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From: DorothyL
Date: 07-11-2006, 05:12 PM (1 of 21)
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Frickin Frackin serger anyway!! Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: icetbear
Date: 07-11-2006, 05:25 PM (2 of 21)
Um, Dorothy, care to expand on your post just a wee bit?  Take care.NanaBear 
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User: icetbear
Member since: 09-04-2004 Total posts: 66 |
From: Magot
Date: 07-11-2006, 05:27 PM (3 of 21)
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oh dear.........
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: 07-11-2006, 06:28 PM (4 of 21)
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I'm making chains around the edge of a skirt and having difficulty with every color. Yellow -- just figuring out how to do it Red -- had a burr in the needle Green -- the looper thread got caught on something and made a knot White -- the lever to raise and lower the presser foot fell off Still have blue, pink, yellow and orange to go. I poured myself a glass of wine and settled in to watch the news to lighten my mood. Then I got a call from a very special person I haven't talked to in probably a year or more. That cheered me up but I don't think I'll do any more chains until I finish working tomorrow. After the chains come appliques. Then you will all see it. I had a vision while I was working on this. I put a pin in to show myself where to start the red chain so the beginning and end of the chain would be covered by an evenly spaced applique and I had a vision of Libby standing there with a yard stick tapping it across her hand. She looked just like my fifth grade teacher Mrs. Warren. I took the pin out and made a chalk X. "Never let a pin near the serger," right Libby? Wasn't it you who said that? Enough of my problems. The world is going to hell and I'm missing it on the news. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: paroper
Date: 07-11-2006, 07:33 PM (5 of 21)
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Goodness! Dorothy! Could you be upset???
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: DorothyL
Date: 07-11-2006, 07:36 PM (6 of 21)
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Pam -- The wine made me feel better. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: paroper
Date: 07-11-2006, 07:42 PM (7 of 21)
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Has a tendency to do 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: bridesmom
Date: 07-12-2006, 01:06 AM (8 of 21)
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Well, after all that I'm looking forward to seeing this creation!
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: MotherInLaw
Date: 07-12-2006, 02:02 AM (9 of 21)
Drink a glass for me too Dorothy I saw the news and got even more frustrated. ROFL. What ya makin. I missed it? Maybe if you drink a few more glasses of that wine your machine will start acting nicely for ya. 
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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User: MotherInLaw
Member since: 06-25-2005 Total posts: 1118 
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From: MrsSnuggly
Date: 07-12-2006, 09:47 AM (10 of 21)
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I hate watching the news - but I guess wi8th a galss of wine and the thought that you're watching the world go to hell....makes a serger seem lightweight. Then there's always: "If you're going through hell, keep driving." (Churchill) B~ |
User: MrsSnuggly
Member since: 05-21-2006 Total posts: 104 |
From: esrun3
Date: 07-12-2006, 09:51 AM (11 of 21)
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Dorothy, must have been the day for serger problems. I had to rethread mine 3 times yesterday before it decided to work properly (couldn't be operator error! LOL). Hope your day goes better today and can't wait to see what you are making!!! Lyn
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User: esrun3
Member since: 12-02-2004 Total posts: 2345 |
From: stephi
Date: 07-12-2006, 11:58 AM (12 of 21)
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Dorothy, I will gladly take the surger off of your hands for you, LOL!! I am still stick trying to be cute with my kenmore machine. I wish I could have some wine and just chillout, but babies dont like wine, well not the kind you drink. Like I said I will willingly drive to NY and pick up the serger and take away your problems, LOL!!!  Of coarse you would never see your vision come to life. 
Stephi
"No body knows what it is that I do until I dont do it" "if you do what you have always done you will get what you have always gotten" |
User: stephi
Member since: 03-17-2006 Total posts: 361 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 07-12-2006, 12:45 PM (13 of 21)
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Instead of working this morning I finished the chains on my skirt. Boom, boom, boom, boom --not a bit of trouble. But if I don't get to work I am going to have an editor at my door -- boom, boom, boom with his reporter hunting gun. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Patty22
Date: 07-12-2006, 06:55 PM (14 of 21)
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Dorothy..... Are you underwater? We just got over 5" of rain this past hour and our backyard is flooded. Sub pump in basement couldn't pump it out fast enough..... &**(*&^ Radar says rain is gone, but why is it still coming down? Sirens keep going.....I think I need to stop by for a glass of your wine..... Isn't that cute, you've named your serger, Mr. Fricken Fracken. I can't wait to see your outfit. It will be beeeyooouutiful. Patty
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User: Patty22
Member since: 03-29-2006 Total posts: 1194 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 07-12-2006, 07:37 PM (15 of 21)
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It's even raining IN my kitchen! My husband just called from Auburn and said it quit raining there. Poor little Lucy the dog is staring sadly out the window. I put her out earlier and got involved writing and she came in soaked and real ticked off. She hates the rain. I've got two ladies out of eight on the skirt then ran out of bobbin thread. Mr. Fricken Fracken was very cooperative today. I'll probably finish tomorrow. I'll post a picture when I do. I'm quite pleased with myself right now. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: esrun3
Date: 07-12-2006, 10:40 PM (16 of 21)
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Dorothy, I new a brand new day would work for you with that serger!! Congrats on getting so far - can't wait to see what you are making.
Lyn
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User: esrun3
Member since: 12-02-2004 Total posts: 2345 |
From: Magot
Date: 07-13-2006, 12:28 PM (17 of 21)
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Doesn't sound like Lucy is very impressed though Dorothy.
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: 07-13-2006, 01:06 PM (18 of 21)
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The only thing that really impresses Lucy is a good ball game. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 07-13-2006, 05:58 PM (19 of 21)
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Dorothy, I cannot tell you how pleased I am to learn that you remembered that lesson about the Pins..! ! I just had such a warm fuzzy feeling after I read your words.. I bet you did not feel warm fuzzy when Mr Fricken Fracken started showing his A--, though.. I'm so glad he is doing better now.. Maybe if you threaten to pull his plug , it will make him think twice before showing out.. I was in the middle of a lycra bikini for the GD of a good friend the other day and susie q decided to drop her left needle.. I was lucky though, it did not break, because I had her at the friend's house and no spares with me.. See, I'm not so smart after all.. (I should have known better) But we made it OK.. I don't like making bikinis..Don't think I make another.... Sew With Love
Libby |
User: LeapFrog Libby
Member since: 05-01-2002 Total posts: 2022 
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From: Magot
Date: 07-13-2006, 09:55 PM (20 of 21)
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Just think though Libby , they take so little fabric! I trust Lucy prefers Soccer, Dorothy. I can't imagine her in all the shoulder pads and helmets. (Actually I can, what a giggle!) 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: 07-14-2006, 08:03 AM (21 of 21)
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Yes, Jan, she is quite the soccer player. She will run the ball around until her face is bleeding if you let her. It takes at least two neighborhood kids to keep up with her. She even spins it on her nose! We had to replace the soccer ball with a light basketball, though, because when she gets mad she bites at the ball and kept eating those soft plastic covered soccer balls. You should have seen the first time she jumped up and hit a heavy basket ball with her head. She only did that once -- knocked her down on her side. Andy from next door only gave the basketball one hard kick too, then went limping home to mom -- he's 8-years-old. Now we've compromised with a lighter weight basketball. I didn't finish the skirt yesterday because my daughter called. It was the first time she spoke before a judge in court. Of course she WOWED him. Well actually, she said, he knew what he was going to do when he scheduled the hearing. He was ticked off at the attorney for the other side. She was glad it wasn't her he was mad at because, "I probably would have started crying!" I have one more lady to put on my skirt and and I'll post a photo. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
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