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Birthday Party - The Second Coming

As you all know by now, LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But some of us still had most of the comments in our inbox and decided to reconstruct the original party as well as we can, because we had great fun and the discussions were wonderful.

However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!

The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.

Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)

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I'll get us started by answering my own question:

I went for a short walk along the river. The weather wasn't as glorious as yesterday, mostly overcast and a bit chillier, but I spotted a number of trees beginning to turn colours with bright splashes of red and orange. Before my walk my Mum had phoned me and we chatted for quite some time, about among other things patchworking. When I got back from my walk I collected together the materials I am using for the patchwork bag I am making for my niece's birthday next month. I then cut out the pieces I will need and have even sewn the first bits together. I really enjoy patchworking, but I do find getting started on a new project requires a concentrated effort. Now that the major design is determined and I have cut most of the pieces out, I can just do a little sewing when I have a spare moment.

I haven't started a new quilting project in about a year, but it does require concentration - if you cut the pieces wrong, it just won't fit the way you want it to.

I did cut some pieces wrong even so, but I caught it so that they can be used for other projects at a later date. I usually put borders around my patchworks, but I tend not to cut them out until the middle bit is done. That way if I have got the seam allowance a bit wrong I can compensate with the width of the borders to get two sides of the bag the same size.

Clever plan! :)

Since the choice seems to be between sewing things accurately or working out how to make a nice-looking bag otherwise it was always going to be doing something clever for me. I am not bad at sewing, but even small differences in how wide you make the seam allowance add up to quite a difference when you have six or seven patches sewn together in each direction. I am never going to be that accurate!

*nods*
It is just all the patterns I've come across say cut everything out first...

I fear that is because the people writing patterns are evil and want you to feel stupid and like a failure for not managing to keep to the exact seem allowance specified. It does help to have most of the pieces cut out at the beginning though, since that way you can just stitch them together and not worry about having to cut more out. If you are making your own design it also allows you to see how the materials look together before staring on sewing, in case you want to change how you arrange the pieces.

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Very productive and sounds a lot of fun!

I am quite pleased with the pattern I have decided on. My niece likes lots of different colours, and black&white so I am making the sides mainly out of two types of black&white material with her initials (one on each side) in squares of lots of different types of material.

That sounds very nice! :)

I made one for her older brother in mostly pink (his favourite colour) with his initials on the sides. My sister (their mother) said he was especially pleased with it having 'his letters' on so I thought I should do that for my niece as well, especially since she has always been fascinated by letters. (She will be turning six in November.)

Very personal gifts! :)
Letters are cool...

We are a very bookish family, in the sense of a lot of the presents we give and enjoy receiving are books. Indeed one Christmas a few years back my nephew asked "When are we going to open the books?" meaning the presents under the tree. :-)

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I love the signs of encroaching autumn; it's perhaps my favourite season.

I too am very fond of autumn, especially all the vivid colours of the trees. Not so much the rain and it being well dark by the time I leave work...

I'm not a fan of heat; I like mellow autumnal sunlight, crunching leaves underfoot as I walk in the woods and berries everywhere in the garden. But the decreased day length is a definite downer!

I am not big on heat myself; my favourite season might actually be winter. It has to be proper winter though, with lots of snow. On the other hand I am also very fond of both spring and autumn...

I like winter in skiing resorts, with lots of crisp snow. And those beautiful short days with eggshell blue sky but piercingly cold.

Autumn is lovely when it is good weather, but when it is wet and dark not so much

But summers these past two years have been just as wet!

yes - dreadful really....
iirc there was a nice warm, dry spell here in about May....

The best here might have been March. We never did get the lawn under control this year.

It was a Federal holiday here in the US, so I was off work. I slept in (YAY!!!), then we walked the Earthpig (our dog), had breakfast, puttered around and finally went to the store for groceries. Upstairs neighbor came down to visit for a bit, bringing her knitting, while The Beloved made a snack on the stove. And now I'm checking email before heading off to do a bit of knitting myself.

Try to contain your jealously over the wild and crazy life I lead.... [grin]

I'm jealous I didn't get the day off (pouts)

Try to contain your jealously over the wild and crazy life I lead.... [grin]
I'll see your knitting and raise you patchworking! While my ratatouille was simmering on the stove this evening I got sewed a few patches on my latest project together. :-) We are wild, wild people!

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