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Vintage Machines / Singer Patcher machine shown on Australian Repair Shop
« Last post by Elnnina on Today at 11:19:45 »
Within the last two weeks or so they started showing a new series of Australian Repair Shop and in one episode a very old mucky Singer patcher machine was brought in, in fact it was treadle operated.  They worked wonders on this machine, all the rust was removed and it was repainted and then the gold lettering was redone, the treadle mechanism was overhauled and painted black again and of course they got the machine working again.  The Australian series is being shown on Sky  Really which is channel 144.  I know one or two of you have a patcher machine so thought you might be interested.  This was episode two of this series and shown on 10th April - they called it a rare machine.
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In the wardrobe / Re: Mood Patterns
« Last post by Missie on Today at 08:01:34 »
Thanks @ScubaGirl.  Glad to hear you like the patterns.  I'm not overly bothered about instructions.  I'll download one of them and see how I go!
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Sewing Machines / Re: Guess what I've got!
« Last post by Missie on Today at 07:58:13 »
OOh, she's a beaut!
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Sewing Machines / Re: Guess what I've got!
« Last post by Silver Rose on Today at 07:39:42 »
A lovely present @Greybird , enjoy using it.
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Embroidery and Embellishment / Re: Pillowcases for Mom
« Last post by Sara-S on Today at 01:25:50 »
@William thank you.  I finally got around to embroidering another set.  Royal blue on blue & white print.  Same font.
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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: Weekly Sewing Club Wednesdays 2-4pm
« Last post by TangledBloke on Today at 01:03:19 »
Nothing productive from me today... unless you count online shopping. I've ordered a few cheap bits from Pound Fabrics to give me something to play around with other than alterations.

Nothing too exciting. A few metres of cotton for hankies (nice easy projects for bad brain days, I reckon), a chunk of cotton for lining an outdoor wool shirt, some £1/m polycotton for prototyping/fit checks, and some crazy skull patterned polyester which was far too bonkers to ignore  :laugh:
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Sewing Machines / Re: Guess what I've got!
« Last post by Greybird on Yesterday at 22:53:34 »
Yes aren't I lucky! I'm slightly stunned to see you describe it as lightweight - I can barely lift it!
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Vintage Machines / Re: Singer 431g
« Last post by BrendaP on Yesterday at 22:06:39 »
If the guy at SewLincs doesn't have one try Helen Howes.  She's in your neck of the woods too.
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Sewing Machines / Re: Guess what I've got!
« Last post by BrendaP on Yesterday at 22:00:43 »
What a lovely present.

The "lightweight"  aluminium 201s are every bit as good as the heavier cast iron ones.  Excellent workhorse  for all the jobs that require good straight stitching.
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A Good Yarn / The Repair shop - Irish Clones lace
« Last post by BrendaP on Yesterday at 21:52:58 »
This evening's Repair Shop on BBC1 (available on iPlayer, series 13 episode 2.  starting 30 minutes in) featured an Irish dance dress worn by two year olds which was stained and had very fragile and tattered Clones lace around the collar and cuffs. 
Clones is pronounced Clo-ness.
The dress dated from 1980 but the lace came from her mother's dance dress in the 1950s.  As always they did a painstaking repair job and got the dress looking as good as new.
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But nit-picking me spotted a few inconsistensies:
The restorer said "it's referred to as lace but it's actually like a crochet"  It IS  crochet and if the definition of lace is a fine open fabric with small holes incorporated as part of the design then it IS lace.

They then briefly spoke about the history of Irish lace, their first image showed girls working with a crochet hook (correct for Clones) and the next one showed others doing what looks to me like needle run lace (embroidered net) which although made in Ireland was totally different to Clunes crochet lace, which itself was developed during the 1840s famine years a way to (relatively) quickly reproduce the intricate Venetian needlepoint laces.
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