Just a laugh about fabric
 

In one of our Board swaps, my person indicated they liked civil war reproduction fabric. I have seen this mentioned many many times on this Board. So off I went to fabric shops looking for fabric showing men fighting in civil war uniforms. Needless to say I could not find any....... so I got on Google last night and when I found the "civil war reproduction" fabric on one of the fabric sites and realized my error in understanding, I laughed and laughed! Everyone have a great day! :D:D

Good one for a morning chuckle Rennie. I wonder how often something like this happens?

When my mom taught me to sew, we often would do French Felt seams. I always wondered why the people of France would want to feel a seam. A couple years ago my niece asked if I could find a you tube video on how to do this (we couldn't meet in person). When I couldn't find anything I eventually discovered I heard my mom wrong and it was a FELLED seam. Only took 50+ years to figure this one out.

Yes, sometimes what we call things in quilting are really not very clear especially to new quilters. I get stuck on some of the abbreviations.

Well, I'm 66 yrs old and just learned something.....thanks for enlightening me! Never too old to learn!!

Well, join the club. When I first started quilting I saw some fabric called Exclusively Quilters.
I thought they were just that...exclusively for a group of quilters and I avoided those fabrics. LOL
Took a while to realise it was a brand. Duh.

I showed a quilt at guild done in "30's repro fabrics" and had a newer quilter ask what I meant. So just when you think everyone will know what you are talking about you find you have a chance to further the knowledge of quilting lingo. Plenty of things I don't know about and am always glad to have them explained.

This thread reminds me of a discussion I had with friends a few years back, where we were discussing misheard song lyrics. My favorite was Steve Miller Band's song "Jet Airliner", the line goes "Big ol' jet airliner" and my friend thought it was "Big ol' Jack had a light on". Rofl!!

never heard the French part in the felled phrase -- learned it as a "flat felled seam"!
maybe it originated in France -- who knows

Makes me think of the old saying "one picture is worth a thousand words".

OH YES!!! I heard "take the back right girl".....turned out to be "Paperback Writer" by the Beatles.

Rennie - I'm of Brit descent so still not sure what civil war reproduction means but am assuming -looking like that period type fabric ?
My name pronounced like your but spelled " Rene" :)

They are two different techniques. A flat felled seam is finished on the right side of the item with the additional stitching to make it flat. Like on your jeans. A French felled seam is the one where you sew the item wrong sides together then encase the raw edges in another seam, like when you finish a pillowcase, although I think most people call the second one just a French seam.

Our son when learning the Pledge of Allegiance, instead of 'indivisible, with liberty and justice for all', said "indivisible, with liberty just enough for all".

Reminds me of "Gladly, the Cross-eyed Bear"

More "mondegreens" here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

Ditto on this also.

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My sister used to live in an area where they did Civil War activities and thought it would be fun to join in. They wore period clothing, did the cooking, set up shops, had quilt shows, a lot of activity from that time 1850's era. Her friend that introduced her to it loaned her a pattern to use to make a dress. It was a shirt waist dress made of the indigo fabric with little white decoration of some sort. My sister told her friend that it looked so familiar, and but decided it was a popular pattern, she must have seen when she was trying to pick out a pattern. So she brought it home, and then looked at a picture of our great-great grandmother, everyone called "Mam" because she was a school teacher during the civil war time and there it was. No only was the dress identical pattern, so was the fabric. (Nice to know my family was stylish for their time. :-D ) When she showed it to our aunt and me, my aunt pointed out the two women could have been sisters, even their hair and expression were the same. We got a real kick out of it.

Thanks for the laugh, it happens to all of us at one time or another

As of today, I have joined this club. I have been sewing since I was fifteen, and know that the grain of fabric is important to the drape of the results. Today, I read the newsletter articles that I get in my email inbox, to learn about the importance of warp and weft in quilting. Silly me figured it did not matter in quilting....I bet my corners will be easier to match now......��

I have a non-sewing one. My sister's name is Anita (nickname Nita) and mine is Lynda (nickname Pynda). My younger brother came home from kindergarten one day where he had learned about Columbus's ships - the Nita, the Pynda, and the Santa Maria. He thought it was cool they had named the first two ships after his sisters.

This isn't quilt related, but when my youngest daughter was small she liked to help me make "dead old eggs". couldn't figure what she meant until it hit me- deviled eggs. We still laugh about it.

Having worn many a feed sack as a child, I have to wonder when I am looking a reproductions; What happened to all the ugly as sin sacks I had to wear at times?

I, too, learned the term as "flat felled seam" in Home Ec back in the dark ages.

I also love Civil War reproduction fabric! Thanks for the laugh!!

My husband still talks about a friend, when he was a kid, who talked about "the seven old Indians." Turns out, he meant Seminole! :) We still chuckle when we pass Seminole St. in our town.

Ditto what MargeD said. Nice to start the day off with.

I learned the flat felled seam AND the French Seam in Home Ec. I still use the French Seam when making pillowcases, but I sew my 1st seam at less than 1/4 inch, more like 1/8 inch. I used the felled seam when making clothing for my son when he was a little fellow.

This thread has me laughing, a good laugh!! When my daughter was young the song Cherish You by Mark Wills came out and when she sang it and got to the part of Cherish You she thought he was say 'share a shoe' and that how she sang it.

First time daughter and I heard term 'toile' on designer TV show we just went crazy trying to find out the spelling to be able to search for it on line--lol. Not at all like it sounds--beautiful prints we still like !

This is a great thread -- lots of smiles :thumbup:

Tuckyquilter, I too use the French seam for my pillow cases -- as my Mother and Grandmother did before me (I can't remember when I made my first pillow case -- they started me early). I still see flat felled seams in jeans -- usually the outside leg seam and the center back seam.

Wildyard, I hear you about the ugly feed sacks -- my quilting Grandma made me lots of clothes from feed sacks that I thought were gastly. Interestingly, she made me a quilt out of the left overs from the clothes she made me from feed sacks and I have to say the fabrics look much better in the quilt.

Creedence Clearwater Revival 's "Bad Moon Rising", has some rather ambiguous sounding lyrics. The line
"There's a bad moon on the rise." Some hear it as "There's a bathroom on the right."

Me too! I wore those scratchy chicken feed dresses my Grandmother made throughout my childhood! Now I wish I could find and afford to make a quilt out of those fabrics. Wouldn't that be a hoot?:D!

Here's another non-fabric story. You may have to be Southern to understand it. In my parents' house there was a short hallway to the bedrooms, with a little extra space at the end of the hall, past the last doorway. In this space was a short dresser where we stored various things. I always assumed it was a piece of furniture given to us by a relative because we always referred to it by that person's name. When I was around eight years old, I asked my mom, "Who's Chester?" She said, "You mean on Gunsmoke?" (There's an age reference for you.) I said, "No, one who gave us Chester's drawers at the end of the hall." Mom laughed and very carefully said, "It's a . . . chest . . of . . drawers."

I have a friend I told this story to and he said the same thing happened to him, but he wasn't going to tell me how old he was when it happened to him.

Tate

Me too, thanks for clearing that up!!!

That is a good one! What a surprise when you found out what it actually was.

My thoughts also. There was the flat felled seam and then the French seam in which the narrowly trimmed seam done on the RIGHT side was turned inside and seamed again enclosing the raw edges.

Thank you soooooooooooo much for a good chuckle. This has not been the best of days so far. I needed that

I had an argument one time about wrought iron furniture. They were calling it rod iron because it was made with rods. Ha ha. They got their knickers in quite a knot over it.

As a young child my mother asked if I had diahear. I said my ear was fine. Of course not what mum meant. She just burst into laughter and never let me forget my mistake.