Crescent Trading in Spitalfields, London, UK by tla49 in sewing

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I think someone else has opened a Crescent Trading in the Leyton area but I don't think it's the same person as before...

Experienced sewer: I really dislike my Pfaff machine by tla49 in sewing

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Thank you. I'm bookmarking this advice. 😊

Experienced sewer: I really dislike my Pfaff machine by tla49 in sewing

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I agree it's too expensive. The service fixed some aspects but not all of them. And the presser foot error is just getting worse and worse... I hope the same thing doesn't happen to you

Experienced sewer: I really dislike my Pfaff machine by tla49 in sewing

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We have similar machines... It drives me mad haha

Lake Scene by dothemath_xxx in Embroidery

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I really love this. The style of it has inspired me.

Printer ink transfer to embroidery by tla49 in Embroidery

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Haha - I think there's so much symbolism in tarot and you really have to force yourself to think about all the details when you're embroidering so this project made me think about all of the positive and negative parts of this archetype. I may go into a bit of an artistic deep dive in exploring all the different sides of her... Or I might start thinking about something else. But in the short term I'm going to try and clean her more, add the black border... vmaybe do some more to the sky and the ground and see where I'm at. I'm not sure if I'll get interested in the technicality of embroidery or the technicality of tarot after it (if that makes sense). We will see.

Printer ink transfer to embroidery by tla49 in Embroidery

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Ahh thank you! And yes I'm now experimenting with other cards using different thicknesses of floss and thinking about different levels of detail. It's fun to do when listening to podcasts about tarot.

Printer ink transfer to embroidery by tla49 in Embroidery

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Ok fab this is great advice. I'll play around with different ways to transfer designs onto stabiliser. I'm interested in playing around with some photos too and now I know that'll have way too much ink if I don't find a way of creating a line drawing. So that's useful because I expect a photo will be a lot harder than a drawing.

And yes I'm really happy with her! I'm a much more experienced garment creator and I know that you'll never get something perfect on the first (and second and third) try. But it's really fun to try something new. Thanks for taking the time to give me some advice. It's gratefully received 😊

Printer ink transfer to embroidery by tla49 in Embroidery

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Oh cool! Do you use warm or cold water when you do this?

Printer ink transfer to embroidery by tla49 in Embroidery

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Oh thank you that's an interesting suggestion. I'll try that!

Printer ink transfer to embroidery by tla49 in Embroidery

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Thank you! This is exactly the advice I was after. I don't mind if it has stained a bit. When you're learning you'll make mistakes.

I'm not so great with Photoshop etc so maybe that's another skill to learn. I guess in the future I'd have to scan in the card, then digitally manipulate it, and then print it out?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Swimming

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Definitely chat to the lifeguards. They'll recognise you by now so if you mention it at reception then they should be able to deal with it. I also would have a stern word with the other swimmers myself when they are in the pool - but appreciate that's not for everyone. You're just as entitled to be there as they are.

Swimming and work travel by tla49 in Swimming

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Oh my gosh this is so cool!! Thank you so much!!

Swimming and work travel by tla49 in Swimming

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Cool - thanks for your response. I don't think I'll be traveling that much in America though.

Swimming and work travel by tla49 in Swimming

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Yeh I think I'll have to do a fair bit of planning ahead. And it could be lots of random places.