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[NotAFarm]

Diva how's your mouth feeling? How's the antibiotics sitting?

I got dad's quilt on the long arm today.

This is how I'm quilting it:


I think I'm going to give it to one of his former students.

Beautiful job! What a nice idea to gift it to one of his students.

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG Thanks for asking, got the meds (amoxicillin) - had one dose and it WAS NOT for me. Had to go 2 days later and get different stuff - Penicillin V - I know before I've had Penicillin K, didn't know it came in so many letters. So far Pen.V likes me better - had two doses and .

Go in Monday for another extraction. They aren't so bad but, it's hard to sit still so long, partially reclined. Plus whenever my mouth is open for long, I feel like I am starving. Usually binge eat when I get home.

 

[getaclue]

Today's forecast for here...Rain, with a chance of more rain...Tomorrow's forecast here...Rain, with a chance of more rain. Oh, and we have Hurricane Danny approaching. Just what we need! My feet (peripheral neuropathy) are already feeling the effects.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

And how are you getting all of those cool scenes quilted in? Free form? Stencil kind of thing?

Pretty cool which ever way ..

It's called a pantograph. You hook up the quilt to a giant sewing machine that you can move the head around. The head has a laser light on it, which you can follow a drawing that's attached to the sewing machine or you can just do whatever you please (free motion). I prefer to follow a design.



This is the drawn out design I'm doing.

SCG Thanks for asking, got the meds (amoxicillin) - had one dose and it WAS NOT for me. Had to go 2 days later and get different stuff - Penicillin V - I know before I've had Penicillin K, didn't know it came in so many letters. So far Pen.V likes me better - had two doses and .

Go in Monday for another extraction. They aren't so bad but, it's hard to sit still so long, partially reclined. Plus whenever my mouth is open for long, I feel like I am starving. Usually binge eat when I get home.

Yes, there is a lot of letters that can come after penicillin... V, VK, G. Glad you're tolerating this one a bit better. Hopefully you come through Monday well enough to have a pint (of ice cream).

Today's forecast for here...Rain, with a chance of more rain...Tomorrow's forecast here...Rain, with a chance of more rain. Oh, and we have Hurricane Danny approaching. Just what we need! My feet (peripheral neuropathy) are already feeling the effects.

Yup... I'm happy about it, though. It's been pretty dry here the last few weeks and I'm tired of watering everything. Plus I don't have to mow the lawn if it's raining, nor feel bad about not mowing said lawn.

 

[chickadoodles]

Scg I like the design you picked it is very nice. And I love the set up you have for your long arm machine.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Thanks but it's not my long arm. Those suckers are over 5,000 dollars. I rent this one for 10 bucks an hour at a local quilt shop.

 

[chickadoodles]

Thanks but it's not my long arm. Those suckers are over 5,000 dollars. I rent this one for 10 bucks an hour at a local quilt shop.

Awww that is wonderful. My SIL has a couple of them she uses them in her quilting and sewing classes. She is a retired teacher and many of her friends begged her for years to give classes.
So she gets paid for her hobby. She loves it.

 

[Bunnylady]

I was just thinking that one would have to be a pretty serious hobbyist to have a long arm machine of their own! I've only seen a couple of them, and they were in quilt shops; I don't remember if the patrons were allowed to rent them, or if it was just "we charge (x amount) to finish your quilt on our machine." I've always thought they looked like really cool toys; I bet it's fun to play with.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I was just thinking that one would have to be a pretty serious hobbyist to have a long arm machine of their own! I've only seen a couple of them, and they were in quilt shops; I don't remember if the patrons were allowed to rent them, or if it was just "we charge (x amount) to finish your quilt on our machine." I've always thought they looked like really cool toys; I bet it's fun to play with.

It's a bit of a pain to get the quilt on there, but once you do I think it's fun. I got the whole thing on last night, was about to start and then noticed I put the quilt on upside down so the bears/moose would be upside down. Doh! Had to take it off and put it back on.


I don't know that I'd ever want one. Too expensive and I don't make enough quilts really to warrant one, and then there's the giant sewing machine basically taking up a room in your house. I'll rent as needed, thank you.

 

[Bunnylady]

Many years ago, I filled in for the weaver at one of the local historical sites for a few months (and basically took a crash course in weaving so I could at least sound like I knew what I was talking about). It's kind of funny - we know that pioneering folks pretty much had to make their own clothes, but weaving was one of those things that got farmed out in most cases. A loom takes up about as much room as a long-arm machine does, and most folks didn't have a room (or maybe even a house!) that big. Anyone that had a loom had a room that was dedicated to it; there were itinerant weavers that traveled from one community to the next and did the work, frequently setting up in someone's barn. A beast that big needs a lot of work to make it worthwhile.