Cajun Stitchery: vinyl

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Cajun Corner – Vol. 6, No. 14 – May 27, 2014

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

ΘΘΘΘΘ

Don’t forget to visit us at www.cajunstitchery.com, www.flickr.com/photos/cajunstitchery, and, www.cajunstitchery.etsy.com often. We are also on Twitter and Facebook.

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Oh what a week this has been. We had a large project of monogramming 57 shams for a hotel in Louisiana. It was a domino effect and we ended up getting the shams on Wednesday. We worked 12-14 hours a day and finally finished them Saturday evening. Our customer had to leave Pensacola at 5 a.m. Sunday morning to get the shams to the hotel to meet the deadline of Sunday.

While embroidering these white shams, a small glob of black grease fell onto the fabric. I finished the embroidery and promptly put baby powder on it. There were several little dots of black grease. The black grease is lint that gets caught up on the needles and absorbs the oil/grease of the machine. The baby powder did absorb some of the spots but not all. I put some dishwashing soap directly on the grease spots and rubbed it in a bit and then hand washed the sham in cold water. The grease came out completely.

There was a day, many years ago, where I could work 24 or 48 hours straight. Yes, I’ve done that. Nowadays that just isn’t in the cards. To celebrate the completion of this order, George made us a wonderful steak dinner Saturday night and presented me with a surprise. He bought me a bottle of lemoncello. Oh my goodness, that stuff tastes like lemon meringue pie in liquid form. We thought I would fall fast asleep after dinner but that was not the case. I guess I was wound up tight because sleep did not come easily. Sunday we decided to truly make it a day of rest … and we did. I fell asleep on the sofa watching movies and slept a good 3 hours.

When I awoke, we went to the Musicians Memorial at Vinyl Music Hall, here in Pensacola. George is involved with this group and it was good to see some old faces and new faces. We only stayed for an hour or so but enjoyed every minute. The music, of course, was wonderful.

I found out yesterday that we may be getting a surprise visit from my embroidery tech. Yes, I plan on introducing her to lemoncello, too. She hasn’t told me exactly when she plans on staying or for how long but she is always welcome and Clothilde is also looking forward to her visit.

Did I tell you about the light and fan pulls? I saw something on Facebook one day that were two little tabs with a light bulb on one and a fan on the other. You attach these to the fan and light cords/chains on your ceiling fans. That is a brilliant idea. I have been meaning to get some tassels or something to extend the length of the chains on mine. I love ceiling fans and have 7 of them in the studio. I just cannot reach the chains. Even when I get the stool out to reach the chains, I usually cannot tell which is for the light and which is for the fan. Oh yes, I made a set of embroidered pulls for each ceiling fan in the studio. It all started with one tab a simple rectangle and the other a circle. Then I made one the shape of a light bulb and the other remained a circle with the outline of a fan embroidered within the circle. I love them and they are so practical. Of course, I put them in our Etsy Store.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Cajun Corner - Vol. 5, No. 19

Cajun Corner – Vol. 5, No. 19 – May 20, 2013

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

ΘΘΘΘΘ

Don’t forget to visit us at www.cajunstitchery.com, www.flickr.com/photos/cajunstitchery, and, www.cajunstitchery.etsy.com often. We are also on Twitter and Facebook.

Visit our on-line catalogs at:

http://www.imprintit.biz/cgi-bin/cobrand/site.w?location=olc/catalog-home.w&top=catalog&frasmes=no&target=main&sponsor=000699

and www.companycasuals.com/cajunstitchery.

Bet you thought I’d miss this/last week. We had company all weekend and I’m just now getting to Cajun Corner.

We had an excellent weekend. Our embroidery tech arrived Friday evening. We ate pizza, caught up on what’s happening with each of us, and played a bit on Clothilde. Saturday she had a service call in Century but made it back around noon. We played more on the embroidery machine and did some maintenance before we went to a surprise birthday party. Sunday we really played on the embroidery machine. She had another service call in the afternoon. That evening we went to our favorite eatery, Paradise Bar & Grill, for dinner and enjoyed the Biscuit Miller Band from New Orleans while dining by the water. We introduced her to one of our island drinks, the Bushwacker. This morning she departed for home in Geneva, FL.

She introduced me to a new development in embroidery…glitter sheets. They are used as vinyl lettering sometimes but she taught me to use them in embroidery. That girl is always watching my back. Her first response was, “The Nereids are going to love this.” Her second was “All of the Mardi Gras krewes are going to want this.” She left some scraps for practice and experimenting. This stuff can be laundered but I want to work with it a bit and test how well it launders before I blind you with bling.

She is always answering questions for me but mostly we brainstorm together. It is so much fun figuring out how we can make certain embroidery ideas work.

It isn’t always her teaching me. Sometimes I, too, have grand ideas that we share. She liked my in-the-hoop design for the 10” purse. Bless her heart. She travels all the time and is so passionate about embroidery but rarely gets time to sit at her own embroidery machine and do things she wants. I encourage her to make things on Clothilde. So, she made her own purse.

Another novelty that Cajun Stitchery does is to embroider with serger thread. Apparently, this is rare in the embroidery world. Most of the time I stitch at1200 spm with the serger thread. She found this so remarkable that she videoed the machine stitching out one of our heirloom designs at 1200 spm to show other embroiderers that it is possible.

In addition, she loves to garden, too. We are always sharing gardening information and ideas.

And did I mention that she loves Pinterest, too.

Sadly, this morning Evie awoke and kept falling. She couldn’t get her rear legs walking. Dr. Armani told us last week that she does not have hip dysplasia but rather she suffers from arthritis. He suggested that we start giving her fish oil. She has been walking around all day. Her legs are moving but occasionally one trips the other up and she falls. We have an appointment with Dr. Armani in the morning. In the meantime, we got the fish oil and started her on it today. To be honest, we all started taking the fish oil today because it says that it promotes heart, circulatory and joint health. We can all use that.

Sam was so good to Evie and refrained from trying to get her to play. Evie did want to play but when she would get out in the yard and try chasing Sam, she would fall. Please say a prayer for my sweet girl, who has been my shadow for many years.

Have a wonderful week.

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I read an article that even if you include credit to the webpage, you still are not supposed to copy and share other people's internet stuff and post on the internet. Therefore, the sewing and craft project that I usually share -- those that are not my own -- will only be shared in our weekly e-newsletter.

Peggy Henshall