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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: gmatoy Date: January 8, 2020, 1:14 pm
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Chez Miriam, thank you for fixing the quote tree; I have no
idea how to do that.
This morning, I spent an hour pinning ornaments. It will pay off
when I start to do the actual sewing, but it is tedious!
Luckily, most of the ornaments can be sewn with white thread, so
not a lot of thread changing!
In a few moments, after my cup of tea, I'm going to start
pulling fabrics for 2020's lounging pants. I hope to get quite a
few cut out. Time will tell.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: Runningstar Date: January 8, 2020, 1:39 pm
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I've decided on reusable shopping bags as my gifts for Christmas
2020. First I'm going to make myself enough, not only because I
need them, but also so that whatever tote bag pattern I use will
be the "best" one. This way I'll know which length of handle,
if I need a pocket, etc. And once mine are done, I'm going to
make about 15 or so to go with whatever other gift that I pick
out for each person nearer to Christmas.
If anyone has suggestions about shopping bags, I'd be very
interested!
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: oogyda Date: January 8, 2020, 2:20 pm
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[quote author=Runningstar link=topic=1476.msg45163#msg45163
date=1578512352]
I've decided on reusable shopping bags as my gifts for Christmas
2020. First I'm going to make myself enough, not only because I
need them, but also so that whatever tote bag pattern I use will
be the "best" one. This way I'll know which length of handle,
if I need a pocket, etc. And once mine are done, I'm going to
make about 15 or so to go with whatever other gift that I pick
out for each person nearer to Christmas.
If anyone has suggestions about shopping bags, I'd be very
interested!
[/quote]
Please be very conscious of the length of the handle!! On many
of the ones I have purchased, the handles are too long. If I
grab the handles and hold my arm straight down, the bag is
dragging on the ground/sidewalk/floor. It's worse if I'm trying
to carry more than one at a time to save myself another trip.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: gmatoy Date: January 8, 2020, 9:42 pm
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I do a lot of walking and taking the bus. Here is what I like in
a bag: a pocket for a water bottle, an inner pocket to put some
little, easily misplaced items, handles long enough to go over
my shoulder, and a key ring which should be also on the inside.
My everyday bag also has a whistle attached. People will stop
and pay attention if you blow a whistle.
When I make them for other people, I make it with two sets of
handles, one set for over the shoulder and one set for carrying
it in my hand. I'm short and totally get what oogyda said about
the length of the handles.
If you are making them to be the "fold up and store in your
purse or pocket" type, then you don't need all the bells and
whistles I mentioned.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: gmatoy Date: January 8, 2020, 9:44 pm
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I've already finished the sewing and turning of 14 candy cane
ornaments. I'll wait until close to the holidays to stuff them
as they take up less room without stuffing. They are going
together so nicely!
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: Rho Date: January 8, 2020, 10:08 pm
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reusable shopping bags? I always carry one folded in my purse.
If a bagger at the grocery store wants to put chicken packages
in plastic bags and then inside my reusable bag I can say my bag
is washable. One of my pet peeves is why a bagger thinks I want
a reusable bag lined with a disposable plastic bag.
Anyhow I'm trying to tell you to make the bags washable.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: Chez Miriam Date: January 9, 2020, 4:11 am
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[quote author=gmatoy link=topic=1476.msg45189#msg45189
date=1578541348]
I do a lot of walking and taking the bus. Here is what I like in
a bag: a pocket for a water bottle, an inner pocket to put some
little, easily misplaced items, handles long enough to go over
my shoulder, and a key ring which should be also on the inside.
My everyday bag also has a whistle attached. People will stop
and pay attention if you blow a whistle.
When I make them for other people, I make it with two sets of
handles, one set for over the shoulder and one set for carrying
it in my hand. I'm short and totally get what oogyda said about
the length of the handles.
If you are making them to be the "fold up and store in your
purse or pocket" type, then you don't need all the bells and
whistles I mentioned.
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I was going to post this. We have several bags with a pair of
short handles, for arm's length carrying and a pair of long
handles to sling over the shoulder. We tend to carry them as a
shoulder bag until too laden, then use the short handles once it
is full.
I have a bag that I bought from a charity shop (some initiative
to do with the Duke of Cornwall??), that is basically two panels
of curtain fabric sewn together with French seams, with a short
handle sewn into each side of the top hem. It fold into
quarters and lives with all the other reusable bags in the
over-the-shoulder bag-of-bags*, and is incredibly useful because
of how strong the curtain fabric is. It's about four-six times
[when folded] the size of those very fine fold-away nylon bags,
but the handles have never shown any signs of wear [unlike the
nylon ones!].
Having said that, the nylon ones are very useful to tuck a
couple into a handbag for those impulse purchases.
Runningstar, I suspect you're going to have a lot of fun! As we
all know, it's not self-indulgence if it's research. ;) ;D ;D ;D
* Why yes, I may be some kind of bag lady. ;) ;D
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: gmatoy Date: January 10, 2020, 11:38 am
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My grand count is 74 ornaments sewn and, of those, 31 turned
right side out. I'm taking the others with me to my doctor's
appointment for the waiting room time. Might as well make the
wait work for me!
I'm off now to make scones so my very good friend and I can have
a treat before she takes me to the appointment.
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: gmatoy Date: January 10, 2020, 9:09 pm
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Well, if you want to make friends in a doctor's office, make
gifts for them! Several people told me how much they loved the
mitten ornaments. So, of course, I showed them the candy canes
for the upcoming Christmas and they really seemed to like them.
;D
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Re: Getting ready for Christmas 2020
By: gmatoy Date: January 11, 2020, 3:47 pm
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Yesterday I was thrift store shopping with my very good friend
and I thought of this thread when we got to the bag aisle. I
often buy used bags that have good straps made of that webbing
stuff. Yesterday, I found a bag that had a lot of webbing, so
for $1.50 I got over 4 yards of webbing for the next jeans bags
I make. Bright yellow, which made me smile!
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