Posted on 12/06/2023 6:29:40 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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I just finished piecing a Lady Of The Lake quilt, requiring 1,440 HSTs (half-square triangles), 2.5” each. (Will never do it again!) Working on borders today. It’s in the “Thimbleberries” drab/muted colors.
If any FReeper has experience with electroluminescent lights, I would appreciate a FRmail.
I constructed an icosahedron tensegrity, and want to use electroluminescence with it.
For much of that time, one of his retirement gifts, a beautiful plaque that held his sword and scabbard with a heavy bronze insignia completely fell into disrepair and oxidized, his scabbard disappeared (used by by youngest brother in a high school play and never returned) and the sword sat on top of a cabinet tarnishing and gathering dust.
I rebuilt the plaque by removing all the decrepit structure, cleaned, polished, stained, laquered it, and and coated and re-attached the brass plaque.
I completely polished the brass emblem as best I could, and coated it so it won't tarnish again, and glued it to the front.
I 3-D printed the face plate for the emblem which also has the structure to support the crossed sword, and affixed it to the Then I 3-D printed in sections the scabbard for the sword (after I saw the price of buying one!) in seven sections, glued it together, and painted it.
Lastly, I cleaned the sword meticulously, as the handle is composed of miniature real pearls, purchased a new tassel for the sword, and put the whole thing together. Here is the scabbard I printed in sections to glue together: 
Here is the scabbard finished and painted: 
Here is the whole plaque finished and painted: 
Darn. I should have taken a before and after picture!
That is so cool! My Dad was Navy, too.
What a beautiful job! Your love and tenderness for the project and the man who bore the sword is very evident. Kudos to you!
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I was a navy wife for over 30 years, as well as a military mom and grandma and widow. I’ll always be “military!”
Gorgeous - you have skills!
It was indeed a labor of love...and respect. And it was fun, too!
Thank you.
The role of a military wife is under appreciated by the world at large. It has a whole range of issues that make the marriage more of a challenge in ways most civilian marriages don’t have to deal with.
There were times as a kid I thought there was no way my parents would stay married. And there were times my mother became nearly unhinged because of the stress, especially when my Dad was on long deployments sea or away from home.
But they both made it, and enjoyed their lives until my dad passed on, and my mom, seven years later. It was wonderful to see.
So, that is why I say “Thank you”.
I got involved with a project called The Linus Project. They make very simple quilted blankets for children and donate them. I’ve made one blanket, but messed it up and had to hand stitch some of it. There’s another meeting on the 20th, I’ll see how that goes.
After my dad got out of the Army (WWII), he wanted to go to college for an engineering degree on the GI Bill. Back in those days, public school wasn’t like it is now - his very small school (I think they called them Grade Cs or something like that back in those days) did not have good enough math for him to get into college. He went to a military academy for a year so he could meet the math requirement. While he was there, he got a ceremonial sword & it’s hanging, in scabbord, on our kitchen wall. We’ve got some pics of him in his uniform with the sword - he was very handsome. The sword is a bit tarnished .... after seeing your work, I might have to take it down & give it a polish. Dad passed away in January at 100+ almost a month.
Thank you for that! I married him during a time of war, not really realizing what it meant for a navy wife, but I loved the life!
I was optimistic enough to count the deployments by prefacing each count with “only!” no matter what the number was.
Truth be known, I still miss the life of a military wife!
And there were also lots of parties...:)
(my Dad speaking and my Mom at the left)
(my mom being escorted, my dad with the sword waiting for her)
(my mom is on the left and my dad far right at the Kalyann Officers Club in Subic)
Wonderful photos! Thank you very much for sharing them with us!
Since Subic Bay is no long a USN installation, these photos are part of history. Don’t lose them!
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I’m knee-deep in shepherd’s tunics and angel costumes for the church Christmas pageant. All made from thrifted sheets.
Wow beautifully done. I love doing restorations and after my first one I kicked myself for not taking a before picture. It was my mom’s hope chest. I also did her sewing machine and cabinet and gave done many statue repairs. I’m sure your dad is proud.
Brief story - my niece crochets so she appreciates the work when she gets a crocheted/knitted item. Her first son, my great-nephew, was 7 months when his first Christmas rolled around year before last - what to get a baby? I crocheted him an over-sized stocking - she loved it & so did her husband, who jokingly whined about the baby's stocking being bigger than his ... so last year, 'dad' got an oversized stocking.
Baby #2, another boy, arrived in April of this year, so he is also getting a stocking from me for Christmas. Poor mom was being left out (she had a tiny stocking from her childhood) so I made her a stocking this year, too. Now the whole family has over-sized crocheted stockings. My niece really loves them, which makes every stitch worth it.
The plaid stocking is for my great-nephew, a take-off on a 'buffalo plaid' pattern. The other stocking I call the Holly Berry Bobble stocking & that is for my niece. The same designer did the patterns for both stockings; however, I did not like the heel & especially did not like the cuff in her pattern, so I used the heel from another stocking & designed my own cuff. I like the cuff so much, I told my niece that after Christmas, give me the first 2 stockings & I will re-do the cuffs. The 'new' cuff design is thick/stiff enough to hold its shape when hanging without any extra 'help' and although it's crochet, it looks like knitting.
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