TC Learns Some Shit

@f00l The rest of us? Don’t be so humble…

@compunaut
Someone has to be the star.

@PantHeist Leather is more @meh’s realm, but I don’t think she’s made gloves… yet?

@Thumperchick no glove no luv bb

@meh Aw I just want a pair of gloves with black leather and red stitching that fit like a glove… I even donated to a kickstarter once, but she ended up giving me a dress instead.

@PantHeist like gloves for warmth? Stitching on the edges? Have an example?

@mikibell I had something drawn up, trying to find it. I originally wanted red stitching on the edges and a 5 pointed star on the backs of the hands. Yeah though, for warmth- not too heavily insulated, mainly for cold steering wheels and winds.

@Thumperchick – I missed that it was Lycra and custom fabric – that will teach me not to read Meh after my bedtime!! I was going to tell you, one of my most horrific crash and burns was with stretchy material – It probably was lycra. About 8 years ago, I was making gymnastic outfits for my daughter and I cut the pattern pieces all facing the same way. I went to put them together and for the life of me couldn’t figure out what I had done wrong. To this day, the kid doesn’t have a custom gymnastic outfit!! It is still sewn with the wrong side facing outwards. Someday, I might bring myself to rip the seams and sew it – but I would need a little girl to dress, mine would not appreciate it if I gave it to her now

She did get custom hair scrunchies though!!

@LaVikinga Zippers in lycra is worse than a pact with the devil… I couldn’t/wouldn’t do it, not for love nor money!!!

@mikibell
@LaVikinga

My Mom sewed a lot when I was young I had a bunch of handmade smocked dresses and handmade costumes up thru perhaps mid elementary school, and she and a few other moms made all the “dress outfits” for our riding club of perhaps 40 kids we had for a few years. (We won prizes for the costumes regularly.)

And she taught me how to sew and I used to like it. As I kid I thought zippers and buttonholes and doing stuff where you create the pattern yourself was no big deal, Mom did it constantly and I did it a lot.

Then she got into other stuff, the culture changed, no one was sewing. I haven’t sewed anything since Mom and I made a friend a “frog quilt” as a gift in high school.

Now I think I’m not competent to do as much as pin a pattern to fabric, let alone cut it. The idea of zippers and buttonholes seems impossible.

Why was this so easy once?

All I know how to do now is “sow with salt”.

/giphy salt

@f00l
I don’t know why that giphy came up, but I’m leaving it.

@f00l Reminds me of the day my son told me about riding in a box off of his best friend’s roof. I think they were either aiming for the pool or the trampoline. This was around the same time he informed me that “…Publix puts their leftover doughnuts out for the urban outdoorsmen around four in the morning. They’re in the trash, but not in the trash.” It’s one of those inner monologues you hear as a parent–do I really want to know how he knows this?

@mikibell Zippers with the right attachment, along with button holes with the right attachment (and careful measuring) aren’t that bad - using a 1960’s singer with the fly wheel glued together as my mother broke it years ago and I inherited when she got a fancy one. You have to measure carefully though for the placement of the button hole. And use lots of pins (I refuse to baste - might be easier if I did).

@LaVikinga Ha! As kids we went sledding down the steps to third floor (all walls gone, just the steps left) and picked up enough speed to then keep going off the front of the house, landing into a snow drift that we built up a bit to keep us going down the front walk (on a small hill) and the into the street.

This was when they were taking it down (was the church manse - they were turning it in to a parking lot - we used to live in that house). I am positive my parents didn’t know we were doing that. They’d have freaked seeing us launch off the front of the second floor (no walls there) and landing on the snowbank - probably would have grounded us for life had they seen us. We had taken the precaution of launching the empty sled a number of time, and filling it with snow and launching it to see where it landed before we tried it ourselves. Safe. Right? LOL

At christmas all that was left of the house was the double fireplace (fireplace on each side of the chimney). I made and put up stocking and a wreath there. Mom told me it made some of the church members tear up when they went to church christmas to see this pile of rubble, the fireplace, two stockings and a wreath.

My kid and her friend jumped off the roof of a very large shed onto a neighbor’s trampoline when she was in about 3rd grade. Probably safer though than what your kid did and we did as kids. Amazing that most of survive our childhoods in one piece. LOL

@Kidsandliz
I knew a kid who went to Grinnell in Iowa. Jumping off the building rooftops onto story-high snowdrifts while seriously drunk was part of the recipe for winter sanity there.

I think they don’t allow that anymore. Insurance.

@Kidsandliz I don’t have a problem with zippers, but you couldn’t pay me enough to put them in lycra.

@LaVikinga My very first sewing project involved zippers and sewing a mild curve. My sister told me I was ambitious. I didn’t think it was that big a deal until I started doing it - and it’s hard to sew a straight line, keep a zipper lined up, not sew your finger and end up with a functional zipper. But I did it. Didn’t even have to rip the seams!

They’re 12-24 month sleep sacks - and @PuppyCat sleeps in one every night. They’ve held up pretty well!

@Thumperchick Dang, girl! I’m not sure which impresses me more: the zippers/seams of the fact you got your plaid to match up so well!!!

That fox fabric is adorable! Sleep sacks look like a wonderful invention. My little ones only had Carter’s drawstring sleep sacks. Paranoid me cut the draw strings out of the darned things. Baby raising was a bit different back in those days. Bumper pads were a thing along with stomach to sleep, and when the little lumps still weren’t sleeping through the night by 5 months, we added a bit of rice cereal to their formula or pumped breast milk at their dinner time feeding. Things have changed so much since then. If my eldest ever decides to have children and asks for my advice, she’s gonna get the deer in the headlights look.

I think you’ve done a bang up job with the sleep sacks! Would love to see your Spring and Summer line!

@Thumperchick

Those sleep sacks look pretty nice. I’m impressed, esp if that’s one of your early efforts.

@f00l my very first, in fact. However, fleece is super forgiving and aside from fuzzies, sews up easy.

@LaVikinga I have been kicking around a summer sack idea. Just debating on material. I do have several muslin swaddle blankets that could go to the cause, but I would need to have at least 2 layers of those. (Nights stay fairly cool here.)

@Barney
Does that make your nose turn purple?
/image cartoon purple nose

@f00l Probably. TC hasn’t started showing us her shit yet, so I don’t know.

@harrison care to share the title?? I have lots of old denim from my husband from his days as a carpenter…

@harrison The helpful ladies at the fabic store warned me that I would need a special needle to sew denim. I haven’t gotten around to trying it.

@fibrs86 and a fabric jumper – it is a piece of plastic that keeps your foot level when going over multiple layers of denim. Oh and denim thread is helpful – don’t use embroidery thread or lightweight thread – you will pull your hair out because it keeps breaking!!

Mine looks like this:

Here is a similar one in use:

It keeps your needle from bending/breaking (which is scary when it happens – When it does happen, I am always glad I have to wear glasses:

I just learned a few months ago, that dot on the side of the tab is to hold the needle when replacing one, so that it doesn’t fall into the bobbin area… so cool.

@mikibell Made a note to check on the title when I get home. Not sure I’d pay full price for it; found at a used bookstore for $8, but it’s not bad.

@harrison cool thank you… otherwise my kids are getting some freakin heavy quilts

My re-use of denim to date has been for utility bags to hold the hubby’s wrenches – not wenches!

@mikibell if you need a bag to put your husband’s wenches in, please leave me out of it. i’d really like to maintain plausible deniability

@fibrs86 Yes you need the special needle or you will break a regular one.

@harrison

@fibrs86 lots of advice here that you probably don’t want… It is also recommended to slow the stitching on your machine as you approach the seams, especially on denim…to give your machine time to make it through the layers…

@harrison Is it The Denim Book? Is it American Denim? Is it The Illustrated, Hassle-Free Make Your Own Clothes Book? If it wasn’t published in the mid-70’s it’s probably not worth it.

@mikibell all this advice is both scaring me off denim, and making me somewhat intrigued. I’ll probably stick to Halloween costumes.

@fibrs86 do not fear it…the trick with denim is the right tools and take it slow…no different than silk or tulle or cotton or jersey… They all have their quirks…

@LaVikinga
Bought one about six years ago. No idea if metal guts. It’s in the box, unopened, in the storage locker.

Why do I even want to sew anyway? I really like t-shirts.

@f00l @LaVikinga I have a very nice sewing machine that’s in a very nice wooden cabinet. The sewing gene, which runs in our family, never made it to me.

I t-shirts.

@Barney @f00l I’m the weirdo who cuts away the neckline on crewneck Ts. I can wear a turtleneck without a problem, but there’s just something about the way a crew neck sits at the base of my neck that bothers the bejeezuz out of me. Scissors set me free!

@LaVikinga So, was that you who starred in the movie, Flashdance?

@Barney @LaVikinga
hawt

@compunaut Lol, yep that’s the one!

@Barney LOL! I don’t cut the holes THAT big, plus I’m more of a blonde sturdy viking with a small purple stripe in her hair rather than the brunette welder-stripper sort.

@LaVikinga Okay, if you say so…
(I love purple.)

@LaVikinga @Barney @f00l I’m the weirdo who can’t stand the neck ribbing, but can’t stand gaping, so I run stay stitching below the ribbing, cut it out using the fancy Gingher quilting scissors, and topstitch the raw edge down using carefully matched thread. This justifies buying things like

but it’s justified because I wear mostly T-shirts. Right.

@OldCatLady
It just gets curiouser and curiouser around here.

@LaVikinga I always thought sturdy Viking = hawt, regardless of welder/stripper status

@compunaut
Yeah I do too. I’m thinking @LaVikinga and her sort can part the crowds when they want to.

@OldCatLady I have this one, and I don’t wear t-shirts… … how do I explain it??

and one of these:

Yet, I argue with my husband that I need more thread … and that doesn’t account for the sulky threads… oy… I think I have a problem.

@mikibell You made me want to go buy some more thread, just because I can. And drawers. I really do need the drawers.

@OldCatLady and the sparkly floriani thread… that is nice thread Yes, I am good like that. I also have serger thread, but for the most part, that is boring, but I have woolly thread that makes cool designs if I put it in the upper and lower loopers.

I considered the Guterman tower, but couldn’t justify it because of the other rack – I want the tower without the branding, to hold another row of thread.

@compunaut It’s getting warm in here! Some couples have “our song.” My husband and I have “our cartoon,” and *What’s Opera, Doc" happens to be it. Every once in awhile he’ll break into “oh, Bwoonhilda, you’re so wovwey…”
@f00l I part the crowds at Walmart because I walk looking 30 feet in front of me and I have a damned impressive Resting Bitch Face along with a withering glare when a biotch blocks an aisle with her cart.
@OldCatLady @mikibell May the Gods help me. I had no idea I badly needed such wondrous things as these threads. If there’s a thing called “Thread Envy,” I believe I have it. (I also have a love for office supplies, too.)

@LaVikinga
What’s Opera, Doc?
Is a fucking masterpiece.

@f00l This made me laugh. I visited Idaho last fall. Husband went to “make meat.” Was thrilled I finally got to ride a horse through the golden quaking aspens, but the horse I REALLY wanted to ride was Bugs Bunny’s horse’s blonde twin. His nickname was Super Duty. He was enormous, sweet natured and beautiful.

@LaVikinga hahaha my sewing machine cost more than my car did at the time and I bought each of them used I got to classes with women who have the latest, greatest machines (their machines cost more than my last new car)…and THEIR thread stashes make me envious, so I know what you mean…

The Gutermann thread is sewing thread, the rest is embroidery. I keep telling hubs that I need the different types to achieve JUST the right effect.

I think he regrets telling me I need a hobby!

@LaVikinga p.s… I also have a love for cool office supplies…

@compunaut I’m guessing you missed the thread where a number of us posted pictures of ourselves, and her picture quickly disappeared, but @LaVikinga is freaking gorgeous.

@jqubed LOL! I believe there were quite a few of us on that thread who were drinking many adult beverages during the postings, but thank you for thinking so. It’s flat out amazing what being wrapped in twinkle lights from the Christmas tree can do for a gal’s looks!

@jqubed
Link?

@LaVikinga oh yeahhhh…the lights reference reminded me. … You are truly beautiful…

@f00l Mine’s gone. Got embarrassed & took it down.

@f00l Hers is sadly gone, as are a lot of the others in the thread. I was surprised how many names I didn’t recognize at the time, like the lurkers came out for the selfie thread, of all topics.

@CaptAmehrican Have been known to rip out & drops hems of pants legs and then lazily iron the new hems in place with Stitch Witchery stuff. Staples snag too much.

@f00l Love the purple. Horses scare me.

@f00l Always loved a gambler-style hat. Not a fan of the modern ‘flatlander crease’

@Barney
Some of the kids with wealthier parents had purple bridles.

The only expensive items (beyind the horses) were the boots and hats, and since kids grow, there was a lot of hand-me-downing.

It was fun. The parents and kids did bake sales to raise $ for outfits, and anyone from old-enough-to-ride-and-could-beg-or-borrow-a-horse through elementary-school could join. No cost other than the outfits, horses, and transportation.

Nowadays you’d prob have to have lawyers and contracts and insurance.

@f00l
Barney to horse: "My what big eyes you have."
Horse: "All the better to see you with."
Barney: "My what big teeth you have."
Horse: "All the better to EAT you with."
Nope, nope, nope. Can’t trust horses.

@compunaut
I like both.

In our riding club the flarlander crease was more common because easier to purchase. But as long as the outfit matched the color scheme, the boots,belt, hat, and shirt could be individualized. Only the vests, paints. We wore some sort of string tie in purple also.

In my childhood, around here, people in various western hats and boots were as common on the street, or more so, than any other sort of nice street clothing. Esp downtown and in the banks, law offices,and courthouse.

Personally, I like the variety, and that fine custom hatmaking and creasing is still an art.

@Barney
The best horse I ever owned actually looked a lot like these two. He was gorgeous.

@f00l Fincher’s, on Exchange, has done a nice steaming/creasing job for me a couple times, but my favorite hat shop is Peter Brothers (on Houston). I love the selection of fedoras

@f00l He must have been very gorgeous, but horses are sooo big. (Pictures of them are okay.)

@Barney But, but… You are a dinosaur!
cranes neck up to see her head

@compunaut Yeah, that’s what some people think.

@compunaut

When I was young, the boots came from Justin. The rest of the dress stuff came from Fincher’s (more often, the one near Crowley, when Crowley had pop 1000 around the town square), Leddy’s, Luskey’s, and a few other places. There were more saddle shops downtown and in the stockyards then. I loved going to them - they would let the kids sit on all the saddles.

The daily wear stuff was just shirts and jeans and cheap boots from Leonard’s. No hats unless we were showing. Who wore hats? No kid anyway.

Have you been here long enough to know about Leonard’s and the privately owned and operated ed subway they built, and the bargain basement?

The Leoard Brothers founded Colonial Country Club and are largely responsible for starting the invitational golf tournament.

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/
http://hometownbyhandlebar.com/?p=8207
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article17124035.html

http://fwscreen.com/www.fwscreen.com/History.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Center_Subway

Leonard’s Dept Store Museum
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g55857-d2372172-Reviews-Leonard_s_Department_Store_Museum-Fort_Worth_Texas.html
They were the first major store in FW to desegregate, long before LBJ was president.

They were the Walmart of their day.

The English stuff came either from a place in Dallas (NW Hwy near Harry Hines) that’s gone now, or mail ordered from Millers in Manhattan.

@f00l I took the subway many times when it serviced Tandy Center/Outlet Mall.
Have eaten at M&O Station Grill, where the Leonard’s Museum is (pretty good burgers IIRC).
There was another dept store on W Berry just east of TCU (by University United Methodist); this was closer to my old place. Was that a Stripling & Cox?

@compunaut
Was just Cox’s when I was a kid. You mean the one in Westcliff Shopping Center. I could bicycle to it.

Then Stripling and Cox merged. Then I guess they sold themselves to Dillard’s? Is that what happened?

There were the “big” Striplings and Cox’s downtown. Ladies used to get alll dressed up and wear hats to go shopping. Fortunately ladies had quit wearing hats to go shopping before I hit elementary school.

I would have been an anti-social hat destroyer. Dresses were bad enough.

@f00l No, not Westcliff (tho I still love the Ace Hdw there). It was definitely on W Berry. I there’s a Walgreens there now.
I boycott Walgreens to this day (at least 15 years later) cuz they ignored citizen/neighborhood/city requests on street setback, parking location, & storefront dimensions and insisted on the same ugly corporate architecture as if the building was going in a brand new strip mall in some cookie-cutter suburban development instead of a 100yr old historic neighborhood.

@f00l My mom caught my best friend and I downtown one day and we were wearing shorts. (I had forgotten that she often walked to the Woolworth’s for lunch). Ouch! I was grounded for a month. Dresses, I hated them and still do to this very day.

@compunaut

I did not know that about that Walgreens.

Yeah I know the building you mean. It’s still there, cut back a bit, behind the Walgreens. It’s an educational adjunct building and teacher training center for the FWISD now.

When it was a dept store I remember I was in it one day when someone set a small fire by the shipping dock. Big excitement.

I had a thing for the toy dept, which was upstairs. The had great Breyer horses.

I just might have memories of Paschal going 0-10 one year in FB.

Some kids I knew were at Paschal when Halley’s Comet came close. The day was completely overcast and really super foggy (pea soup) but some kids talked a science teacher into letting them go out and see if they could spot it anyway.

They did manage to see it. It read CAR BATH.

One day kids came to school and for some reason there was a VW Beetle (old style) on the roof. Engine running. Every so often the horn would honk, and the radio was playing C&W. You could hear the radio from the ground.

Halley’s Comet 1986, from Fort Worth, Texas

From near Mineral Wells

@Barney

Mom didn’t get so hot at me for not dressing up to go shopping. I guess she gave up on that. She gave up on a lot of things that were part of her world but not mine.

She could lecture me but could never argue with me. I would demolish her if she did and she knew it. I hated doing that because I felt so bad during and later, so mostly just kept silent. She learned not to ask questions that might have answers.

But the fights over dresses vs pants and the fights over wearing hose were almost daily, and got ugly sometimes.

My parents switched from a “reasonable” (my definition) Disciples of Christ denomination to a really conservative Southern Baptist one in my early teens.

I didn’t mind the DOC one because the place was beautiful, the values were ok, I personally liked the reverend, we had a historical family connection to the church, the services were lovely and moving, and many of my friends went there.

The Baptist one was missing all that imho. I refused to go. Endless fights. I think I’d tell Mom it was because we hated the dress-up super demure no pants must wear hose dress code. I didn’t want to fight with Mom about my total religious skepticism.

The Baptist church used to have sermons about how the female was “the queen of the household”, and that was a high honor from God, and that’s why the female had to obey family males at all times. My older brother and I used to make gagging gestures at each other during the sermons. When we got caught …

Anyway it was after a few of those sermons that I started refusing to go. At first they would make me come along, and I would just sit in the car and refuse to get out. Then they left me at home, with lots of lectures. But my brother and I did a united front and somehow prevailed and didn’t have to go, tho the lectures never stopped.

Not so much fun.

@f00l My parents just gave up on me and sent me to a Mennonite Church.

The battle over the dresses involved school, yes, we had to wear dresses back then, no exceptions and going downtown. No one wore shorts downtown. It’s a good thing my friend and I did not go to the “tea room” for lunch wearing our shorts. I would still be sitting grounded in my room to this very day. (White gloves were also required at the tea room.)

My parents and I did not have many battles, but when to wear a dress was a biggie.

@Barney

Yeah I had to wear dresses in school except on special days. Hated hated hated hated hated hated hated it. I don’t have words for how much.

Junior year females were allowed to wear slacks but not jeans. I got into trouble over this several times but they wouldn’t do anything to me other than lecture about “setting an example”. Some girls weren’t so lucky. Senior year they gave up and let us wear jeans.

One girl whose Dad was on the City Council and who had a seriously confrontational attitude and supportive parents told them "I do set an example. I never take mescaline before school."
This caused a ruckus. She won, of course. Her Dad told the school board that if they didn’t have stupid rules, his daughter wouldn’t be so very tempted to be sarcastic.

By the time the rules changed, many of parents were protesting, and some of the truant girls were citing the dress codes as a reason for not going to school, and a feminist lawyer was threatening the school board over it.

@Barney

Oh, BTW, during my HS era the only reason a teenager went downtown was to hit a porn store do buy ciggies and alcohol. That was after the department stores all moved toward the malls, and before we got revitalized and trendy.

Now dtn FS is very pleasant, fairly lovely, with interesting stuff and good id good, and completely safe.

In FW we have a kind of benevolent dictatorship about being cultural. The Bass family and their friends decide about downtown. They have amazing taste and pay for everything, more or less. So far, excellent decisions. As far as I’m concerned, they can stay in charge.

The Basses decreed that downtown shall be safe, beautiful, artistic, wonderful, and an excellent and fun place to walk around.

And it is.

Re the Mennonites - was the church really seriously Mennonite? I have some friends who are Mennonite. The whole thing. No radios in cars. No TV.

Incidentally, the Internet and streaming and DVDs are fine, so long as they bring the family and community together. Several of them work in IT. I really like some aspects of how they choose to live, tho it’s not for me. They make incredible neighbors. At least around here.

@f00l All this time I’ve thought you were a guy… I think I just expect a fool to be a guy.

But @Barney, horses don’t eat people! Unless you’re feeding them soylent green…

@jqubed

I kinda kept gender on the downlow for a while.

Then during my Goat month I made the female public. Felt a little too creepy to not be upfront about it.

As for being a @f00l: just think of me as a techie and philosophically updated version of I Love Lucie.

/giphy "I love Lucie"

@f00l Whoa, I don’t think I’ve ever seen TV camera footage of Lucy! Her show was shot on film; it’s a different look! Even though the black and white TV cameras made a better picture than the color ones, it still wasn’t as good as film.

@jqubed
Yeah I was kinda wondering why that giphy looks awful.

Because her show was shot on film and they invented the three-camera setup for sitcoms and they invented residuals and the idea that someone other than the network owns the show for that show.

@f00l I like her as an actress, but as I’ve learned how much she did on the business side behind the scenes, I’ve found that far more fascinating. She really changed the business.

@jqubed

The show is I Love Lucy, not I Love Lucie. <groan> <duh>

Desi and Lucy are responsible pioneering for many of the most important and taken-for-granted portions of the TV industry today; technical, artistic, quality, archival, financial.

And she was insanely funny.

And Star Trek:TOS got made in part because she wanted it made.

Unfortunately, I lack both her performing genius and her business genius. I’m more like the sitcom character.

@f00l I DID NOT go downtown to hit the porn store or buy ciggies and alcohol. OMG, I’d a been grounded for life.

@f00l As for my Mennonite foray, the church was a little satellite church that was built in our end of town. They closed it up after about six or seven years. I went there 5 years, during my grade school years.

It was not one of those “serious” churches, but they did instill some very good values in me – one of those was to not use foul language, of which this web site has shot that all to hell.

@jqubed Horses stay up late at night conspiring against us humans.

@Barney

I didn’t smoke so I didn’t go downtown for that. Or for alcohol. I didn’t drink much in HS tho there was always beer or hard stuff around if desired.

Sometimes we did go downtown to check out the adult bookstores to giggle at the porn, and the sex toys which made us laugh so hard we had to sit on the sidewalk outside to get our breath back.

The best reason to go downtown from a HS kid’s POV was a wonderful
club called “The Cellar”. There was one on FW and one on Dallas. Perhaps in Houston also? Owned by Pat Kirkland. Day-glow hippy trippy writing all over the black walls.

EVIL IS “LIVE” SPELLED BACKWARDS.

And so forth.

Half-hearted strip teases down to the pasties, nothing more. Led Zeppelin and similar on the sound system, and triply as hell live bands. I recall us forgoing the tables and chairs to sit on floor pillows - a lot of the club was set aside for that. More or less everyone there was stoned - you could get stoned just by breathing.

They pretended to card us and brought us anything we wanted. The place was kinda legendary.

Of course no one’s parents even knew the place existed.

Mostly we went to drink a little and get a little stoned and take about the sort of crazy thoughts kids talk about.

Someone made a documentary out of archive and found footage.
You Must Be Weird Or You Wouldn’t Ne Here

I always heard the FW one was better than the Dallas one. I only went to the Dallas one a few times, so I don’t know.

https://www.fwweekly.com/2013/05/08/cellar-dwellers/

http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3937

The Secret Service was there in Nov 1963
http://www.dallasnews.com/arts/arts/2015/02/10/secret-services-1963-night-in-fort-worths-cellar-recalled
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/14061-the-cellar-on-nov2122-1963/

George Carlin hung out there some.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread366344/pg1

http://star1021.iheart.com/onair/jessie-jessup-976/documentary-you-must-be-weird-or-11850352/

That place closed. A namesake was opened more recently in TCU. But the times, they had changed. You can’t just go get the 60’s back by designing a bar to look like the 60’s, tho the new place was decent enough and had great live music.

@f00l I didn’t drink at all in high school. Graduation night, a friend’s sister bought our group lots and lots of beer. Way too much for me. I got sooo sick on it that I didn’t drink any alcohol for about 10 years and then one drink was my limit. My stomach still turns over when I think about my graduation night.

@OldCatLady and these…

https://smartneedle.com/product/tulips-bobbin-clamps/

@mikibell And THAT, people, is why I no longer go to quilt shows. Especially the last day. Last time I did, I came home with a new Janome.

@OldCatLady have you seen these? They are not cheap, but boy are they great…especially for fabrics on which you don’t want to use pins…

@mikibell I want those too.

@OldCatLady our local walmart had the jumbo clips on clearance for $5 a pack… I bought all that they had.

I bought these but haven’t tried them yet…

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0144CYEPQ/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I bought the multipacks at Joann’s when they had their 60% off coupons.

@mikibell Don’t we all. And they have coupons all the time. http://www.joann.com/coupon/ My local shopping center has JoAnn’s, Michael’s, T.J. Maxx, and Publix. Oh look, it’s National Craft Month. Gotta go see what’s available.

@OldCatLady isn’t is always a craft month?

@mollama the tiny human that owns me has kept me pretty busy. Right this moment, in fact, she’s trying to turn off my laptop while I type.

@f00l I think this applies to sewing too?

@f00l not yet?

@Shrdlu
Down the project rabbit hole …

/giphy rabbit hole

@Shrdlu I remember having chats with you about sewing and was wondering just how long you’d hold out.
BTW, Something to make you groan…I Facetimed with my younger sister recently and talk turned to the recent exploits of her new addition to her life. We think he’s at least 1/2 Italian Greyhound, and we KNOW he likes to chew EVERYTHING. Lounge chair mattresses, buried hose lines, live electrical cords, mops, cayenne pepper paste, the odd, errant drone crashing into her back yard. You name it, he’ll give it a go. Repeatedly. Dog with a death wish and more lives than a cat.
She holds up a mangled black wood darning egg–you know, the version with the handle–and says “do you think it was worth much?” It was our Gran’s and probably from the late 1800’s. What can you do?
Evidently, while keeping him indoors while she was at work during a bad cold snap, she discovered he is also a climber. Her sewing basket had been up on the fireplace mantel.
Dog has Kong toys, chew toys, a busy box, etc., but has a fascination for things that he shouldn’t. Worse than than my twins. She’s set up an outdoor “Dobie-Cam” and streams his exploits while she’s at work. Says she likes to check in now & then to make sure he hasn’t killed himself or decided to take apart her in-ground pool. Yet.

@Barney Right? She’s all wild curls and sass.

@Thumperchick Hahaha, just like her mom.