I wish there were a category just for questions for information.
My question now is: Is there any place a person can buy good fabric for sewing clothes? I have been to Hancock's and JoAnne's in Wichita and don't like what I find there. I am still living in the 1950's when I sewed almost everything my girls wore and most of my own. Would like to be making my own pants and shirts so they would fit better.
Try the Alco Store in Eureka or Fredonia, they seem to have a good selection.
If you're ever headed to Iola on Wednesday through Saturday, there's a wonderful little place north on the old highway. It's called Price's Fabric's. It's right across the road from the Allen County College Farm. They converted their garage into a little fabric store. Mary has anything you might need and very reasonably priced. If she doesn't have it, she'll get it for you. Fabric, needles, thread, scissors, sewing machines, ribbon, elastic, quilt batting, the list goes on and on.
Not only do they have great fabric her husband is a sewing machine repair wonderman!! And he can sharpen your shears too.
All this and a fabulous couple that always have smiles on their faces and remember you the next time you come in.
This place should go in the Elk County Guidebook.
Thanks for the info. I'll try to check that out sometime this summer or fall.
How goes "roof quest?''
waiting for estimate and hoping.
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Does anyone still use a tablecloth for holiday tables? I mean the table where everyone takes their plate to sit down to eat. I try to but the little ones always have trouble with the cloth, dragging it down and it is in the way. I feel that the table top needs some protection besides being more festive. If you have time, tell me what you do. ???
Sometimes we take duct tape and take each side and tape it underneath the table which leaves you with a nice tight fully covered table with nothing hanging off the sides and no one is the wiser as the tape can't be seen.
I have a table cloth that I have used every Christmas since the girls were little. It's kind of a tradition. My family has gotten so big with in-laws, out-laws, and those that just seem to show up, that the adults and older grandchildren use the dining table and I put up a card table with Christmas placemats for the little ones. Seems to work just fine.
I always have a table cloth in my formal dining room... 365 days a year. My breakfast room occassionally has a table cloth. BUT, for holiday dinners, I can't imagine the tables without them. I sometimes do like Teresa and tape the cloth if there will be little ones at the table (which is usually the one in my breakfast room.
Yes, we use the Christmas table cloths. I have a "vinyl" one that is round and fits our kitchen table, and an oblong one (fabric) for our dining room table. We go to the home of our daughter, Cathy, for Christmas, and she, also, uses pretty Christmas table cloths, and it's nice. For Christmas morning, we have a nice breakfast. Bob makes "the" breakfast casserole the evening before, we take it out to Cathy and Harvey's house and it bakes while "the children" are seeing what Santa left for them, and checking out what's in their stockings. We sometimes have sweet rolls, well, I guess we always do, come to think of it! So, we munch along all morning, then rest a while before the Christmas Dinner. We sometimes "make it easy on ourselves" for the Christmas dinner, and I'm sure we will this year, as we're "down in numbers."
The girls and their hubbies and our grandchildren always came "home" on Christmas Day - laden with gifts and we used to have a big dinner..but then as the grandkids got older we decided to have "snackies". So things were prepared and set out on the bar and we could start eating any time we chose to, and that was usually just as everyone got there, and we could eat all day, and into the night. We opened gifts - then played games all the rest of the day and evening. It was WONDERFUL and I miss it. The girls still carry on the same tradition in their own homes.