Dress Of The Day with Angela

 Trick or treat? Let's look at who is for it, and who is against it.  Who Is For Trick Or Treat Many families with children. A way to call on your neighbours. A chance to dress up the adults and children. The treat could be a donation from a pile of sweets.  What is against it. Buying treats costs money. Making treats costs money and time. If you are inundated with callers, you run out, then you are at the mercy of tricks. Why would anybody want a trick? Tricks include throwing eggs over the window, which you have to clean off. Daubing paint. Damage to property. People with skulls jumping out or making a noise. Frightening the elderly who are prone to heart attacks. How It Was Done In Singapore When I lived in Singapore I was told that it was illegal to knock on people's doors, whether for Trick or Treat, to ask for donations for money, whether for charity, or begging or to offer services, and to try to convert people to another religion. So the Mormons would be banned fr...

Choosing Needle Size First choose your needle. I try to pick a needle with a large eye. But not so large that it leaves a big hole in the fabric. Nor a hole which lets the thread slip through.  Storing needles and threads I just re-organized one of my many sewing boxes, a small one, with only four compartments. I put the needle threader in the same compartment as the needles.  The threads went in the large compartment.  Wire Needle Threader I like the little wife needle threaders with a flexible diamond shape end and a round piece for holding it. You thread the wire through the needle. If you can't see the eye, hold the needle against a light or white piece of paper. If you cannot hold the needle steady, instead of holding the needle in midair horizontally and rotating the eye, press the point downwards into a piece of white paper, so the eye is visible and still. Choosing Thread Thickness & Colour The thread colour looks neater if it matches the colour of the fabric....