Tons and Tons of Questions - Who Has Answers?

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maangers — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:44:08 GMT

Put a pin in Oak Island, NC. New to ME but not to sewing-have been sewing for 38 years and hope to continue for many more. maangers@bellsouth.net

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TravelBug1237 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:42:33 GMT

HH Lauire, BamaBrit &Francis.....

Today is August 7th but I was checking back to my old blogs and lo and behold here I have some comments that I didn't respond to.

SO better late than never, but please know that I didn't ignore you on purpose and am very happy that you took the time to write me.

HH Francis Higgins...I will indeed put a push pin into Fancy Farm, Kentucky

once I get a map up....wow...aren't you a very fortunate person to live next door to the famous quilt fair!!!! I am sure there are SEVERAL on Ann's site who would LOVE hearing all about the history of that and your quilting experiences!! I for one would also love too hear about your MEing and how you got into it....etc.

BamaBrit...what a GREAT GREAT name!!! And it is a perfect fit for you too...really cute!!! So you moved from England to Alabama....I'd love to hear that story and how the Southern accent was for you. :):)

I loved it when my friend Jane from Alabama first told me her name...

She said...My na aim....is J ain.....I just loved it!!! She used 2 syllables to my one! Cracked me up but I loved it.

72 years....sewing....WOW...You are a wealth of information...feel free to share anything with us you'd like!!! :)

Hugs Lauie in Bend...goodness you did not give up on me...THANK YOU...

Glad you continued to write me comments in the more recent blogs!!!

Everyone have a safe summer wherever you may be.

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pualele — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:26:24 GMT

Hi Cathy,

I am in Bend, OR and I know the Medford area and also know where Shady Cove is as I have driven through it on the the way to Ashland to take my youngest daughter to college. I have gone down to Ashland and back in a day. I wil have to go to the Gold Hill area someday and go to the Oregon Vortex.

I got my first embroidery machine a Janome 5700 about 3 yrs ago and it stayed in the box for about months and before I finally used it. I it is the entry closer which is in my sewing room as I use the Janome 10001 that I got about 2 yrs ago, I was not planning to buy it as I was just going into my dealer to get some embroidery design disk and I got the disk and put a deposit on the 10001 which had everything as it was a trade in by someone who had to have the Janome 11000.

Laurie in Bend

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BAMABRIT — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:42:36 GMT

Put my pin in Silverhill, Al and one for my birthplace of Manchester, England. Been sewing all my 72 years and hoping to keep going as long as I am able. Love m'eing and have a lot to learn.

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Loretta67 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:30:53 GMT

Please put my push-pin at Fancy Farm, Ky. (I about 40miles

north of Paducah, Ky--where the quilt show is held)

I have a Pfaff2140 and a Brother QC1000. I have been

sewing all my life. I love embroiderying. I have 2 quilt tops

started. I make quilts and sew for the grandkids.

I enjoy your site. Very interesting.

FrancesHiggins

Fancy Farm, Ky.

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TravelBug1237 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:23:15 GMT

HH ( Hello Hello )Billiec and Deane61

Billiec....Greg (Beamish Boy) is still working on getting a map program that will work on Ann's site...I can hardly wait!!! I LOVE visuals and it will be SO fun and quite a site once that gets in place. I'm glad I can give you 'hope'....

Progress IS being made!!!!

(It's best for me to look at it as a journey 'cuz I don't think I will EVER 'arrive' so to speak ...so instead of getting all fobiated (my word) about trying to learn it all....I am taking TINY steps and trying to enjoy the process. It's just pretty overwhelming in the beginning especially if you don't sew or that computers aren't 2nd nature ....but that will all come in time too, well I can hope!!!

Deane61-- not sure who has the Brother 600 but I am SURE someone on Ann's site does....and hopefully they will respond soon.

Thanks for the compliment! :)

I'll try to help you any way I can....I'll keep 'doing and sharing' . I'll be writing about 2 blogs per month.

Welcome to the fascinating etc etc etc world of embroidering!!!!

Cathy in Oregon....Hope you are enjoying Father's Day. ( Mine has passed & Ethan is at work...so I am writing to my 'other family' here on the net.)

I did talk to my son Reggie for a LONG time last night and it was great to get caught up with his life. He's doing a LOT of travel ( out of the country too) and was pretty surprise 'his Mom was a blogger!!!!" Well SO am I !!!!

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Deane61 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:31:18 GMT

hellooo out there ..who has a pr 600 by Brother...do you have trouble with the automatic threader?? love all yur comments.. have been really helpful..i am new a ME..but i love it so far... trying to learn it all is mind boggling. ha.. specially for this old grandma.. but i don't want to give up. i am determined to learn how to use my machine and turn out (hopefully) better quality designs. help if you can.

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billiec — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:24:54 GMT

Hello to all! Put my pushpin in Notasulga, Alabama about 14 mi south of Auburn (War Eagle)! I have been embrodering about 2 years but not consistently. Reading this has given me hope that i am not the only one who has failures!! I am thinking about joining Ann's Club and was wondering if many of you use it?

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TravelBug1237 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:44:37 GMT

OOps GrammaCandy...

My understanding is that you SHOULD wash the dish towels for shrinkage purposes....( and to eliminate the possibility of the thread puckering.)

You don't need to wash it in a higher temperature than needed,

but there are those on the site that don't prewash if they are going to be a gift.

so...you might want to go into the other blog sites and forums to see what the 'experts' have to say.

Sorry I didn't answer your question. I accidentally missed it in all caps...

Oh and congratulations on all those grandkids!!!

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TravelBug1237 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:35:18 GMT

HH Gramma Candy...

Welcome to the most wonderful world of machine embroidery.

I'm ALMOST brand new...I have a whole MONTH under my belt now!!!!

I can't even begin to tell you how much of a beginner I was (am) both at machine embroidery and computers.

We at AnntheGran are a community of MEers ( for short ) and we will help you.

It sounds like you don't need my lesson on LACE that just got published today...You've already done it!!!! I am totally hooked on it!!!! Feel free to share with the group your projects etc.

Pat ( with the fabulous fancy P ) can and WILL answer ALL your questions...

In a nutshell...I HAVE (and ask) a gazillion questions and Pat can answer them along with jalcumbrack and others who have been doing it awhile!!!

Believe me, I am SUCH a beginner and everyone has been really helpful!

Just ask away...and someone will no doubt help you out.

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GRAMMACANDY — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:10:50 GMT

hI IM FROM MAPLEWOOD MINNESOTA! NEW TO ME BOUGHT A VIKING SE IN FEB DONT SEW DONT QUILT IM A CRAFTER SO IT IS ALL NEW TO ME !!! NED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET AND I DONT KNOW ALOT ABOUT A COMPUTER. SO LOTS OF HELP IS NEEDED ON THIS END . I HAVE DONE SOME FSL BOWLS WITH REGULAR THREAD AND SOME LACE 3 D BUTTERFLIES. lD LIKE TO TRY A RAG QUILT ! ANY ONE HAVE EASY WAY OF DOING ONE? ALSO DONE A FEW DISH TOWELS. ARE YOU ALSO SUPPOSE TO PRE WASH DISH TOWELS? I HAVE 15 GRANDKIDS 3 GREAT GRAND KIDS 7 CHILDREN BETWEEN HUSBAND AND I 1 BETWEEN THE TWO OF US.

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beamishboy — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:55:10 GMT

Just a quick note to follow up on Cathy's comment about the push pins. I am working on the pushpin idea but the Google Earth solution proposed by motsmith (great idea, thanks!) would make it a bit difficult for most of our users to add pins. I'm looking for one in which our users can add the pins without having to send me a file, but I haven't found that yet.

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LMJ5505 — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:29:23 GMT

Cathy, Reading your blog is just like talking to you. You are doing a fantastic job and have inspired me to get busy and get my embroidery projects done. Keep up the good work. Oh and thanks for giving me my 5 minutes of fame in you blog!

Linda

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TravelBug1237 — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:24:01 GMT

HH Everyone!!!!,

I just read over all of the comments this morning from my 2nd blog and I am still just THRILLED with the response! Thanks you SO much for answering questions that I have. I am such a beginner and it is wonderful knowing that someone is willing to take the time to help me no matter how basic the question.

HEY....motsmith....THANKS so much for the ''map for push pins' lead!!!!!

What grade do you teach????

There are several on this site you are or have been teachers!!! If you have a chance to read all comments you'll see.

I hope Greg has had a chance to google that and get it going!!! :):):)(hint hint) ( I only came up with the idea...was hoping REAL hard that Greg could find it in his schedule to get the map going and see the pins start poking up all over the place. IF not, I will try since it was my idea....but Greg.....it would be so much FUN for you...right????

Isn't it AMAZING how many places you readers all live!!!??? That is really exciting to me!!! What a wonderful world wide group we are!!!!

We are also at so many different levels and it doesn't matter. We just all share a love of machine embroidery!!! ....& it's so great so many are willing to help us beginners!!!

Well I have done several projects (5) ( well that's a lot to me ) and am WAY behind in writing each of them up for my blog site....but I am going to finish up one this weekend (I hope) and get it off to Greg to 'edit'...I always send him TONS of info and the poor guy cheerfully (??? ) gets through my run on sentences galore, and puts the final touches on my entry so that you readers can make sense of my thoughts!!! :):)

Oh, Nena...I bought a Singer Futura 350 this past Christmas but I never ever ended up taking it home....It was a new product and no one at the store was trained on it yet....and I KNEW I knew nothing...so I had them keep it at the store until someone was trained. Well..fast forward to the end of March and still no one had been trained and I was leaving for Ann's Community Circle the next week....so I went into the store and to make a longer story shorter....I got a refund for the machine ( It was a pleasant refund and they understood why)...so I never used it ever so I can't help you out. There may be other readers who do have the machine though & will contribute ideas.

The people on AnntheGran site REALLY are helpful and friendly!!! ( I think I already said that.) hmmm

It's great I was able to connect with the best right off the bat.....Pat and Ann know SOOOOOO much. Another person who is soooooo helpful is jalcumbrack..You'll see her comments throughout all our blogs. She is so supportive and I for one am SOOOOO appreciative.

Oh and tl111....Shady Cove, Oregon...Holy Cow I know exactly where that's at.....It's close to my ol stompin grounds....I graduated from Medford High!!!!! ...Speaking of graduation....our 40th...YES 40th class reunion is this summer!!! How can this be???? I don't even FEEL 40 years old let alone add another chunk of years to be graduating 40 years ago!!! ( Well I guess I should say I USUALLY don't feel 40+...but there ARE some days I feel about 120!!!) I had a lulu for a few days a week ago at the beach...I don't know what was wrong, but my joints ALL ached. I called a friend in town who actually was in bed ....and stayed there because she was REALLY hurting...

She swears it's because of weather changes.....don't know, but that was the worse 'bout' I'd ever had. I do have to be careful and not overdue it ( carpal tunnel.) & I hope NOT fibro...Anway....sorry so off the subject of MEing...

OK...I have a QUESTION....please answer me if you have the answer...MEers.....!!!!

I saw some CUTE CARDS done on cardstock.

I looked in Ann's DAKOTA collection but I can't seem to find it.

( As I recall there was a variety of topics on the cards.....graduation, wedding, birthday, Merry Christmas...etc...)

IF ANY of you know where I can get a bundle ( I think you call it )

of designs...I'd really like to do that. ( E and I have 3 grandchildren graduating in the next week or so...so I need to get crackin...if I want to 'be creative' on the cards that go with their sets of luggage. ( We shopped at the outlet store in Seaside and bought 3 sets of 5 piece luggage.....We were staced to the gills

in luggage.....It appeared that we 'don't travel light'....I am cracking up...

15 suitcases for the weekend!!!! :)Good thing we were in the car ..(.I heard some some airlines are now starting to charge for ANY checked bags.)

Biy...is that going to change my travel habits!!!

Oh & one tip I learned (at "The Sewing Room" in Beaverton, Oregon) where I get lessons, is to KEEP my DULL needles and put them into a piece of paper...Then USE the dull ones on future card stock designs!!!! Love the idea to be able to recycle those needles for another purpose when they get old!!! :):) Sort of comparable to when I retired....I'd like to think I can be 'recycled' into doing new things after teaching all those years....HMMM..let me see...I said earlier I don't feel old...yet when I compare myself with a used needle...

I am trying to tell myself I am not old and dull and that I can still make beautiful things.......oh brother....I am really needing to get more sleep or something...

Now let's hear it for all those ME'ers that now have 'night schedules' that have been altered.....I know I am NOT the only one here!!!! Come on...please share...sometimes it's ME ing and sometimes it can be 'other stuff'.

I did get very side-tracked this week....trying to help out a homeless couple who is expecting a baby....) In a nutshell...I allowed them to move into my retirement home at the beach ( I know I know.what were we thinking) ...only to find out they left after 3 days...and we are "in town' & the beach house is at the beach...It took some time getting things arranged for them and now E and I are having to go back this weekend to undo our 'rearranging" .

The good news though is that apparently they are going to be able to get into housing that is closer to his job, is bigger etc etc.

It's OK, but E and I don't plan to do that ever again.

The good news though with going back to the beach is that there is going to be a great tide perfect for razor clamming!!!

Hope to hear from you all very soon!!!

I am still trying to figure out how to answer each of you who have taken the time to write me a note on my blog....just know that if I don't PERSONALLY acknowledge you, it isn't because of not caring...I DO...I just don't know how to go back and go in between each posting...and my brain doesn't remember ALL of the comments by the time I get to the bottom of my blog!

Let me know how you are doing everyone!!!!

Hugs,

Cathy

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Nena — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:56:27 GMT

Push my pin in Winchester, KY Does anyone have a Singer Futura CE200 that they can use? This soft ware is so old that it messes with my computer. Anyone have any ideas for me to try. I do like to sew and decorate items but this machine is nerve racking. Good luck with the blog.