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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 05:22:46 -0700 (PDT), "nee...@gmail.com" <...@gmail.com
On Jun 4, 7:56 am, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
Me. I love to stitch outside. One our small front deck. Under the
umbrella. But once the temperature hits 80 it's usually to humid for
me to handle. That's why I like the spring and fall.
Donna in Virginia
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:12:54 -0400, "lucille" <...@comcast.net
"Cheryl Isaak" <...@comcast.net...
I used to stitch in the car way back when, but always with the windows
closed.
Outdoors here is impossible. It's either too sunny, too humid or pouring
rain.
Lucille
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Anonymous Wrote:
"lucille" (lzo...@comcast.net) writes:
Absolutely, at the cottage. The light is fantastic. I have two places.
On the deck, with a small round table and an umbrella over the top. And
in my boat. The boat is sheer luxury. It is a "deck" boat; basically a
pontoon boat on a hull. It has a comfortable chair for the driver, and a
table is in just the right place. There is a bimini for shade. Tied up at
the dock, there is often a very gentle rocking motion from the water.
There is a radio, CD player, and it is just ba wonderful place to stitch,
once the weather gets warmer, and the flies and mosquitoes disappear.
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:40:59 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/4/09 8:17 AM, in article 4mef...@4ax.com,
"luc...@fl.it" <...@fl.it
That happens a lot. The catching stitches to clothes. Hopefully the other
part doesn't any more.
Cheryl
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:25:50 -0400, "lucille" <...@comcast.net
"Cheryl Isaak" <...@comcast.net...
Stitching to clothing I do fairly often. Fortunately stitching to my knee
not quite as often, but on a rare occasion it has happened.
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:50:40 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/4/09 9:25 AM, in article h08i...@news.eternal-september.org,
"lucille" <...@comcast.net
Do I want details?
C
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:10:23 -0400, "lucille" <...@comcast.net
"Cheryl Isaak" <...@comcast.net...
It's Florida and I'm often wearing shorts. I don't really like a sit-on
frame or a standing frame because it forces you to sit up straight and
generally I prop my hoop or roller frame on one knee when I'm doing
needlework and just let things fall into my lap when I'm doing a hem. I sit
crunched into a corner with one leg under me and the other bent with knee
up.
I know, I know that's not a pretty picture. lol
Every so often I'll pick up the very top layer of skin on my bony knee and
not even feel it until I tug the thread to see where it's stuck.
Most of the time I do it so efficiently and delicately that it doesn't even
bleed, but on occasion I've had to drop everything on the floor to avoid a
stain. Not too smart, but too much of a habit to try to change now.
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:17:20 -0400, Susan Hartman <...@dirtylinen.com
Me, me, me!!! I love to stitch outside - on the deck, in the car, in the
park, at the pool....anywhere. My absolute favorite is at a music
festival/outdoor concert - the combination of outdoors, people-watching,
live music, and luscious stitching is sheer nirvana.
Sue (hoping the weather and my calendar cooperate for a fiddler's
convention this weekend)
--
Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
http://www.dirtylinen.com
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:48:41 GMT, ellice <...@verizon.net
On 6/4/09 7:56 AM, "Cheryl Isaak" <...@comcast.net
I do, at times. Thinking about once the yard is cleaned up having a little
stitch get together on the deck. There's a good table, etc. But, also
depends on the breeze.
I also have a pair of sunglass readers - which are good when it's really
bright.
ellice
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:25:21 -0700 (PDT), "196...@gmail.com" <...@gmail.com
I do - at baseball games and sometimes just outside. As long as it's
not too windy, it's great! I always work in a hoop or on a frame, so
I've never (so far) managed to sew myself to my clothes (or knees -
LOL!). Like ellice, I've invested in a pair of sunglass readers.
Which reminds me - I need to find them again!
linda
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:34:36 GMT, "The Lady Gardener" <...@gmail.com
I love to stitch outside. It's usually too hot on summer mornings (unless
you have a desire to be up at 5am), then we are usually treated to a strong
sea breeze in the afternoon which makes it impossible to stitch outside. It
is bliss to enjoy the winter sun and stitch, though I still have to wear a
hat as I get sunburned even in the midst of winter. I always try to have a
portable stitching project for winter, as my DH and his friends try to get
to go Motorcrossing most weekends, and I tag along to mind the cars
(shockingly high theft area) so I sit and stitch while they ride. I know
our cold is nothing like snow cold of the northern hemisphere, but the
freezing wind that can howl through the pine plantation where we go is bone
chilling - and we have little use for the thick clothing of our Northern
Hemisphere cousins. I use the term pine plantation loosely, alas somehow
the European House Borer (http://www.ehb.wa.gov.au/) has got through our
usually rigourous quarantine and has caused major infestations in our pine
plantations which are gradually being smashed down and burned to try and rid
us of this pest.
Joanne in Perth, Western Australia - the 'other' windy city!!
"Cheryl Isaak" <...@comcast.net...
I can stitch on my porch, or in the car with the windows open, but unless it
is completely windless, I can't just stitch out side.
Does any one here stitch outside?
Cheryl
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:58:07 -0700 (PDT), Mary <...@sbcglobal.net
Yes, and I love it! I take my basket, current project, a pitcher of
iced tea, and the dog out to the front porch! It's a lovely way to
get together with neighbors, enjoy the weather and good light, and
ignor the telephone. The front porch is one of the big reasons I
chose my house -- the house is a smallish Victorian in a historic
neighborhood with a brick street, lots of trees, and great neighbors.
It's a traditional porch, and I have wicker furniture, a few pots with
plants, and a water bowl for the dog. I love it!
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:25:48 -0700 (PDT), Liz <...@vsisp.net
On Jun 4, 4:56 am, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
I stitch outside at my patio table whenever I can. The way the tall
oak/pine/fir trees are, I can put the table in a few different spots
where I can be in dappled shade almost all day long. Sometimes it's
actually easier to see in shade than in direct sun. During the dry
weather, I try to spend at least one day each week just sitting
outside and stitching, getting up occasionally to move the hose in the
garden or hang the clothes on the line.
I DID have to move the table last week when I was stitching. I was
apparently in a major fly zone for the hummingbirds that we feed every
year. They were really swarming last week (going through a gallon of
liquid a day) & I didn't want to have to wash hummingbird poop off of
my work! :-)
Liz from Humbug
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:12:17 -0400, anne <...@comcast.net
cher...@comcast.net says...
I used to. Lately though the pine trees which were mere saplings when I moved
in 16 years ago are putting out so much pollen that in a matter of minutes, my
nose clogs and little flecks of yellow/green stuff attaches itself to the work.
--
another anne, add ingers to reply
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:36:00 +0100, "Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply)" <...@btinternet.com
Up here at just over 59 degrees North and about 2 degrees West (same
latitude as Oslo and Stockholm and about 4 degrees further north than
Moscow) it's rarely warm enough to do anything outside except for a bit
of unarmed gardening <g--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
<http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk>
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:05:43 -0600, "Dawne Peterson" <...@sasktel.net
"Bruce Fletcher wrote
At about 50 degrees latitude, considerably south of you, we are having frost
tonight. Again. :-(
Dawne
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:53:51 +0100, "Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply)" <...@btinternet.com
Thanks to the Gulf Stream our island has cool summers and mild winters.
We rarely get frost or snow, only twice in the last five years have we
seen the ground "white over" with frost and only twice have we seen
significant (more than 0.5 inches) falls of snow.
We're hoping for good weather tomorrow (Saturday) as it's the Stronsay
Regatta.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
<http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk>
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:42:18 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/5/09 2:05 AM, in article
mrSd...@posted.sasktel, "Dawne Peterson"
<...@sasktel.net
There have been frost advisories all week here.
C
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 06:14:20 -0700 (PDT), NDJoan <...@und.nodak.edu
On Jun 5, 1:05 am, "Dawne Peterson" <...@sasktel.net
A few degrees south of that and we also had frost warnings, although
it didn't get that cold. The newspaper said this spring ranks #7 as
the coldest spring. yipee. The 5th of June and our furnace is still
running. Disgusting.
To answer Cheryl's question, the wind is very rarely calm enough here
to be able to, although in town I have been able to occasionally do it
on my work breaks where the building blocks the wind. I find the sun
*too* bright to stitch in and rarely wear sunglasses.
Joan
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:06:04 GMT, "Pirjo Ilvesvuori" <...@pp.inet.fi
Hi!
I don't stitch outside. The weather is too cold, and it is June! Oh well.
Maybe July will bring a little warmer weather.
Best: Pirjo
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On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:11:05 GMT, Gillian Murray <...@verizon.net
It is so nice to see you post here, Pirjo. It has been quite a long
time, and we have missed you.
Sadly where I live in Florida, it is very warm and extremely humid.
Definitely not weather to stitch outside.
Gillian
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On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:20:31 -0700, Karen C in California <...@aol.com
At the risk of setting off Jim, whatever happened to Global Warming?
--
Karen C - California
Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com
Finished 4/23/09 - Stained Glass Daylilies for Cheryl :)
WIP: Nativity from "Countdown to Christmas" book, Oriental Kimono
(Janlynn),
MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek)
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market
http://www.CFSfacts.org -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf
Newest research blog: http://cfs-facts.blogspot.com/
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:50:45 -0700, Karen C in California <...@aol.com
I had a nice stitching nest set up on my front porch before it was made
inaccessible by other people stacking stuff between the door and the bench.
I'm going to try to get the stuff moved to the basement before it gets
too hot.
--
Karen C - California
Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com
Finished 4/23/09 - Stained Glass Daylilies for Cheryl :)
WIP: Nativity from "Countdown to Christmas" book, Oriental Kimono
(Janlynn),
MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek)
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market
http://www.CFSfacts.org -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf
Newest research blog: http://cfs-facts.blogspot.com/
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:04:51 -0500, Olwyn Mary <...@aol.com
Other people???? I thought there was only you and Brian??????
If it belongs to someone other than you two, tell that person to come
and get it or you will dispose of it!!
I had to get stern with my kids. I told them "Your junk, goes to your
house or the landfill. Not my junk, not in my house." DD took hers
after she married and the U.S. Air Force was moving them. Mind you,
some stuff she had "borrowed" from me also went with her. DS stuff
waited until he was doing a cross country move paid for by the employer,
and I stood over the stuff and said "Take it!" Just about all I have
left of their stuff now is a closet half full of board games and toys,
and I keep those around for visiting children.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans
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On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:27:18 -0700, Karen C in California <...@aol.com
No, it's MY stuff, just that it was easier for lazy people to park it on
the porch than to carry it down the stairs to the basement where they
were told to put it.
There's a limit to how much nagging I'm willing to do before I just say
"<bleepstuff where it is.
--
Karen C - California
Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com
Finished 4/23/09 - Stained Glass Daylilies for Cheryl :)
WIP: Nativity from "Countdown to Christmas" book, Oriental Kimono
(Janlynn),
MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek)
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market
http://www.CFSfacts.org -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf
Newest research blog: http://cfs-facts.blogspot.com/
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