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Post by ragdall on Jul 7, 2010 4:41:36 GMT
Mary, What lucky little girls to have a grandmother who will and can make such beautiful useful items "to order". It's good that #3 liked the purple purse or you'd have to make a third one like these two. Your kitty looks very sweet and is a cute addition to the photo. rags
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jul 7, 2010 8:28:00 GMT
I'll second that!
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Post by maeve on Jul 7, 2010 14:58:16 GMT
I don't have time or a workspace for quilting or embroidery right now, so I must snatch crafting moments when I can. I was cleaning out an area of the largest vegetable garden (+/- 3000 square feet) when I came across some sections of old cornstalks (maize). Look what you can do with cornstalk fiber! (We'll see if i can use the table function the way rags did.) C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.YOUR-XHTR8HVC4P\Desktop\Fire email photos\2010-07-06Poppies\Cornstalk Cordage\P1000907.JPG C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.YOUR-XHTR8HVC4P\Desktop\Fire email photos\2010-07-06Poppies\Cornstalk Cordage\P1000909.JPG |
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Post by maeve on Jul 7, 2010 14:59:22 GMT
LOL I guess not! Here's the other photo: Attachments:
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Post by ragdall on Jul 8, 2010 11:43:05 GMT
Hi Maeve, The cornstalk fibre looks very useful. Is it hard to collect/ make?
You can only use tables when you have photos that are hosted on a photo host site, such as Flickr, or other website. If you wish to upload photos directly from your computer, we haven't found any way to add more than one attachment per post.
rags
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Post by maeve on Jul 12, 2010 13:00:27 GMT
Thank you for the photo posting information, rags.
I found the cornstalk sections when I was cleaning up the vegetable gardens. They'd been on the soil in the weather for a year, so the structure had already begun to separate. Thus it was easy to clean the chaff away from the fibers that run from joint to joint of the stalks, then twist the cordage.
I've also used a native marsh grass, amsonia (Blue Star), milkweed stalks, and cedar bark to make various fine and coarse cordage. All work well in making baskets and birch bark containers.
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Post by jennieg on Jul 18, 2010 23:31:24 GMT
Maeve, that's an interesting technique. Do you have any plans for the cornstalk fibre?
As an aside: all Australian states have nicknames for the people from other states but not, of course, their own. Folk from New South Wales are called Cornstalkers, aren't we Sandra? Queenslanders are banana benders (big banana industry up there), South Australians are crow eaters, Western Australians are sandgropers, I have forgotten the others.
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Post by maeve on Jul 19, 2010 12:03:39 GMT
Hi, Jennie. No plans for the cordage just now. No plans for anything other than getting through the year. I really enjoyed taking a few minutes to focus on something pleasant.
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Post by ragdall on Jul 29, 2010 7:46:34 GMT
As this thread is 10 pages long already and has been resting for a while, I'm going to close it now.
Please feel free to start a new thread for your new project or series of projects. If there is something in this thread that you didn't finish and would like to refer back too, just post the URL from the old post in your new thread. It will automatically become a clickie.
Thanks, rags
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