those other 2 eggs.

George has been very busy in the garden and caring for the lawn and plants.  The place is looking very nice right now.  One of our front yard plants is a papyrus.  The papyrus decided to take over the yard.  George dug all of the papyrus up but put one in a half whiskey barrel.  The papyrus looks very nice and we feel good because it won’t take over the yard and yet we still have a specimen to admire.  Funny thing is that as the papyrus has recovered from transplanting and winter, the soil is producing a few surprises of its own.  Johnny Jump Ups are jumping up in the pot along with a few other plants from our yard, including a tomato plant.  Our yard is always entertaining.

Even though the handkerchiefs have been a success in our Etsy store, one of the most popular handkerchiefs has been taken off.  It is the scallop edged hanky that has the thick scallop.  It just never looked right to me.  Oh yes, it is beautiful but as the designer there is something wrong with it.  One thing was that on each scallop there was a stitch or two in the middle that looked bad.  My wonderful embroidery tech taught me how to get rid of those stitches.  The issue is now resolved.  The next issue is unevenness of the threads when detached from the hoop.  I’ve been working on that today.  The outcome is that there will be a few more handkerchief designs available in our Etsy store in the near future.

With all of that said about handkerchiefs, we completed an order this week for three white with lavender stitching handkerchiefs that say, “No Ugly Crying.”  Yes, it is for a wedding.  Our customer is in Canada.  They turned out beautiful.

A gentleman called me this week wanting some patches.  “Do you make patches?” he asked.  Yes, we make patches.  It turned out that he is a truck driver who changed companies or opened his own company and needed some patches to put over the embroidered logos on his pants and shirts. His lovely wife came to the studio and showed me his shirt and approved the patch design.  They are done.  Before she left, I asked her how they found me.  She said that they live in Ensley (a small area just north of Pensacola) and they called every embroiderer they could find but no one made patches.  I suspect no one made small order patches.  Apparently embroiderers have a minimum number of patches required before they will take the order.  Luckily for this couple, they found Cajun Stitchery who will accept small order patches.  It is a shame that more embroiderers don’t take small orders.  There is a demand for “In Memory of” type patches.  As in this case, rather than tossing out good clothes, a nice patch can cover the older emblem.  In fact, any design can be made into a patch.  It is only a matter of putting the square, circle, or geometric shape outside the design. 

Since I was already working on patches, I designed a patch for a friend of mine who works protecting the sea turtles.  The patch has not been stitched out yet, but she loves the design.

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Cajun Corner – Vol. 6, No. 10 – April 19, 2014

 

 

Cajun Corner – Vol. 6, No. 10 – April 19, 2014

 

Bon Jour!  Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.

 

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Spring comes and goes this year.  A friend and life long resident of Pensacola once told me that we have one last cold spell in mid-March and then it is spring.  Usually that is true but this year little frosty days have popped up in April.  And the rain!  It seems we’ve had quite a bit of rain this year.  No problems here.  Our garden is very happy.

We had a week or so of company.  It was so nice to be able to have out-of-town guests and let them stay at the studio.  The bed over there is apparently quite comfortable.  It is too low for my tastes and George promises to make a platform for the bed someday.

It may be the full moon this past week but my printer died and we had to buy a new one.  Then our microwave died and we had to buy a new one.  Now it looks like our Mr. Coffee may be dead.  Goodness gracious!  Things need to last longer.

In spite of all of our activity this month, a lot of embroidery was done, as well.  I finally finished a non-rush project of a name on a huge Christmas stocking.  I kept putting the project off because the customer didn’t need it until Christmas.  George finally said that if I keep putting it off Christmas will arrive and then it will be a rush job.  So, I did it and it turned out beautiful.

In my endless pursuit of trying to use all of my scrap fabric, I made a cute “Happy Easter” banner that turned out very nice.  It is now hanging in our showroom. 

Handkerchiefs are the highlight of our Etsy store.  One lady contacted me on Etsy to find out what kind of fabric I had available for handkerchiefs.  After sending her pictures of a lot of fabric she decided that she wanted four handkerchiefs made.  Two of the handkerchiefs were to be made from our black and white pin striped fabric and the other two from our 100% cotton white fabric.  One of the black and white pinstriped hankies was to have an artists palette and the word Dew in script.  The other pinstriped hanky was only to have the word Dewest on it in script.  The hanky with the palette was edged with white thread.  Dewest was edged in red thread.  The other two were on white cotton and edged in pastel colors.   The white and pastel edged hankies were no big deal and they were done using a light tear away stabilizer.  The hanky with the red edge was a bit more complex.  You see, the tear away stabilizer is white and once you tear it away little specks of white can show around the edge.  It does not show on white or light colors but for a dark color like red it poses a problem.  Instead of the tear away for the red edged handkerchief, I used Vilene.  Vilene is a wash away stabilizer.  Basically it is a sheet of starch.  After making the hanky with the red edge I soaked it in cold water.  It turned out beautiful.  The handkerchiefs were mailed to the customer who, upon receipt, replied that three of the hankies are beautiful but the one with the red edge is discolored and hard.  I knew it was the starch so I told her that before she had to send it back and I make another, for her to soak the hanky in cold water.  She did soak it overnight and replied the next day that it is as soft as the other hankies.  She just couldn’t believe it was starch because the fabric wasn’t hard, just the edge.  Ah, another satisfied customer.

A baby shower was approaching and I needed a baby shower gift.  I’ve made baby booties before and have some adorable patterns.  So, I made a pair of baby booties.  They turned out okay, I guess.  They really are not that hard to make.  The problem is all of the little, tiny pieces.  Finally, I got the idea of scanning the pattern pieces into the computer and digitizing them.  OMG!  It worked.  I was able to do a running stitch for the seam and outline, including the little important divots.  Then I turned on my boring needle and the machine cut out the pattern pieces perfectly.  Sweet!  The booties still had to be assembled and sewn on the sewing machine but with perfectly cut pattern pieces it helped so much with the sewing.  Better than that, I was then able to embroider on the pattern pieces before cutting them out.  Yes, anyplace on the pattern can be embroidered, including the soles. They did turn out so cute.  The time involved in making the booties is rather extensive.  It still takes me 2-3 hours to make a pair of booties.  This is much better than the first pair that took me the better part of the day to make.  One problem still remains.  The very last thing to do in making the booties is sewing the front, toe area.  Mine rarely are curved properly.  For my baby shower gift, I made a pair of booties with a matching bib and bonnet.  The bib is also done on the embroidery machine.  The bonnet is easy to make but other than the embroidery, could not be done on the embroidery machine.  Of course, the baby bibs are for sale on Etsy and for custom orders.  The booties are not; simply because I would have to charge $40-$60 per pair, which is ridiculous for a pair of booties.

A friend/customer contacted me about wedding coasters.  Her son is getting married and she wanted a special coaster to go under candles that will be placed on each table at the reception.  In addition, she wanted something that her son and daughter-in-law could keep and use.  We ended up making 5” wide coasters in the shape of a sea shell with the names embroidered on the edge.  Using one of the special features in our digitizing program we were able to embroider the last name as a loose fill stitch on the entire area of the shell.  All 24 coasters turned out lovely and the customer was happy.

Another customer, a real New Orleans Saints fanatic, found a pair of scrub pants in the gold color of the Saints.  She asked that I design something that said New Orleans Saints and included some fleur de lis.  Our end design was “New Orleans” down one side of the pant leg. “Saints” down the side of the other pant leg.  Fleur de lis across the bottom of each pant leg.

Recently we obtained some new embroidery designs.  One of the designs is the Pledge of Allegiance.  It is very pretty.  I’ve heard that schools no longer have the children recite the Pledge of Allegiance each morning.  That is a shame.  What about having the Pledge of Allegiance embroidered on patriotic tee shirts?  Last year George and I purchased identical tee shirts.  They are white with red and blue stripes on the sleeves.  I stitched out the design and it stitched out just fine.  We are now going to stitch it out on our tee shirts to wear for Memorial Day, 4^th of July, and other patriotic days.  I’m doing mine on the front but George wants his on the back.  At least the kids can see the words and we will make a statement, too.

You know when my embroidery tech comes by she gets me up to date on all of the latest embroidery techniques and things.  This visit was all about Thread Velvet.  Thread Velvet is a technique which I think is registered to Viking or Pfaff.  The method is to sew a satin stitch in one color with a bean stitch around the edges.  Then embroider another satin stitch on top of the first but slightly larger; and, bean stitch around.  You can have as many layers as you like.  Once finished, slit the middle of the satin stitches and fluff them.  If you use a darker color on the bottom and a lighter color on the top (or vice versa) it gives an illusion of a little strip of velvet and is beautiful.  It is hard to describe but I am definitely going to have to play with this technique.  Everything that I’ve read says it can be laundered but launder gently.  Of course, the more layers the thicker and richer it looks.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK

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Thank you, Sandy, for all of the jokes:

One day, a man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very sexy nightie.

'Tie me up,' she purred, 'and you can do anything you want.'  

So he tied her up and went golfing.

 

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A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the house.

She slammed the door and shouted at the top of her lungs, 'Honey, pack your bags. I won the lottery!'

The husband said, 'Oh my God! What should I pack, beach stuff or mountain stuff?'

'Doesn't matter,' she said. 'Just get out.'

 

 

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Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband.

 

 

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A Polish immigrant went to the DMV to apply for a driver's license.

First, of course, he had to take an eye sight test.

The optician showed him a card with the letters  

 

'C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.'  

'Can you read this?' the optician asked.

'Read it?' the Polish guy replied, 'I know the guy.'

 

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Mother Superior called all the nuns together and said to them, 'I must tell you all something. We have a case of gonorrhea in the convent.'  

'Thank God,' said an elderly nun at the back. 'I'm so tired of chardonnay.'  

 

 

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A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband.

Suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen.

'Careful,' he said, 'CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh, my gosh! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh, my gosh! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER? They're going to STICK! CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!'

The wife stared at him.

'What in the world is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?'

The husband calmly replied, 'I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving.'  

 

 

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Fifty-one years ago, Herman James, a North Carolina mountain man, was drafted by the Army.

On his first day in basic training, the Army issued him a comb.

That afternoon the Army barber sheared off all his hair.

On his second day, the Army issued Herman a toothbrush.

That afternoon the Army dentist yanked seven of his teeth.

On the third day, the Army issued him a jock strap.

The Army has been looking for Herman for 51 years.

 

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Cajun Corner - Vol. 5, No. 12

Cajun Corner – Vol. 5, No. 12 – March 31, 2013

 

Bon Jour!  Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.

 

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Happy Easter or Joyeuses Pâques.

This week was pucker week.  I had to embroider a 10 inch tall letter G in fill stitches.  That letter curled and puckered all over the place.  It was a definite fight to the end but I ended up using 5 layers of heavy stabilizer.  That worked except for a few issues.  The sheeting on which the G was embroidered buckled at the gap between the point of the letter at the top and the horizontal bar of the letter at the bottom.  It was a battle royale for sure.  I think we finally have a G that we can use and the G should be stitched out tomorrow.

A friend is visiting Pensacola from Pennsylvania and we turned last week at Cajun Stitchery into Sesame Street.  He would come in the morning and ask, “What is the letter of the day?”  I would reply, “G.”  Or whatever letter I happened to be embroidering that day.  

Every year George and I color Easter eggs.  We love doing this.  Yesterday morning I read on Yahoo that most people boil eggs improperly.  The article proceeded to state how an egg should be boiled to eliminate that grey area around the yoke.  The article said that you start with the eggs in a pot and pour cold water over the eggs.  Completely submerge the eggs and do not overcrowd the eggs.  Then you let the water come to a boil but not boil.  At this point you turn off the stove, cover the pot with a tight fitting lid and let it sit for 10-11 minutes.  Then put them in cold water or even ice.  Voila!  Boiled eggs.

I followed the directions precisely and boiled 38 eggs.  Two of the eggs cracked and had to be tossed.  George and I decided to eat a few of the eggs for dinner.  We went to peel the eggs and…uh oh…they were not cooked all the way through.  So, I re-boiled the eggs the way I have always done…boil for 3 minutes, let sit for 30 minutes, and eat.  They were fine.  It does give me pause to think that I have trouble boiling eggs.  My Mama is laughing in heaven right now and saying, “Like mother, like daughter.”

Just about every Easter we spend with one of our friends in Gulf Breeze.  This year was no different.  We always bring the Easter eggs.  This year we brought 31 boiled and beautifully colored eggs.  Each year we hide the eggs in and around her home and the hunt is on for eggs.  This year we told our hostess that the egg with the X on the bottom was raw.  Well, George put an X on about 15 of the eggs.  All of them were cooked, of course.  We hid the eggs in her front yard as we were going to her door when we first arrived.  We hid more in her house and then outside in the back yard.

Her sweet little dog was having a wonderful time finding the Easter eggs and I think ate one or two of them.  They were finally collecting eggs from the dog and putting them where the dog couldn’t get them or throwing the eggs over the fence in the back yard.  They certainly lost count of the eggs and by the time we left, there were lots of unfound eggs remaining.  It is a shame that as we age our memories start to fail a bit.  I would be glad to tell her where the eggs are located if I could just remember.

We did have a wonderful time at our friends’ home for Easter.  Luckily for all of us, our hostess can cook.  She cooked standing ribs with all of the side dishes and dessert.  It was absolutely delicious.

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I was going to include an article on the origin of April Fools Day but my research has resulted that no one really knows the origin.  There are several conjectures but no one really knows.  A day of foolishness and pranks is celebrated in Europe, as well as the Americas.  Even Snopes says it is undetermined.  So, enjoy the day and let something remain a mystery in life.

 

Peggy Henshall

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Cajun Corner - Vol. 4, No. 14

Cajun Corner – Vol. 4, No. 14 – April 14, 2012

Bon Jour!  Welcome to Cajun Stitchery’s weekly email and welcome to our family.

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Easter was a wonderful day.  George and I dyed eggs the night before and when visiting our friends on Easter Sunday, we hid the eggs in their yard.  The eggs were located and we hid them, again, throughout the house.  It was a lot of fun.

It has been a sad week.  One of the attorneys I worked with many years ago passed away in a drowning accident.  What makes matters even worse is that one of his daughters passed away last Saturday.  My heart and prayers goes out to this family.  They were a very close knit family.   The ray of sunshine from this horrible situation is that I was able to reconnect with some very dear friends from the law firm.

The scalloping edges are coming along.  I did another shirt with a scalloped edge and a design which turned out okay.  There were problems along the way with thread and needle breaks, but that is just more of me learning the new machine, I think.  All of the scallops that I have done so far have been on jersey tee shirts.  The first attempt was on the pink tee shirt and the second attempt was on the navy tee shirt.  Wovens will be much easier.

Have I ever discussed puff embroidery?  Puff embroidery is made using foam.  The foam is the same foam that you see when you go to a craft store or department.  Sometimes they are cut in the shape of little animals.  Sometimes they are larger circles or squares.  They even have visors made from the foam.  Puff embroidery uses a satin stitch, so, it cannot be very wide or the satin stitches will loosen and get caught on things.  It is also difficult to take a photograph of an item using puff embroidery and actually showing the effect.  The effect is that the stitch covered foam heightens the embroidery.  It is a texture that you can feel.  The design must be digitized for puff embroidery by eliminating the underlay.  At the point in the embroidery where the foam is used, the machine will stop.  The foam is then placed in the area for the puff embroidery and the machine begins stitching a dense satin stitch, thus perforating the foam.  When the area of puff is completed, just lift off the remaining foam and it is done.  Sounds easy, huh?  There are some complications with foam.  One is that sometimes little pieces of the foam protrude through the stitches.  This is resolved by using a pin to push the foam under the stitching.  It is always a good idea to use the same colored foam as your thread.  Another method is a magic marker pen in the same color as the thread.

Puff embroidery is great for outlines or even something less than ½ inch wide or so, but what if you want a larger area raised in your embroidery?  How would that be accomplished?  It can be done, you know.  The method is trapunto.  According to Wikipedia:

“Trapunto, from the Italian for "to embroider," is a method of quilting that is also called "stuffed technique." A puffy, decorative feature, trapunto utilizes at least two layers, the underside of which is slit and padded, producing a raised surface on the quilt.”

The trapunto method can be used on modern embroidery machines.  I’ve never tried it but the instructions make sense and seem to be fairly easy. 

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Found this at http://www.craftynest.com/2010/07/camp-craft-duct-tape-wallets/

How to make duct tape wallets

Supplies and tools

·                 duct tape (Duck brand is available at The Home Depot, Michaels, and many other stores. TapeBrothers.com carries the widest selection of duct tape I have seen, including Platypus Designer Duct Tape.)
·                 craft knife (X-Acto or other utility knife. We used these mini cutters)
·                 self-healing cutting mat or other cutting surface (we used sheets of Plexiglass from my salvaged window project)
·                 credit card/driver’s license
·                 3- by 4-inch piece of clear plastic for ID window (I cut up a roll of clear plastic I had on hand)
·                 12-inch ruler with metal edge

Main fabric:

1. Tear off four pieces of tape that are at least 9 inches long. (Don’t use scissors. Don’t use your knife. Rip it!) Place them sticky-side-up on your cutting surface. Stick them to each other (front-to-back), overlapping about 1/2 inch.

2. Tear off four more pieces the same length. Starting about 1/2 inch from the top, adhere one piece at a time (back-to-back). The last piece should overlap about 1/2 inch. (The reason you start 1/2-inch down is to stagger the thicker parts of the duct tape “fabric” you’re making. If you don’t, some parts of the fabric will be four layers thick, which is difficult to fold.)

3. Fold over the top and bottom edges. Your fabric should now be about 6 inches tall.

4. Using your ruler and knife, cut a clean edge on the left side. Always use your ruler when cutting with your knife.

5. Then measure 8-1/2 inches and trim the other edge. Set aside.

Credit card pockets:

6. Tear off two pieces of tape about 5 inches long. Overlap them the same as step 1.

7. Tear off two more 5-inch pieces and adhere the same as step 2.

8. Fold over the top and bottom edges the same as step 3. This large pocket should be about 3 inches tall.

9. Using your ruler and knife, cut a clean edge on the left side.

10. Then measure 4 inches and trim the other edge. Set aside.

11. Tear off two pieces these are about 9 inches long. Stick them directly back-to-back.

12. Cut this double-sided piece into two 4-inch long pieces. These are your smaller pockets.

13. Tear off a 5-inch piece of tape. Rip it lengthwise down the middle. (Yes, I said rip it. Fast. You can do it. Don’t worry if it’s not exactly down the middle.)

14. Use two of the ripped pieces to make a top border on each of the small pockets. Tape the top edge, then fold over. Trim the excess.

15. Tear off a 4-inch piece of tape. Rip it lengthwise down the middle.

16. Stack the pockets on top of each other. Stagger the height of the two smaller ones evenly.

17. Place a credit card on top of the stacked pockets to make sure you leave enough space for your cards. Using one of your ripped pieces, tape the left side of your pockets right up to the edge of the credit card. Fold it over to the back side and trim the excess with your ruler and knife. Do not tape the right side yet.

ID window:

18. Use another ripped piece to tape the right edge of your window. Fold it over and trim the excess. Do not tape any other edge yet. Set aside.

Final assembly:

19. Fold your main fabric in half lengthwise. Make sure the height of your pockets, window, and wallet are all the same height (3 inches). If not, trim them as necessary.

20. Unfold the main fabric. Place the window and pockets in opposite upper corners of your main fabric. Rip a 9-inch piece of tape lengthwise. Option 1: Use one piece to tape the top edge all the way across. Or option 2: Using your knife and ruler, cut one of the pieces in half endwise. Tape the window down, lining up the cut edge with the right side of the window. Then tape the pockets down, lining up the cut edge with the left side of the pockets. Trim off the excess.

21. Tear off another 4-inch piece of tape. Rip it lengthwise down the middle.

22. Refold your main fabric. Place a credit card on top of the pockets. Using one of the ripped pieces, tape the right side of your wallet right up against the edge of your credit card. Fold it over the entire wallet. Trim the excess with your knife.

23. Tape the left edge (window side) of your wallet the same way. Trim the excess.

24. Following either option 1 or 2 in step 20, tape the bottom edge the same way. This piece will show on the outside of your wallet, so follow option 1 if you want a contrasting border. (You can cut out a notch on the inside, if you prefer.)

25. Fold your wallet in half endwise, then press it flat.

26. Add decoration with duct tape as desired. You’re done!

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C’est tout, mes amis

Peggy Henshall

Cajun Stitchery

(850) 261-2462

cajunstitchery@yahoo.com

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