[Nfb-krafters-korner] Dryer sheets

Sun Oct 23 20:31:54 UTC 2011

Gee whiz, we learn all different things over here at Krafters Korner.   
Drier sheets to calm your dog?

What if I rub them on the Princesses when they walk in my back door?   Do 
you think it will work?

Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

In a message dated 10/23/2011 2:33:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
joseli at thezoolady.net writes:

I'm told  that rubbing an unused dryer sheet on a dog just before a thunder
strom  calms them.  I think it decreases the static in the fur caused by  
the
coming storm.
Might have to try it on my cat, as my dog really  doesn't care one way or
another about the storms 

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From:  nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]  On Behalf Of Carol Osmar
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 3:00 PM
To:  List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner]  Sewing machines

Thanks Joyce, I will certainly try this right  away.  Those dryer sheets are
amazing.  I was told to put them in  the storage spaces in our motor home to
keep out bugs and  mice.

Carol

----- Original Message -----
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Date sent: Sat, 22  Oct 2011 14:49:55 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Sewing  machines

What to do about the musty smell.

Take a couple of  those dryer sheets and just put them in the bottom of the
case.  Make  sure you don't use the dryer sheets first as you need the smell
to be  strongest.  So just leave it in there.  Most of the time the box  the
machine comes with is closed up and from time to time when the fresh  smell
of the sheets don't hit you when you open it try leaving the sheets  out to
see  if the smell has left.  If not just pop a new dryer  sheet in there.

I have found that problem with machine cases and this  has basically solved
it.  Even the machine will get smelling good,  too.

Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com

In a message  dated 10/22/2011 10:14:30 A.M.  Eastern Daylight  Time,
osmarc at sbcglobal.net writes:

Jewell  and all, I am a  novice sewer but I have a Singer Feather weight and
will  share with  you what I have found.  The reason I chose the Feather
weight was  because Joyce had said she loved hers and my husband and I were
looking for  a reliable machine that was small enough to take in our motor
home.   While we were in Florida last winter, we met  a man at a  huge  flea
market that sold nothing but Feather weights.  He  had   one from 1937 for
$450.  He showed me his leather belt that he  had  sewn on it.  he said that
back then the machine was made  with all  metal parts.  
I
believe it was sometime in the  1960's that, like most  companies, they
started using some plastic  parts.  He convinced me  that that was the
machine for us but I  just couldn't pay $450.  My  husband found a 1957 on
ebay which  we bought.  We took it in to be cleaned and oiled, and the
repairman  said Feather weights are the (darlings of quilters)

I am very happy  with it but there are a  couple of things to be aware of.
1.   they only do a straight  stitch.  2.  If you buy an old machine  like
mine, it could have  a musty smell.  Actually the smell is  probably only in
the case and  paperwork, but we have tried everything  from sunlight,
charcoal and  chemicals but it still smells  bad.

Hope this  helps.

Carol----- Original Message  -----
From: "Jewell Boll"  <jjboll at excel.net
To: "List for blind  crafters and artists"
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sat,  22 Oct 2011 07:41:12  -0500
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Sewing  Class

Hi Ramona,

I must apologize for my weird comment about  "waddling  through"
when asked
why I didn't intercede.  I did  not think it  proper to interfere with your
teaching ability.   You did a great  job teaching the class as all the
students achieved  their goal of  attaching the pocket to he apron.
I must
also  commend the  students for their patience and perseverance.
As  one
writer put  it, we are all learning from each other and from our  mistakes.
The  concept of teaching sewing via phone is unique  and
challenging.   You
have all showed me that sewing can be  done without sight and I regret now
that I gave hundreds of dollars worth  of sewing tools and equipment away to
a thrift store in anger because I  could no longer  continue my passion of
sewing.

I have learned  so much from this  list and found out that I can do so much
even  without sight.  I  thank Joyce for her work in starting this list  and
maintaining  it.

Now, since I am inspired, and I am looking  for a machine, who makes the
Featherweight?

Love all of you guys and  keep up the  good   work.

Jewell

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