Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Microplastics.
That's the trouble: we're all tree hugging hippies. so we use lemon based sawdust filled hippy type soap.
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That's the trouble: we're all tree hugging hippies. so we use lemon based sawdust filled hippy type soap.
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Trouble is finding something that's as good to do the job of getting grease etc. off your hands.
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
That bowl is stunning!
Trouble is finding something that's as good to do the job of getting grease etc. off your hands.
Rub dried coffee grounds and washing up liquid into your hands then add water and work well in. Not used Swarfega in years.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Trouble is finding something that's as good to do the job of getting grease etc. off your hands.
Or washing up liquid and granulated sugar. I picked that tip up on here several years ago and it's been brilliant.
I can't even remember where the tub of Swarfega has gone, it's been that long since I last used it...
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Blyth, Northumberland
Or washing up liquid and granulated sugar. I picked that tip up on here several years ago and it's been brilliant.
I do the same. Of course it means that there are sometimes greasy fingerprints on the the sugar container 😁
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I get my minion to dole out the sugar.
Otherwise I leave a teaspoon on a scrap of kitchen foil. 
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I use salt rather than sugar with the washing up liquid... but i buy posh sugar, which would be costly, for washing off oil
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Bog-standard granulated here. 
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
A long long story in a home far away....
40 odd years ago my mother always had the sewing machine on the go always making stuff, and selling it. There were always bits of material and cotton lying around the place, and pins, I was always standing on pins. The only time I ever touched the sewing machine was to move it from one table to another, then when she died I moved it again from my home to someone else's.
About a month ago the Fragrant MrsP decided she wanted to repair a couple of zips on jackets, rather than have them done by a professional. She liberated her mother's sewing machine (MIL never ever used it, its brand new), and taught herself how to replace zips. She then thought that she would make a dress, bought a pattern, material and other gubbins and over a period of a few days made not one, but two dresses.
The fragrant Mrs P is not naturally artistic, she can cut and lay a wooden floor, rewire a house, plumb in bathroom furniture, paint and decorate, strip down all the components of a bike and rebuild, but she is no artisan. That said she did a fantastic job of these dresses.
Encouraged she bought a pattern for a ladies shirt, on that pattern pack was a pattern for a man's shirt. She said she would make me one as well, but I had to choose the material. So of we went to the haberdashers and bought everything we needed. ( Haberdasher...great word) .
Now, I don't know what made me say it, but in the shop and in front of customers I said I was going to make my own shirt...I got some looks...I said " how hard it could it be?" .
Anyway, after many many hours and many many "words" I made a shirt. I actually found it quite difficult, mainly understanding the terminology and getting to grips with machine, but I did finish it.
Wanna see it? Ok then.
40 odd years ago my mother always had the sewing machine on the go always making stuff, and selling it. There were always bits of material and cotton lying around the place, and pins, I was always standing on pins. The only time I ever touched the sewing machine was to move it from one table to another, then when she died I moved it again from my home to someone else's.
About a month ago the Fragrant MrsP decided she wanted to repair a couple of zips on jackets, rather than have them done by a professional. She liberated her mother's sewing machine (MIL never ever used it, its brand new), and taught herself how to replace zips. She then thought that she would make a dress, bought a pattern, material and other gubbins and over a period of a few days made not one, but two dresses.
The fragrant Mrs P is not naturally artistic, she can cut and lay a wooden floor, rewire a house, plumb in bathroom furniture, paint and decorate, strip down all the components of a bike and rebuild, but she is no artisan. That said she did a fantastic job of these dresses.
Encouraged she bought a pattern for a ladies shirt, on that pattern pack was a pattern for a man's shirt. She said she would make me one as well, but I had to choose the material. So of we went to the haberdashers and bought everything we needed. ( Haberdasher...great word) .
Now, I don't know what made me say it, but in the shop and in front of customers I said I was going to make my own shirt...I got some looks...I said " how hard it could it be?" .
Anyway, after many many hours and many many "words" I made a shirt. I actually found it quite difficult, mainly understanding the terminology and getting to grips with machine, but I did finish it.
Wanna see it? Ok then.
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
That is excellent @EltonFrog.
I have been sewing for donkey's years and would struggle with making a collar. The gentleman in my local fabric shop has made himself a shirt.
Esme would also be impressed, I'm sure.
I have been sewing for donkey's years and would struggle with making a collar. The gentleman in my local fabric shop has made himself a shirt.
Esme would also be impressed, I'm sure.
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
The collar, particularly the neckband caused me to use the most words. Who is Esme?
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Esme is one of the judges on "The Great British Sewing Bee" on BBC. I usually avoid that genre of programme, but I enjoy that one.
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
Ah, ok. Never heard of it.
