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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-11-2005, 09:35 PM (1 of 24)
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I'm going to try and post a link so you guys can go see the embroidery machine stand that DH made for my Futura this last Saturday. He still has to stain and polyurethane it but, so far, it is great for doing t-shirts and sweatshirts. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/<email address removed for privacy>/my_photos Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: Hogmami
Date: 04-11-2005, 09:44 PM (2 of 24)
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When to your link. Said there are no photos.
Carolyn
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User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800 
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From: BRG
Date: 04-11-2005, 09:53 PM (3 of 24)
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Ditto ... no pictures! :(
- Brenda -
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User: BRG
Member since: 01-12-2005 Total posts: 388 
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-11-2005, 10:00 PM (4 of 24)
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There's one called mail that has the picture on the front of it. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: mamadus
Date: 04-11-2005, 10:48 PM (5 of 24)
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patsy.. it says you have made any album public... I think that's why we can't see it... MO life is too short, not to explore
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User: mamadus
Member since: 12-31-2004 Total posts: 492 
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-11-2005, 10:58 PM (6 of 24)
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Sorry girls -- I'll try again. It should be available now. It's the one labeled "General". Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: Hippiegirl
Date: 04-12-2005, 02:11 AM (7 of 24)
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Sorry girls -- I'll try again. It should be available now. It's the one labeled "General". Patsy Patsy, He did a very good job. Why do you need a stand? Just curious.. Also, do you guys get tornados like that often? Good God! Is that near Oklahoma City? HG |
User: Hippiegirl
Member since: 03-21-2005 Total posts: 77 |
From: BRG
Date: 04-12-2005, 08:00 AM (8 of 24)
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Your DH did a great job ... very nicely and professional lookin'!
- Brenda -
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User: BRG
Member since: 01-12-2005 Total posts: 388
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From: BABYCAKE
Date: 04-12-2005, 08:42 AM (9 of 24)
| Your DH Did a beautiful job, very talented!! |
User: BABYCAKE
Member since: 04-06-2005 Total posts: 10 |
From: my2girlies
Date: 04-12-2005, 10:06 AM (10 of 24)
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I love the stand!! Your DH did a great job! Did you snap the photo of the May 3? We lived in Moore at the time and my Dh was on our roof filming it.(Would not recommend that to anyone else!!) I had just picked up my 2 plus 2 more girls from dance at the time. I was the one stupid car going southbound on I-35 during the time. It crossed I-35 at Shields about 20-30 seconds after we went through. Debris slammed the car pretty good, but we were ok. I was a nervous wreck, the kids were zonkers. But what do you do with 4 kids under 10 - you can't stop the car and run for safety. My dh said I should have stayed at the dance studio, but then we found out it was wiped out!! That was such a scary day!! Then guess what I did - the same darn thing on May 9,2003.  I was at the gym with dd and friend and once again made the flying run south on I-35. Missed it by a couple of minutes though that time thankfully. Did you catch the new radar coverage this past Sunday - that was amazing. The wall cloud was forming just east of our house. You could see exactly what it looked like on radar and out our window - that was too amazing. I think that new system will definately save some lives!!OOps - enough about that. I really like the stand - may show my DH and see if he is interested. |
User: my2girlies
Member since: 03-25-2005 Total posts: 154 |
From: SummersEchos
Date: 04-12-2005, 10:29 AM (11 of 24)
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Nice stand DH made. It is so nice to see that the DH are into helping with the sewing, or take some kind of interest. Wow that picture of the tornado is scary looking. Been in 2 of them one in your state and one here in Mich. Summer Summer
FREE FALLIN |
User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004 Total posts: 884 |
From: plrlegal
Date: 04-12-2005, 01:33 PM (12 of 24)
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That is a picture of the F5 (largest Tornado recorded on earth) that hit Oklahoma City a few years ago. It was about an mile and a half southwest of our neighborhood at that time when it made a left turn and went a little back to the west and then north across Midwest City where it made another right turn and went east again. It went along the west side of Tinker Air Force Base, leaving most of the west side of Tinker in tact. Had it hit the east side (where all the planes, hangars, etc. are all of it would have ended up on top of my neighborhood. I have never been so scared in my entire life and hope I never am again. My2girlies, the one Sunday night went just south of our house along I-240 and then went north at Peebly Road through Choctaw and Harrah. Hippiegirl, the reason for the embroidery machine stand is so that when I am embroidering t-shirts, sweatshirts, tablecloths, etc.) the bulk of the item just folds down under that table and out of the way of the embroidery arm and hoop so you don't have to worry about it getting caught in the arm or under the hoop. Thanks ladies. DH still has to do wood filler over the screws and stain and polyurethane the stand for me. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: paroper
Date: 04-12-2005, 03:30 PM (13 of 24)
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Patsy, that last one was between us. It missed the church and first hit less than a mile from my FIL, missed our farm house and caused the utilities to block the road a little over a mile west and north of us...so I guess you may be closer to where we live than I realized. The description of where the thing varied so much that there were times when they were giving first our farm location and then our house location as where the silly thing was. My FIL saw the storm chasers in his driveway while my BIL got a call saying the tornado was directly above them...he looked up...and IT WAS!!! They headed for the cellar and on the way, the sirens went off (a little late). I had just heard the storm was breaking up from two weather channels when they started saying it down near my FIL...go figure. That happened last year in almost the same spot too.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: my2girlies
Date: 04-12-2005, 03:43 PM (14 of 24)
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Pararoper - I did not realize you were an Okie, too. How Cool!! I live in Norman. I'm sorry that you did not get good coverage. When the storm system was forming in Norman (it weakened over us and then strengthened over you) I thought the coverage was excellent. But we are only a few miles from that big radar they just put in south Moore. That is disappointing b/c I thought the whole big hype was that it increased the coverage area. Maybe it will get better. Glad to hear that you and plrlegal weathered the storm well. They still make me nervous and antsy beyond belief. |
User: my2girlies
Member since: 03-25-2005 Total posts: 154 |
From: paroper
Date: 04-12-2005, 04:39 PM (15 of 24)
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Okie born and bred! I'm thrilled because we didn't have any warning system at all out here until after May 3! However, with all the great warning systems we have, there seems to be some sort of hole out here...not that we don't have the coverage, but maybe because of the lay of the land or something, things seem to happen quickly. That is at least twice in the last two years where everything looked clear...and then it formed over us in almost exactly the same spot. Oh May 3, I was supposed to be at a GS Leaders meeting in Moore that ended up being about 2 blocks from the blunt force of the tornado..that church wasn't destroyed until the other tornado a couple years later took it out. My ds was at a BS meeting over in Choctaw. I paniced when he called asking what to do and I TOLD HIM TO COME HOME...(STUPID ME)...I just kept thinking about the cellar...anyway, he made it and the tornado stopped just shy of the church he was in, but he would have been cut off from me for awhile had he stayed. That's what happens when a tornado hits Tinker, you are getting info that it is headed straight for your son...and he calls. We don't often go underground but we went on May 3rd...took my mom down too...it was so hard to get a crippled Parkinsons' victim out of the cellar. I threatened to redecorate and leave her down there...safe and sound. We were very grateful that we didn't have any losses, but several very good friends did. pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: plrlegal
Date: 04-12-2005, 05:34 PM (16 of 24)
This past Sunday evening the sirens were going off at Tinker and the thing had already passed Douglas out on I240. Go figure. I think at night they are especially hard to chase as they lose them in the lights from the city. I didn't even realize we had storm warnings until I heard the sirens at Tinker going off.  I was happily embroidering and sewing away.Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: my2girlies
Date: 04-13-2005, 10:08 AM (17 of 24)
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Pararoper - I used to be a GS leader in Moore, too!!! Ok - everyone sing it's a small world. But that was a couple of years before May 3. One of the moms from our troop was killed that day in the tornado. The girls who had been in our troop got together and went to the funeral together and brought all the pics they had of the mom and her dd from that time b/c they also lost all their belongings. Plrlegal - did you digitize Pistol Pete with autopunch? If so - how did you keep so much detail. I am really struggling with that. |
User: my2girlies
Member since: 03-25-2005 Total posts: 154 |
From: paroper
Date: 04-13-2005, 10:22 AM (18 of 24)
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We may have been in at the same time. I did Day Camp in Moore after Sandy left. Was a day camp coleader a couple of years before that.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: plrlegal
Date: 04-13-2005, 10:51 AM (19 of 24)
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my2girlies yes, I did use autopunch for pistol pete. I had a good picture of him that DH downloaded from the OSU site. I ran it through autopunch several times and played with it before I got it to the point it is now. The first couple of tries were semi-disasters. The first and foremost thing you need is a really good picture. From there you just have to be patient and use trial and error. I have a couple of good photo software available to me on mine and DH's computer but I haven't played much with them yet. I understand that if you have a Corel Draw or Paint Shop Pro software, or something on that order, that if you run your artwork/photos through that and then convert it to an wmf. or similar file type, that it works much better in autopunch. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: my2girlies
Date: 04-13-2005, 11:34 AM (20 of 24)
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plrlegal - I have serifDraw3. I will try running it through paintshop, too. Did you modify pete in anyway once you got the deisgn into the photo program or does opening it in the photo program do all that you need? Sorry - I am such a newbie to all this. paroper - I did not get to go to day camp b/c of work but my dd did a couple of years. I think it was 95 & 96.(may have been 96 & 97). We did so many camps and play days I can't remember which year was which!! I was leader 2 years with Mena and then took the troop over when she left. Troop 447. |
User: my2girlies
Member since: 03-25-2005 Total posts: 154 |
From: paroper
Date: 04-13-2005, 11:40 AM (21 of 24)
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She was a great leader and had a wonderful troop!
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: plrlegal
Date: 04-13-2005, 01:55 PM (22 of 24)
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Here's, I think, what happens with digitizing. Photos, etc. are in pixels (little colored dots). When you put photos, pictures, etc. into auto punch it tries to convert the colored dots to lines and that is what Corel Draw, Paint Shop Pro, etc. does. It converts the pixels to lines. I can't remember the steps in auto punch (I'm at work at the AG's office) but I manually took it down to three colors instead of letting the software decide how many colors it needed and I think I gave it fill stitches and jump stitches. I also selected sweatshirt/fleece setting where you are asked to select the type of material you will be stitching on. I also kept the picture where I could see it as it was stitching out and decided on what colors went where as the color blocks came up. The only parts that didn't come out clearly on the stitch out are his guns and holsters. If I were at home to look at my auto punch I could probably give you a more descriptive explanation of everything I did. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: mamadus
Date: 04-14-2005, 01:29 AM (23 of 24)
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patsy.. which digitizing software do you have?? MO life is too short, not to explore
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User: mamadus
Member since: 12-31-2004 Total posts: 492
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From: plrlegal
Date: 04-14-2005, 10:45 AM (24 of 24)
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I have the Auto Punch that I purchased with my Futura CE 100. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
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