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Skriven 2008-01-19 21:37:36 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
    Kommentar till text 921 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: BlueWave                                                 [1]
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Hi Ruth!

>> for a > long time (www.vintagesingersewing.com).  The parts are
>> ordered and I > should have my Pfaff sometime next week.

>> That is so neat - what a happy ending.. :)  In Binghamton, the last
>> 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.

Could be.. This was in Endwell, if that helps.

>> I was so upset but I guess the folks wanted to retire.  I think the
>> fellow who was working there has started working at a Jo-Ann's.. so
>> 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.

Yes, very true.

>>> 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

>> > Sounds like it was a challenge but you enjoyed it.

>> Yup, that's true :)

> Worked up an appetite?


It was a great machine, I made dresses out of Sari Silk for a little shop in
town on it.. You had to know how to take care of it though.  My mom was never
interested in sewing, and you could tell anytime she used the machine (laughing
remembering this <grin>).  I'd sit down to use it, and I'd have readjust the
tensions all over everytime :)

>> >My mom got a Singer
>> > in 1950, in the days when you didn't mess with the tension.  She
>> messed > with it early on, messing up the machine so she never really
>> sewed.  So,

>> Yeah, that was so true of those early machines.  You had to know
>> exactly what kind of stitches you were looking for.

> This was straight stitch only, forward and reverse.

No, I mean what a straight stitch should look like as opposed to a stitch where
the tension was messed up (and be able to tell if it was the bottom or top
tension that needed adjusting).

>> then :)  you'd think I'd be able to buy stuff right off the racks but
>> back then pants were always too short, and so were shirt sleeves <g>
>> maybe it was the sizing or something.  Anyway, that's why I started
>> 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.

I keep telling my daughter that the big difference in home made clothes is that
they'll last :)

>> > I never finished the project and passed the
>> > course based on higher marks in other units.

>> 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.

Mom always took care of the cooking at our house.. she worked as a pediatric
nurse so in the summer, I did a lot of baby-sitting a few years in there I
remember.. but since her hours were normally 7-3, she'd be home to rescue me
eventually <bg>.


>> > When my mom gave me the Futura, she took my machine and gave it to
>> my > sister.  About 10 years ago, I asked my sister about it, thinking
>> I
>> > could get it for a back up.  She told me she'd sold it off.

>> 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.

Yep, you do, even when they grow up to be a PIA <laugh>.. There are 5 girls and
1 boy in my family.  I'm number 3. The "baby" is the one that dumped that
machine :)  She took it, she told my mother, because she was going to start
'collecting antiques'... but then decided to move, etc. etc. etc.. argh...

>> I picked up my brother on ebay when my Athena "died".. it's a good
>> machine, and I love the way it threads the needle.. something which I
>> _wish_ Singer would incorporate.. That and the thread cassette are so
>> 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.

Ah ok, that makes sense.. I'd probably feel the same way if I was doing
quilting.

>> CE-250 has what Singer calls  automatic threading but it's such a
>> 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.

It's really too bad that Singer didn't put that in the CE-250/350 line.  I saw
a lot of similarity in parts for both the singer and the brother, it's true.

>> > At the time I had a 2 year old, an almost 4 year old and did a lot
>> of > freezing & canning of produce, besides making all our bread, etc.
>> > That's why it took so long to make the suit. (G)

>> 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.

Ron gets too impatient when I have to fit him as I'm sewing.. "AGAIN??" haha
Then he complains because MY stuff looks like it fits me so well, but his might
not <g>

>> Maybe that's what it is - I mean being just too busy to get into it as
>> much as we did... I know she took home ec but maybe the empasis wasn't
>> 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.

Yes, they had some changes in there I bet when boys were taking the course as
well as girls.. I remember my son making a tool-apron.

>> 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)

I can understand that :)  When my Athena went on me, I was crushed <g>

>> > Sounds nice.  My mom used to knit until she broke both shoulders.
>> Both > sisters crochet and I've got small afghans made by each of
>> them.

>> That's really nice.


> It is nice to have a bit of a decorative accent or light blanket.

Good for snuggling up with :)

Take care,
Janis

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