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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:02:21 -0500, Karen Maslowski
wrote: Andy, I can't imagine having the strength to wrestle that stuff under the machine! Strength isn't the problem - Pfaffzilla just nails anything you feed it, and it _still_ feeds it through at 80mph. It's a terrifying beast, and I'm glad it's not mine. My own industrial is a Brother with a rather more benign pulley speed. However the Pfaff is a sleeve arm, not a flatbed, so sometimes I need to use it. The trouble with the laptop bags is getting an even feed, even though it's a walking foot. The thin stuff gets pulled all over the place relative to the rubber - I need to use a huge overlap and fasten it down with spring clips before sewing. |
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Has anyone mentioned a single-edge razor blade in a cardboard sheath? A razor blade takes up almost no space in a card-case sewing kit, when quite new, it can fill in for scissors, and it will snip thread even when worn. Shamelessly snitched from the announcement of a sewing workshop for 18th-Century clothing: What you need: * A sewing kit including scissors, pins, tailors chalk, linen thread (or cotton hand quilting thread), seam ripper, hand sewing needles, beeswax, tape measure, and yardstick. [snip] * Optional: Sewing machine with cotton thread for internal seams, iron (with steam feature) and ironing board (we will have one for general use) The specification "with steam feature" puzzles me. It is really, really hard to find an iron that *doesn't* have the steam feature! (I own both of the dry irons that I've seen. Stashed the second one in the attic for a back-up.) Maybe it was a subtle hint that they won't have a wood stove for warming flat irons. Umm . . . their period was pre-Rumford. Heating a laundry iron in a fireplace must have been a *real* bummer. I wonder whether box irons were invented before or after stoves. (and how come we have a proper word for "stove", but refer to the fireplace by a word that looks recently coined, after the manner of "flying machine" and "horseless carriage"?) "Flying machine" has given way to "airplane", and "washing machine" has given way to "washer", but the sewing machine shows no sign of getting a name that would not apply equally well to sergers and embroidery machines. Joy Beeson -- http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ -- needlework http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson59...HSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ -- Writers' Exchange joy beeson at earthlink dot net |
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"joy beeson" wrote in message ... "Flying machine" has given way to "airplane", and "washing machine" has given way to "washer", but the sewing machine shows no sign of getting a name that would not apply equally well to sergers and embroidery machines. Joy Beeson My first Viking sewing machine was dubbed "Eric" as in Eric the Red. I used it for 24 years before getting the Viking Designer1 now known as "Leif" as in Leif the Luck, Eric's son. My serger (also a Viking) is called Odin..the dishwasher's name is Raul (another story all together). Val -----------== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----= Over 100,000 Newsgroups - Unlimited Fast Downloads - 19 Servers =----- |
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Can you imagine all the burns? Perfectly dreadful, in every sense of the
word. I would sure dread ironing, if I had to use one of those old beasts. Karen Maslowski in Ohio joy beeson wrote: Heating a laundry iron in a fireplace must have been a *real* bummer. I wonder whether box irons were invented before or after stoves. |
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:47:15 -0500, Karen Maslowski wrote:
Can you imagine all the burns? Perfectly dreadful, in every sense of the word. I would sure dread ironing, if I had to use one of those old beasts. Karen Maslowski in Ohio joy beeson wrote: Heating a laundry iron in a fireplace must have been a *real* bummer. I wonder whether box irons were invented before or after stoves. [shudder] When I was little, I actually found one of these in Mums cupboard! Apparantly, it was Dads before he got married!! I wonder if he ever used it? LOL Mavis -- http://linuxathome.ath.cx/~mavis/blog/index.php |
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AmazeR wrote:
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:47:15 -0500, Karen Maslowski wrote: Can you imagine all the burns? Perfectly dreadful, in every sense of the word. I would sure dread ironing, if I had to use one of those old beasts. Karen Maslowski in Ohio joy beeson wrote: Heating a laundry iron in a fireplace must have been a *real* bummer. I wonder whether box irons were invented before or after stoves. [shudder] When I was little, I actually found one of these in Mums cupboard! Apparantly, it was Dads before he got married!! I wonder if he ever used it? LOL Mavis There was a "modern" iron that had a separating handle (of wood) and a set of "irons" that could be heated while one of them was in use. It's no wonder, with that and with washing on a board and by hand, that people didn't change clothes often. We've come a long way, and I, for one, have no wish to go back to the "good old days." ;-) -- Joanne @ stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us http://bernardschopen.tripod.com/ Life is about the journey, not about the destination. |
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:36:39 -0800, Pogonip wrote:
There was a "modern" iron that had a separating handle (of wood) and a set of "irons" that could be heated while one of them was in use. It's no wonder, with that and with washing on a board and by hand, that people didn't change clothes often. We've come a long way, and I, for one, have no wish to go back to the "good old days." ;-) Heh! You really are taking us back! I remember the good old wash boards too... Seems Dad never threw anything out! When I was young, Mum still used the ringer washing machine, and only got a new one after Dad died and my brother inherited the property. I think it was one of the first things he tossed! Mavis -- http://linuxathome.ath.cx/~mavis/blog/index.php |
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Larry Jaques wrote:
I'm a real sci-fi buff and have read everything by Asimov and Heinlein, and I'm finishing up Niven's "Ringworld's Children", the last unread novel by that wonderful author. Who's next? Hal Clement and James White--same vintage and same quality. :-) -- Kathy - help for new users at http://www.aptalaska.net/~kmorgan/ Good Net Keeping Seal of Approval at http://www.gnksa.org/ OE-quotefix can fix OE: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ |
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message news I'm a real sci-fi buff and have read everything by Asimov and Heinlein, and I'm finishing up Niven's "Ringworld's Children", the last unread novel by that wonderful author. Who's next? One of the "read again" series of books in my own personal library......the Callahan's Saloon series by Spider Robinson. I found the whole series at a garage sale years ago. It was already pretty 'well read' when I bought it. That particular series has been read by me 3 times, all the boys several times each as well as many of their friends and mine. One of the best and 'funnest' sci-fi, IMO. Val -----------== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----= Over 100,000 Newsgroups - Unlimited Fast Downloads - 19 Servers =----- |
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