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Annie Deighnaugh
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Comments (37)Thank you all, for your continued kind words. Campanula, yes, exactly. Setting the garden (and home) within the larger context is always the tricky thing, right? Like, on one hand you want to have your way over the landscape, to tame it and mold it into more of what you like. But on the other hand, the cues really need to come from what's already around you otherwise it's either going to be a ton or work to fight nature, and/or it won't even look right when you're done. So the rock theme really plays well here. GreenHearted, that's a great question. I have done the foundation differently on different stone projects here. I'm not an expert on this, but none of my walls have fallen down yet! (With the older ones being over 10 years old.) You are quite right, a dry-stacked wall is an inherently flexible structure and is very forgiving of expansion and contraction of the ground. On this wall, I dug/scraped down to the subsoil layer, which is a very compacted, concrete-like substance. I didn't put down gravel or anything, mostly because the very idea of that pushed the project into the realm of unrealistic for my diy self. Stonework does have a tendency to slowly sink into the ground. Rocks that used to be standing above grade are now below the level of the grass. I'm not sure how much a gravel foundation would help that. One of my walls has a gravel foundation and it hasn't behaved any differently than the others as far as I can tell. Not sure if that answer helps or not! :)...See MoreAnother CL chair project completed
Comments (16)Thanks again for all your comments. mythreedogs, it is interesting to see how the chairs are made, isn't it? Although my chair didn't have any signs of former living things in it, it was horribly dirty inside and musty. All of the tacks were rusted, as well, so I had to be very careful removing them that I didn't step on one, or otherwise puncture myself. I do have a couple of chairs coming up, matching barrel chairs with channel quilted backs. They aren't old, maybe from the late '60's? I have already stripped one of them down but probably won't be able to do any more for a while as I have to find enough reasonably priced fabric to do the two of them. I did take a very detailed photo record, as well as notes, for that one. Fortunately all of the innards are in really good shape so I will only have to recover them. The chair was so pristine inside that all I found was three tiddlywinks and a 1972 quarter. Not even any hair or crumbs inside. mitch, this is the first time I sewed double welting. If you can sew a straight line on a machine, that will do it. The special welting foot has two grooves on the underside that guide the double cording, and you just wrap the fabric once, stitch down the middle, wrap one more time and stitch again. Then trim off the bit of fabric that is left along the edge of the stitching. It isn't hard, just a little awkward keeping your fabric stretched tight and straight while you sew. If you looked closely you would see flaws in the work I've done. It is nowhere near what a reupholsterer would do in quality workmanship, but for being able to make a new chair from old for very little $$, it was worth trying to do this. rioritarae, this is my second chair I tried. I have another thread a few pages back showing my first project. It was either throw the chair out, or try to do something with it. I made loads of mistakes, but I also learned enough to try another one. And, it gives me something to occupy myself with. I have always enjoyed having some kind of hobby and enjoy teaching myself to do things. :)...See MoreFinished blanket #3 for Project Linus
Comments (27)I was just thinking that we really cherish the donated handknit cap from hospital that came home with our baby and I’m sure families are cherishing your beautiful blankets....See MoreProject Linus #8 complete
Comments (69)Saypoint, that will be very pretty! As for the price of yarn now, I do watch sales for big projects like afghans. I will say, though, that if it's for a sweater or socks for me or DH, I don't use acrylic yarn, and use a wool or wool blend, which is a LOT more expensive, though I do try to find the least expensive that will still look nice and drape properly for the project. I do quite often pay $20 for sock yarn. BUT I have been wearing the very first pair of sock I made 17 years. So looking at it that way, that pair of socks has cost me pennies per wearing. I do have to repair the bottom of the heels on those and a couple of other pair after catching the bottom on a screw in threshold plates. So, I guess my point is, I don't just look at initial cost, but cost per use, also. Our local knitting circle has participated in Warm Hands, Warm Hearts, a program that was started about 18 years ago by our local hospital's chaplin's wife, who is a long time member of our circle. She is a retired teacher, and had a child who had no hat, so she went home and knitted a hat for that child. It snow balled from there into many knitting/crochet groups making hats and mittens to donate to our local hospitals emergency rooms for the nurses to provide hats and mittens to those who come in with out hats and mittens in the winter. We all look for yarn at yard sales, and often will have it donated to us from various sources. I've even been knitting in the laundramat and been asked if I could use free yarn! The employee had been cleaning out her aunt's home after the aunt's passing, and hadn't been able to bring herself to put it in the garbage. She lived right down the street and immediately called her DH to bring me THREE big garbage bags of clean free yarn! Of course I took it to our next meeting and shared! We also make blankets for local children in distress at a special short term home that takes in children who may be from a single parent home, when that parent can't care for them for whatever reason. Our hospital just put on a thank you dinner for us, and told us we have contributed over 32,000 hand made items in 18 years!...See MoreAnnie Deighnaugh
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