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Best machine
Hi Everyone,--------- I am setting up a small part time business
making skirt and jacket suits and lbd's to order. What machine would be best suited to this type of venture.---June |
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A sewing machine?
Maybe. Diana ;-) -- Queen of FAQs Royal Peace Maker http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 "June" wrote in message m... Hi Everyone,--------- I am setting up a small part time business making skirt and jacket suits and lbd's to order. What machine would be best suited to this type of venture.---June |
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Diana Curtis stood on a soapbox and shouted to anyone who would
listen : A sewing machine? Maybe. Diana ;-) "June" wrote in message m... Hi Everyone,--------- I am setting up a small part time business making skirt and jacket suits and lbd's to order. What machine would be best suited to this type of venture.---June probably a commercial straight stitch and a commericial serger penny |
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An industrial. A domestic machine would just to to slow
Liz "June" wrote in message m... Hi Everyone,--------- I am setting up a small part time business making skirt and jacket suits and lbd's to order. What machine would be best suited to this type of venture.---June |
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Best machine (Penny=A0S) "June" wrote: snip I am setting up a small part time business making skirt and jacket suits and lbd's to order. What machine would be best suited to this type of venture.---June --- probably a commercial straight stitch and a commericial serger penny --- Add a blindstitch machine and a good commercial iron/press to Penny's list, and you've got a start on setting up shop. Personally, I'd go with a semi-industrial straight stitch/zig-zag, instead of a simple straight stitch. Singer makes a nice one, in the $1,000 range, new. Used to have one, and sold it--wish I had the machine now.) Cea |
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Hi Cea,
wrote: --- IMHO, it depends on what you intend to do. I looked at quite a few, and was nitter-nattering between a press or an industrial type gravity-feed iron. I had just about set my teeth to buy a flat-bed press, before I first became ill. Had decided, if I remember right, on a Singer press, because I have had such good performance from Singer machines, (unlike everyone else in the world.) I agree, but then my Singers are all circa 1960-65. ;-) I have been looking at the Singer CSP-1 steam press, I really like the ability on that one to turn the bed 90 degrees for pass-through pressing. In the very near future, I will be making a kilt for my granddaughter, who is getting very involved with highland dance. I think a press would set the pleats much better than anything I could do with my Rowenta. Here are some of the sources from the newest issue of Threads: (Threads mag is my source for finding suppliers for a lot of sewing items.) This looks interesting for starters: www.shoppersrule.com , 'Everything For Sewers, you pick the item and then pick the price' ; www.allsewing.com; www.sewandserge.com; www.sewvacdirect.com Thanks so much those are all bookmarked. You might want to check to see if Threads has published an article comparing the performance/abilities of presses, as they do with sewing machines. Will do, again thank you for the information and links. -- Beverly ---to reply, delete no spam and .invalid--- |
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