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Re: Bel
Keep showing up here now and then so that you are not forgotten. 
posted by
TAPS.
on April 9, 2016 at 10:00 PM
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I know I commented her once
but given I just bought a Singer Sewing machine, I had to come back. No such manual with mine! Now, I just have to learn how to use it LOL!
posted by
Bel_Marshall
on April 5, 2016 at 7:38 AM
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I don't sew
Though it's on my list to take a class at the local Jo-Ann's this year. I may need to rethink.
I do make jewelry though in yoga pants and t-shirt.
posted by
Bel_Marshall
on February 24, 2016 at 8:35 PM
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TAPS
What a hoot! I may be motivated to finally get my printer hooked up just so I can take a copy of this to Mama so she can crack up, too. She spent...what seemed to me, anyway....most of her evenings bent over a sewing machine so that we would have clothing at all in the early days, and later so that we would have the clothes she wanted us to have. We've never discussed it, but I could see that sewing was at times completely a task to her, and often one she had to do after a long day of employment outside the home and on top of other household chores.....but it was also always one she poured tremendous amounts of creativity into and that she chose to do long after she needed to financially. I sometimes had tons of guilt when I was young about the time she spent sewing....but I could always see the satisfaction she got from the results. She always looked beautiful to me.
posted by
Krisles
on February 6, 2016 at 2:56 PM
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I dont but my elegant granny used to sew and do all kinds of embroidery. She taught me a few stitches and i never got beyond that.Enjoyed reading the manual and post.
posted by
shamasehar
on February 2, 2016 at 9:08 PM
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TAPS
I see absolutely nothing wrong with that advice - but of course I don't sew either, LOL...But my Granny had one of those with a treadle, and when we were boys we competed by trying to see how fast we could make that thing go...
posted by
Nautikos
on February 1, 2016 at 7:59 PM
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Oh dear. If I had to sew to have clothes, I fear I'd be running around naked!
posted by
adnohr
on February 1, 2016 at 6:12 PM
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Any joy I get in sewing
goes away as soon as the thread tension starts acting up and increasing my tension.
posted by
Ciel
on February 1, 2016 at 12:30 PM
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I have read this as well and felt several strong feelings.
Modern society has some things that shouldn't be changed back...
Wiley doesn't really care what I wear, we love each other, not the surface...
I was never much of a dressmaker and Mother had no choice. She had to sew for herself and her girls when we were young. There was no money for store bought clothes and I loved wearing what she struggled along with.
posted by
Kabu
on February 1, 2016 at 10:39 AM
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OMG! TAPS, this brought it all back. My mom did not sew but did embroidery beautifully. He home was her domain and dirty dishes did not exist long. Her "house dresses," as she called them, were always protected with an apron. She wore lipstick and on special occasions "rouge" with powder and eyebrow pencil. I could go on but this was great reading. Thanks again. Mom thanks you, too, from somewhere!
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on February 1, 2016 at 10:26 AM
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