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nay nay — Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:27:56 -0500

"For the hPDA, depending on how you bind your little Planner Friend, the corners of the cards and pages might catch on the stitches a bit."

Maybe an interior pocket or lining could be sewn so that the pages do not catch on the yarn stitches?

These would make great gifts! Good find!
nay nay

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shb — Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:04:27 -0500

Welcome, pinkyreeny! That's neat, I like to crochet. It could be adapted, I am sure, for smaller object like cell phones, I would think.

For the hPDA, depending on how you bind your little Planner Friend, the corners of the cards and pages might catch on the stitches a bit.
-Sarah

How 'bout this

pinkyreeny — Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:24:18 -0500

I've been lurking here for a couple months and joined some time last week.
When I came across this pattern this afternoon, this thread quickly came to mind.

Here's a pattern for a crocheted PDA case. Could easily be sized wider or narrower for your needs.
http://members.aol.com/Sbaycgoa/patpalm.htm

Oh, they do. Look elegant,

SusanBeth — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:30:04 -0500

Oh, they do. Look elegant, that is. The problem is distributing the weight of container/cards, that's why I plan to use a pair of bar pins AND use some sort of 'backer' on the inside of the garment, a small piece of cloth, something strong and tightly woven.

I know women used to hang little purses and needle cases and keys and so forth from these pins, but all I can say is the dresses they wore must have been woven from very much heavier wool thread. Nylon? Rayon? Silk? A single pin holding any weight at all would rip/tear/distort the material in no time. :(

La ChÃ¢telaine...

Sardonios — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:01:17 -0500

Not anymore... However there is one of me wrestling with Santa. :D

BTW I stand by my suggestion of a chÃ¢telaine pin. I think they look very elegant. :)

not yet

innowen — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:40:44 -0500

Are there videos online? Or have you paid good monies to prevent them from surfacing?

/innowen

Â¿Que EstÃ¡?...

Sardonios — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:28:25 -0500

Oh why did I party and post... By the way that was rhetorical. :D

PS Have you seen me limbo yet inno?

forgot english there?

innowen — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:51:36 -0500

hey Sard...

did you forget how to speak english when you got into that dress to type what you wrote? And is there anything else you won't stoop to do to get a post on the forums?

*giggles, ducks away and runs*
/innowen

I Am Wear a Dress to Type This...

Sardonios — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:22:31 -0500

... but enough about me. Have you considered a silver chÃ¢telaine pin?

Lobster Clasp

shris — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:34:52 -0500

Hi.

The tongued hook--a hook with an extra bit that forms a loop when closed--is a Lobster Clasp, I think.

This is similar to what you'd get on a necklace or bracelet. The ones on dog leashes have a slightly different shape, but a similar mechanism. It's generally a spring-loaded doohickey. Either there's a lever you push down the 'neck' of the clasp (dog leash), or you pull the lever 'out' away from the clasp with your thumbnail (bracelet) or thumbtip (necklace). In any case, when you're not fiddling with it, it's a closed loop, and when you're manipulating it, a small part of the loop is open to permit you to attach it to something else.

shris
former beader

Picture Needed!

nay nay — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:08:37 -0500

When you are all done with it, can you post a picture? I would love to see it as it sounds perfect!

Smiles,
nay nay

Thanks for thinking of me!

SusanBeth — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:21:12 -0500

Thanks for thinking of me!

I checked out the link, and they look very nice (and ridiculously cheap!) but I'd already found a great solution at a craft fair/antique sale just last weekend:

It's an evening purse from (I think) the twenties. It has a snap-frame top, and the entire body is made of a sort of 'chain mail' type stuff -- mostly silver, but some of the links are gold in color, creating a diagonally striped look. The handle is more silver chain.

The purse is just a bit larger than needed to hold 3X5 cards in vertical orientation. :)

The lining is falling apart, so I'm sewing up a new one, and will be sandwiching a layer of plastic inside as a stiffener, to keep the purse in shape whether or not there are index cards inside. And I'm going to have a jeweler split the handle, and add those 'tongued' hooks (like on dog leashes? I don't know what they are really called) to each end.

This will let me look the handles around belts and snap to themselves OR snap the hooks onto plain waistbands OR snap onto plain 'brooch type' pins for garments that don't allow either.

Anyway, I think the purse look really ritzy in a sort of non-frou frou and restrained way. I can't wait to get it into use.

SusanBeth

nay nay — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:57:13 -0500

Did you see the forum discussion called BARGAIN ALERT !! ? They are talking about this type of item. http://www.saunders-usa.com/rhinoskin/?sku=00294 Maybe this will work for you!

nay nay

Girly or not..

shris — Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:04:39 -0500

Hi.

I never really went for the girly stuff. Dispassionately I can look at the design and say it's well done and attractive, but most of the frilly or flowery stuff never inspires me with desire.

The other problem I have with the fancier designs is that they tend to be the same each day. Sometimes the commercial planners break them up by month or quarter, but you're still looking at the same picture every day for a month. This bugs me for some reason.

Besides that, my planner is shrinking down to index card size, so I don't have a lot of room to devote to anything but what I want to say. I find having pictures under my text makes the words more difficult to read (am I getting older, really? :) so I like a plain background.

Now, having said that, I like having color around. I especially like neon colors. So I print some of my forms on bright paper to make them stand out. Pastels are OK, but I find they look blah next to the neons. It's also expensive to keep a supply of fifteen different colors. :)

shris

girly kit

magentalizarin — Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:52:24 -0500

Is anyone interested in a kit that is more girly? Like with pastel backgrounds and the like? My all time favorite bought planner was the dayrunner poetica. I am thinking of using some of the dover copyright free images and making my own version. I was always adding my own notes in to my bought planner and then it didn't look very pretty anymore.

For women only

SusanBeth — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:23:22 -0500

For women only....

How do you keep your organizer at hand?

One of my big organizational challenges comes from the fact that about 90% of my work outfits have no pockets. None. Zip. Nada. You have no idea how much I envy my male colleagues. *They* get pant pockets and shirt pockets and lots more if they wear jackets. :)

Yes, I have a purse. But who wants to have to carry one around ALL the time? Mine is mostly locked into a bottom drawer while at the office. I've been trying to think of a good way to have an index-card sized organizer available to me all the time WITHOUT having to tie up a hand.

So far my best idea is create a 'pocket' or 'mini-purse' that I can wear with any outfit. Just a simple pouch, just big enough to hold a few dozen index cards and a pen slid in beside them. Another idea is to sew my own organizer 'booklet', something that opens up to show index cards on both sides, with a storage area for more. If I go with that, I'd probably add three loops to the open edge, one on the front cover, two on the rear, staggered. Then it would be held closed by slipping a regular pen down through the loops.

Regardless of format, I'd add either one grommet at the spine (for the booklet) or two (at the corners of the pouch) and then I hang it from a swivel hook...on what, though? Some sort of lanyard, I guess, but I really don't want to wear it around my neck. (I'm busty.)

If my outfit has a belt, I guess I could use a really short lanyard and tie it on to the belt. That would work okay for the pocket version -- just pull out the cards and pen to write, then slip them back in. OTOH, with a booklet form, it would probably be rather awkward, taking it on and off the belt all the time.

And, a lot of my outfits don't have belts, or unsuitable ones, anyway. What then? Wear a lanyard around one shoulder? Cross body? Both seem unfeasible.

Another thought I had was to get a pair of decently ornamental pins, probably plain gold, and simply pin the pocket to the outfit of the day. This would be okay for sturdy fabrics, not good for anything light weight/open weave/knitted.

Before I head out to reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd ask to see how other women have dealt with this.

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more crochet

Crochet

How 'bout this

Oh, they do. Look elegant,

La ChÃ¢telaine...

not yet

Â¿Que EstÃ¡?...

forgot english there?

I Am Wear a Dress to Type This...

Lobster Clasp

Picture Needed!

Thanks for thinking of me!

SusanBeth

Girly or not..

girly kit

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DIY Planner - For women only - Comments