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Machine Talk => Sewing Machines => Topic started by: Marniesews on February 09, 2020, 13:43:37 PM
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Want to find a machine suitable for children promoted by a company clearly expert in this field?
I know we've all seen examples of this in ebay and stock images used online but this is a well-known retailer of fabric and associated sewing goods in southern England. GBSB must be so proud to have their name associated with this image too.
The image may not be theirs but how can this (https://www.candh.co.uk/haberdashery-c7/dress-making-c45/sewing-machines-accessories-c5/great-british-sewing-bee-sewing-machine-studio-p18885) sit on their website selling this product and aimed at children??? There's a neat little finger protector that will trap their fingers in place nicely just in case the needle doesn't get them at the first attempt when used as demonstrated. :S
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A UK sewing magazine has been using a similar photo (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EPS-B_DWoAAphi1?format=jpg&name=medium) to promote their Dressmaker of the Year on social media.
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No wonder all her sewing projects are unfinished (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/34/d0/06/34d006f321f50dfe304a464ef11cce09.jpg).
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I've just written a review for them, pointing out their error!!
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I am missing something...these finger guards are pretty good for what they are. Is it the hole in front? On videos, it's flat on the fabric, so I don't get it.
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@Kwaaked It's this pic that's a problem...
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She's sitting behind the machine, isn't she? :S What I mean is, she should be sitting at the machine on the same side as the workings and dials
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And notice her finger - just ready to be pulled under the needle :o
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Right, I see what you mean, but isn't the photo just to show the machine? Nobody would actually use the machine the way she is, would they, would be pretty difficult.... >:)
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It's a bizarre photo, she looks as if she's using the machine. To someone who never used one before it may seem as if that's what you do. The photo could easily have been taken over her shoulder using it correctly.
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My husband looked at the child's machine and said why is she at the back. Regarding the Dressmaker of the Year advert, he spotted it is a mirror image too.
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Welp, I feel stupid. I read the comment and my DH saw the pic and said "she's sitting wrong...is it an ad?"
And yes, it has taken me to right now to be told what they matter was.
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Not just you @Kwaaked I looked and thought what a good idea the clear guard was. Didn't see the obvious until it was spelled out (story of my life).
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I didn't notice she was sitting behind the machine even though I thought the way she was using it was weird - and I'm the person who can spot a bit of pattern out of place when no one else can see it.
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Another sad example of people doing something that they have no idea to do ...
photographer .... 'sit behind the machine and pretend to sew' ...
3 year old ... 'okay'!
Is it even plugged in or is it a battery operated machine?
Other examples:
A brochure for a well known kitchen company (now deceased) showing a chess set on the dining table in the 'set' completely wrongly set up!
A barmaid (?) working in a local wine bar where I briefly worked hunting amongst the bottles in the fridge
Me ... 'Can I help you find something'
10 year old, snappy ... 'No I'm fine'
Me, after another few minutes of rootling ... 'What are you looking for'
10 year old ... 'Beaujolais'
Me ... 'are you sure I cant help'
10 year old ... snarling 'No'
Me ... walks to the other end of the bar and serves a customer.
And lastly, as a former croupier I was apoplectic when, in a high budget film, a scene set in a casino showed the main character handing over a very large quantity of cash which the croupier put straight down the dropbox, without counting then handing him a (suspiciously high) set of stacked chips.
If all that means nothing to you and sounds like gobblydegook ...
Casino chips are piled into stacks of 20 ... Gawd knows what these stacks were made of but definitely more than 20 ... and any cash handed to you is always counted and laid out in rows of five on the roulette layout for the inspector, pit boss, manager and eye in the sky to check before you hand out any chips.
Oh and on a further note I once went to the Gaming equivalent of the Festival of Quilts in Earls court (cant remember what it was called) ... this is a show where everybody plies their wares in the gaming industry (casino not xbox) and I saw what turned out to be the director of a company that made and sold roulette goods, wheels, layouts, chips etc etc demonstrating his wares by spinning the wheel and the ball in the same direction ...
This is a complete NO NO! The ball must travel in the other direction to the wheel!
A croupier that made that mistake would be reprimanded and then sacked on a second occasion if they did that!
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Many of us have something about which we are well informed and are incensed when it is wrongly portrayed on the tv, in magazines, in advertising etc. Every beekeeper I know cringed or shouted at the telly when Martha Kearney did her programme about keeping bees. DH rants at the tv because a vehicle is 1969 and the film is set in the 1950s. It's hard to accept that it matters diddly squat to 99.9% of the population.
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DH rants at the tv because a vehicle is 1969 and the film is set in the 1950s. It's hard to accept that it matters diddly squat to 99.9% of the population.
Yes my DH does that too.
@Iminei A croupier :D What an interesting life you've had and will continue to, of course)
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@Ploshkin my farmer husband shouts when there are tramlines in fields and ear tags in animals in dramas set in the "olden days"
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I find the same in books when the research hasn't been done thoroughly.
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Oh dear, nothing sewing related but these arouse the same ire. Call The Midwife, Holby, Casualty....... then again that's probably why I watch them.
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@Ploshkin my farmer husband shouts when there are tramlines in fields and ear tags in animals in dramas set in the "olden days"
Many years ago we had a family trip to the cinema to watch 'Gladiator'. The opening sequence shows Russell Crowe walking through an arable field, trailing his fingers through the crop.
I hissed at DH, "Tramlines!" and he hissed back, "Six-row barley!"
We enjoyed the film nonetheless.
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Last night DH and I watched the Agatha Christie
borefest drama that was written - and I believe set - in 1961. When one of the characters talked about a 'scam' we looked at each other in slight disbelief. I bingled the word and it seems that the first recorded use of it was in 1963. So there scriptwriter 8)
And I was even more peed off when I realised that I had totally forgotten about Endeavour and hadn't even put it on 'record' Grrrrr
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@FloBear , it was pretty grim wasn't it? The book wasn't one of her better ones, but this treatment has not improved it.
I too, wish I had watched Endeavour. Still I can get it on Catch up.
Jessie
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Make sure you watch yesterday's Endeavour before you watch next week's episode! ;)
I find that with Endeavour I'm forever saying 'Surely they didn't have/say/do that then?' I am, however, always wrong.
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I gave the Christie a miss when I realised who had done the adaptation.
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I gave the Christie a miss when I realised who had done the adaptation.
Me too @Sewingsue. I think we watched one of the previous ones and I wouldn’t watch any more.
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Luckily I recorded both Endeavour and the Agatha Christie doodah, so I can catch up with them this week. I had high hopes for the AC though... >:)
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In almost every Netflix made show aimed at the under 30 crowd, no matter the time period, I wait for the obligatory let's do this! to be exclaimed.
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Who did do the adaptation? I'll look out for them in future...
I watched Endeavour on catch-up, my mind wasn't altogether concentrating though.
I've been enjoying Life on Mars lately.
Jessie
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She's sitting behind the machine, isn't she? :S What I mean is, she should be sitting at the machine on the same side as the workings and dials
I've seen similar pictures of lacemakers "working" at their lace pillow from behind.
I couldn't find the real howler that Iknow I've seen, but this one (https://www.alamy.com/women-making-pillow-lace-image68548018.html) is from a time when a lot more people would have known how a lace pillow was used.
Here's one for the darksiders - and any other lurking lacemakers. I'd love to see the lace made from this pattern!
https://www.123rf.com/photo_11086349_pillow-lace-pattern-with-texture-in-thailand.html (https://www.123rf.com/photo_11086349_pillow-lace-pattern-with-texture-in-thailand.html)
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GBSB must be so proud to have their name associated with this image too.
They must have authorised it as their logo is stamped on the side of the machine - you can see that as it's the wrong way round :D
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Just took a look at the other sewing machines this shop is selling. Would't certainly not buy one there and go straight ahead to a shop that specialised in sewing machines with different brands.
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Want to find a machine suitable for children promoted by a company clearly expert in this field?
I know we've all seen examples of this in ebay and stock images used online but this is a well-known retailer of fabric and associated sewing goods in southern England. GBSB must be so proud to have their name associated with this image too.
The image may not be theirs but how can this (https://www.candh.co.uk/haberdashery-c7/dress-making-c45/sewing-machines-accessories-c5/great-british-sewing-bee-sewing-machine-studio-p18885) sit on their website selling this product and aimed at children??? There's a neat little finger protector that will trap their fingers in place nicely just in case the needle doesn't get them at the first attempt when used as demonstrated. :S
I love cycling, and one of the things I would regularly see was for supermarket bicycles (when I lived in UK) was adverts with the forks put on the wrong way, or the brake blocks incorrectly mounted.. or even built up and on display in store like that. Positively dangerous. Such as
https://i0.wp.com/www.mtbe.co.uk/files/image_006_174.jpg
https://bicycleshapedobject.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/photo-0037.jpg?w=584
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Beyond belief!