mlaceruby

I think hand embroidery is making a comeback.
but with the schools not having home ec
I see so many that can't sew on a button or cook anything that doesn't require a mocrowave!

a few months ago my husband told a coworker we were having lasagna for dinner, he asked what restaurant we were going to!

OzarksGma

Go to your hobby store that sells wooden pieces and they usually have egg shapes of varying sizes. Get one the size you like, sand it with very fine sand paper and either use a sealer or paint it with a high gloss laquer, may have to do 2 or 3 coats. I have one that one end is cut off so it stands and I am going to get a handle and use a double ended screw and connect the two together. My mom had a black one and I don't know whatever became of it, but it was a nice size and really slick.

pgthom

For C. Cal Quilt gal:
Are you thinking of Artex paints? Came in a tube with a tip like a ball point. You still find some pillowcases with this on them at the thrift shops.

catrancher

And phonics, I imagine?

pgthom

And with one hand in a place I'd rather not see!!!!

Doris Sumnicht

Where can you find darning cotton/thread? I have not seen any for years. You can use embroidery thread, in exact colors, but I doubt that it would wear well. For the "darning egg" I have used a light bulb, size suitable for the project.

I well remember mimeograph stencils, taught typists how to do them, and personally cut many of them in my teaching (prior to 1970) and some since in office work during 1970s. Took good typing skills as each error had to be painted over with special fluid, then correctly typed. That ink was bad for clothes!

pgthom

Hi Donna: Was up in your neighborhood a week ago. DH and I volunteered as light house keepers in Cheyboygan at the front range light. Had dinner one evening with neighbors of yours, owners of Knaebe Orchards. Any chance you know them?

We met at Rosa's. Yum! After I ate my fill, there was enough left for DH and I for lunch the next day! Weather was glorious while we were there!

Found "The Fabric Stash" in Cheyboygan to be worth a visit if you haven't been there. Very nice owner and staff. Tell them "the light house lady from Kalamazoo says Hi". Oh, and the Big Dipper is a great old fashioned ice cream parlor. Penny in K'zoo.

Doris Sumnicht

We have good lines in the back of the property where we live in one of the one-story, 2-bdrm apartments. I am the only one who consistently dries clothes outside on the lines. Retired means that I can wash when it is reasonably nice to hang out. I was very pleased to find that one of my nieces (in her late 40s) wrote recently that one of the items that helped her decide on a place to live in a small town in south-eastern section of Montana: good clothese lines in the back yard!

pgthom

I used to do Scherenschnitte about 15 yrs. ago. Still have the supplies around somewhere..... I do hand embroidery but especially love silk ribbon embroidery. Nice on very special baby things, like christening gowns or bonnets. Have been trying to learn to tat, with limited success. Need to really put my mind to it. Penny in K'zoo, MI

BarbaraTX

mlaceruby: I taught my son to sew on buttons and how to iron. When he was in boot camp, the other soldiers would shines his boots or do other things for him if he would iron their uniforms - he did it so well. (He irons better than my daughter or daughter-in-law.)