Announcement!
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Its NOT over yet!
Have I mentioned thread? Floriani Thread in particular. If you machine embroider, this is a deal. $2.99 per mini cone. 1100 yards shiny polyester thread. At this price you can certainly fill in some of those missing colors or enhance your color library.
I don’t think there is a better price for this thread anywhere else!
You don’t embroider? Do you know someone that does? Send them a link! and thanks for passing it on.
On another note… I have another house guest. This one is of a different variety though.
Just about every where I have lived… I have had a resident pair of doves. When we moved into this house, we had a pair that had a nest on a drain spout under the eaves. A hawk got the female… and that was that. While we have had as many as 14 doves around the feeder at one time, none had taken up a nest where I could see them. This year is different. This fellow (males sit the nest during the day, females at night) is about 3 feet away from the front door. In about 2 weeks there should be some hungry little mouths… up there.
More to come later! Including and Pupdate on Goldie- Beth
Thursday, May 3, 2018
and it Continues!!!
EVERYTHING in the store 50% off!!!
(Great for machine embroidery, longarm quilting or thread painting/sketching).
Beautiful sheen, 100's of colors
Don't wait some colors are getting low! and a few are gone!
I am a recent finder of the Floriani thread, and I have been playing with it on the longarm. I think it is a finer thread than Glide, which is a 40 weight thread, so it does not show quite as much, something I like. And by not showing quite as much the sheen is a little less as well, again something I like.
One of the other things of note is that Glide likes to untwist while traveling from the spool/cone to the needle, on my longarm, as I hear, also on many other longarms as well. The Floriani does not seem to do that!
More Later!! Beth
Sunday, April 29, 2018
Blowout
Yep, it is.
Everything in the I Have a Notion store (www.ihaveanotion.com) is on sale.
What does that mean? It means
Every item in the store is 1/2 off! If you find a product that is not marked down… (exception is the $4.00 books), let me know… I will mark it down another 25%
CHECK it out, there just might be something you need or want or….
Scissors, Embroidery Software, Thread, Notions
EVERYTHING absolutely EVERYTHING!
Beth
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Keeping UP!
As usual… I have been busy and behind as far as keeping things caught up or current. Part of my problem is that I don’t think much of what I do is interesting… or even worth mentioning until after the fact!!! Sometimes well after the fact! Does that happen to you too?
Sometimes I see my obligations as just that -a job to accomplish… and don’t stop long enough to see that there is value in just doing the job. For instance. One of the guilds in town will be hosting a Quilt Auction as a fund raiser that will feature both a Silent Auction and a Live Auction as well as a rummage table we are calling the ‘Quilters Attic’. While my hand was resting in February I built a web page for the guild… nothing spectacular in terms of design, as it was to show some of the quilts to be auctioned. If you are interested in visiting that page…. go here: Nine Patchers Quilt Auction and of course if you are nearby… please come. Next up was taking pictures of those quilts. It was the photographing, that I think I missed a great opportunity to talk about.
Over the years there has been lots of information shared about how to photograph quilts… so I took much of what I remember reading… about the subject… using a tripod, appropriate lighting, level camera and quilt display and distance as well as focal length. I am a nature photographer… and generally don’t have the patience for lighting a subject with artificial light.
The shooting quilts went really well, even though all of them were photographed indoors! and without a neutral wall behind them at one location and pretty closed to the ceiling… several had to be pinned to a sheet. Our weather in Kentucky hasn’t cooperated with warm enough days…. to shoot outside, and not bright enough to use south facing windows for a nice natural light indoors… So I had to also play with fluorescent and fill flash. Overall I think the quilts look good.
Next I was asked to photograph a knife. That proved to be a different lighting difficulty. For this I actually wanted the dull dark grey skies!!! Metal reflects light and creates bright reflections that look like imperfections in the metal work. We decided that a new lens would help with that problem… so another small obstacle … to over come. Well after a couple of weeks of experimentation… I think I finally nailed it.
Have I been doing anything remotely related to fiber recently…NO!!!
I’ll have to explain more later… What about you…. are you keeping up?
Beth
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Some Cheese Please! and Flamingos!!!
Some days I feel like all I do is “whine” about time and where has it gone? And this week doesn’t feel any different!
There must me something I no longer do … as well as I used to, or is it that things take longer now than they did before? Or have I just gotten lazy? But I sure wish I could figure it out!
So Kelly sent me these on Sunday…. a little late to posting… but they make me smile. I wish I had a neighbor like this!!!
Until… later… and More!
Beth (and Kelly)
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Whats UP?
Hi…. and what exactly is up at I Have a Notion?
Our rainfall and snowfall amounts are up in Kentucky. Almost 3 times more snow than was predicted… and if we get too much more rain… we will float away.
Also up are the wild Hyacinths. These pop up every year in the lawn, and they are naturalizing. The first year here we only had 2 or 3 plants and now we have 20! I love them. We also have lots of wild violets… under the maple and just to prove its spring… even if the temperatures don’t say so, the dandelions are blooming too.
And another day I drove up to Louisville to drop something off for Goldie. To be tested. I took Goldie with me… for some more experience riding in the car and to get a weight. That is also up! Can you believe that in the 4 weeks since diagnosis… she gained 15 pounds!!! The C-diff is done! and we are working on the Crypto. Hopefully one more sample…. and we will be in the clear.
And just like the rest of America… some of this! and it is taking more than one day!
What has kept you busy? Sewing or Taxes or….?