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Skriven 2008-01-21 17:20:21 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
    Kommentar till text 955 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: BlueWave                                                 [1]
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Hi Janis,

Before I get onto other stuff, I noticed you mentioned a Down To Earth
natural foods store in Binghamton.  That was the name of the one we went
to in Hawaii; wonder if there's any connection.  Out here we go to
Brighter Day but it's hard to not think of DTE when I note on the
scribble board what I need to pick up.

Also, in regards to the picnic.  We want to come but Steve also wants to
attend a family reunion in central PA (McClure). We'll try to find out
when that is; last year it was July 14, then give you feedback on when a
good timeframe for us would be.

>> small sewing machine repair shop/fabric center closed up this summer..

 JK> > Hmmmmm, wonder if it's the place my folks got the Futura from back
 JK> > around 1975/6.

 JK> Could be.. This was in Endwell, if that helps.

I wouldn't know; I was got married and moved to NC in Sept. of 75.  The
month before, my sister started a long term hospitalization at the state
facility in Binghamton.  My parents went over about twice a week to
visit her & do other errands.

>> all is not lost I guess.. I've never liked Jo-Ann's fabrics though.

 JK> > Like I usued to call House of Fabrics--House of some fabrics and a
 JK> lot > of crafts.  Hancocks is much better in that respect; they've got
 JK> more > fabric in proportion to crafts.

 JK> Yes, very true.

And neither are in HI; I had to settle for other places to buy fabric. I
did find enough of them to keep me happy. (G)

 JK> > Worked up an appetite?

 JK> It was a great machine, I made dresses out of Sari Silk for a little
 JK> shop in town on it.. You had to know how to take care of it though.
 JK> My mom was never interested in sewing, and you could tell anytime she
 JK> used the machine (laughing remembering this <grin>).  I'd sit down to
 JK> use it, and I'd have readjust the tensions all over everytime :)

But the tensions were adjustable.  When my mom got her first machine,
they weren't meant to be adjusted by the home user.

>> Yeah, that was so true of those early machines.  You had to know
>> exactly what kind of stitches you were looking for.

 JK> > This was straight stitch only, forward and reverse.

 JK> No, I mean what a straight stitch should look like as opposed to a
 JK> stitch where the tension was messed up (and be able to tell if it was
 JK> the bottom or top tension that needed adjusting).

I see what you mean.  She knew a little bit but not much--could fit her
knowledge into a thimble & have leftover room. (G)  She'sstill that way
with sewing.

>> maybe it was the sizing or something.  Anyway, that's why I started
>> sewing.. just to have shirts and pants that fit right :)

 JK> > I got serious when Steve & I got married & he said my skirts were
 JK> sitting job that paid for > fabric to make more--and the full length
 JK> wool (lined) cape I made then & > still have.

 JK> I keep telling my daughter that the big difference in home made
 JK> clothes is that they'll last :)

Plus getting what you want and having it fit right.  I didn't have to
tweak the pattern for Rachel's wedding gown much but was able to make it
custom vs off the rack.

>> > I never finished the project and passed the
>> > course based on higher marks in other units.

>> The cooking was getting your attention then, I'd bet :)

 JK> > No, it was because I'd had to cook out of neccessity. My mom was
 JK> getting > her Master's in library science with night classes at SUC

 JK> Mom always took care of the cooking at our house.. she worked as a
 JK> pediatric nurse so in the summer, I did a lot of baby-sitting a few
 JK> years in there I remember.. but since her hours were normally 7-3,
 JK> she'd be home to rescue me eventually <bg>.

That helps.  I always tell Steve that I made most of my cooking mistakes
before we got married--which he appreciates.


 JK> > Oh well, gotta put up with sisters (and brothers). I've got 2 of

 JK> Yep, you do, even when they grow up to be a PIA <laugh>.. There are 5
 JK> girls and 1 boy in my family.  I'm number 3. The "baby" is the one
 JK> that dumped that machine :)  She took it, she told my mother, because
 JK> she was going to start 'collecting antiques'... but then decided to
 JK> move, etc. etc. etc.. argh...

GRRRRRRRRRRR!

>> I picked up my brother on ebay when my Athena "died".. it's a good
>> neat.. it's a CS-80. But I guess they can't do that :)  The Singer

 JK> > My Brother is a CS-8060; thereare a lot of neat things about it but
 JK> I > found I can't use the 500 yd spools in the cassette.  I'd got thru
 JK> a lot > of those quilt making.

 JK> Ah ok, that makes sense.. I'd probably feel the same way if I was
 JK> doing quilting.

I'm not doing as much as I did in HI; our church there had a ministry
that did baby quilts for long term hospitalized babies.

 JK> It's really too bad that Singer didn't put that in the CE-250/350
 JK> line.  I saw a lot of similarity in parts for both the singer and the
 JK> brother, it's true.

>> > At the time I had a 2 year old, an almost 4 year old and did a lot
>> of > freezing & canning of produce, besides making all our bread, etc.
>> > That's why it took so long to make the suit. (G)

>> I bet!  Still, it's a job making a suit.

Yes but he needed a black suit for church. He was a part time pastor &
also worked another job full time.  Still didn't make that much money so
we did a lot of "creative eating." I learned that soybeans made good
eating then. (G)


 JK> > But now I've got to do an updated (stylewise) one for him--whenever
 JK> I > get caught up with other sewing.

 JK> Ron gets too impatient when I have to fit him as I'm sewing..
 JK> "AGAIN??" haha Then he complains because MY stuff looks like it fits
 JK> me so well, but his might not <g>

Steve is patient; he knows it's for a greater good that he has to take
the time to be fitted.


>> Maybe that's what it is - I mean being just too busy to get into it as
>> much as we did... I know she took home ec but maybe the empasis wasn't
>> on the same kinds of things when she took that class.


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Ruth
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