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I am using a pattern that calls for wadding? Does anyone know what that is? Have you used it? Where can you get it. Thanks for the help.
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Batting- I think they call it wadding in the UK
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I think it's what most of the people in the USA call "batting"
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Isn't it fun how common things have different names across the globe?
I had a convesation with an international guest researcher once about polyfil(which I call stuffing) /wadding/batting. She couldn't figure how I had made my dolls and what I had used and she asked, "Did you use wadding?" We were getting absolutely no where until I brought in samples of all the different things and then we figured it out. |
It's batting.
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I was in Russia and a group of us tried to explain different words and what they meant -- One that absolutely had us stumped was "vinegar" -- clear, liquid, sour, etc -- we had to do to a grocery store and look at jars of pickles before we all understood -- we were from 10 different countries working on a project for the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Lots of fun playing with words and translating for each other.
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10 years ago, standing at the London. England hotel check-out desk I asked "where should I put my electronic door key?" She said, "put it in the bin" I looked around and seeing not "bin" for my card asked again. I was embarassed when she explained that "bin" meant garbage there. :oops:
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I always have to remember to "translate" words like wadding before posting, to make sure that I'm understood on the other side of the pond! You baste, I tack, I think your muslin is my calico - etc etc.
As for food - using recipes can be quite difficult: not only do I have to convert cups to ounces or grams, but there are always Google searches or emails going across the Atlantic to find out what half the ingredients are! |
My favorite was visiting Norway and having "Sewer Creme Porridge" Actually excellent Sour Creme Porridge like my mother made! Whew!
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Like treacle !!!
Originally Posted by annesthreads
I always have to remember to "translate" words like wadding before posting, to make sure that I'm understood on the other side of the pond! You baste, I tack, I think your muslin is my calico - etc etc.
As for food - using recipes can be quite difficult: not only do I have to convert cups to ounces or grams, but there are always Google searches or emails going across the Atlantic to find out what half the ingredients are! |
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