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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2012

    Barbe

    I'm really looking forward to learning to use my Janome so I can sew jackets, AND embellish with beads too!  i just love playing with them, redegisning necklaces I made years ago.  Very stimulating, and builds creativity, I think, "playing" with them.

    What kind of fiber art do you do?  Display?  Wearable?  Functional???  I have so much saved material, and I'm eagere to make jackets for myself - very VERY basic, almost "kimona" short style - haven't faced the pattern selection yet.  At the clipping things I like out of magazines stage.

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited July 2012

    I just discovered magnetic closures for jewelry at JoAnn's. I'm going to try that next for my bracelets. Put one magnet on either side of the bracelet, then magnetize each end of the beads. I'll see if they're strong enough to hold during wearing and report back.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited July 2012

    Wren, I'd like to know for sure!!! As I get older and my arthritis worse, there are necklaces I can no longer wear unless someone younger and more flexible than my DH and I are around to do it up!!

    Sunflowers, hope you're sitting down...did you know that you can sew buttons on with your machine???? Some beads too, probably. Check out the zig zag section of the manual....

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2012

    oooohhh...Barbe - I can't WAIT to take a sewing class in the fall to learn how this Magic Thing really works - did I tell you I got the Janome S500.  25 stitches, 1 step button hole, drop in bobbin, and seems easy..right now I'm just playing - with muslin & all the stitches...my "shawl" looks like a Jackson Pollack in all colors!

    Wren - I've only tried those closures on a necklace, and it wasn't strong enough - but I have the same problem as Barba, and don't wear bracelets, except on elastic..ugh!  Michaels Arts & Crafts also has a lot of jewelry now  - and coupons, of course!  You can get them online at their website. Free.

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited July 2012

    Our Michaels went out and JoAnns fabrics is opening there on the 27th of July. I"m anxious for them to open. I do miss Michaels.

    I have a few magnetic bracelets and necklaces. They work for me and haven't lost anything. My friend however did loose a pink crystal bracelet that our friend made for her when she got BC. It was found in the restaurant and she thinks she didn't have perfectly together....and maybe the two magnets weren't lined up right. She hasn't had a problem since.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2012

    Hi, artsee,

    I've been watercolor painting with a friend who has a studio.  She's been studying it for years, really interesting to learn while someone is DOING the painting, and encouraging me to do SOMETHING every day...got my sketchbooks ready..

    I'd be very careful of those magnet closings - I much prefer crimps, more difficult to do, but in the long run much MUCH safer.

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  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited July 2012

    Our message to you was a sincere attempt to remedy a situation that was not apparent to us and that was being publicly discussed. We were simply asking for insight. Just trying to help.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited July 2012

    I am in the dark..no knowledge of anything...

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited July 2012

    I know nothing, but would HATE to see Sunflowers gone!! Please let ONE of her stay???

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  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 7,799
    edited July 2012

    that's reasonable.. one of her.

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited July 2012

    She has been positive in all the posts I've read. I hate to see her gone as well.

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited July 2012

    Sun...so glad you are with a watercolorists. Absorb and let it all in. I was Gallery sitting for a friend and owner today....did two 8X10's in the 4 hours I was there. Happy, with the finished product!:)

    WTF?.....Am I missing something and you were a bad girl Sun?......don't think so.

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  • pil
    pil Member Posts: 315
    edited July 2012

    I've been in this moon kick.  It all started with looking at that huge moon in May.  Since then I have painted 28 small oil paintings and still painting. Tongue out   I feel nutty but I get high looking at the big old moon. LOL

    Scorpio Moon

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  • Wren44
    Wren44 Member Posts: 8,585
    edited August 2012

    Please don't let this thread go dead. I just joined a website called Art Tutor. They have lessons in multiple media. They have some free lessons and it's $15 a month to join. I'm really enjoying it. My last watercolor lesson was in 2008, so I've forgotten a lot.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2012

    Hi, all my fellow artists, creative women, lovely friends - well, I was "banned" by BCO.  Basically in response to a PM from the moderators, which I answered, I was declared to be "disrespectful and unkind" - tried to post to explain I'd be gone for a month, but my posts were deleted.

    SO.  "Obviously", I won't be around as often as I used to be, but certainly hope the spirit of this thread continues.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2012

    Was wondering where you were. As you can see, we were all holding our breaths!! If it makes you feel any better, I was banned for six weeks and then it took them a month to get it working for me again!!!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2012

    Hey, Barbe - thanks for commiserating....I was banned for, well, we'll share that another timeSealed

    Meanwhile - I am having SUCH FUN playing with my Janome S500.  Planning on taking Sewing Class at local Adult Education in the Fall.  My first project will be a pair of "Flax" Flood Pants.  I still have some years ( and years) old, as they wear out (inner thighs!) I "patch" them, more patches than pants - but still wearable ( given I live, literally in the woods) & new ones are now about $70.  Crazy to pay that for what look like Linen pajamas.  Will figure out how to take a pic when I finally make something.  Thanks AGAIN for understanding how it feels to be taken out of "community." Wink

    ETA: I LOVE FOctober!  just love it...goes for everything "pink" and selfpromoting using bc!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2012

    Meant to send DEEEEEEEEP thank yous to Artsee - I am LOVING the Making Color Sing by Jeanne Dobie book, watercolors.   Bought the "pallette of WN colors she uses, and doing the exercises making "her" colors.  Who knew there could be so many delicious greens, and "mouse colors"

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2012

    Funny you say that Sunflowers! When I started buying the Pan Pastels, I bought the "darks" first!! LOVE the depths of grays and browns. I had to add in the lighter colours bit by bit. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2012

    Pil, I love it! Beautiful colors and feeling.



    Phyllis

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2012

    Ahhhhh....moon wisdom...wonderful symbol too.

    Barbe - I still use the pan pastels - now when I use the sticks, I really notice I get 'sniffly' from the powder, but the pan ones are so painterly.  I'm still really trying to learn watercolor - I love the process, and a friend has 'hosted' a group of us in her studio over the summer.  Find it SO valuable to be with people when painting, really seems to help, inspires, 

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2012

    What are these posts about?? Who is Pil and what is moon wisdom? Am I on the wrong page???

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2012

    barbe '-)  go back up a few posts....

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2012

    Ah yes!!! A beautiful moon that got eclipsed when sunflowers came back!! Well done, Pil!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2012

    LOL Barbe, now you've got me curious what YOU could have goten banned for...DO NOT POST IT HERE....LOL

    but good to see you looking great - and I am EAGER to buy the t shirt:  FOCTOBER ( before October!)

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2012

    I got banned for supporting someone in an alternative thread. Seriously.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2012

    barbe - the mind boggles...I now only post on this and one other thread, seriously.

    So happy you are enjoying the Pan Pastels...I haven't found any books about them yet, have you?

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited August 2012

    No books, but I watch the online Youtube videos over and over. One of the guys plays music that he taped of himself playing the piano and singing and it's just beautiful!!!!! I sometimes just watch his music videos. Right now I'm working on a fibre art piece. Check out the sewing thread where there are some pics. I'm almost finished...having a bit of trouble knowing when to stop!!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2012

    off to find the sewing thread ;-)

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  • artsee
    artsee Member Posts: 1,576
    edited August 2012

    Aug 15th is the last post? Wow, haven't been on here in ages because I see and hear from so many of you on Facebook. It is so much easier maneuvering around on there than here. It took me a good 5 min. to get to this reply. Ugh. Still hate this format.

    Sun, now you are into sewing? I can't communicate with you on this unfortunately. I throw everything out that needs to be sewed.:)

    We just had our raffle at Sheboygan Visual Artists where we painted 300 8X10's and raffled them off for $20.00. Great turn out. Fun...because everyone could turn in the art they ended up with and put it on a trading wall if they didn't like it. I worked the trading wall.....l bad ones up and good ones down. Did 14 of them this year and none made it to the trading wall. The people hung on to them like bloody ticks.:):).

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