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From: bridesmom
Date: 11-08-2005, 05:17 AM (1 of 20)
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Just found this on the Husqvarna web site. I don't know about the rest of you, but I can't begin to imagine wearing something like this! I think I'd hurt myself in it. Sewing Coat (http://www.sew.husqvarna.se/unitedkingdom/index_centrera.htm) Once you get to this link, click on 'sewing machines' (left top), click on 'platinum family' (left side), then on the right side is a little circle for 'downloads' with 'sewing coat'. That seems to be the only way to get to this coat pattern. So, what do you think of it?? Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: Catalina
Date: 11-08-2005, 06:33 AM (2 of 20)
| Too funny- like a lab coat for sewing. I guess when you answer the door they'd know what your doing! I rather make a coat I could wear out of the house. |
User: Catalina
Member since: 01-06-2005 Total posts: 119 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 11-08-2005, 06:42 AM (3 of 20)
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I like the pin cushion on the sleeve. Ouch! You can see that coming. I have been caught outside playing with the dog or answering the door with a tape measure around my neck -- often. The neighbors laugh at my taste in jewelry. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: paroper
Date: 11-08-2005, 07:01 AM (4 of 20)
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When I am sewing and there is not a pin cushion near, I stick pins crosswise in my top or dress. I put pins on the right and needles on the left. I've gone several places dressed in costume as a "pin cushion". When I am sewing a lot, the visor of my car is usually decorated with pins and needles. I have some cool tools that pin or hang on my body, like pull out scissors...worried that when they retract, I'll die; and a thread cutter. I just can never remember to use them. I do have a home made "finger" pin cushion that I do wear sometimes and I've been known to wear the "old fashioned" wrist pin cushion with the plastic band around the wrist..can't find that one anymore (don't like the magnetic ones), so I don't wear it now. I almost always have a tape measure around my neck when I"m at the cutting board but now that most of my tapes are 119", when I step on them I nearly hang myself...I try to remember to use the shorter ones for that. (I guess you might think that when I'm sewing, I'm not very observant of my surroundings...and you'd be right). I can't imagine wearing the jacket for sewing. I guess it might make you look either crazy or very professional...I'm not sure which.....but then, when you think of my pins in my top, tape measure around my neck, scissors sticking out of my chest, pin cushion on my finger, I guess it is hard to imagine anything stranger looking..... pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: HeyJudee
Date: 11-08-2005, 07:03 AM (5 of 20)
It wouldn't be practical for me...I'd be taking it off when one of those hot flashes hit then I'd still be hunting for my sewing notions. 
TTFN from
Judy |
User: HeyJudee
Member since: 01-25-2005 Total posts: 1366 
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From: Magot
Date: 11-08-2005, 01:00 PM (6 of 20)
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I'm already running around the lab with pipettes, pens,matches, scissors,splints,whiteboard markers and so on stuffed into every pocket
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: mommydionne
Date: 11-08-2005, 01:36 PM (7 of 20)
I usually have a tape measure strung around my neck and my snips on a ribbon around my neck too. Try to remember to take them off when I pick up the baby. 
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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From: debsews
Date: 11-08-2005, 01:51 PM (8 of 20)
| Nope can't see it personally. I would have to have the air conditioning set on 55 to be able to wear that while sewing. They do come up with some wacky stuff. |
User: debsews
Member since: 09-16-2005 Total posts: 254 |
From: plrlegal
Date: 11-08-2005, 11:51 PM (9 of 20)
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Thanks for the laughs ladies. I guess most of us who sew and/or quilt or both have our moments, hours, days, etc. of memory lapses when we go out of the house looking as though we really don't live an ordinary life, some of us probably more than others. I'm like you Pam, when I'm sewing, the rest of the world kinda disappears and I literally get wrapped up in fabrics and threads. I tend to have threads and fabric snips all over me which I deposit about the house as I go through. My DH says he can tell what whether I'm quilting or garment sewing by the color and types of thread and fabric bits stuck on and about me or scattered on throw rugs, floors, chairs, etc.. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: esrun3
Date: 11-09-2005, 08:52 AM (10 of 20)
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things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm................
Lyn
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User: esrun3
Member since: 12-02-2004 Total posts: 2345 |
From: MaryW
Date: 11-09-2005, 09:54 AM (11 of 20)
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They can't think anyone would really wear that! I do think an apron with pockets comes in handy when sewing.
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: Sailorliz
Date: 11-09-2005, 10:13 AM (12 of 20)
I don't know, I kinda like it.  I think I'll make one for my next Halloween party! 
Happy sewing/quilting/crafting
Liz Visit my photo page http://new.photos.yahoo.com/sailorlizmi/albums |
User: Sailorliz
Member since: 07-20-2004 Total posts: 386 
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From: paroper
Date: 11-09-2005, 10:22 AM (13 of 20)
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If I were going to use an apron for sewing, I'd use a bib apron....as a matter of fact, that could be kind of cool.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: Pudge99
Date: 11-09-2005, 02:23 PM (14 of 20)
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Call me Crazy...but I have been considering making something very similar to this. Although I was thinking something more like a fishermans vest.
Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
User: Pudge99
Member since: 10-30-2001 Total posts: 1375 |
From: Linda H
Date: 11-09-2005, 05:49 PM (15 of 20)
| I've thought of making just a 3" strip w/pockets and place for snips, to go around my neck, but like Pam, I'm too afraid I'd fall on it or something, I definitely zone out when sewing, what a wonderful place to be! |
User: Linda H
Member since: 10-04-2005 Total posts: 8 |
From: HeyJudee
Date: 11-09-2005, 06:41 PM (16 of 20)
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When I was at the needlecraft show in Ottawa, a Janome educator was putting on a trunk show of items embroidered on Janome machines. She showed a vest (just front panels) that she made and she wears when she is giving classes. It has pockets on both sides where she puts her sewing stuff. This site has a picture of two "sewing vests" that are something similar to her's http://www.kaplans.com/DottieSewingProjects.htm Hey Pam....here's a gardening apron that could possibly work for a sewing apron! http://www.sewing.org/enthusiast/html/ef_gardeningapron.html TTFN from
Judy |
User: HeyJudee
Member since: 01-25-2005 Total posts: 1366
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From: bridesmom
Date: 11-10-2005, 05:18 AM (17 of 20)
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I just keep having visions of someone in this, with their hair all Albert Einstein like, bifocals half way down their nose, with a maniacal look on their face.
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: paroper
Date: 11-10-2005, 07:34 AM (18 of 20)
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Judy, I'd go for any one of the three of those before I would use a the coat. I think that is a little too warm and too bulky. I also can't imagine the look on a customer's face if they came to the door and said "Won't you come in, Sweetie" while wearing one of the coats. They'd probably expect to be used in an experiment. (Fortunately I don't often sew for the public anymore.) pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: LadySloPokes
Date: 11-10-2005, 09:02 AM (19 of 20)
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It wouldn't be practical for me...I'd be taking it off when one of those hot flashes hit then I'd still be hunting for my sewing notions. I'm with you Judee....my sewing corner is right next to the furnace vent in the kitchen, so no coat for me! LOL Cookie
LadySlo...yes am I, but hey, I'm gettin' there! Are you sure it's supposed to look like this?! Proud owner of Singer Quantum Decor 7322 & Singer Quantum Futura CE 200.. "A balanced diet is having chocolate in both hands!" |
User: LadySloPokes
Member since: 08-15-2005 Total posts: 198 
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From: Magot
Date: 11-11-2005, 02:25 PM (20 of 20)
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Laura - sounds like a picture of me at work! My boss asked me if I could rig up a demo model of an artificial heart for her lesson next week - 2 squash bottles, some rubber bungs, acetate sheet for non return valves, a corkborer, a soldering iron, some glass tubing, food colouring and a rasp file later - Yay! the operation was a success - the patient died however and I was drenched. It's a webcam moment! love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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