Hi Pat, I have been enjoying all these of your TH-cam sessions...thank you for lots of inspirations...you get my creative juices flowing😎. As a kid; I loved to play jump rope, double Dutch, rode my bike everywhere, played with dolls, Chinese jump rope...oh the list can go on...love the baby quilts.
Pat, in the fall all us kids would rake the leaves and then become architects and build our own houses. That was so fun and how our imaginations soared.
Aha!! I'm a topper ! Always 60 x 80, and all go to charity. Some are done with store bought patterns, some I design. Depends on how the fabric speaks to me.
I am always glad to watch your chats, they feel like we really are just chatting and catching up! Spending most of my days with my grandchildren its always nice to have some time listening to another grownup!
We used to play Annie Over in elementary school, only one ball needed. Someone on your team would throw a baseball over the school building (small school, 1950’s) and the other team would try to catch it rolling off the roof and before reaching the ground. Fun. Love your philosophical moment. I’m quite philosophical about my quilting hobby but the responses I receive many times are blank expressions. ☺️
Just watching this- 2 yrs later. We used to play “OVER the Roof”. Where we would throw a ball over the roof of our house and our friend would be on the other side, not knowing where the ball was going to come over. Having to catch it without letting it hit the ground. We would tally up points for catching the ball without it hitting the ground. The one with the most points before we were called home for dinner, was the winner of the game.😊
One of the childhood games that me and my best girlfriend played was cowgirls riding stick horses. Our dad's made us our stick pony's and we loved them. We also played a lot of hid n seek. :-) Bringing back many fond memories!!
When I crochet an afghan, I give it to anyone who loves it first. It makes us both happy. I also take a photo of the ones I make so I can go back and look at them instead of keeping them all.
How fun going down memory lane. Red rover red rover send __ on over. We also played kick the can. Hide n seek. Paper dolls, folding tabs over the paper doll, get mad when tab wears out. Lol .. I’m drawing a blank on others. Beautiful baby blanket!
Delilah Carbajal i so disliked red rover, just hearing that brought up anxiety...i am still short, was a very tiny kid and feared running into those locked arms, and the kids running towards me, ahhh 😳. Poor little me! 😂😂😂😂
We played jacks, school, grocery store ( saved empty food boxes, cans,etc had play money and shopping baskets), rode bicycles like maniacs, crack-the-whip, leap frog.
Thanks for the philosophy. Some of my projects are made with specific people in mind and others don't speak to me until they are finished. I do give a way most of what I make, but, I make what I like or what technique I would like to learn. Nothing special when I start, just feeding my intermediate skill level and need to make patchwork. If my 20 year old daughter walks by and says, "Cool!", even if it's not her style, so much the better. :)
I definitely would recommend March for the cross stitch. Love your chats and the adorable quilts that you make. Childhood games are capture the flag with the neighbors using the street as the dividing line, cootie (kind of like Mr. Potato Head), parcheesi, "eenie innee over" where we threw a large ball over the house to the team on the other side who didn't know where it was coming from (maybe we made that game up), kick the can, king on the mountain with a huge dirt pile from digging out a basement addition, old maid and go fish and spoons card games, hopscotch, marbles, hoola hoop, pogo stick, mousetrap and many more that have already been mentioned. Hope this helps.
Yes Pat , I have a church sister that had two or three huge totes filled with hand made baby quilts that she done for gifts. She had tons of quilts for boys and girls and quilts made in yellows and greens for those who like to be surprised.
Hi Pat, I enjoy your shows and I plan to make a really scrappy “ Traffic Jam” when I can sew again after my hip replacement. I do miss my sewing, but I am going to be so much more productive.
Childhood games - hop scotch - though forgot about his until recently had our grandchildren and they loved playing it, other games - elastic. And Cowboys and Indians with my older brothers - i was always the Indian until my parents bought me an Annie Oakley Outfit!!
Another fun Fireside Chat! I was thinking about the games we used to play outdoors, and I've been reminiscing by reading others' comments. Does anyone remembering playing 1-2-3 redlight? I'm not even sure if that is the right name, but we would play that for hours.
Huckle Buckle Bean Stalk! A great game to play indoors. You hide/blend an object in plain sight while the others are out of the room. Who ever finds it first yells out “huckle buckle bean stock”! It then becomes that person’s turn to hide the object.
Blindmans Bluff was always fun. It was like tag where the person that was IT was blindfolded and everyone else "hid" in plain sight and would make a sound but couldn't relocate as the blindfolded person would home in on the sounds.
You must love a challenge with all that cross stitch!! It is beautiful, but a challenge for someone new to cross stitch. I’d start with the March block. Good luck! I’d love to do the trucks! I my hubby has been wanting a Ford F 150, red to drive around in. I didn’t want a payment, so I bought him an old truck, red f150 of course, had some work done on it and now he is in love!!
I remember playing Mother May I. It was always fun trying to catch people moving without asking. My mother was talking the other day about how our yard was always full of kids over to play. Crochet was popular for a time with my friends, as was volleyball. Great video. Thank you. 😊
Hi, One way that a friend and I do is to make quilts for clients as well as our donation quilts. This way helps to fund our passion and help those that want special quilts for people that don't sew.
I so look forward to your fireside chat on Mondays. I think you should start your cross stitch project with March, for sure. It should be enjoyed, not rushed. I loved your “philosophical” comments about continuing to sew if it feeds your soul and ideas for what to do with finished quilts. I’ve already commented on childhood games, but after you said that you played games maybe nobody else did, I though I’d share more of what I played that weren’t traditional classic games. I’m 62, so my generation played outside 99% of the time, no video games in my day, lol! We actually made up games and we made a lot of what we played with out of stuff around the house, inside and out. I lived in the city, Houston, Texas. One thing we used to do was walk down to a television shop in our neighborhood hoping to find a GIANT cardboard box. Back then Televisions often came on a console form. It was a pretty long piece of furniture, usually with a record player in the top and big speakers on each end, so they came in giant boxes. We were always excited if there was one there that they had thrown out back of the store. We would struggle carrying and/or dragging it home, laughing all the way as we planned what to do with it. Those boxes became cars, spaceships, houses, slides, tunnels, forts, ramps for bikes or roller skates (the kind you buckled on to your shoes, lol), a ride you hang on to while someone pulled it all over the yard really fast, club houses and lemonade stands, too name a few ...the possibilities were endless. It might sound lame, but we sure had fun with “giant” cardboard boxes. Love you Pat!
I remember being home from school, not feeling well(probably 8 or 9 years old). . .spent the day on the couch. . .my dad worked the night shift back then so was home during the day. . .he played a game of Barbie, Queen of the Prom to keep me company. I thought it was so funny that he won!
Great video. So many comments swirling around in my head. The border for the Traffic Jam is going together this morning (and last night). I know that I will have to make more of these in the future. It has been great fun to sew. I cannot say that about all of my previous attempts at piecing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and fun designs.
Love your videos Pat! You're always so much fun! The name 'Traffic Jam' comes from the idea that there are so many blends of fruits coming together - Strawberry, Raspberries, Cherries, Cranberries and Peaches - that it forms a traffic jam.
Love your chats, I always have a boy and a girl quilt ready for any new babies, I used to have twin quilts ready, but those are gone. Lol. Hopefully no twins coming
Some of my favorite outdoor games...Kick the Can which all the neighborhood kids played every night in the summer, Hopscotch, of course, and Freeze Tag. Those were the good old days...no computers!!
Hello Pat!! My house burned down in March and since i have been going to my local thrift store buying my fabric!! The more i buy the better deal i get!! I picked up a rool of pink this weekend for 2 dollars and there is 6 and a half yards on it!! I don't buy new unless its white or on a very good clearance or something i just cant find!!! My local thrift store is the best place for me to get fabric since its really cheap!! This year I'm hoping to be able to make some baskets that hang on walker for a couple of our local nursing homes for Christmas this year! And maybe a lap quilt or 2!!
I loved Chinese JumpRoop. We took the elastic out of my dad’s underwaear😂 we would get excited when my mom would tell me he had underwear to throw away. Me and my girlfriends play all day doing this.
I just darned a pair of socks the other day while waiting for heavy bedding/pillows to wash and dry at the laundromat. I learned to darn at a very young age right along with embroidering dish towels, learning to iron pillow cases and hankies ... eventually graduating to more fancy embroidery, sewing garments and pressing slacks, shirts, and dresses for the family ... all those domestic fabric-related chores necessary in the frugal household. So I have my mom's old darning egg, plus I have purchased a new one as well as a vintage design similar to your mushroom. I use "darning thread" which is 4 small threads laid together flat (not twisted) and cross-wound on a small elongated spool. All four strands are threaded on a "darning" needle or "darner." Darners have long eyes to accommodate the four threads and blunt points so as not to pierce the threads when doing the weaving across the hole being mended. I bought several spools of darning thread when our Ben Franklin went out of business because I don't know if it is even manufactured anymore. One of my brothers in law refuses to wear darned socks - his mom (with 11 children) would just pinch the hole shut and whip stitch it closed leaving a BIG, uncomfortable lump. When I darn a sock, the wearer doesn't feel a thing! (Granted, I don't have 11 kids.) BTW I went to the video you mentioned where Kirby mends a hole with sewing thread ... not a fan of that method, although it works, as he said, for repairs in the toe area. I then read the comments under his video and followed the links to a couple more videos suggested. This one: th-cam.com/video/H7Ml7reCXSs/w-d-xo.html&feature=share shows the method closer to what I do --- creating a "woven" patch. Even though Mrs. Volfie uses yarn for repairing her hand-knit sock, darning thread or even something like hand-quilting thread can be used for socks of finer texture.
Hi Pat, Sorry I missed the Live. I think you have a good idea to skip to March on your Cross Stitch. And Kids Games: my family played a game my Dad made up as we were always in the car traveling on the weekends, holidays and vacations (to go camping). Every time someone spotted a “Volkswagen”, “Beep Beep” would get yelled, as there were many in NYS where I grew up. We’d all get laughing and we all kept track of how many cars you spotted first. It kept us kids interested during the long drives to the mountains & generally not arguing over who was sitting next to the window, someone’s elbow jabbing whoever, complaining over who made their ice cream last the longest, (it always was me & no one liked that, haha) etc.. mostly it was great fun! Hope you found that game interesting. Have a good night, love the projects 💜👍😘 Chris-Raleigh NC
I have made many duvet covers for children (I think I might be a topper too) and they liked them a lot. The first one was for my son with boats. I would love to buy some books but they don't ship them to France. Love from France
Favorite Childhood Game was Jacks! But my sister and I were BEST KNOWN in our Kansas neighborhood for our game called DOLL HOSPITAL!!! Our Mother made ceramics and always had bags of plaster on hand and we used torn strips of scrap fabric to wrap a dolly arm or leg and then moistened plaster and applied a cast!! We charged 3 cents for arm quilt and 5 cents for dolly leg cast. We had a line of 5 to 10 neighborhood kids waiting for us to cast their dolly or stuffed bear! We charged 10 cents to remove the cast with Mom’s wooden mallet!!! The Dolly’s were all lined up on our back porch drying their casts in the HOT Kansas sun....we were ages 8 and 9. Fun memories....
Pat-I watched Laura at Sew Very Easy do a tutorial using some of your beautiful Bonnie Lane fabric in an hourglass quilt a few days ago. Was a beautiful quilt!
I would definitely skip to March because then you won't be rushed and you'll feel successful! I have started cross stitching this year and it takes much longer than I though it would.:)
On that Crosstitch I will skip to March also because you got a lot on your plate you don’t wanna overwhelm yourself and like you said you want to enjoy it!
My cousin and I used to play horses in my grandmother's pear tree. She used to run races on the sidewalk outside her house. "Mother May I" comes to mind. Red light, Green light was always fun. Definitely Hide and Seek.
I was intrigued by your "topper" comment. I live in Hawaii and my grandmother and mother sewed blankets. They were pieced from leftover clothing fabrics, and batting was rarely used. I sew "quilts" but only make toppers. I use muslin in the middle instead of batting and do not quilt them together. So really they are just attached with binding. I try to finish a usable product. In Hawaii the weather is conducive for lighter weight blankets. Thanks for all the information you share.
I have lots of darning mushrooms they were my Mums and I always use them to darn socks and mend tights. Try to get some darning wool or pure wool to darn with rather than aurifil it would be much better!!
My scraps are in a large bin just thrown in. What a mess. Plus I rarely use them. When 8 do dig through that bin to look for something, it gets twice as big as it was. Yuck. Pat, I like your idea of 2 1/2 “ squares. I like your red scrappy quilt. A lot. I need to cut up my scraps and color co-ordinate them so I can actually use them. Thank you so much.
I’m going to start making baby quilts for my grandchildren’s children, the oldest is 8....so I have time to make them. Now I’m able to quilt, eyes are still good...so it’ll be a surprise to get a gift from me, especially if I’m not here anymore. I also have been making doll clothes when we’re traveling...no one plays dolls...but i plan to donate them with a doll, each with a little wardrobe and blanket...i think a child may want this? Just things to keep me working on my craft when not doing a quilt
Also Crack the Whip where everyone joined hands. There was a leader and a tail end. The leader would run in twists and turns and everyone had to follow and the tail end sometimes had the tightest turns and it would give you almost whiplash...hence the name Crack the Whip.
My MIL would sew up my husband sock's. One's that really needed to be thrown away. So he wanted me to sew up his sock's. So I did he never asked me to do it again. I made a big knot in the end. Made his toe's sore.
Speaking of scraps.....I'm making the Traffic Jam quilt now, just finished a top called Dancing Nine Patch that I used 2 1/2 inch squares for instead of 2 inch, and I've made several other scrap quilts, but I still have so many scraps! I'm looking for advice for 3 1/2 inch squares, 4 1/2 inch squares and a group that I could cut into more 3 1/2 inch squares or cut into 2 1/2 inch strips....I'm just at a loss as to what to do with them! By the way, we played a game of hide and seek, but you couldn't just go hide somewhere and stay there, you had to risk moving around so we were all over the neighborhood.
Oh yes I’m with you I just purchased that book from your link I’ve been wanting it and I’m so glad I got it ! And I can’t wait for that so long yay ! 🥰🥰🧵✂️
and the SOCK, WOW!!! i was having that issue last week, and i said dang love to not trash my wool sock's.. so thanks and I do have a vintage egg... how funny. you didn't give us the darning link... ?
We have a guilt group at our church where we mae quits for the homeless shelter. I also have 4 children 8 grandchildren and 12 greatgrand children so i still have few to complete i usually make one top a week.
A game we played against a wall was Stocking Ball . The ball was placed in a stocking and bounced between our legs or from side to side . We would sing a rhyme like Hello Hello Hello sir, can you come out to play sir.
We played "statues" where we ran around the yard until someone yelled "Statues!". This meant we had to immediately stop and make a pose. The person who held their pose the longest won!
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Just needed a Pat fix. Love to watch…even a few moons later! 😀
I love the green and charcoal quilt !!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Hi Pat, I have been enjoying all these of your TH-cam sessions...thank you for lots of inspirations...you get my creative juices flowing😎. As a kid; I loved to play jump rope, double Dutch, rode my bike everywhere, played with dolls, Chinese jump rope...oh the list can go on...love the baby quilts.
Pat, in the fall all us kids would rake the leaves and then become architects and build our own houses. That was so fun and how our imaginations soared.
Aha!! I'm a topper ! Always 60 x 80, and all go to charity. Some are done with store bought patterns, some I design. Depends on how the fabric speaks to me.
I am always glad to watch your chats, they feel like we really are just chatting and catching up! Spending most of my days with my grandchildren its always nice to have some time listening to another grownup!
i hear you Sona!
We used to play Annie Over in elementary school, only one ball needed. Someone on your team would throw a baseball over the school building (small school, 1950’s) and the other team would try to catch it rolling off the roof and before reaching the ground. Fun.
Love your philosophical moment. I’m quite philosophical about my quilting hobby but the responses I receive many times are blank expressions. ☺️
Just watching this- 2 yrs later. We used to play “OVER the Roof”. Where we would throw a ball over the roof of our house and our friend would be on the other side, not knowing where the ball was going to come over. Having to catch it without letting it hit the ground. We would tally up points for catching the ball without it hitting the ground. The one with the most points before we were called home for dinner, was the winner of the game.😊
One of the childhood games that me and my best girlfriend played was cowgirls riding stick horses. Our dad's made us our stick pony's and we loved them. We also played a lot of hid n seek. :-) Bringing back many fond memories!!
When I crochet an afghan, I give it to anyone who loves it first. It makes us both happy. I also take a photo of the ones I make so I can go back and look at them instead of keeping them all.
How fun going down memory lane. Red rover red rover send __ on over. We also played kick the can. Hide n seek. Paper dolls, folding tabs over the paper doll, get mad when tab wears out. Lol .. I’m drawing a blank on others.
Beautiful baby blanket!
Delilah Carbajal i so disliked red rover, just hearing that brought up anxiety...i am still short, was a very tiny kid and feared running into those locked arms, and the kids running towards me, ahhh 😳. Poor little me! 😂😂😂😂
We played jacks, school, grocery store ( saved empty food boxes, cans,etc had play money and shopping baskets), rode bicycles like maniacs, crack-the-whip, leap frog.
Thanks for the philosophy. Some of my projects are made with specific people in mind and others don't speak to me until they are finished. I do give a way most of what I make, but, I make what I like or what technique I would like to learn. Nothing special when I start, just feeding my intermediate skill level and need to make patchwork. If my 20 year old daughter walks by and says, "Cool!", even if it's not her style, so much the better. :)
Pat, I really like this quilt. Been working on it for a while. I keep trying to find all of your helpful tutorials. Thanks for all you do.
Double Dutch Jump Rope! We lived in the country so we were always on our bikes. Thanks for your wonderful sew alongs!
I definitely would recommend March for the cross stitch. Love your chats and the adorable quilts that you make. Childhood games are capture the flag with the neighbors using the street as the dividing line, cootie (kind of like Mr. Potato Head), parcheesi, "eenie innee over" where we threw a large ball over the house to the team on the other side who didn't know where it was coming from (maybe we made that game up), kick the can, king on the mountain with a huge dirt pile from digging out a basement addition, old maid and go fish and spoons card games, hopscotch, marbles, hoola hoop, pogo stick, mousetrap and many more that have already been mentioned. Hope this helps.
Yes Pat , I have a church sister that had two or three huge totes filled with hand made baby quilts that she done for gifts. She had tons of quilts for boys and girls and quilts made in yellows and greens for those who like to be surprised.
People in nursing homes would love to have quilts especially the ones that don't have families....
We played Ghosts in the Graveyard. Which was a scary nighttime tag-like game.
Hi Pat, I enjoy your shows and I plan to make a really scrappy “ Traffic Jam” when I can sew again after my hip replacement. I do miss my sewing, but I am going to be so much more productive.
Childhood games - hop scotch - though forgot about his until recently had our grandchildren and they loved playing it, other games - elastic. And Cowboys and Indians with my older brothers - i was always the Indian until my parents bought me an Annie Oakley Outfit!!
Another fun Fireside Chat! I was thinking about the games we used to play outdoors, and I've been reminiscing by reading others' comments. Does anyone remembering playing 1-2-3 redlight? I'm not even sure if that is the right name, but we would play that for hours.
Yes! We played that all the time and usually followed it with “mother may I”
Love your mushroom!! Long history of darning (9 kiddos #lotsofsocks) I have a small lightbulb handy😁
Huckle Buckle Bean Stalk! A great game to play indoors. You hide/blend an object in plain sight while the others are out of the room. Who ever finds it first yells out “huckle buckle bean stock”! It then becomes that person’s turn to hide the object.
We had peddle toys we rode all the time. A big hill in a really big yard. So we would have races and obstacle courses.
Blindmans Bluff was always fun. It was like tag where the person that was IT was blindfolded and everyone else "hid" in plain sight and would make a sound but couldn't relocate as the blindfolded person would home in on the sounds.
Yep! I have some baby quilt tops ready to go and actually a couple that are completely made.
You must love a challenge with all that cross stitch!! It is beautiful, but a challenge for someone new to cross stitch. I’d start with the March block. Good luck! I’d love to do the trucks! I my hubby has been wanting a Ford F 150, red to drive around in. I didn’t want a payment, so I bought him an old truck, red f150 of course, had some work done on it and now he is in love!!
I remember playing Mother May I. It was always fun trying to catch people moving without asking. My mother was talking the other day about how our yard was always full of kids over to play. Crochet was popular for a time with my friends, as was volleyball. Great video. Thank you. 😊
I like the controlled look. It seems coordinated.
Simon says, hopscotch,Jack's, Skip robe,hide and seek, climbed trees. Had a challenge to jump to from tree limb to another tree limb that close by.
Hi, One way that a friend and I do is to make quilts for clients as well as our donation quilts. This way helps to fund our passion and help those that want special quilts for people that don't sew.
Dodge ball, 2 square, kick ball, and Rummy were my favorites.
We didn't have board games. We rode bicycles, tether ball, swings, and my favorite, hopscotch.
We had a tether ball in the backyard! I totally forgot about that!!!
I so look forward to your fireside chat on Mondays. I think you should start your cross stitch project with March, for sure. It should be enjoyed, not rushed. I loved your “philosophical” comments about continuing to sew if it feeds your soul and ideas for what to do with finished quilts.
I’ve already commented on childhood games, but after you said that you played games maybe nobody else did, I though I’d share more of what I played that weren’t traditional classic games. I’m 62, so my generation played outside 99% of the time, no video games in my day, lol! We actually made up games and we made a lot of what we played with out of stuff around the house, inside and out. I lived in the city, Houston, Texas. One thing we used to do was walk down to a television shop in our neighborhood hoping to find a GIANT cardboard box. Back then Televisions often came on a console form. It was a pretty long piece of furniture, usually with a record player in the top and big speakers on each end, so they came in giant boxes. We were always excited if there was one there that they had thrown out back of the store. We would struggle carrying and/or dragging it home, laughing all the way as we planned what to do with it. Those boxes became cars, spaceships, houses, slides, tunnels, forts, ramps for bikes or roller skates (the kind you buckled on to your shoes, lol), a ride you hang on to while someone pulled it all over the yard really fast, club houses and lemonade stands, too name a few ...the possibilities were endless. It might sound lame, but we sure had fun with “giant” cardboard boxes.
Love you Pat!
We played fox and geese when it snowed. Lots of jacks and marbles
I remember being home from school, not feeling well(probably 8 or 9 years old). . .spent the day on the couch. . .my dad worked the night shift back then so was home during the day. . .he played a game of Barbie, Queen of the Prom to keep me company. I thought it was so funny that he won!
What a great idea to just make up baby quilts so you have a stash of them because so many times I am rushing to get one done for a shower.
Great video. So many comments swirling around in my head. The border for the Traffic Jam is going together this morning (and last night). I know that I will have to make more of these in the future. It has been great fun to sew. I cannot say that about all of my previous attempts at piecing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and fun designs.
Love your videos Pat! You're always so much fun!
The name 'Traffic Jam' comes from the idea that there are so many blends of fruits coming together - Strawberry, Raspberries, Cherries, Cranberries and Peaches - that it forms a traffic jam.
Love your chats, I always have a boy and a girl quilt ready for any new babies, I used to have twin quilts ready, but those are gone. Lol. Hopefully no twins coming
We loved to draw a wagon wheel in the snow and play tag while staying on the wheel.
Some of my favorite outdoor games...Kick the Can which all the neighborhood kids played every night in the summer, Hopscotch, of course, and Freeze Tag. Those were the good old days...no computers!!
Hello Pat!! My house burned down in March and since i have been going to my local thrift store buying my fabric!! The more i buy the better deal i get!! I picked up a rool of pink this weekend for 2 dollars and there is 6 and a half yards on it!! I don't buy new unless its white or on a very good clearance or something i just cant find!!! My local thrift store is the best place for me to get fabric since its really cheap!! This year I'm hoping to be able to make some baskets that hang on walker for a couple of our local nursing homes for Christmas this year! And maybe a lap quilt or 2!!
I loved Chinese JumpRoop. We took the elastic out of my dad’s underwaear😂 we would get excited when my mom would tell me he had underwear to throw away. Me and my girlfriends play all day doing this.
Cute quilt and I love the backing!
I love using Jelly Rolls, hope I win, love you show thanks for sharing so much information.
I loved my pink hoola hoop!
Nice. I love the traffic jam, using up my scraps
I just darned a pair of socks the other day while waiting for heavy bedding/pillows to wash and dry at the laundromat. I learned to darn at a very young age right along with embroidering dish towels, learning to iron pillow cases and hankies ... eventually graduating to more fancy embroidery, sewing garments and pressing slacks, shirts, and dresses for the family ... all those domestic fabric-related chores necessary in the frugal household. So I have my mom's old darning egg, plus I have purchased a new one as well as a vintage design similar to your mushroom. I use "darning thread" which is 4 small threads laid together flat (not twisted) and cross-wound on a small elongated spool. All four strands are threaded on a "darning" needle or "darner." Darners have long eyes to accommodate the four threads and blunt points so as not to pierce the threads when doing the weaving across the hole being mended. I bought several spools of darning thread when our Ben Franklin went out of business because I don't know if it is even manufactured anymore. One of my brothers in law refuses to wear darned socks - his mom (with 11 children) would just pinch the hole shut and whip stitch it closed leaving a BIG, uncomfortable lump. When I darn a sock, the wearer doesn't feel a thing! (Granted, I don't have 11 kids.) BTW I went to the video you mentioned where Kirby mends a hole with sewing thread ... not a fan of that method, although it works, as he said, for repairs in the toe area. I then read the comments under his video and followed the links to a couple more videos suggested. This one: th-cam.com/video/H7Ml7reCXSs/w-d-xo.html&feature=share shows the method closer to what I do --- creating a "woven" patch. Even though Mrs. Volfie uses yarn for repairing her hand-knit sock, darning thread or even something like hand-quilting thread can be used for socks of finer texture.
I love the baby quilt. The greens and grey look great together. The games I liked growing up were Jack's and Chinese jump rope.
Hi Pat, Sorry I missed the Live. I think you have a good idea to skip to March on your Cross Stitch.
And Kids Games: my family played a game my Dad made up as we were always in the car traveling on the weekends, holidays and vacations (to go camping). Every time someone spotted a “Volkswagen”, “Beep Beep” would get yelled, as there were many in NYS where I grew up. We’d all get laughing and we all kept track of how many cars you spotted first. It kept us kids interested during the long drives to the mountains & generally not arguing over who was sitting next to the window, someone’s elbow jabbing whoever, complaining over who made their ice cream last the longest, (it always was me & no one liked that, haha) etc.. mostly it was great fun!
Hope you found that game interesting. Have a good night, love the projects 💜👍😘 Chris-Raleigh NC
I have made many duvet covers for children (I think I might be a topper too) and they liked them a lot. The first one was for my son with boats.
I would love to buy some books but they don't ship them to France. Love from France
Favorite Childhood Game was Jacks! But my sister and I were BEST KNOWN in our Kansas neighborhood for our game called DOLL HOSPITAL!!! Our Mother made ceramics and always had bags of plaster on hand and we used torn strips of scrap fabric to wrap a dolly arm or leg and then moistened plaster and applied a cast!! We charged 3 cents for arm quilt and 5 cents for dolly leg cast. We had a line of 5 to 10 neighborhood kids waiting for us to cast their dolly or stuffed bear! We charged 10 cents to remove the cast with Mom’s wooden mallet!!! The Dolly’s were all lined up on our back porch drying their casts in the HOT Kansas sun....we were ages 8 and 9. Fun memories....
what a little business you had going on!
Love , love , love your Bonnie Lane quilt ! Can I still get the kit ?
Pat-I watched Laura at Sew Very Easy do a tutorial using some of your beautiful Bonnie Lane fabric in an hourglass quilt a few days ago. Was a beautiful quilt!
I would definitely skip to March because then you won't be rushed and you'll feel successful! I have started cross stitching this year and it takes much longer than I though it would.:)
On that Crosstitch I will skip to March also because you got a lot on your plate you don’t wanna overwhelm yourself and like you said you want to enjoy it!
Crokinole is still one of my favourite games, along with the card game Crazy 8's!
The green & gray Traffic Jam is an awesome baby quilt!
My cousin and I used to play horses in my grandmother's pear tree. She used to run races on the sidewalk outside her house. "Mother May I" comes to mind. Red light, Green light was always fun. Definitely Hide and Seek.
I was intrigued by your "topper" comment. I live in Hawaii and my grandmother and mother sewed blankets. They were pieced from leftover clothing fabrics, and batting was rarely used. I sew "quilts" but only make toppers. I use muslin in the middle instead of batting and do not quilt them together. So really they are just attached with binding. I try to finish a usable product. In Hawaii the weather is conducive for lighter weight blankets. Thanks for all the information you share.
I use a tennis ball to darn my socks but I love the mushroom
Oh, also ordered the darning kit!! My good wool socks have holes too and I had never heard of a darning egg...
Yes, I keep a stock of baby quilts & blankets. My mom uses them for gifts as well!
I have lots of darning mushrooms they were my Mums and I always use them to darn socks and mend tights. Try to get some darning wool or pure wool to darn with rather than aurifil it would be much better!!
Thank you for the great information on the book sale! I just ordered both of yours and Lori’s as well as one by Joann Figueroa. Love you too!
Be realistic for yourself and take the pressure off. Jump to March and be successful.
My scraps are in a large bin just thrown in. What a mess. Plus I rarely use them. When 8 do dig through that bin to look for something, it gets twice as big as it was. Yuck. Pat, I like your idea of 2 1/2 “ squares. I like your red scrappy quilt. A lot. I need to cut up my scraps and color co-ordinate them so I can actually use them. Thank you so much.
sounds likes it's time to tackle that mess and get some order to it. you can do it!
I’m going to start making baby quilts for my grandchildren’s children, the oldest is 8....so I have time to make them. Now I’m able to quilt, eyes are still good...so it’ll be a surprise to get a gift from me, especially if I’m not here anymore. I also have been making doll clothes when we’re traveling...no one plays dolls...but i plan to donate them with a doll, each with a little wardrobe and blanket...i think a child may want this? Just things to keep me working on my craft when not doing a quilt
that is so sweet! My great grandmother bought me doll clothing for my barbies, I loved them!
Jacks, hop scotch, double Dutch, jump robr, cart wheels, tetherball, tinkling game which is with 2 long bamboo poles that you jump over,
I enjoyed hop scotch and jumping rope
I remember all the games people are mentioning. We had a lot of playground games involving chasing- like one we called wild horses
Go for March. It will be less stressful and you'll enjoy it more.
Aurifil has a very nice wool/acrylic 12 weight thread that is soft and would make an ideal darning thread for wool socks...just an idea.
Love watching you!
Love your very informative videos.
You can use a light bulb for darning socks.
We played 52 bunker, a variation of hide and seek, cats cradle, and hunt the thimble among other things.
Also Crack the Whip where everyone joined hands. There was a leader and a tail end. The leader would run in twists and turns and everyone had to follow and the tail end sometimes had the tightest turns and it would give you almost whiplash...hence the name Crack the Whip.
My MIL would sew up my husband sock's. One's that really needed to be thrown away. So he wanted me to sew up his sock's. So I did he never asked me to do it again. I made a big knot in the end. Made his toe's sore.
I think I agree with you and skip to March. i think that's being realistic
Thank you for explaining the “free quilt.”
We played "red rover " , "cow boys and indians" , " miss Lady " and " tag " oh and also , " who's afraid of the big bad wolf " . Lol
I personally think I’d skip to March so you are not rushed....it’s got to be enjoyable or it’s not worth it.....
Speaking of scraps.....I'm making the Traffic Jam quilt now, just finished a top called Dancing Nine Patch that I used 2 1/2 inch squares for instead of 2 inch, and I've made several other scrap quilts, but I still have so many scraps! I'm looking for advice for 3 1/2 inch squares, 4 1/2 inch squares and a group that I could cut into more 3 1/2 inch squares or cut into 2 1/2 inch strips....I'm just at a loss as to what to do with them! By the way, we played a game of hide and seek, but you couldn't just go hide somewhere and stay there, you had to risk moving around so we were all over the neighborhood.
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Would do it in March.
We played “Duck, duck, goose” and Pick-up sticks. We also played with paper dolls. :)
Oh yes I’m with you I just purchased that book from your link I’ve been wanting it and I’m so glad I got it ! And I can’t wait for that so long yay ! 🥰🥰🧵✂️
TH-cam is torturing me by showing me this happy bundle that sold out before I could get one
I am a topper as well, I love to piece but have no desire to quilt them. I bet I have at least 50 tops that I need to do something with them.
and the SOCK, WOW!!! i was having that issue last week, and i said dang love to not trash my wool sock's.. so thanks and I do have a vintage egg... how funny. you didn't give us the darning link... ?
link th-cam.com/video/KjaQ0kRga3A/w-d-xo.html there are many others too..
I darn my socks too...I have my grandmother's darning egg.
We are concentrating on lap quilts for nursing homes.
We have a guilt group at our church where we mae quits for the homeless shelter. I also have 4 children 8 grandchildren and 12 greatgrand children so i still have few to complete i usually make one top a week.
Kick the can and stepping on tin can to make (can shoes) over our other shoes. My mom always used a light bulb for darning, so that's what I use.
One of the crazy games we played was spin the bottle 😂
Pat, my thinking on skipping ahead on the crossstitch would be the same as yours. It needs to fit into your schedule and speed.
A game we played against a wall was Stocking Ball . The ball was placed in a stocking and bounced between our legs or from side to side . We would sing a rhyme like Hello Hello Hello sir, can you come out to play sir.
We played "statues" where we ran around the yard until someone yelled "Statues!". This meant we had to immediately stop and make a pose. The person who held their pose the longest won!
We played that too. "It" would try to catch you moving. We may have called it Manequin
Gail Kaminski we did that too! Fun memories.
HI Pat do you ever make QAYG please x love your chats can I get any kits in the uk x