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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl

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Wilma
Knob Lick Ky
USA
3410 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  1:35:14 PM  Show Profile
Have any of you farm girls ever done leather britches? And do you like them? I am going to start mine this afternoon so I can have them for the girls at our gathering

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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl

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Janice
Louisville/Irvington Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  1:44:34 PM  Show Profile  Send Miss Bee Haven a Yahoo! Message
What are they, Wilma??? And did you see the daylily pic I posted in Garden Gate that I think you need? And do you want me to save you a purple basil? If it goes to seed before Oct., I could just collect all the seeds.

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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl

4853 Posts

Jonni
Elsmere Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  1:47:19 PM  Show Profile
I have a pair of leather pants that my mother bought me one year...but I don't think that's what you're referring to, Miss Wilma :)

Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl

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Janice
Louisville/Irvington Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  1:50:30 PM  Show Profile  Send Miss Bee Haven a Yahoo! Message
I hope not, Wilma! LOL! The largest parts of my anatomy would not be happy in 'leather britches'! :D

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nitere
True Blue Farmgirl

482 Posts

Amy
Hickory NC
USA
482 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  1:53:24 PM  Show Profile
yeah, what are they?



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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl

3410 Posts

Wilma
Knob Lick Ky
USA
3410 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  2:42:34 PM  Show Profile
I just had to have some fun with this one no they arent to wear in fact if you eat to many of them, you better get your britches off, They are dried green beans sometimes called shucky beans, I am going to string these up with crochet thread like we did in the mountains.Just give me a skillet of cornbread and a kettle of leather britches and you have got one happy gal, unless I get piggy and eat to many

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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl

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Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  4:59:25 PM  Show Profile
I would have never know that was what "leather britches were".
So when you make them after you dried them do you reconstitue them, plump them back up?

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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl

3410 Posts

Wilma
Knob Lick Ky
USA
3410 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  5:16:09 PM  Show Profile
Carol it takes all day to cook them and yes they do plump back up but have a total different taste than green beans

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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl

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Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  5:36:09 PM  Show Profile
Oh I bet they are good. How interesting, thanks for the education on leather britches.....

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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl

2900 Posts

Lisa
Georgetown OH
2900 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  5:41:16 PM  Show Profile
miss wilma I know you can get a lttle wild, so I wasn't sure if you might have a pair of leather britches or not. Sterl wouldn't know what to do with himself if he saw you in a pair of those!
But I'm with you; I'll take a pot of beans anyday. Love em
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl

3410 Posts

Wilma
Knob Lick Ky
USA
3410 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  5:58:55 PM  Show Profile
Lisa you funny goose, I promise you leather britches

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downbranchroad
True Blue Farmgirl

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Joy
Southern KY
USA
374 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  6:05:32 PM  Show Profile  Send downbranchroad a Yahoo! Message
Miss Wilma, I had posted on the food forum asking how to dry beans for the Leather Britches! I love them....do you wash the bean first BEFORE you string them?


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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl

3410 Posts

Wilma
Knob Lick Ky
USA
3410 Posts

Posted - Jul 16 2008 :  6:53:21 PM  Show Profile
Yes you wash them just like for canning then string with crochet thread doubled using a darning needle, and I will hang mine out on the sewing house porch so they can get some sun, You can also break them up and dry on the roof top just like apples, If I can be of more help let me know also white beans are better for drying than colored

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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl

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Janice
Louisville/Irvington Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts

Posted - Jul 17 2008 :  05:18:32 AM  Show Profile  Send Miss Bee Haven a Yahoo! Message
Well, I sure learn something from you every day, Miss Wilma! Can you take a picture of them drying on the porch? And I'm really relieved I don't have to try to get my big fat you know what in a pair of leather britches! LOL!!!!!:D

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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl

4853 Posts

Jonni
Elsmere Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts

Posted - Jul 17 2008 :  05:37:26 AM  Show Profile
Ohhh come on, now Janice! Leather is fun! Though, admittedly, the leather britches Miss Wilma is talking about sounds a lot more appetizing than what I might look like in leather britches in October!

I'm so anxious to try them...and you're right. I learn something everyday from Wilma--amazing woman!

Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl

9093 Posts

Nancy
West Seneca New York
USA
9093 Posts

Posted - Jul 17 2008 :  05:47:27 AM  Show Profile
ok, now I can get out of my closet where I WAS LOOKING FOR LEATHER PANTS, AND GO TO THE FARMER'S MARKET.
NANCY JO

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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl

4331 Posts

Janice
Louisville/Irvington Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts

Posted - Jul 17 2008 :  06:01:10 AM  Show Profile  Send Miss Bee Haven a Yahoo! Message
HAHAHA! I'd go to the farmer's market, Nancy Jo, but I can only make one trip on lunch today, and I've already chosen.....guess what??? A thrift store, of course! I get the old lady discount there and I can walk from my office! YIPPEE!

Farmgirl Sister #50

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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl

3410 Posts

Wilma
Knob Lick Ky
USA
3410 Posts

Posted - Jul 17 2008 :  06:53:10 AM  Show Profile
Aint life great, to have such nice girls to laugh with

Farm Girl #96

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