The Sewing Place
Tools of the Trade => Sewing Spaces and Furniture => Topic started by: Gernella on November 05, 2021, 15:16:32 PM
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On FB and being sold by a relative. Loads of large cone threads, Husqvarna Rose and an overlocker, lots of what looked like quilting fabric, lots of scissors. I felt quite sad that somebody had accumulated it all and now it was being sold by someone not interested in sewing.
I think I might try and turn over a new leaf :boohoo: in the New Year and try and get through what have without buying too much extra, maybe set a financial limit. Not sure whether it will work or not, although looking at my list, despite a couple of months off, I have done quite a bit of what I wanted.
I want it to look like a hobby not a business. Fortunately my nieces will probably have my stuff if I fall off the perch. No good to DH, he's still doing little repair jobs with a reel of cotton that came from his mothers in 1980, won't accept anything else.
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@Gernella ... FD ?????
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@Gernella what's FD?
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I think @Gernella meant Facebook. I saw the ad a couple of days ago: lots of stuff near to Nottingham IIRC.
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Sorry FB @Iminei and @Lowena I've had a hard afternoon :laughing:
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:D thank you both
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I picked up a skein of embroidery thread the other day. Just the right colours for the small experimental piece I was playing with.
Then I realised that it was silk and thought "Oh I need to keep that for a special project".
Gave myself a shake and reminded myself of the stacks of stuff that friends have left. So I used some of the thread and still have plenty for something else.
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I scored some wool and silk fabric a few years back from a couple of thrift stores. I noticed new pieces coming out over many weeks. I finally asked and was told a woman had passed and she had lived in a smallish (by U.S. standards) 3 bedroom home. Her niece had to rent a 16' truck to empty the house of sewing "stuff". She filled the truck, top to bottom, back to front 3 times. Each time she unloaded she had to go to several thrift stores to get rid of each truckload, and the thrift stores could only put so much out at a time.
Between that and seeing how my once fanatically neat and organized Mom cannot mentally dispose of anything that might be useful, (care to discuss how many empty pickle jars one needs? - me neither) my bucket list includes making certain all is organized and reasonable as a collection. The Marie Kondo question has become my mantra, "Does it bring me joy?" Even when shopping and something new catches my eye, this is my process: "Will I use this immediately?" If I don't have a specific need/desire, "Will it give me joy to own this?"
It's rare that I bring home anything sewing related (actually anything at all) that doesn't have a specific plan in place.
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Yes a salutary lesson not to accumulate so much - I should take heed.
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Too late for me :laughing:
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@Gernella ooh I'm in Nottingham, mind don't really need anything.
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To be perfectly truthful @SewRuthieSews I think even if it was in my own village I wouldn't buy, it would be like stealing from the dead, on Ebay provenance unknown.
I've got into the habit of mixing threads which works very well even on a sewing machine, top the right or near enough colour, bottom whatever has enough on. 120 threads are good for this they seem to take on the fabric's colour as they sink in a bit.
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I do that with overlocker thread I rarely use the correct colour and could probably manage with just black, white and grey.
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I do that with overlocker thread I rarely use the correct colour and could probably manage with just black, white and grey.
I do exactly the same on my overlocker(s).