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Posted by BEI Design on April 2, 2008, 11:06 pm
Sharon Hays wrote:
> BEI Design wrote:
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> Good plan! I've been trying to do the same. DS's
> eyeballs about came out of his head when he saw how much
> it cost to fill the van last time. So the kids are even
> careful about asking me to drive them places now.
I can relate. The last time I filled up it cost almost
twice what a fill-up cost when I first bought this car six
years ago.
> Forgot to tell you. I found a terra cotta rabbit statue
> at the thrift store. It has a hollow back like to put a
> candle in. Got that and some silk flowers and made a
> memorial shrine on the kitchen counter the next day. My
> neighbor was beside herself. We have laughed and laughed
> about that. She said she didn't know how she could pay
> that one back, I told her I hoped she never needed to!!!
Sounds like a neighbor with a sense of humor to match yours!
Good thing. ;->
> lol Both of my critters like to play with bunnies, etc.
> But they don't play quite as vigorously as the neighbor
> cat. ;) That's really what he wants to do with them,
> but then
> suddenly "she don't move no more, George." Poor guy.
> heh heh
My dogs have never brought living things into the house.
They do tend to roll in nasty stuff outside and bring
amazing scents in.
Beverly
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Posted by Lizzy Taylor on April 3, 2008, 11:13 am
BEI Design wrote:
> Because it's sure quiet around "here". ;-)
No, it's the rasp of sanding followed by gentle swish of paintbrushes
(both by me), and when DH is doing his bits first there is the buzz of
the saw, the bang of the nailer and the heady scent of 2 part filler.
However we have hung the wallpaper in the room where my sewing stuff is
all going to go, so as soon as DD has been and gone this weekend I SHALL
be moving into there :-)
Then you will be able to hear the soft hum of my SM as I play happily (I
hope).
Lizzy
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Posted by robb on April 4, 2008, 12:08 am
I wish it were sew.
Occasionally I get to play with kiddy shoe shape, designs,
materials etc.
Then we have a lounge style, cushy chair that the kid's constant
movement on has worn so that it needs covering but I have not
found any local decorator remnants or sales fabric that i like. I
will likely go surfing for something.
I hope to start making stuff for our latest edition which will
be needing some spring/summer wear soon. So, now i get to make
dresses and play with pink/purple and all those other feminine
classified colors.
robb
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> Because it's sure quiet around "here". ;-)
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Posted by Joy Beeson on April 5, 2008, 12:09 am
Not around here for a while -- I took my machine in for a long-overdue
cleaning today. The clerk who took it said that it would be about
four weeks before it got to the head of the queue -- we speculated for
a while about why everybody suddenly wants his machine serviced.
Before the time is up, you might hear the wurra-wurra of my White
Family Rotary or the clankety-chunk of the "electric model" my late
mother-in-law wore out.
Last time I used Evelyn's machine, my husband said "I remember that
sound! But it wasn't so *loud*."
I plan to concentrate on cutting out, cleaning up the lawn, and
planting a garden.
Joy Beeson
--
joy beeson at comcast dot net
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ -- sewing
http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.
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Posted by Joy Beeson on April 10, 2008, 11:35 am
[Written 9 April 2008]
DH bought a pair of dungarees today ("dungarees" is what they have
retronymed blue jeans now that "jeans" refers to a fashion garment),
and they were about half a foot too long. (Remember when blue jeans
came only in extra-tall, and children rolled them up because there is
no use shortening pants for someone who is still growing?)
The "electric model" has migrated to the corner of the garage and it
would take both of us to dig it out, so after washing and drying the
jeans, I opened the White Family Rotary. Couldn't find any points to
oil, but it seemed to be running fine anyway -- later on I discovered
that I'd downloaded and printed out a manual; I'll have to check it
for oiling points.
To my disappointment, the manual didn't tell me what a stitch length
of "7" is; definitely not millimeters or mils. Probably arbitrary
numbers like those on the tension dial. The manual implied that
numbers on the tension dial, so that you can change the tension and
then put it back where it had been, were a startling new innovation.
(The tension it was set at seemed to work, so I didn't meddle with it,
but I did prolonged experimentation with the stitch-length lever.)
The presser foot is the old rigid front-loading foot that preceded the
hinged "walking foot" that Singer got so excited about that people are
still sewing over pins on purpose. (This "walking foot" was *not* the
attachment we call a "walking foot" now; it's an ordinary, standard
presser foot.) I believe that the "electric model" also has a rigid
foot, and I've seen old treadles with the modern foot.
I broke the needle when I got to the first seam. I suspect that it
was the needle that came with the machine, and that the original owner
had been sewing fine fabric. (She traded it in on a Singer 600
series, poor soul.) So off to the needle stash, despite the manual's
insistence that only White FR needles would work. No #16s, no jeans
needles -- I use #14 for making jeans, but I trim excess fabric out
of crossing seams, and always mock-fell -- well, the dungaree seams
were mock-felled too, but with a three-needle serger that put so much
thread on the back that they might as well be flat felled.
But for some mysterious reason, I have a packet of leather needles.
Totally un-used; I suspect that I had never even opened the packet
after taking it out of the bubble. Looked at one with my 3.5 reading
glasses and decided they weren't too destructive to hem RTW jeans,
even if they are Carhart. (There is a note under the presser foot
reminding me to change that needle!)
With the new needle and a trace of experience, the seams caused no
further difficulty, though it took a certain amount of care to avoid
an extra-long stitch where the foot falls off the seam.
The Family Rotary has been sitting unused because I could never get my
treadling co-ordinated, but to my surprise, I powered more of the hem
with the treadle than the handwheel -- I even started it from a dead
stop once or twice. Perhaps that is because I'd learned from this
group that one doesn't put the feet precisely side by side, but pushes
one edge of the treadle with the toe of one foot and the other edge
with the heel of the other. I can see that alternating feet is a
more-natural rhythm that would make long sessions less fatiguing.
I'd still like to see a machine with pedal cranks sometime; every
century or so someone touts his newly-invented treadle drivetrain as
an astonishingly-superior way to power a bicycle; there ought to be
pedal sewing machines just for balance. One would need toe clips,
though, which would not appeal to a harried mother.
[10 April 2008]
I think I'll make a pair of pillowcases today -- but first I've got to
hustle the seed potatoes into the ground before the three-day rain
that is just starting. Fawchunately, we have only half a row of sets.
Joy Beeson
--
joy beeson at comcast dot net
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ -- sewing
http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.
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