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From: MaryW
Date: 06-28-2005, 11:00 AM (1 of 24)
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For everyone with a serger, this is for you! Save all your thread ends from your serger. Put them in a plastic bag and in the fall, we will have a challenge. This will involve making a gift for someone using the thread ends as embellishment.  There will be more details later. MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 06-28-2005, 04:57 PM (2 of 24)
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Sounds like fun Mary Summer Summer
FREE FALLIN |
User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004 Total posts: 884 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 06-28-2005, 06:41 PM (3 of 24)
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What do you mean-- the little chains we cut off? Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: bren
Date: 06-28-2005, 11:58 PM (4 of 24)
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Now that's what I like... lots of time to think about the project...I game to try this ...
Bren:
Don't let anyone ...Live Rent Free In Your Head |
User: bren
Member since: 11-30-2002 Total posts: 489 
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From: MaryW
Date: 06-29-2005, 09:02 AM (5 of 24)
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Yes Dorothy, the left over chains. Bren  it is so good to see you. I thought we lost you to the racetrack. 
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: Magot
Date: 06-29-2005, 12:32 PM (6 of 24)
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I don't thnk I serge enough to have left over chains worth bothering about! Unless you are making dust bunnies....
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: MaryW
Date: 06-29-2005, 12:39 PM (7 of 24)
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The serging woman of great magnificence doesn't have any chains.
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: mommgsews
Date: 06-29-2005, 03:46 PM (8 of 24)
This does sound like fun. I think I might use a boutique sized tissue box as a collection spot.... 
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User: mommgsews
Member since: 03-15-2004 Total posts: 73 
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From: Magot
Date: 06-29-2005, 05:26 PM (9 of 24)
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I chuck em away - what would you keep them for?
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 06-29-2005, 06:09 PM (10 of 24)
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Magot, I cannot speak for everyone, but a lot of my sewing friends learned in a class, at one time or another, how to make a little bag from fabric that attaches to the legs of the serger and hangs off the end of the table to put scraps in.. When I say the legs of the serger, I mean the parts that sit on the table. Mine are like little pegs on a flat round disc that actually meets the tabletop.. I don't empty that little bag til it gets full, so I have a collection to start with.. I will just transfer them to another container till Mary tells us more..
Sew With Love
Libby |
User: LeapFrog Libby
Member since: 05-01-2002 Total posts: 2022 
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From: MaryW
Date: 06-29-2005, 07:25 PM (11 of 24)
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Jan, pay attention will ya. This is for you, this challenge is for anyone who serges. MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: Magot
Date: 06-29-2005, 10:58 PM (12 of 24)
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Indulge me, you just save the chains - not all the chopped off bits of fabric?
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: DorothyL
Date: 06-30-2005, 07:06 AM (13 of 24)
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You can use the chopped off bits of fabric to stuff something you embellish with the chains. Then you would be a thrifty serging woman of great magnificence. (TSWOM) Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: mommydionne
Date: 06-30-2005, 08:48 AM (14 of 24)
I'd have to hide my collection from my cleaning lady yeah I know poor little me  but she tends to toss stuff if she doesn't know what it is (ie my teflon pressing sheet, looked like scrap paper to her sigh...)
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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From: MaryW
Date: 06-30-2005, 08:54 AM (15 of 24)
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Jan, we will be doing something with the chains of thread that are left over from your serging. Little bits of fabric can be used for either stuffing or as embellishment. Your past entries have all been great with a distinct look to them. For sure I know you will come up with something worthy of a SWOGM!!!
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: Magot
Date: 06-30-2005, 11:34 AM (16 of 24)
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Shucks! Kind words ,O Great and Mighty Leader (though few posts) It won't be big.....Tony has a pathological hatetred of The Threads That Got Away and mumbles murderously if they escape the kitchen..
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: June Harlow
Date: 06-30-2005, 03:27 PM (17 of 24)
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This is making me feel a bit creepy. I'm not going to turn into a demented little old lady that collects bits of string am I ?
June ~
"If only I could find that missing pattern piece!" June sews on a Pfaff 1209 and a Babylock 5180 serger |
User: June Harlow
Member since: 05-30-2005 Total posts: 100 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 06-30-2005, 03:41 PM (18 of 24)
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If Mary doesn't come up with a use for them we will all ship them to her house. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: mommgsews
Date: 06-30-2005, 04:06 PM (19 of 24)
| This 'demented lady who collects bits of string' sounds interesting. Who knows where a bit of creativity and leftover string will take us... Big Grin |
User: mommgsews
Member since: 03-15-2004 Total posts: 73
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 06-30-2005, 07:37 PM (20 of 24)
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DSIL came over to visit when my serger was brand new and I was doing a lot of test drives with it and had lots of long narrow strips cut while practicing. She took the long strips and hung them on my decorated tree I had in my sewing room. Perked things right up.
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
Member since: 03-06-2003 Total posts: 432 |
From: HeyJudee
Date: 07-01-2005, 03:03 PM (21 of 24)
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Mary...I have a serger but...unlike everyone else, it sits in the closet and rarely comes out unless I sometimes have to hem something and then I use the serger to trim and bind the hem. But when I bought my sewing machine, the woman who gave me lessons showed me a jar that she keeps all the ends of her sewing threads. She uses it to create/design fabric. So I have a jar like she does with all my regular sewing threads.....would I be able to qualify with this!!!!! Otherwise, I guess I could do like sewinggrandma and just make some chains and chop them up!!!
TTFN from
Judy |
User: HeyJudee
Member since: 01-25-2005 Total posts: 1366 
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From: bridesmom
Date: 07-03-2005, 10:28 PM (22 of 24)
Ok, I'm totally curious as to what we are going to create but I'm in! I made myself a little weighted pin cushion/thread catcher to sit between my sewing machine and serger, so now I will try to remember to keep them instead of wearing them or tracking then through the living room into the dining room. 
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: gm23237
Date: 10-08-2005, 09:25 PM (23 of 24)
| Being that I hate to wate anything this idea of yours is super.. Thanks and looking forward to the responses!!!! |
User: gm23237
Member since: 11-03-2003 Total posts: 145 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 10-09-2005, 10:18 AM (24 of 24)
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I've got a little pot full of chains now -- What are we going to do with them. I have such a stack of projects staring at me right now it better be a quickie. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
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