Karen,

1. Do you still have the name of the Z-Tex jobber in Tennessee you mentioned?

2. Do you plan to post the photos you took at Baltimore? I'd love to see them!

Thanks! :-)

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601-992-2424
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Tell her you are in the trade and will be selling this fabric to a customer. Let her know I sent you. Hopefully she will give you a good price.

I hope to post photos of Baltimore.... I only got back on Monday after being gone 2 weeks and am teaching a class tomorrow. A girl does need her beauty sleep. Hope to post photos next week.

Thanks Dee for asking...

Shirley - howzabout we mail each other cheesecake and tamales and THINK about slipcovers?

Hey, it could work! - why are you all looking at me like that?

Karen,

1. Do you still have the name of the Z-Tex jobber in Tennessee you mentioned?

2. Do you plan to post the photos you took at Baltimore? I'd love to see them!

Thanks! :-)

Now to just find really cheap fares from Portland Oregon to D.C....

announcing a once a month slipcover meeting here ( and elsewhere if needed ).


Meet, grouse, eat tamales, use my new ebay sewing machines ( rationalize their existence ).

I can make space for your projects, bring portable ones, bring what you have trouble with. Once a month, I don't care what day. Let's figure out what's convenient.

just got a sewing machine vintage 50's looking unused, 9.99 on ebay. What can you lose, even if you ever only sew monfilament on it ?

Welcome Judit, as you may have noted I too, finally made the Blog Site with the help of Karen when we got back to St. Louis, she figured out why many of us were having trouble.

I too enjoyed the tamales, good I don't get together with you all every week, I wouldn't be able to walk, with all the good food we enjoyed on the East coast.

You all have a great day, DJ

Judit, I talked to someone recently that had purchased and used in an upholstery application the kind of foam that recovers afterwards... right now I cannot at all remember the name of it, but I think everyone should know what I'm talking about. Lots of mattresses right now are popular with this type of stuff in it. The foam supplier I use ~ Carl Havens ~ carries it in sheets of varying thicknesses.

Shirley, please share with all your ebay finds. I'm a convert myself. My standard shoe shopping habits are to try on what I like, determine size, and find on ebay. And the fabric finds? Wow, have I saved massive amounts of money for myself as well as clients.

duh ! the foam I have seen when I do see upholstery in progress is 1 inch ir maybe 1 and 1/2 dense. Cotton is laid over this is thick wads. That's conventional, and nothing need be, conventional that is. That board there is pretty hard, so even a padded down surface of dense material is better than too little. Come here for the first time and ask upholstery, heh ?.

I am wearing tamales this week. Can't believe it all goes to my waistline. There should be a limit to what fat cells can hold, you know ? Anybody wanna know all I found on ebay ? Or should I keep my newest bad behgavior to myself ?

Hi Karen, and all the gals out there I have met and will meet... finally made it ...who knew it took rocket science to sign in.... or probably a rocket scientist to do it.... the brain must have been in rest mode on my part.

Enjoyed every old and new friend..... tamales were a definite plus..
Felt like I ate the whole thing.... yum yum....

Enjoyed discussion with you Karen on the books with slips... it is an interesting exersize to take and see how another person saw a piece of furniture and their rendition of a cover.... then to try and figure out the rhyme and reasons for their choices.

working on wedding gown at the moment....for a wedding at the first weekend of May. Definetely more work and stress than a slipcover...
and the measurements are changing daily... Client is in the process of loosing weight.....

I am also taking apart my own sofa sleeper and redoing the arms on it before I will make a new slipcover for it.
Karen or Shirley or anyone out there.... suggestions for type of foam to use on the arms.... I think Shirley said bolster style but what kind of density to it will hold up under a lot of weight of feet and sitting on it.

Also nursing a case of either allergies or possibly bronchitis.....not much fun.

talk to all later

glad to have made it in the blog finally.

You would not need to mentor with someone in you area either.

It would be a growing experience for the person who mentors also as there will be questions that will be asked that you may not know the answer too.

That is whay there is the Slipcover Network professionals who do slipcovers as a business.

you know me, I volunteer for everything

Mentors.

If we orangized this though the Slipcover Network who would participate?

We are experienced and I think this would be a great idea

Kim can some of you talk up sharing rooms at the Summit on some of the other forums....

Does anyone belong to the upholstery forum????

So for those of you who wanted to know more about the small furniture, we picked it up at garage sales..... but Claudia in Arizona sells this furniture....

Check her out at....
SewWhat-Its-A-Slipcover
Peoria, Arizona 85381
623-878-7350
Happy to pick up and deliver throughout the valley.
www.Sew-Whats-a-Slipcover.com
SewWhatAZ@aol.com

Yes, I was told at the show in Baltimore that Surefit filed chapter 11.... But if they are private it may not be available to any of us...

that is what I heard.... Thanks Kim

And read this just for giggles.... as if we didn't already know!!!

http://www.rnews.com/Story.cfm?ID=17369&rnews_story_type=7

Usually when a company goes into bankruptcy protection there is something about it on their web site... if for no other reason than to assure the reader of the imminent turn-around of the business to boost buyer morale. Interestingly enough, there is NOTHING at all on their site relating to their financial standing. Or lack thereof. It is a privately held company so there is no other source for financial data.

Sure Fit, Inc.
04-11495 (BRL)
United States Bankruptcy Court
Southern District of New York

http://www.keepmedia.com/ShowItemDetails.do?itemID=396608&extID=10030&oliID=226

http://www3.lehigh.edu/News/news_story.asp?iNewsID=653&strBack=%2Fnews%2Fnews_archive.asp%3FiStoryType%3D15


Interesting.

Didn't someone say Sure-Fit filed for bankruptcy protection? I can't find anything about it.

Donna - you're "DJ"? Who's "CJ"?

Elena Marie (Dede) O'Hair, who has name issues of her own...