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Embroidery Machines / Re: Sewing + Embroidery machine
« on: July 25, 2017, 17:08:50 PM »
Sounds as if you have it sorted, Jo.
Don't bother with bragging a little - we want big bragging - with pictures.

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Access All Accessories / Sewing multiple layers
« on: July 25, 2017, 12:25:32 PM »
Simplicity 2924 baby bag.
Now I have done this kind of thing, but not for a few years and the memory isn't always that reliable.
Any advice from experienced bag makers welcomed definitely needed.

Thicker machine needle to cope with layers or would that risk making too big a hole in the fabric?
Will using a walking foot make moving the layers/keeping them together easier?

Any comments gratefully received.

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Vintage Machines / Re: 222K, a bit expensive or not?
« on: July 16, 2017, 12:07:57 PM »
Just had a wander round ebay. It looks as if 221s go for between £100 and £250 and 222s for min £250 and upwards.

Mind you that is probably not expensive when you look at the price of new machines.
Yes, I know the new ones do everything except cut out the pattern pieces, but you know what I mean.

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Vintage Machines / Re: 222K, a bit expensive or not?
« on: July 13, 2017, 17:42:24 PM »
Quote from: BrendaP on July 13, 2017, 15:05:48 PM
My 221 has just gone to the sewing machine hospital - and I had a little chat with mechanic.  He says that featherweights are getting harder to find (in UK) because there's a company in London who snap them up and then export to America, so that might account for the higher prices which 221s and 222s attract as compared to 201s and 99s etc.
So if someone did have a vague hankering for a Featherweight it might not be a good idea to just think 'sometime in the future I might find the money and treat myself'?

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Tech Know How / Re: Amazing translation resource
« on: July 12, 2017, 12:17:45 PM »
Quote from: dolcevita on July 12, 2017, 08:27:27 AM
I have the Google translate app on my phone and I find it very useful.  However, I've just been reading a review of a Dutch sewing/pattern magazine, Knip Mode, and the writer mentioned a fabulous thing that the app does.  Apparently, you can take a photo and bring it into the app (I haven't looked at the detail yet), highlight any text in the photo that you want to translate and, hey presto, there it is.  She used it to translate the sewing instructions in the magazine from Dutch to English with no typing required.  Amazing.

I can understand why people turn into smart phone zombies with stuff like this on it!
I know all those words are in English and, individually, I recognise them.
Collectively? Not so much  :S

OK I could probably work out how to do most of it on a PC - with a mouse - eventually.
But on my phone?
That tiny screen?

Old woman retires from modern world  :D

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Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside / Re: FPP - any interest in a follow thread?
« on: July 10, 2017, 14:31:34 PM »
Quote from: Sakar on July 10, 2017, 14:24:46 PM
TAKE OFF YOUR HAT, LOW!!!!!  >:)

@Lowena: You see?? It's quite easy!!!

If your give me your address, I will send you regularly and puctually all the patterns, which Syrinx offers  :D
In the absence of a Muttley snigger

:D

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Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside / Re: FPP - any interest in a follow thread?
« on: July 10, 2017, 10:37:59 AM »
Quote from: Maximum on July 10, 2017, 08:51:08 AM
When something is challenging I tend to lose confidence and then freeze or find a million things I should be doing so don't have the time!
Any space on the procrastination bench?

Either that or the first bit I get wrong it's 'see, I can't do it' - 'don't understand and never will' - 'should never have attempted it' -as whatever it is hits the bottom of the bin.

Not sure at my advanced age there is any hope of a complete character change.

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Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside / Re: FPP - any interest in a follow thread?
« on: July 10, 2017, 07:29:59 AM »
Iminei, I love your description of EPP.

Somewhere, at the bottom of a box probably, I have a FPP kit for a spiral wall quilt that I bought at FoQ umpty-tump years ago.

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Access All Accessories / Baby bag - interfacing?
« on: July 09, 2017, 19:16:10 PM »
Simplicity 2924
Fabric (curtain cotton) and lining (patchwork cotton) bought and pieces cut out.

The requirements list fusible interfacing, but not what weight of interfacing.

Any advice from experienced bag makers welcomed.

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Vintage Machines / Re: Show and tell time - lets see some oldies!
« on: July 08, 2017, 12:41:46 PM »
Understandable, Suzie, those are very pretty decals.
I would never part with my Singer because it was my mother's (even if she hardly used it), but I do like the Singers with the Egyptian decals.

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Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside / Re: Cot Quilt from Start to Finish for the New and the Nervous
« on: July 07, 2017, 22:24:08 PM »
WOW  <3

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Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside / Re: Holiday quilting - finishing UFO's
« on: July 07, 2017, 12:11:39 PM »
Quote from: Acorn on July 07, 2017, 11:50:04 AM
I think I need a ruler like that just because it's a lovely thing... all wavy...  :|
Ooo, gadgets, gotta love a new gadget  :D

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Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside / Re: Holiday quilting - finishing UFO's
« on: July 07, 2017, 09:54:28 AM »
'Simple' wavy line quilting?
Please, how do you get your pairs of wavy lines to 'wave' in the same direction?

and how do you 'wave' without free machining?

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Access All Accessories / Re: Baby's changing bag
« on: July 02, 2017, 13:15:03 PM »
Thank you, FL. Just what I needed.
Could I ask what fabric you use for these bags (I see that was your sixth)?
The pattern suggests broadcloth, gingham, poplin, denim.

As I have only done 'bag' classes at a quilt shop I don't have any experience using other fabrics.

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I saw this & I thought you may be interested! / Re: Craftsy sale
« on: June 30, 2017, 22:46:31 PM »
Quote from: wrenkins on June 30, 2017, 20:32:20 PM
I know nothing!  >:)
They had a flash sale yesterday so I packed up my basket...and forgot. There'll be another soon no doubt.
I found the quality and cutting of their fabrics excellent in case you're wondering  :devil: and I bought other bits and pieces which, even with P&P were still cheaper than here.
I had never thought about buying fabric etc from Craftsy.

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