Message from the doghouse

Jeni Do you mean facings? Making them from the same fabric could be bulky. How big is she? She could be swamped. Using a lighter material could be better, but they might show a bit round the edges. Could be done neatly enough not to though. Watch out pressing needlecord - It really only needs close-up steaming. If you let the weight of the iron down onto it, you get ridges where the turnings are.

Interfacing goes between the main piece and the facing. I would cut it just as big as to the seam line, then the turnings are not thick and stiff. The fusible one needs ironing on - same caveat about ironing applies. Does it really need interfacing for a little girl's dress in needlecord? Surely it is substantial enough without?

I meant the lining from the same material? I'm confused. It talks about interfacing on the interfacing. I presume the one interfacing is the lining ^ HELP^

It has kept me from doing anything else today but follow the adventures of Bill, Jen and Rick and the comments of everyone else who is following the saga. I assume there are other interesting threads to read? Or I could do some work? - nah, never that.

Well, the weather is certainly making me feel grumpy, dozy, and cross as it means I've had to cancel going to see DGD.
I've laid out the pattern for a dress for her instead. Can anybody tell me:- do I make the interfacing from the same material (a fine needlecord) or should it be lighter. It talks about fusible interfacing, do I cut that smaller than the lining or what?

I blame the government!

It's what trolls do. They cause a knock on effect. Having said that, the forum was a bit this way last weekend as well.

Well, if it was someone wanting to set us all at each others throats, they have certainly succeeded! We are certainly showing them how grown-up and civilised we are, aren't we?

Yes, that one was sarcastic.

yoga

I can't stand this petty bickering - just because it's raining outside you've all got nothing better to do. Get your coats and boots on and go out to play

absent thank you so much for another correction, I really must mend my ways or I will get chucked out of GN for not being up to the very high standard expected.

Sorry but I just don't agree with you but am sure that as you spend much more time than I do on GN that you must know better then I do. You may be an expert on the subject but I am afraid I'm not.

Movedalot Is it the first paragraph of your last post that contradicts the second paragraph or vice versa.

I was just informing you that WYSIWYG was what you probably intended. I thought that was helpful. It was only a btw.

I merely remarked that you sound uncannily like another member and wondered if perhaps you were sisters. I have no idea whether she is still a member or has moved on to somewhere else. Why – were you a member with different name in the past? How very intriguing.

Ana told everyone that she was changing her name from Anagran.

jingle aren't you supposed to be making a cake?

You'll be wanting the book back, won't you?

You must envy Mumsnet's fame.

Just a little bit?

Well – and graciously – said GeraldineGransnet.

Good one, Geraldine!

absent Mumsnet is stuffed full of adverts. Gransnet is not. No doubt HQ would like more. Adverts=finance.

I can't make it any simpler.

Absent Thank you so much for the correction, my horrendous mistake comes because I am so busy with my life that I don't always re-read what I have typed and my brain does not always reach my fingertips! I look forward to being corrected far more often as this is the first time anyone has done so.

The quotes were there I was wanting to give the impression that it may not have been the correct word for what was happening. I don't do sarcasm, not honest enough for me.

So you think I have changed my name? I must therefore assume that Greatnan does too as you do seem to think alike so very often. Perhaps you should say who and what you really think.

Ana I sympathise with you because I understand that although some members have changed their names because of things which have happened on GN, others have done so for reasons totally outside GN and would be extremely upset to be outed by people with suspicious minds.

Having met two of the Gransnet staff, I can confirm that they are human beings just like us - if somewhat younger. If they weren't there, neither would Gransnet exist. Give them a break.

jO5 Why would they [GNHQ?] want to make a Mumsnet out of grannies and what would that be? I should still like to know why you think GNHQ has an over-inflated sense of its own importance. I have never seen any evidence of this, so I'm very puzzled about what you meant.

Hunt the nipper.

I think GNHQ do a great job! [cake] they've responded promptly to all the ones I've reported. Like Bill1234 today. 10mins later he'd gone! I just wonder what he'll reappear as?

Movedalot Why the quotes around 'misunderstanding' then? They don't seem to serve any other purpose than to suggest that Greatnan understood perfectly well and was pretending to read the post in another, deliberately distorted way.

It is quite uncanny how you have used many of the same phrases and idiosyncrasies of speech and expressed the same ideas almost word for word as a member who hasn't posted for a while. I wonder if you are related. By the way, I think what you meant to write is WYSIWYG.

" I appreciate everything they do"

Yep. And they'd appreciate us a lot more if the ads would roll in a bit more frequently.