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HI All...

Donna and I are back from Tn, where we did
the American Sewing Guild Conference show.
3 days of teaching and exhibit floor. We meet
all sorts of neat ladies, who of course sew. Some
who are in business sewing home dec and they are
wanting education. Many want to know how to sew
slipcovers.

Shirley I am sure that no one fixes your Euro Iron
are you under warrantee? HOw old is it?

okay... back to work. Need to get my quarterly taxes
in the mail.

Bye all
Karen in St Lous but wanting to be home
in the great Northwest

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HI All...

Donna and I are back from Tn, where we did
the American Sewing Guild Conference show.
3 days of teaching and exhibit floor. We meet
all sorts of neat ladies, who of course sew. Some
who are in business sewing home dec and they are
wanting education. Many want to know how to sew
slipcovers.

Shirley I am sure that no one fixes your Euro Iron
are you under warrantee? HOw old is it?

okay... back to work. Need to get my quarterly taxes
in the mail.

Bye all
Karen in St Lous but wanting to be home
in the great Northwest

Shirley, I'm not ignoring you; I'm treading water up here, trying not to drown. Involves termites, dead refrigerator, local historical society, and sick relatives.

Don't ask... And I'm driving down in August if it kills me.

Dede

ongoing experiements.........come into my laBORatory...........

Brown : bring yourself and your worst chair. Northern Va, email me, slipcoverlady@juno.com

Stuffing slipcovers, lining, new excuses for slipcover underwear. Tell me what you do, same address as above.

Poly slipcovers. UGH. Let's swap samples.

Recreating cotton scraps, send me some swatches of what you can't get rid of, we'll talk.

does anyone have an opinion on stuffed slipcovers ? The ones with lining pockets for filling them with dacron ? any toes to step on here that I am not aware of....it's been written about and in one case patented, but I am leaning toward the iron in Rowley stuf. Anyone ever try this as lining slash underwear ?

I bought a hundred as that's usually what it takes to force me to try it enough to get real consistent results.

It's drapeable for it's bulk, there does not seem to be anything to wash out.

It's not yet cut off bolt.

First I have 80 yards bias banding to make for drape job. Why do I do THAT ?

Speaking of which, europro iron decided to sit down on the job. Bought it used, don't know origin. Who fixes these ?

I'll send it out to you jeannie.

Hi, Shirley,
Why did you get 100 yards? I don't know anything about poly. Do you expect it not to shrink? Does it not have sizing in it? Can you think of any advantages over cotton other than the bleach and ammonia washes? If you have scissors in hand, you could send me a snip. Jeannie

3507 W. Cornwallis Rd.
Durham, NC 27705

I didn't see a country of origin on the bill, though it may be there, I'll check again. Their cottons come from India.

I am proud to have slipcovers connected to the idea of simple living and conservation, but it's relative.

Even if we do buy fabric that's from another country, we have not created quite as much trash as an upholsterer. We haven't created excess numbers of baggy covers to sit on the shelf and wait for end users. We don't create covers that must occupy space in a truck or shipping container.

Why don't I send out a smaller swatch for those who are interested ? With a 37 cents stamp ? Or is it 38 now ?

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All poly canvas does work for some occasions.
I don't think that poly canvas is evil... (LOL)

Some poly products are being made from recycled
products. The thought is to look at oil and how it
is being used. So much of our industry is reliant
on oil. How can this be?

What do we know about having all of our eggs in
one basket? When something happens to the eggs
the next is empty.

Diversity is idea. Use more than one thing.

Does CRDaniels manufacture this poly canvas fabric
in the USA or does it come from China? Just checking?

Smiles to you this day
always
K

just got some CRDaniels all~poly canvas in, white white, heavy texture, drapeable.

anybody want to experiment with some? I will cut you off what you want. Got 100 yds here, 6.00 a yard plus shipping.

experimenting is good fun for me. Especially if it will replace the cotton stuff..............petro chemical evil though right ? is this evil ? It's better than running a quart of ammonia and a gallon of bleach ( separately, of course ) down the drain per each 4.5 yards cotton.

Welcome Rita, It is hot Slipcovering in Arizona.. Looking forward to everyone coming out to the summit in June. Lots of exciting things in the planning.

Claudia

www.sewwhat4u.com

Rita! What ya sewin' over there ?

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Heepie.... glad you figured it out. Others say it is too hard.
Good to have you with us...

Hey Shirley, Rita has joined us. You remember Rita she was one of our Scholarhip Awardee
at the Summit...

always
K

Karen, got on to the blog--thanks for the call and hope to comtribute soon to the group.
Rita Loveday

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So are you doing the upholstery job????
Good you are an upholster...

always
K

Regarding restaurant bench seat slipcovers--Thanks all for your feedback. I talked the customer out of slipcovers; they really needed upholstering. Jeannie

*duh* That explains why I couldn't find it... I was looking in the wrong place. ANYWAY, thank you for letting me slide for so long - I appreciate your patience AND kindness AND general good humor. :-)

Hope you are healing nicely,

Dede

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Dede a year membership with the Slipcover Network is $45 all info is on the website
at www.slipcovernetwork.com on the contack page.

thanks
k

vote here : what would you consider to be an essential gauarantee ( your expectation ) when you see the term " high end washable ".

Okay, I won't actually use that name for marketting, just for your use here. BTW: what would you use to market that ? A name ?

Good Lord... I forgot to renew my membership. Karen, I am sooooo sorry.

Is it $40.00? $45.00? Please let me know (again) and I'll get a check in the mail Monday.

Sorry...

I will help you recycle your as yet unwashed all~cottons, when they are unbleached natural in color and tightly woven. I will pay you for your postage ( only ) , and donate $3.oo a yard to Karen, if this is okay with you, Karen ? Donations to be applied to all the many PR costs associated with the website, summits, booths, flyers, transporation etc.

I will set aside a budget of $500 for this, first come first serve, dig'um out.

I need at least ten yards per type, fairly continuous yardage, enough for a chair. Maybe twelve yards minimum if in more pieces. No canvas or twills, sorry, as I am SO saturated with that already.

This may wind up in the samples made for the next show or summit, so if you were curious as to what could be done with it, now's the time to find out. I will likely wash it untill it shrivels like a prune and then bleach it high white. This is really recycling, this is a much prettier product than the raw materials.

Karen, I'll edit this is you don't want to do this............ let me know.

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Karen:

You're alive! Hooray!!

Shirley:

I want it ALL! Do I really have to CHOOSE??

Jeannie:

I'm trying, but... I'm having trouble picturing slips for restaurant booths (well, attractive ones, anyway). Do two booths share a single back?

now is the time to tell me, while I am writing up class descriptions for summit 2006, what you would like to see included in undergarments.

I would suggest ideally ( if I had the time ):

the full range of fabrics used

how layers seams, cords, zippers are treated when you line direct

when to go separate with your " lining ", sewing VS stapling, complete VS incomplete coverage

undergarments when used to add padding, applying it, tools, materials, techniques.

That's way too much for two hours, so if you can point me in the direction you need to go, let me know here soon.

Brown will be on the saturday after this class, so we can incorporate your remaining questions in the process of covering the chair you bring for Brown. For Brown: bring the ugliest, most difficult to slipcover chair that you own, but for this first time, please bring cotton fabric. The old rote saying applies here well: light color, pattered, textured, having body and dull surface ( opposite of : dark plain smooth limp glossy ).

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Yea, it could be half full. Go and see what they are wanting, and then decide. I personally don't like to make vinyl slipcovers.

We have classes for the Summit in order. Hope to get this written up
and to folks tomorrow, Monday..

Thanks.
K with SA

washable and commercial= flameproof, which generally = polyester...................... I have slipcovered in poly times 200 chairs for such an application. Hopefully, you will not need to endure chartreuse. Acrylic may work.

slipcover in vinyl ?

Hi, all

I've got to call someone (far away) tomorrow about slipcovering restaurant booths. I don't know anything else at this point. All I can picture is torn slippery vinyl with smears of catsup and old egg. Well, instead of this "glass half empty" ('cus beer also spilled on the booths) approach, I should instead think that maybe the booths are for some cute country diner. Anyone ever done anything like this?

Jeannie

Karen? How are you doing? Update, please! :-)

Don't forget to take... it... easy... Let yourself heal - please! Because we love you!!!