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Posted by robb on April 11, 2008, 10:20 am
wrote:
>
> >
> Seems like a lot of folding, pasteting, cutting, binding,
> >etc going
> >> on.
> >> I do appreciate what people are able to create from raw
> >materials, thats
> >> why I am hooked on the painting and craft shows.
> >> But one day, I hope to understand what they are talking
> >about. :)
>
> ----
>
> >Well Jerry since no one else as said it yet then i will say
it...
> >
> >The actual machine usage is a very small fraction of making
sew
> >projects with it :(
> >(interested to see if anyone disagrees)
>
> -----
>
> Perhaps no one else has said this becasue the poster did seem
to
> realize this himself, as he noticed "seems like a lot of
folding,
> pasteting, cutting, binding, etc going on."
>
>
> The gist of Jeffy's post seemed to be a desire to understand
the
> termonology rather than how much time one really spends with
the
> machine :)
>
> ....just an observation of why no one else may have made the
comment.
>
> -Irene
>
Hello Irene,
FWIW my comment about "not saying it yet" was not a slam to the
group members as much a lead in to some not so good news for OP.
So, the gist of my post was merely stating and recognizing an
opportunity to add something subtle and useful to the thread :)
I know perhaps every regular here knows this idea (inherently)
but sometimes proficient/experienced machine sewers forget how
important it is for new sewers to hear (read) this simple
reality.
I started sewing recently enough to remember my un-realistic
(romantic) notion of sewing... that is i was going to buy a
machine and some fabric and i was going to start feeding all this
fabric into the machine and garments and slip covers and etc...
would just start rolling off the machine. *NOT*
My first starter project, hemming my wifes jeans, took me about
an hour and half because i did not want to mess them up. So i
marked and measured and remarked and remeasured and rolled and
finally cut the excess off and practice sewing a hem with jeans
thread for 30 minutes and then did the hem and the stitches
still came out crooked on the bulky inner bulge but the wife was
happy not to roll up the 3-4 inches anymore.
Also, I guess we read the OP difererently...
The OP's post seem to be squarely in the ... i want to see the
machine do something category
for instance
---- OP types...
> So, because of a new owner of a sewing machine, I have begun to
> watch the local shows on t.v.,
I interpreted this as a new sewer with little or no experience
with sewing machines yet
---- OP types
> I want to see the machines in action, and whole shows go by,
> without a machine ever being in the picture.
> Seems like a lot of folding, pasteting, cutting, binding, etc
> going on.
>
i interpreted this as the OP wanting to watch the machine sew
things , which i infered that the new sewer did not realize that
the machine does not do anything but save time and watching the
few sews/seams they would do on TV would be un-instructive,
once upon a time people used to do all the sewing parts by hand
(yes ?)
and the "seems" comment implied a sense of uncertainty but the
"folding, ..." etc showed an insightful but disconnected
association with reality of sewing machine usage.
anyways that was my take
sorry to disect your comments Jerry maybe you will miss this
post :)
robb
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