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Glorious Grimsby – Beautiful Bags

Posted in Teaching and Talks, friendly Plastic, liz welch, tagged , , , , , , , on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The ladies of Grimsby Embroidery Group were all extremely well prepared for the “Chiffon and Lace” class on a gloriously summery Saturday in May.  Each arriving with their bags made up to the point where the Friendly Plastic needed to be added.  This made life much more interesting as I could offer them a choice [...]

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Chiffon and Lace

Posted in Teaching and Talks, friendly Plastic, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I have just finished this bag for the class I am teaching tomorrow in Grimsby.  Nothing like be well prepared in plenty of time!  I do have a collection of other bags, but unfortunately they got damaged in a shop window when I was taking a class last summer.  They look fine from a distance, but [...]

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Stop Press!

Posted in Information, friendly Plastic, tagged , , , , , on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wonderful news.  Stop throwing out your Snappers!  I have been told by the USA FP expert Jana Ewy that she reconditions her snappers and makes them good to go again. Isn’t that amazing?
Jana uses the dry electric skillet method to soften her Friendly Plastic, she puts the FP on a Teflon sheet in a dry [...]

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Consequences

Posted in Computer as a Design Tool, Information, Just Stuff, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well where did the week go?  I had hoped to post to the blog days ago, but a load of stuff happened.
The DOT meeting was great fun; besides sharing our consequences images we talked about origami and Erica showed us how to get through an interminably boring formal dinner by making beautiful skrunkly (I have [...]

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