Oregon Fall Poultry Swap - October 22 - Corvallis @ the Fairgrounds!!!

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I'd love to, but I don't have the patience for quilting. I did it once, and made myself nuts!
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eta: ok, MORE nuts than usual...
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what if they were browning squares?!?!?!?!
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Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex :

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Any way you save the feathers is fine by me as long as they don't mold. Frozen pelts could work. I can thaw and preserve them easily... but the travel might be a challenge...I am 4 hours from the swap so I will be overnighting with family in the area.

I have saved feathers that were scalded and plucked which I dried by leaving them in large moving boxes in the sun and stirring them every few hours (the barred rock and the gold laced masks) picked up feathers after moults (the columbian, silver laced, and silver penciled masks) and, most recently, I have saved feathers by skinning and keeping the pelt. I just lay it flat, feather side down, on a garbage bag in the garage and sprinkle with borax or rock salt. The borax is better, but either works well enough. After a few days I flip it over (to keep the feathers from flattening) and then just leave it for a few weeks. I have yet to make masks from my pelts (I have a partridge cochin, a blue laced red wyandotte, and a barred rock) but I might make some for the swap.

And I would be happy to give mask making lessons. I must say, though, that you have to be a patient, detail oriented person. It is tedious work, but I think having a pelt instead of a bag of feathers will help. The hardest part was always finding and organizing the right sized feathers... but the pelt eliminates that step. I am also planning to upgrade my mask bases from paper mache to some fancy heat moulded plasitc stuff that will make them water proof. They only sell it in 4' sheets and they're like $60 each so I have yet to make the investment, but I will as soon as I get organized enough to make some masks.

I might also be interested in the quilt block swap... I will have to see as we get closer. I am currently remodeling to turn my garage into a sewing/craft room and everything is in chaos right now. But we shall see....

I cranked out 3 blocks in an hour and a half and I was just messing around with the block. They're simple enough and it's not like you have to make the quilt....yet! Just the blocks. We'd love for you to join us! The more the merrier and the greater variety!​
 
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I'd love to, but I don't have the patience for quilting. I did it once, and made myself nuts!
barnie.gif



eta: ok, MORE nuts than usual...
lau.gif


what if they were browning squares?!?!?!?!
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Then you KNOW I'd be in fo' sho'!! LOL
 
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Any way you save the feathers is fine by me as long as they don't mold. Frozen pelts could work. I can thaw and preserve them easily... but the travel might be a challenge...I am 4 hours from the swap so I will be overnighting with family in the area.



I might also be interested in the quilt block swap... I will have to see as we get closer. I am currently remodeling to turn my garage into a sewing/craft room and everything is in chaos right now. But we shall see....

Hi,
Love your masks!
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Would love the chance to learn how and would also be interested in the quilt swap. I'm new
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(really new) in quilting. I'm actually trying to teach myself. I do live far. (Vancouver, WA) But willing to meet, travel, or whatever; to give it a try! I have done masks in the past. Mostly paper mache with paints and crafting supplies, never with feathers. So if you get a group going, (masks or/and quilts) count me in.
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I'm not sure we have met, but my name is Paula.
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No kids (except the furry, feathered, or the fish kind), no job, (should be cleaning the house, but who likes to do that
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) but I do have a car, a computer and lots of time!
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(Oh, I do have a hubby, but I think I have finally got him grown enough to leave him alone for a few hours at a time!
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Paula, I'm going to put you down for the block swap! Dive right in. The block is super simple...and you don't have to worry about making the quilt yet, not until you get the swapped blocks. There are so many capable creative people here! I can't wait to see what we come up with for blocks and then what the final quilts will look like!!!!
 
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I'd love to, but I don't have the patience for quilting. I did it once, and made myself nuts!
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eta: ok, MORE nuts than usual...
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Nope, never tried it, never will. My sewing skills consist of giving away anything that needs sewing, including things that need buttons
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I once threw a sewing basket across my living room in frustration. Nope, ever touching a sewing item again...
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I'm totally in. I do a ton of henna and paint ceramics when I can. I LOVE super OCD detailed things. completely up my alley!

Yaa!
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Think your hubby might like a windchime made out of 50cal shells?
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We could have redneck craft time!
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No but seriously.We can get a bunch of shells from the ranch and make windchimes.
 
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I'd love to, but I don't have the patience for quilting. I did it once, and made myself nuts!
barnie.gif



eta: ok, MORE nuts than usual...
lau.gif


Nope, never tried it, never will. My sewing skills consist of giving away anything that needs sewing, including things that need buttons
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I once threw a sewing basket across my living room in frustration. Nope, ever touching a sewing item again...
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I hate garments, rips and buttons but I don't mind quilting for some reason.
 
Zoo -
I love the Corvallis Craig's List notice today! Great job - it should bring a bunch of interest to the swap! :-} The only thing keeping this from being a long 5 months is the fact that I want to make soooo many things for it, and I know that will make the time flash by!
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I admire anyone who can sew anything. I honestly do not have the patience for it. It makes me nuts. I can't sit still so that is probably one of the problems lol. My grandma was a seamstress, made my wedding dress even, but I hated it always. I would bring home my Home Ec (that's what we called it back in the olden days lol) projects for her to complete because I refused to even try. I inherited her 3 Singer sewing machines...those big old black heavy ones that could kill a person lol....sold them off right away! I kind of regret it now since Emma wants to learn to sew
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