The Sewing Place
Reception => Hi, I'm new... => Topic started by: lakaribane on May 24, 2017, 12:45:18 PM
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I saw the thread on PR but didn't pay much attention, I admit. Then an efriend told me about being a member here. So I came over, looked around, liked what I read and here I am now!
I live in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haïti, in the Caribbean. Avid seamstress from a family of seamstresses, artists, teachers and lawyers. What this means is that I am creative, talkative and opinionated :P
I sew only garments, in part because, being only 1,53m (5ft), buying RTW is never simple. But I really enjoy it and, now that I am mastering my basic alterations more and more, I can make things that fit exactly as I want them to!
Burda fangurl with a growing interest for KnipMode but also a Big4 pattern stash thanks to some key enablers in the US. I love natural fibers (despite current, questionable obsession with viscose/rayon/tencel/cupro etc.) but knits don't require ironing and my country is plagued with energy problems.
(Well, now that the dry season has started, I am sewing and wearing only breathable fabrics...)
I hope to have a lot of fun with you guys. One of my specialties over at PR was finding patterns for people. I choose my projects based on the line drawings and I guess I memorized a lot of them 0_0 And since I work in Education (two jobs!), I can research the shit out of anything. #overthinker. Let the good times roll!
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Welcome lakaribane to our new playground.. we are a wide variety of happy sewists who also like to wander off in diverse conversations about most stuff we are pleased that you can join us ...enjoy the forum :)
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Welcome Lakaribane! I recognise you from PR, we have a few PR faces here :)
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Welcome from me too! Help yourself to a :drink: and a :cake:, and join us.
Jessie
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Hello and welcome from me too, hope you enjoy being here with us all.
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Hi Lakaribaine! Nice to see you here!
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Hi Lakaribaine, welcome from Yorkshire.
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Hello and welcome from me too.
Your comments on unreliable energy supplies makes me wonder what sewing machine you use - a vintage treadle would work well for you I'm thinking, if only as a backup during interrupted supplies.
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Welcome! As someone else who is only 5 ft I completely understand where you're coming from.
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Hi and welcome - you'll fit right in here, I can tell. On reading your hello post I thought for a minute you said you chose your projects from drawer linings! ??!? :o
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Welcome my friend! Glad to see you here.
We can speak our minds.
:loveit:
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Thank you all for the welcome! I think I jinked myself talking about electricity. I'm having electrical problems at home AND my internet was misbehaving yesterday. :(
Anyway, here's to all the fun times ahead! :toast: (rum, of course!)
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Your comments on unreliable energy supplies makes me wonder what sewing machine you use - a vintage treadle would work well for you I'm thinking, if only as a backup during interrupted supplies.
I did buy a threadle but it was a hidden charitable gesture, trying to help out someone leaving the country in a hurry. A coworker of my mother's wants to buy it but now I"m thinking I might reconsider this move.
To clarify, I have a back up energy source call an inverter. It stocks electricity in batteries and so I can use the lights, tv etc but nothing with heat (toaster, hair dryer) or a motor (refrigerator, water pump). Well, my inverter did not kick in last night and it was screaming the night before, a sign of no charge in the batteries. :S
I have woken up at 4h am before to sew, just not looking forward to doing so now. Decisions, decisions...
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Welcome from me too lakaribane. Make yourself at home and join the fun. :flower: