Finished a bit sewing project yea!
Did some knitting before that while watching news on the plane in Ky. .
Ta Da Tuesday November 4, 2025
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Re: Ta Da Tuesday November 4, 2025
Oh, ((Cathy)), what a discovery in a cabinet. Good job dealing with it.
Mystery, since it used to work for me to put fabric through an old-fashioned way, I still did it - lay a smaller-than-8x11 piece of cotton fabric without loose threads onto an 8x11 piece of copy paper. Tape with wide (3/4 inch) Scotch tape fully across the top leading edge. I do just a little taping down the sides to keep it angled well. If you do too much, you can cause wrinkles. Then just send it through the printer so that the words or line drawings will show where you want on the fabric. Recently, others use freezer paper, onto which fabric will adhere with a light ironing. That's probably fine, but it does tend to curl a little rather than staying flat as the paper was, plus it concerns me that a thread or corner could get caught by the machine. Tape fools the machine feeders into treating it like any other sheet of paper.
This works, and probably even lasts if it's going to be framed or something for protection. It's just not going to last through a washing or through too much rubbing against the ink. So, the experiments on two methods were using a 15-20 min soak in white distilled vinegar in a plate and then rinsing in cool water, hopefully making the ink set further. OR using an iron to set the ink with more heat. These have worked for others and at least made the ink more permanent. Maybe I rinsed too long/too much, and maybe my ironing was too hot/too long. I don't know but somehow the print faded. Still readable for me, but not anyone who doesn't know what it is.
There is a liquid product called Jenkins Bubble Jet Set 2000 that is made for setting the ink, and HRH says I should just buy it and see if it works for me. Maybe I will sometime. Right now, I'm just not that motivated. The faint lines of writing allowed me to trace with the Micron pen for this project, sitting comfortably at a table, so I don't have an immediate need. Micron can be washed. But nice to have found a way to imprint tracing lines onto fabric by printing then fading - something to follow to get lettering right.
I've gotten one (count 'em, one) gift into the gift closet. Full disclosure, there are some there already that don't have a definite recipient in mind.
WonderBoy came over hoping we had Kool Aid packets or something like it for a chemistry experiment he was supposed to do. We had the "I.V." brand drink packets and at first we thought they would work, but the first ingredient is cane sugar, and it's important that he add sugar during the experiment. Oh, well. Ds' family didn't have them either, so he and his Mom had to drive out into commuter traffic. Just not something in everybody's cabinet anymore. 25 years ago, we were never without it.
Mystery, since it used to work for me to put fabric through an old-fashioned way, I still did it - lay a smaller-than-8x11 piece of cotton fabric without loose threads onto an 8x11 piece of copy paper. Tape with wide (3/4 inch) Scotch tape fully across the top leading edge. I do just a little taping down the sides to keep it angled well. If you do too much, you can cause wrinkles. Then just send it through the printer so that the words or line drawings will show where you want on the fabric. Recently, others use freezer paper, onto which fabric will adhere with a light ironing. That's probably fine, but it does tend to curl a little rather than staying flat as the paper was, plus it concerns me that a thread or corner could get caught by the machine. Tape fools the machine feeders into treating it like any other sheet of paper.
This works, and probably even lasts if it's going to be framed or something for protection. It's just not going to last through a washing or through too much rubbing against the ink. So, the experiments on two methods were using a 15-20 min soak in white distilled vinegar in a plate and then rinsing in cool water, hopefully making the ink set further. OR using an iron to set the ink with more heat. These have worked for others and at least made the ink more permanent. Maybe I rinsed too long/too much, and maybe my ironing was too hot/too long. I don't know but somehow the print faded. Still readable for me, but not anyone who doesn't know what it is.
There is a liquid product called Jenkins Bubble Jet Set 2000 that is made for setting the ink, and HRH says I should just buy it and see if it works for me. Maybe I will sometime. Right now, I'm just not that motivated. The faint lines of writing allowed me to trace with the Micron pen for this project, sitting comfortably at a table, so I don't have an immediate need. Micron can be washed. But nice to have found a way to imprint tracing lines onto fabric by printing then fading - something to follow to get lettering right.
I've gotten one (count 'em, one) gift into the gift closet. Full disclosure, there are some there already that don't have a definite recipient in mind.
WonderBoy came over hoping we had Kool Aid packets or something like it for a chemistry experiment he was supposed to do. We had the "I.V." brand drink packets and at first we thought they would work, but the first ingredient is cane sugar, and it's important that he add sugar during the experiment. Oh, well. Ds' family didn't have them either, so he and his Mom had to drive out into commuter traffic. Just not something in everybody's cabinet anymore. 25 years ago, we were never without it.