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(The not-so-secret diary of life and stuff in a hilltop town)
Trash Towers Dictionary
a/c - art crap. CK's fond term for the means of assuaging my addictions.
BSD - Been Seen Done. Devised while travelling the Great Ocean Road on CK's first Australian trip. Every lookout point was as fabulous as the previous and we got a little bit magnificenced out so rather than pull in we would shout BSD and keep driving.
Now general usage for when a situation is over or beyond repair.
bob - noun. Princess Curly- Wurly's word meaning all sweets, chocolate and yummy things.
blurry - (pr. to rhyme with hurry) Sth African/Zimbabwean term and my favourite polite swearword. Means kind of like bloody but usuable in mixed company. See 'Feck' & 'Eejit'
eejit - Irish term meaning 'idiot'. Suitable for use in polite company. Used by my Aunt Marion.
feck - Irish term used by my Aunt Marion so it cannot be rude!
ho-ho -(pr. with a short o). Zimbabwean word for bugs.
lani - (sp?) Sthn African word - means posh, expensive, elegant, stylish.
La Villa de Lamaca - (translates from Ital. as The houseof snails. My 'green' house out in the garden with all my a/c (ref: above) stuff in it. Built by CK and Babyman for me. CK lost his fingerprints over it. I cannot actually get in there at the moment!
lubbard - derived from 'beloved'. Devised by my then two y.o. son b/c unlike his sister he could not say 'Mother Beloved'. Usually prefaced by a noun.
OfStEd - Office for Standards in Education. Bossy civil servants who would like to see every child in formal, full-time education from birth.
Q.I. - Quite interesting.
terence - sobriquet applicable to all small children. Originated with one 'borrowed' child who could not pronounce ' terrorist' .
TG - exclamation. Thank God! An interesting choice for the dictionary of a recovering Catholic but is a phrase used by my Irish family and is now deeply fixed in my conversational repetoire. (reference also PG - Please God).
TGTH - The Great Trip Home. Alt. known as 'How I spent Christmas and N.Y 2008.
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Crafty knowledge and knowhow required for sharing.
Am trying to transfer some recent sketches to fabric. Have both aquapen AND airclear marker. It is dark. My lightbox has been stashed very safely somewhere in the house. And I hate drawing straight onto material.
Oh, now hang on, I think I transferred a stitchery once by tracing on the reverse of the picture with an embroidery transfer pencil then scribbling over the lines of drawing on the right side of the image directly onto fabric - I think I had to go over it again with a fabric marker pen as the lines were very faint but I seem to recall that worked. I did stitch the pictures somehow or other.
Have you tried using the light box in your window frame. Of course, it might just be easier to find yours or borrow someone elses if the pattern is intricate as you can get quite a sore wrist doing it this way but it is very effective. Cherrie
Pinprick the sketch and then draw over it with the marker, so it goes through to the fabric. Bit tedious ... it works ... but the other suggesti0ns above might be better!
I usually use commercial graphite paper or dressmaker's marking paper for this sort of thing, but if it's not a terribly complicated sketch, there's always tracing it on the back with a regular old #2 pencil several times, placing the traced side on the fabric, and tracing one more time on the front of the sketch with a ballpoint pen. It's basically DIY graphite paper, which is way less messy than carbon paper.
Um Trashy, er, if it's dark, would it help to turn the lights on?
Locket xxx
P.S. ok, helpful suggestion now: I can normally see ok to use the aqua pen but if not there is another great way of doing it and that is to use a Sulky transfer pen (Sulky is its name not its temperament by the way).
You use the pen to trace your image onto paper then "print" your image onto your fabric with a hot iron. Obviously if your picture will be reversed so you may need to trace it through the back of the paper first - if you know what I mean?
My pens came from America through Ebay but The Cottonpatch near Birmingham had them last time I looked.
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Carbon paper?
Oh, now hang on, I think I transferred a stitchery once by tracing on the reverse of the picture with an embroidery transfer pencil then scribbling over the lines of drawing on the right side of the image directly onto fabric - I think I had to go over it again with a fabric marker pen as the lines were very faint but I seem to recall that worked. I did stitch the pictures somehow or other.
Have you tried using the light box in your window frame. Of course, it might just be easier to find yours or borrow someone elses if the pattern is intricate as you can get quite a sore wrist doing it this way but it is very effective. Cherrie
Pinprick the sketch and then draw over it with the marker, so it goes through to the fabric. Bit tedious ... it works ... but the other suggesti0ns above might be better!
I usually use commercial graphite paper or dressmaker's marking paper for this sort of thing, but if it's not a terribly complicated sketch, there's always tracing it on the back with a regular old #2 pencil several times, placing the traced side on the fabric, and tracing one more time on the front of the sketch with a ballpoint pen. It's basically DIY graphite paper, which is way less messy than carbon paper.
Um Trashy, er, if it's dark, would it help to turn the lights on?
Locket xxx
P.S. ok, helpful suggestion now:
I can normally see ok to use the aqua pen but if not there is another great way of doing it and that is to use a Sulky transfer pen (Sulky is its name not its temperament by the way).
You use the pen to trace your image onto paper then "print" your image onto your fabric with a hot iron. Obviously if your picture will be reversed so you may need to trace it through the back of the paper first - if you know what I mean?
My pens came from America through Ebay but The Cottonpatch near Birmingham had them last time I looked.
Stick a lamp under a glass-topped table. Works every time for me!
As it's dark maybe you should turn the dining room light on and then go outside and do your tracing outdoors against the lit up window?
Neighbours will KNOW you're bonkers but hey ho :)
xxx
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