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Skriven 2008-01-18 18:29:04 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Kommentar till text 821 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
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Hi Janis,
JK> for a > long time (www.vintagesingersewing.com). The parts are
JK> ordered and I > should have my Pfaff sometime next week.
JK> That is so neat - what a happy ending.. :) In Binghamton, the last
JK> small sewing machine repair shop/fabric center closed up this summer..
Hmmmmm, wonder if it's the place my folks got the Futura from back
around 1975/6.
JK> I was so upset but I guess the folks wanted to retire. I think the
JK> fellow who was working there has started working at a Jo-Ann's.. so
JK> all is not lost I guess.. I've never liked Jo-Ann's fabrics though.
Like I usued to call House of Fabrics--House of some fabrics and a lot
of crafts. Hancocks is much better in that respect; they've got more
fabric in proportion to crafts.
>> machine replairman/salesman and he'd put an electric moter on it for
>> my grandmother :) That machine never skipped a stitch but you had to
JK> > Sounds like it was a challenge but you enjoyed it.
JK> Yup, that's true :)
Worked up an appetite?
JK> >My mom got a Singer
JK> > in 1950, in the days when you didn't mess with the tension. She
JK> messed > with it early on, messing up the machine so she never really
JK> sewed. So,
JK> Yeah, that was so true of those early machines. You had to know
JK> exactly what kind of stitches you were looking for.
This was straight stitch only, forward and reverse.
JK> > for junior high home ec sewing, she got me this fabric thatfrayed if
JK> you > looked at it cross eyed.
JK> Heh.. I know the type I think :) I first learned anything about
JK> sewing from my grandmother and Zie Antoinette.. (Zie is Aunt in
JK> Italian) but I really didn't start doing much until I took a home ec
JK> course. I was desperate to learn as much as I could by then...
JK> Nothing seemed fit me right when I was a teenager... arms too long,
JK> and too long legged..I'm 5' 6" and about 120lbs now but even skinnier
JK> then :) you'd think I'd be able to buy stuff right off the racks but
JK> back then pants were always too short, and so were shirt sleeves <g>
JK> maybe it was the sizing or something. Anyway, that's why I started
JK> sewing.. just to have shirts and pants that fit right :)
I got serious when Steve & I got married & he said my skirts were too
short. They were acceptable at Houghton but not the conservative church
we belonged to in NC. I had a part time baby sitting job that paid for
fabric to make more--and the full length wool (lined) cape I made then &
still have.
JK> > I never finished the project and passed the
JK> > course based on higher marks in other units.
JK> The cooking was getting your attention then, I'd bet :)
No, it was because I'd had to cook out of neccessity. My mom was getting
her Master's in library science with night classes at SUC Oneonta and
summer ones in Geneseo. As oldest girl, I was expected to be the main
cook one night a week during the school year and several weeks straight
during the summer.
>> know how to use it, that's for sure... sadly my youngest idiot sister
>> took it when Mom broke up the house, and then dumped it :( I could
>> have killed her :)
JK> > When my mom gave me the Futura, she took my machine and gave it to
JK> my > sister. About 10 years ago, I asked my sister about it, thinking
JK> I
JK> > could get it for a back up. She told me she'd sold it off.
JK> That's too bad... sounds like something my sister would do <laugh>
Oh well, gotta put up with sisters (and brothers). I've got 2 of each.
JK> > next higher model for sale at the repair place I took my Pfaff to
JK> (in > AZ) and got it for about $50. It came in handy when the mother
JK> board on > the Pfaff died in the middle of a rush project. Finished
JK> it by hauling > out the old Singer, then Steve got me the XL 5000.
JK> Bought the Brother a > couple of years later as a lighter weight back
JK> up/take to class &
JK> > elsewhere machine.
JK> I picked up my brother on ebay when my Athena "died".. it's a good
JK> machine, and I love the way it threads the needle.. something which I
JK> _wish_ Singer would incorporate.. That and the thread cassette are so
JK> neat.. it's a CS-80. But I guess they can't do that :) The Singer
My Brother is a CS-8060; thereare a lot of neat things about it but I
found I can't use the 500 yd spools in the cassette. I'd got thru a lot
of those quilt making.
JK> CE-250 has what Singer calls automatic threading but it's such a
JK> waste of time, it's easier to do it manually <grin>.
It's improved in the XL; Singer and Brother share a lot of the same
technology.
JK> > At the time I had a 2 year old, an almost 4 year old and did a lot
JK> of > freezing & canning of produce, besides making all our bread, etc.
JK> > That's why it took so long to make the suit. (G)
JK> I bet! Still, it's a job making a suit.
But now I've got to do an updated (stylewise) one for him--whenever I
get caught up with other sewing.
JK> >But, we ate well over
JK> > the winter & Steve joined the Army the following spring.
JK> Very cool.. I also made all of our bread as well .. anything to save
JK> some $$ then.. :) It was hard to eat "store" bread later.. it was just
JK> "air" <g>
We never did care for store bought (unless it was from the German
bakeries) so I started making my own fairly soon after we got married.
JK> > distractions to be as active a sewer as I am. One is an elementary
JK> > teacher in a private, charter school and has a 4 year old boy; the
JK> other > is active duty with the AZ NG. Rachel (the one with the boy)
JK> Maybe that's what it is - I mean being just too busy to get into it as
JK> much as we did... I know she took home ec but maybe the empasis wasn't
JK> on the same kinds of things when she took that class.
Rachel had a semester of home ec in junior high but Deborah never had
it. The sewing in Rachel's class was making pillows from kits but then
too, it was a co ed class and that was probably easiest for the teacher.
JK> > machine identical to mine (We bought mine after giving hers a try
JK> after > we bought it for her.) that she uses from time to time as she
JK> can. When > we moved here, we were in guest housing for 6 weeks;
JK> Steve bought me an > inexpensive Janome so I could have something to
JK> I've heard good things about Janome machines, but never used one.
This one would be good for a very beginning sewer or for very light duty
but would not stand up to the use we'd give it. It beat not having any
machine. (G)
JK> > Sounds nice. My mom used to knit until she broke both shoulders.
JK> Both > sisters crochet and I've got small afghans made by each of
JK> them.
JK> That's really nice.
It is nice to have a bit of a decorative accent or light blanket.
>> diapers for her.. and his clothes this past year.. so that was really
>> neat to do for them. I'm working on some overalls and warm pj's for
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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