[Nfb-krafters-korner] Want To Know Wednesday

[Jody ianuzzi]

Hi Henry,

That's great! I loved all your answers.

JODY

thunderwalker321 at gmail.com 

"What's within you is stronger than what's in your way."  NO BARRIERS  Erik Weihenmayer

> On Jun 7, 2017, at 10:21 AM, Henry Osborne via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Good Morning Nella and Everyone, o k Nella, being the Rooster of all of you lovely hens, I will do my best to answer these questions with the correct ( and funny ) answers.
> Are you  all ready? Here goes!
> 1. Basting and Tacking To hold down a seam with binding materials or short pieces of thread.
> funny Answer Basting What you do to a turkey to keep it moist during roasting.
> Tacking A sailing term for tieing the sails to the masts.
> 2.Casing To fold and sew a large piece of material over as for a pillow case.
> funny Answer The outer covering of a hot dog or sausage. Or what a burglaar does before breaking into a home or business.
> 3. Darning To repair a hole in the toes or heels of socks
> Funny Answer A nicer word for cussing For example oh darn it, I forgot to call Nella today.
> 4. Gathering To bunch up material for a ruffley appearance.
> Funny Answer When a bunch of people get together.
> 5. A hem When you fold over the raw edges of materials and sew them down as for the hem of pant cuffs.
> Funny Answer Clearing your throat ( ahem )
> 6. A Seam To sew 2 pieces of materials together.
> Funny Answer To make something apparent.  We seem to be lost.
> 7. Selvage The pre finished edges of materials.
> Funny Answer To save something. We selvaged the clothes from the flood.
> I hope that you all have as much fun reading these answers as I did coming up with them.
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> -----Original Message----- From: Nella Foster via Nfb-krafters-korner
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 7:48 AM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Nella Foster
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Want To Know Wednesday
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> Once again it is Wednesday and I actually remembered today. Lol
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> I'm going to give you a few sewing terms to see if you know the definitions.
> I will also give you a hint; I found all these terms online.
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> 1.       What does baste or tack mean?  The term tack is used it England.
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> 2.        What does casing mean when used in sewing?
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> 3.        What does darning mean?
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> 4.        Explain the term gathering.
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> 5.        What is a hem?
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> 6.        Describe a seam.
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> 7.        Do you know what the words selvage means?
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> Feel free to try to answer some or all of these and please share your
> answers.  I promise, it will be fun.
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> Nella
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