Keeping my fingers crossed for next summer...

Oh, and Karen - have you ever heard that old Mother's Curse? "May you have a child just like you." I had two of 'em.

Wow Karen, that sounds great! I appreciate you trying to keep the cost lower, and the research for the classes. I'm planning to go, for sure - and I'll throw my name into the hat for a room mate. I've got a few other business related ideas I'll email to Jeanie.
Kim

It is official, the Next Slipcover Summit in 2006 will be in Phoenix, AZ
June 21-24...

3 days living, eating and breathing Slipcovers. If you have ideas for classes let us know more... Do appreciate previous insight and it is most definitely noted.Jeannie is in charge of collecting information about workshops ideas. e-mail her at mail@naturalslipcovers.com


Room rates will be $50 per night and there will be 2 queen beds in each room, so if you want to have a roommate that means only $25 per night.


We are hoping to keep class fees including lunch (we don't want you to starve) between $35 and $45. Airline flies into Phoenix, and Southwest has great flights. Super Shuttle from the airport to the hotel.


Oh Dede are your kids really that bad?

always
k with SA

My dear... you underestimate the ability of my daughters to be Really Really Annoying...

we can keep them busy here......

Well... Dearest Hubby is currently employed by a Brand New Software Start-Up = he's never home. So... I shall be accompanied by two charming, well-behaved Young Ladies of Breeding (yeah, right...) who adore the Fine Art of slipcover fabrication (*gag*) and who are soooo looking forward to a fascinating methodological discussion (Lord, they hate this stuff...).

Perhaps a long-distance Grillin' (of burgers), Chillin' (of adult beverages), and Spillin' (of info) is in order?

Fire up the propane! Who has the beer?!

What can brown method do for you ? We can mine the answers to that question at my house at date of your choice. They more the merrier, up to three, let's use indoor space. More than three possible, but we might need the driveway to work. Let me know. Pool, grill, silliness and maybe some useful answers.

Hey Shirley... it ain't you, babe. My brain is too full right now (very limited capacity) to absorb too much. I do like the overlap of The Brown Method, though ("What can Brown do for YOU?" - yeah, caffeine deprivation...)

So... some threads mysteriously disappeared from the "Other Place"? Also, my gorgeous ANIMATED gif of Sherlock Holmes smoking a pipe evaporated (but I think that was actually my fault... didn't pay the user fee for the image).

What was the purpose of this post? Um... can't remember, but...

1. Isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol* gets out: ink, pine sap, poison ivy (urushiol) oil. [*common ingredient in most hairspray]
2. Ammonia gets out: chocolate, cooking oil.
3. Hydrogen peroxide gets out: blood.
4. Lestoil gets outs: grease.

And when all else fails... soap scum remover/bathroom cleaner will remove crayon [crayon = oil + wax / soap scum = oil + wax], but may bleach surface - TEST FIRST.

All the above personally tested and approved by moi. I have a very dirty family...

aha! silence...... I didn't get any feedback over THERE either on the Brown stuff ......then I hardly ever do anyway.

This is a timely post, in anyone wants this at the next summit, you will have to say so shortly while the topics for teaching next year are being chosen now.

brown method: briefly, its as follows.....

the outside back is chalked out, cut and cord sewn prior to fitting.

the outside arm is measured, cut, and the cord sewn to the top of it prior to fitting.

the front arm panel, front deck panel or side deck panel, and side arm panel or wing if present is chalked, traced or measured, cut and corded before fitting.

All outside body pieces are measured, traced or chalked before hand, cut and then corded as they would normally be. None are yet joined to one another, that is done after the next step, in pin fitting.

Then center body pieces are cut, shaped by double on half or single on half, inside out or right side out as preferred, cut normally ( for you ) and perhaps even joined to one another was well, before pin fitting to outside body pieces. The one big exception to normal is that the seam allowances where the inside meets the outside are large, say two inches.

Once all this is done, it can be pinned to tighten and finesse, seams FACING you, raw side out, but fabric being RS out or WS out as preferred.

At this point, it's very delegatable sewing. Brown method allows for a sewing cutting team that need not include a sewer who is yet fully skilled, as sewer makes no crucial decisions.

You know I just like it because it combines all the ideas in the different methods.

Tell me more Shirley. I want to know all about the Brown Method

anybody wanna hear about the brown method ? It's all the colors mixed ha ha. Not kidding, it's looking promising to me ( the amusement of it all ).

I remember using lots of hairspray to clean crayon off the walls when the kids were little!
Kim

Kim...

We talked about the oil subject at the Summit....

Someone said that hairspray works for oil, ink, crayon?

Which was it girls...????

There is no wholesale phone number. Just call Deanna, her add is in the Slipcover Press. Call her phone number and let her know you are in business and would like to by fabric wholesale. Tell her you are with the Slipcover Network.

She is going through a lot of changes with her product.

Hope this helps...

always
K with SA

Deanna answers either one, if there's more than one. It's on the sample book......did some one there tell you this ?

Sorry - I need to change the subject...

Does anyone have the WHOLESALE telephone/contact person for Homespun in California?



We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog. Carry on... :)

Ok Shirley I guess I'll keep door #1 (MY kids) and leave you with curtain #2(yours). :)
I tried goo gone on the oil stain, did a pretty good job.
Now I'm going to buy that kind of oil that is supposed to be stain - less!
Kim

Kim, you send your three, I'll send my one, and I'll get the better end of the deal!

Seriously, the oil....someone said hairspray ? It's the solvent in it. Test by putting machine oil on a scrap first, I may have heard this out of context.

Controlled growth is all any of us can tolerate. Eat that whale of an opportunity and it might sit on you.

Well put Shirley! I do agree, especially about relaxing! (Sure you don't want the kids for a visit? A few months or so? :)
One reason I love to do slipcovers is (for me) there is a certain amount of freedom and playfulness. However, I feel my sewing skills could use improvement. Why should I try to reinvent the wheel when I know that there are those of you who know all the tricks and could simply show me! :)

I just got a drop of sewing machine oil on a cotton duck cover darn it!! Before I go messing with it, does anyone know a product to get it out?

Kim