posted on November 26, 2000 01:13:11 PM new
I am thinking of making some Christmas towels for gifts this year. You know the type of towels with the flap and button on them that you can hang on a stove handle or towel rack.
I haven't been to the local fabric shop yet to look at patterns, but I wonder...are their patterns available for Snowmen topped towels? Where the snowman would be the top flap part?
I already have the towel parts picked up from the local discount pharmacy. I found some nice red checked ones, some pretty green ones, and a plaid pattern as well.
If I can't find a pattern of sorts, I'll just make one up I guess.
posted on November 26, 2000 02:23:45 PM new
I haven't bought a pattern in as long as I can remember. However, there are some good 'uns in the Home Decor sections of the catalogs. Check with your local fabric stores. Usually there's a "sale" on patterns every couple weeks or so: those $6 patterns suddenly drop to 99 cents for the weekend.
Personally, I'd look at what's available in the catalogs, get a couple ideas regarding construction, and then "just make one up"
posted on November 26, 2000 04:00:35 PM new
Meya, I thought you were talking about sewers, like the kind that are in the street where the water runs in when it rains. You know, drainage sewers.
posted on November 26, 2000 06:01:16 PM new
Meya, you spelled it correctly, as did Muriel. Like "Polish" and "polish."
Some people are beginning to use the term "sewist" to denote one who sews, although I can't stand it.
Side note: I was once a hydrologic engineer. Now I am a textile artist. I often tell people, I didn't change professions; I merely changed pronunciations.
posted on November 26, 2000 06:59:06 PM new
If anybody ever hears me call myself a "sewist," s/he has my permission to take me out behind the shed and shoot me.
posted on November 28, 2000 09:21:39 AM new
LOL!!! I, too, hate sewist. That's as bad as a relative of mine calling herself a "bearsmith" when she went through a phase of dressing up teddy bears in costumes ranging from Rhett and Scarlett to Madonna and Michael Jackson. I don't like "seamstress" either...makes me think of some woman in an attic with bad lighting, slowly going blind. When I had my business cards made, I decided on "Clothing Design and Sales--New and Vintage", because that seems to get the idea across to most people who don't sew or design. Personally, to myself, I think of myself as a textile artist or costume designer (and since I'm considering going back to school to get my MFA in the latter area, it might someday be 100% accurate.)
posted on November 29, 2000 05:27:49 PM new
A few years ago, I attended a costume convention in Lincoln, Nebraska. The capitol building there is topped with a statue of a man scattering seeds, called "The Sower." We were all joking that it was in honor of those of us who sew, just misspelled!
posted on November 29, 2000 08:04:56 PM new
"Bearsmith"? ROTFLMAO
Reminds me of my crunchie days at the New Age health center. (We'd all chant before our macrobiotic staff lunch meeting.) One of the psychotherapists was in the process of changing his name to Bear Starmother (mother?) Haven't thought of that for years.
