I first observed people doing this when washing clothes by hand, in the Philippines. I presumed it was a local folkloric nonsense. Just recently, I noticed that the fine print of the Care Label of my jeans, includes a instruction to turn inside out before washing. What is the reason for it?

!%$*%*#$(%(% (x)*#%$#%$~! damn it.

I'm trying to innovate on a support shelf built into a soft cup bra, which is made of tricot-fused foam. It would be nice if it were a little cooler and thinner, making "less bra". (In a size 48J, that's a lotta foam.) My current thoughts are toward layering tricot with an equally supportive,...

The cats like to play table hockey after we've gone to bed. This seems to consist of chasing each other over the dining room table! Anything on the table gets knocked out of the way. Don't know how they score points though LOL Left the Pfaff on said table last night...It was on its back...

I am trying to figure out what kind of compact-sized sewing machine to send my daughter at college and thought I would take suggestions here. I doubt she is going to be doing a lot of sewing over there, but she does split seams, rip pockets, and tear out hems a lot, and she might sew a skirt or two...

And so another 9/11 has come and gone. 9/11/2001 began in confusion for me. I was recently unemployed, had been up late, and overslept. I was awakened by my neighbor knocking on my door. I grabbed my keys and stumbled blearily to the door, where he told me two jetliners had flown into the World...