On 5/30/2012 9:10 AM, Janet wrote:
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On 5/30/2012 8:15 AM, Janet wrote:

(Reminds me of some girlie magazine in about 1960 that showed us teen
girls how to make a bikini from 4 man-size hankies)

I once made a dress from four bandannas...

I made a top with a slit neck, from two square scarves. My schoolfriend
made a smashing mini dress by lining a man's string-mesh cotton vest with
bright cotton but her father banned her from wearing it.

Was she tall? If _I_ were to make a garment like that, it wouldn't cover
my bum!

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On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:15:07 +0100, Janet wrote:

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On Wed, 30 May 2012 09:53:36 +0100, David Hill
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On 30/05/2012 00:41, Janet wrote:
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On 29/05/2012 21:26, Jake wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 20:01:03 +0100, wrote:



But we're not discussing laundry, that would be OT on a gardening group.

Janet

Not necessarily. Our clothes line is in the garden. Doing the washing
needs to be co-ordinated with mowing the lawn as the line gets in the
way.

We also need to temporarily remove a bird feeder as otherwise the
little wonders feed and hop onto the line to c**p on the washing.
Birds are on-topic here.

So laundry may be on topic

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling from the asylum formerly known as the
dry end of Swansea Bay.

Especially if your sheets are linen or cotton.

You grow your own sheets?

Janet

Doesn't everyone?

Being just a bit younger than some, I haven't graduated to sheet trees
yet; merely growing Davidia involucrata at the moment.

Lucky you, has it reached flowering age yet? You can sew all those
handkerchiefs together to make sheets.

(Reminds me of some girlie magazine in about 1960 that showed us teen
girls how to make a bikini from 4 man-size hankies)

Janet

Whoops, sorry, missed the wink off ;~). I wuz joking.

I don't know if men's hankies were thicker in those days but any of
mine become semi transparent when wet.

Never had to test it, we mostly went skinny dipping.
Janet.

In article ,
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On 5/30/2012 9:10 AM, Janet wrote:
In ,
says...

On 5/30/2012 8:15 AM, Janet wrote:

(Reminds me of some girlie magazine in about 1960 that showed us teen
girls how to make a bikini from 4 man-size hankies)

I once made a dress from four bandannas...

I made a top with a slit neck, from two square scarves. My schoolfriend
made a smashing mini dress by lining a man's string-mesh cotton vest with
bright cotton but her father banned her from wearing it.

Was she tall? If _I_ were to make a garment like that, it wouldn't cover
my bum!

As I recall that was one of her father's objections..another was about
the size of the armholes.

Janet.

Some great responses here, thanks!

I have dug up the one at the front of the house - its got out of control... After one year of growth the stem (or Trunk!) was about 3" in diameter!

Since i've been looking into this i have seen a couple of these plants down my street now.