Going in Circles

To day I have been going in circles.  I  started out in my robe on the sofa watching the nes with my latop. I'm going to be giving a Genealogy presentation on ordering films from the Family History Libary, Ordering records from the National Archives in Chicago online and Searching the Card Catalog on Ancestry.com. SO I needed to walk through my steps and write notes, I also needed solid examples of records to search for.

This is the WW-I Draft registration card for my great grandfather John (Johan) Glazer. He is a newly naturalized citizen at this point. On his WW-II card it lists distinguishing marks, the card says he was 5 ft, 11 3/4 and 165 pounds, with a scar on his left hand.  Grey hair, grey eys, and ruddy complexion. He was 53 in 1942.

I have the draft of my presentation finished, then I made a list of Microfilms I want to order and drafted that presentation.  I had to run to the dry cleaners, so I ran into the Famiy History Center and ordered 15 films, I know it's nice to be the Drirector of the Family History Center - it means I have a key and can come and go as I want.

I also made my reservations for my July trip.  I'm going to Salt Lake City (never been outside the SLC airport) for an Eastern European Family History Conference.  John (from above is from Austria, Hungary, Jugoslavia and Croatia.  I know you just tipped your head sidewise and went Huh. My Great Grandfather Johan was born in Antunovac, Austria, then with WWI the town was in Hungary, then afterwards the country became Jugoslava and is now called Croatia. It tooks me a long time to find the town and figure out the history of why his different documents reflected different countries.

So part 2 of my trip to to fly into Nashville, to visit my folks, My Dad lives 2 hours east of Nashville. My Step-mom's birthday is that week. Then I'm going to drive to Evansville IN for the International Enmbroidery Conference, then I drive back to Nashville to fly home (2 hours).

I got some pictures of John, his wife Mary, her sister Theresa and her husband, the sister's brothers and their wives, from my Aunts. All four couples came to the US together. The guys came by twos, then the wives came together.  I need to scan them into the computer.  Just in case I lose my copies or I want to post a pic of John on my blog.

As the Director of the Family History Center, I also teach classes at the local genealogy discussion monthly and at the local historical society's annual history day. Plus the people at Church.  I've been doing this kind of teaching for over 11 years. 

Digitizing sew outs

Normally when I digitize a new logo for someone I sew out a sample on fabric close to what I'm going to finish the item on. For example if the job is a baseball hat. I sew the logo on a hat or if it's going on a polo shirt, I use a 5 x 5 square of a polo shirt fabric. I just chop up a shirt I messed up previously and then use that.

So today I stitched out a few logos.  The logo above is for a soft, slouchy hat.  The hat doesn't like being in my hat hop.  I ruined 4 hats so far.  I cut the messed up hats and decided maybe a patch sewed onto the hat, might work. Using a piece of the hat with the seam down the center sounded good, but the bottom edge has a blob where the seams didn't get trimmed nice. The rough edges are the wash away stablizer, before I washed it away.

 This logo is for a friend of ours, for his consulting business. I liked how he had taken his initials, DCM and stacked them and blended the edges.  The lower photo is the back version to show my friend the type of stablizer, I used a no show mesh cutaway.  I think this logo will need to be smaller to balance the two logos if they are to go on one shirt.

This last logo is also for my friend, but the hardest part is the name.  I'm supposed to have the bear outline, with his signature.  The signature is too small for the bear. I need to work on it more.  yes the signature is just his initials, but I was really looking at the dimensions not the whole. I need a better sample of the signature.

Now to email the photos to each of the customers and then tweak the designs. Once I think we're ready I stitch them out again and photo and email again. Hopefully tomorrow afternoon, I'll stitch again. That way last minute twitches and tweaks then Monday I can hoop the dress shirts and begin to finish up the project.