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Post by halay on Jun 2, 2015 4:42:53 GMT
Now that my concert is over, I can go back to felting again. I've been given an opportunity to get a free stall at an art fair in the capital of Slovenia this Thursday. Looking forward to it. It seems the weather will be fine. Yesterday I made a bag (I'll post a picture when I attach the handles). You girls have been very productive in many different areas. I need to catch up with work. Today I am planning to make two very light silk scarves with new fibres from WoW (mixture of alpaca, camel, silk...)
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Post by jwugg on Jun 2, 2015 7:30:24 GMT
Nada,
Veliko sreče for Thursday - that was supposed to be Good Luck, but I have no idea whether it may be right or not!
Hope you sell out, I'm sure your stall will look lovely as your works are very good indeed.
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Post by lyn on Jun 2, 2015 7:53:08 GMT
Elizabeth, I found a blog today that said just cut a piece of cardboard to cover the feed dogs, make a small hole for the thread to come up (quite useful that!) & tape the card to the machine - getting the hole in the right place is I think the hardest part. Set your stitch length to zero, loosen top tension. Put your foot down, quite fast, or you'll get huge loops on the back (well, I do anyway) & remember to put the foot lowering lever down, even if you've taken the foot off. That's the sum of my knowledge to date. Then practice. (I have lots more of this to do) Providing you've remembered to lower the foot lever, then loops underneath are a tension problem. Either the top tension is too loose or the bobbin tension is too tight (or a bit of both perhaps). Do you have a sewing machine manual you could refer to?
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Post by zed on Jun 2, 2015 10:09:33 GMT
I searched everywhere for an affordable new sewing machine where I could lower the feed dogs, I found one, Janome J3-18, it was about £120, I haven't tried free motion yet though, not sure how to do it!
I think I got some of that blend recently in my botany waste, Nada, unbelievably soft!
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Post by Shepherdess on Jun 2, 2015 13:28:22 GMT
I would suggest going to the second hand stretch and look for a sewing machine. I see older models there all the time they are sturdy not like the plastic ones today. They are usually $10 or $15. Here's a question if the foot doesn't even go down onto the fabric why do you need a foot at all. Why not just take the foot off? I have the special foot but it just hangs there in the air.
I need to get back to practicing again.
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Post by Pandagirl on Jun 2, 2015 13:57:00 GMT
Good luck Nada! I hope the weather holds out and that you sell everything!
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Post by zed on Jun 2, 2015 16:22:18 GMT
Why does selling stuff take so much time and effort?! Taking photos, editing photos, compiling photos, weighing, measuring, adding up costs, doing currency conversions. And that's before you have to weigh everything out, pack it all up and trudge through the monsoon to the post office and back! It's a shame not everything is downloadable
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Post by jwugg on Jun 2, 2015 16:22:42 GMT
Ann, yes I did take the foot off completely! Still need to remember to put the lever down tho, it must work with the tension. The main problem with having no foot on is your fingers could so easily get in the way.... ouch. My machine is a decent Singer, not ancient, they just decided with this particular model to go down the cover route rather than lever to lower feed dogs. not something I noticed when I bought it, & I don't want to replace it. Lyn, you're right about the tension, I noticed it altered dramatically with just small adjustments. Elizabeth - with the 'take the foot off' approach & a piece of card stuck on with masking tape you don't really have an excuse not to try it, you know
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Post by MTRuth on Jun 2, 2015 16:26:25 GMT
Zed - look on youtube. I am sure there are videos about free motion stitching.
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Post by Pandagirl on Jun 2, 2015 21:04:50 GMT
Zed, try one of Lyn's stitched bowls or try to trace shapes. Its good practice.
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Post by Shepherdess on Jun 3, 2015 0:21:02 GMT
Nada, How did your concert go?
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Post by halay on Jun 3, 2015 5:36:00 GMT
Thank you ladies, and Jill, veliko sreče means good luck - you got the message accross. I agree with you Zed, selling stuff involves so much effort and time. When you are selling on stalls you need to prepare so many papers to satisfy inspectors, tags, price list, a list of each item you are selling....and inspectors visit quite often. As for my concert, it went really very well. I was enjoying the time, my accordeon and guitar accompaniment did a wonderful job too. When I get a video I will probably put it on YouTube and you'll see it.
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Post by luvswool and dyestuff on Jun 9, 2015 15:56:17 GMT
Yesterday I made a nesting ball for birds. I really would have liked to have one of those grapevine balls they advertise, but since I am in Colorado, I just picked up fallen twigs and branches from a nearby Aspen tree and tied them together with cotton string. Then I stuffed bits of wool roving and silk ribbon and other bits of fiber for the birds. It’s not really a ball shape, but I hope the birds will like the bits for their nests. It’s really only Spring here in Breckenridge at 10,000 feet!
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Post by Teri Berry on Jun 9, 2015 17:47:23 GMT
That's very smart Cathy, I did a random willow weaving course where the starting point was making those balls, if I hadn't been shown how I don't think I could have figured it out by myself! I'm sure the birds won't notice its not perfectly spherical As promised last week here are some photos of the jacket I made in Tatiana Sherverda's workshop, I had an amazing time and learned so much my head is still spinning....
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Post by Pandagirl on Jun 9, 2015 18:07:28 GMT
Teri, the jacket is gorgeous! Did you design it yourself? It's quite an ambitious project. Good for you! I'm not familiar with Tatiana, but would like to hear more.
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