Dta's Countdown Thread

[Lil'Nun]

[quote name='Deus_te_Amat' timestamp='1344014836' post='2462141']
Of course!







Tons.



Two things.
1) I just asked if MS's sister could hypothetically pick me up at the airport. Now that she's all grown up and all.
2) if anyone besides Lil Red wants my address, send me a PM. Prayer requests would be fulfilled! (with prayer -- I'm not God).
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Hi DTA

I think your inbox may be full as Phatmass says you cannot receive any new messages.

Edited August 7, 2012 by Lil'Nun

[mantellata]

Don't sew at all -- use a Sharpie .... really!

Or embroider your initials - those little tags end up bunching up in those industrial dryers so that they are impossible to read.

Sharpie is the fastest......

[OnlySunshine]

[quote name='mantellata' timestamp='1344367058' post='2464091']
Don't sew at all -- use a Sharpie .... really!

Or embroider your initials - those little tags end up bunching up in those industrial dryers so that they are impossible to read.

Sharpie is the fastest......
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My family friend lived in a nursing home that had industrial washers and dryers and the tags never came off or bunched up. The only thing we had to do was use a Sharpie to rewrite her initials sometimes, which was very rare.

[mantellata]

[quote name='MaterMisericordiae' timestamp='1344374093' post='2464132']
My family friend lived in a nursing home that had industrial washers and dryers and the tags never came off or bunched up. The only thing we had to do was use a Sharpie to rewrite her initials sometimes, which was very rare.
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I want that nursing home's industrial washers......

Or rather wanted.... it would have saved me some uncomfortable tootsies!

[Deus te Amat]

[quote name='Lil'Nun' timestamp='1344366129' post='2464086']


Hi DTA

I think your inbox may be full as Phatmass says you cannot receive any new messages.
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Fixed.



Re the tags -- I already have the labels -- I'm just sewing them in. If they fall off I will use sharpie. I'm just stumped on sewing them on unstretched socks when the stitches will stretch when wearing. Any ideas?

[MissScripture]

Stretch them and then sew while they're stretched? The tags will end up bunched up then, but at least they won't rip when you put them on? My mom didn't seem to be much help when I asked her...

[she_who_is_not]

I would use the iron on tags, but I don't know if you are allowed to do that.

[Deus te Amat]

[quote name='she_who_is_not' timestamp='1344387718' post='2464234']
I would use the iron on tags, but I don't know if you are allowed to do that.
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We're not... Thanks thought! (the iron ons don't stay on in the industrial washer)


You know, I'm probably making a mountain out of a molehill. It's probably just the normal way of sewing. Hehe.

[Lisa]

Sew them on up and down (so one end is pointing the toe, the other is toward the top of the sock.) They look funny but bunch less; they don't stretch as much that way.

Edited August 8, 2012 by Lisa

[TheresaThoma]

I would also suggest maybe an elastic type thread it might help with the stretchy issue. Otherwise just you good sturdy thread.

[maximillion]

Sharpies.......if only!!!

What memories you are all conjuring of the past.

We sewed on our given number (mine was 439) in red cross stitch. This had to be done on everything.
Prior to Clothing, when the community replaced just about everything with regulation stuff, a postulant's Angel gave out her clothing to everyone in the noviciate and one could witness the other novice's carefully stitching the number onto one's undies and everything else.
Everyone put some stitches in the habit hem.......including all the Professed nuns.
One's Angel had the task of making the tiny hem stitches in one's veils......
NM and I sewed everything else in her office together (by hand) while praying the Rosary and discussing the Constitution of our Order.
All the various parts of the habit were tried on separately, so that at Clothing was the first time we were actually in the whole thing.

But I am getting ahead, you are not at this stage yet....but it's amazing how time flies!!!!!!

Prayers as you prepare.

[Lisa]

[quote name='maximillion' timestamp='1344441614' post='2464521']
Sharpies.......if only!!!

What memories you are all conjuring of the past.

We sewed on our given number (mine was 439) in red cross stitch. This had to be done on everything.
Prior to Clothing, when the community replaced just about everything with regulation stuff, a postulant's Angel gave out her clothing to everyone in the noviciate and one could witness the other novice's carefully stitching the number onto one's undies and everything else.
Everyone put some stitches in the habit hem.......including all the Professed nuns.
One's Angel had the task of making the tiny hem stitches in one's veils......
NM and I sewed everything else in her office together (by hand) while praying the Rosary and discussing the Constitution of our Order.
All the various parts of the habit were tried on separately, so that at Clothing was the first time we were actually in the whole thing.

But I am getting ahead, you are not at this stage yet....but it's amazing how time flies!!!!!!

Prayers as you prepare.
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[Lil Red]

thank you for the card

[Deus te Amat]

[quote name='Lil Red' timestamp='1344458227' post='2464649']
thank you for the card
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Yay! I wish I were more eloquent... I'm gonna miss you, friend.

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Deus_te_Amat' timestamp='1344458707' post='2464657']
Yay! I wish I were more eloquent... I'm gonna miss you, friend.
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now, don't get me started!

[OnlySunshine]

Just a random thing -- I bought new Sharpie markers today at Walmart for 88 cents a piece! I thought of you, DtA!

[emmaberry]

ONE WEEK.

[Deus te Amat]

4 days! I got a card from my angel yesterday! It's becoming real.

[HopefulBride]

wooooooow. 4 days!!! 4 days!!!!!! less than a week.

[OnlySunshine]

[quote name='Deus_te_Amat' timestamp='1344730453' post='2466273']
4 days! I got a card from my angel yesterday! It's becoming real.
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