Cajun Corner – Vol.
4, No. 36 – September 23, 2012
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OMG! I’ve
been requested to repeat the huge headboard embroidery design a third
time. My week is planned – huge
embroidery project. You cannot imagine
how tickled I am about this.
Last night I was browsing around on YouTube and
decided to watch some embroidery videos.
The puff embroidery videos said never use more than one layer of the
craft foam. Ha! Rules are meant to be broken, right? I always use 2 layers. Then they say never go over the embroidery
twice. Pffft! I do when I feel it is necessary but always
with the puff embroidery. I don’t want
any of those little foam pieces poking out.
There is supposed to be a way of passing a hot hair dryer over the foam
and it pulls back into the threads, but I’ve never mastered that trick;
although, I would love to learn how. I
guess my hair dryer isn’t hot enough.
This past week we did a lot of digitizing. I’m learning to put a bit more detail in the
designs. Who knows? Eventually I may get a hang of this
digitizing.
We did embroider a couple of market baskets for a
friend. One just has the name “Kim” on
it and the other has a cat label design with the word Cathy inside. They are cute, cute, and cute.
An order came in for two plain, white
handkerchiefs with a monogrammed initial in the corner. Both hankies were done. The following day a look at the handkerchiefs
revealed a bit of the satin stitch on one of the hankies pulled away from the
cloth. Yep, I need to re-do those.
A few weeks ago, we went through the studio and
bagged up all of our “oops” projects.
Things like the hanky where the stitching pulled away from the fabric,
some not so perfect designs, hats, patches, etc. Everything went to Waterfront Mission. Do you suppose anyone will want that stuff? I just hate throwing stuff away. George thinks I’m the most frugal human being
alive.
In order to do good embroidery, you usually need
to have stitch outs. A stitch out is
when you are working on a design and need to stitch all or part of a design to
see if it stitches well and if it looks as good on fabric as it does on the
computer. Some of the stitch outs look
great; others, well, not so great.
Embroiderers end up with bags of stitch outs. Most embroiderers simply throw out the stitch
outs. They are someone else’s design and
not worth anything to the embroiderer.
The embroiderers don’t want to give the stitch outs to the
customer. I don’t have a problem giving
the stitch outs to the customer because I have no use for them. Waste not; want not. Since I belong to a plethora of embroidery
forums and groups online, I have been scolded for this practice. The problem is that the big time embroiderers
want money for their efforts. They know
that a savvy customer can take their stitch out and profit from it. They have suggested to me that I, at least,
charge $1 or something for the stitch outs.
Also, they feel that if the smaller embroiderers start giving away the stitch
outs, it will lead to their clients expecting the stitch out and the big
embroiderers would then lose money. I
really don’t know the right answer to the problem. As for Cajun Stitchery, if there are stitch
outs that we cannot use, and the customer wants them, we consider it a
lagniappe. Good for the customer if they
get two for the price of one, or they can make a few dollars extra.
We have three baby sago palms in pots that we
would be glad to give to anyone who wants them.
If you are interested, email me, call me, or just come by and get them.
The bell peppers are plentiful this year. Why is it when we plant cayenne peppers we
get a huge harvest but cannot seem to get bell peppers to grow? This year we are having a huge harvest of
bell peppers but cannot get the cayenne to grow. George loves just cutting up the bell
peppers and using a dressing as a dip and voila he has a snack.
The tomatoes are starting to bloom. This year we planted four beefsteak tomato
plants. One in particular I ordered from
an organic farm in Huntsville ,
Alabama
The yard long beans are growing and have been
producing all summer. We didn’t plant as
many plants as we did last year, so, we are not getting the yield that we did
last year. Most of the beans have just
gone to seed on the vine.
The beautiful pots of mums that George gave me
are still gorgeous. We are thinking
about getting some flower seeds for pansies, mums, petunias, and other cold
weather type flowers. It is always nice
to see color in the winter. That is, if
we have a winter. Last year winter was
so warm that all of my plants that need a bit of cold in the winter didn’t do
very well.
The dishwasher finally arrived and George
installed it. Man! This little princess is so over washing
dishes by hand.
Have a
wonderful week.
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A Time to Talk
by Robert Frost When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, 'What is it?' No, not as there is a time talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit. |
A little trivia from http://didyouknow.org/fastfacts/trivia/:
Do you know the names of the three
wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Kikazaru
– Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Iwazaru – Speak no evil).
The fourth wise monkey is called Shizaru
(Do no evil).
An atomic clock is accurate to
within 1 second in 1,7 million years.
Barbie
was introduced at the New York Toy Fair on 9 March 1959; her real name is
Barbie Millicent Roberts and her parents are Ruth and Elliot Handler. Barbie
has four sisters: Skipper (1964), Stacie (1992), Kelly (1995) and Krissy
(1995).
Ken, Barbie’s boyfriend, debuted in
1961. Unfortunately, they split up on Valentine’s Day 2004.
World’s first travel agencies: Cox & Kings, founded in 1758, and
Thomas Cook, founded in 1860.
A fathom is 6 feet (1,8 metres).
There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK
Before the year 1000, the word
“she” did not exist in the English language. The singular female reference was
the word “heo”, which also was the plural of all genders. The word “she” appeared
only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form.
“She” probably derived from the Old
English feminine “seo”, the Viking word for feminine reference.
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