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From: valeriep
Date: 04-29-2004, 12:17 PM (1 of 3)
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Just thought i would share this idea as it saved me so much time and makes me work quicker. Whilst sewing i often go straight from the pinning stage to the sewing stage without tacking my pieces together. Instead of taking the pins out and putting them in the pin box i keep them in a piece of fabric wrapped around the top arm of my machine (Fastened together with a pin!) and it is used like you would a pin cushion. the Fabric can be as decorative or a neutral as you like. hope this is a useful idea valerie Always beready to be inspired
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User: valeriep
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 04-29-2004, 06:53 PM (2 of 3)
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Valerie, That is the way my Mother's best friend always did hers.. I remember the first time I ever saw her machine, she had a strip of fabric wrapped round and round that part of her machine.. She (along with my Grandmother was much of my inspiration to learn to sew) was the most talented sewist I have ever met.. After I was an adult I would go to dept store and buy very expensive wool and take it to her and sit and draw a sketch (I cannot draw, either) of the dress I wanted, and she would cut it out without a pattern, sew it together and call me to try it on before she finalized anything. The only thing that she ever had to alter was to cut away a little of the neckline. (my fault, I feel like I'm choking if cloth touches my neck in the front) Some of you may know what kind of store Montaldo's is.. (very high priced exclusive ladies clothing). Back in the 50's, she took $ 40.00 worth of lace and organza and copied a $450.00 dress in their window for her daughter's wedding.. The most elegant wedding dress I ever saw.. She never owned a pin cushion, she told me one day when she was teaching me how to shorten sleeves on DH shirt.. 
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User: LeapFrog Libby
Member since: 05-01-2002 Total posts: 2022 
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From: MartySews
Date: 04-30-2004, 08:41 AM (3 of 3)
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One of my sweet 90 yr old church members gave me her New Home Sewing Machine that was built in 1919. Around the center of the machine was a piece of wool that was tightly sewn and had pins sticking out of it. Some of them were almost glued to the machine it seemed. She told me the machine had been her mother's machine and she wanted it to go to a loving home. Evidently this is how our grandmothers and great grandmother's worked in their sewing rooms. You're just carrying on an old sewing tradition that spreads thru the ages. Happy Stiching! Marty It takes one moment to change a life.
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User: MartySews
Member since: 02-23-2003 Total posts: 504 
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