| Double check the threading of your sewing machine to prevent immediate stitching problems. |
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| A lounge inside is decorated with old household items, like a piano, sewing machines and white crocheted table cloths. |
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| An enthusiastic crafter and home sewer since childhood, Jane Schenck has a long and varied career in the home sewing industry. |
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| Use sewing machine to stitch ribbon in place from top to bottom on both edges of the ribbon. |
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| Let's hope she takes her sewing kit with her and gets cracking on those curtains. |
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| If you aren't keen on sewing a puppet's features in place, stick them on instead. |
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| They even found a small kit for sewing stitches, just in case anyone knew how. |
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| Madeline took a seat on the chaise as Mrs. Bernadette continued her sewing. |
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| Following are some examples of optical illusions that can occur with various types of sewing patterns and fabrics. |
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| She groaned as she did, making a mental note to mend the slightly torn cover even if her sewing handiwork wasn't of the best quality. |
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| We worked under her during a great part of the day, either in the still room, or at our sewing in a chamber that opened out of the great hall. |
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| The quilter first outlines her design with fine, tiny stitches, sewing front and back layers together at the same time. |
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| The first person she saw was Sally, sitting on one of the chairs, sewing fine, little stitches on her handkerchief. |
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| Smuggling a sewing kit airside does not take the stealth of an undercover agent. |
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| But the polo shirts are now totally unavailable, so the dear is buying a job lot from Primark and sewing on girl guide logos. |
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| If you have a taste for the couture side of sewing, try a Hong Kong finish on all raw edges. |
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| People often envision a costume designer as a sewing whiz with a mouthful of pins and a faithful dressmaker's dummy. |
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| The biggest need of the community is low-tech equipment, such as hand-operated sewing machines and sturdy bicycles. |
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| These included sewing machines, knitting and crochet instruments and their supplies of cloth and thread. |
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| Founded in 1862 as a manufacturer of sewing machines, Opel later built motorcycles before entering the car business. |
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| I was given a sewing machine so I could make my own clothes and I was given a small loom so I used to weave cloth, I was that sort of child. |
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| There being no sewing machines to speed the assembly of clothes, tailors and seamstresses were economical with their stitches. |
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| If I could tailor clothes, I'd make it live, but my sewing skills are rudimentary and extremely time-consuming. |
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| Paddy was also responsible for dispatching many sewing machines, which formed the basis of a thriving school for tailoring and dressmaking. |
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| This book covers basic sewing, setting up a workroom, pattern draping, millinery, boning, fabrics, shoes, armour, and many other subjects. |
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| When threading up any sewing machine make sure the foot is 'up' as this opens the tension disks and the thread goes between. |
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| She did a lot of knitting and sewing, volunteered in her church, and sang in the choir. |
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| I've been doing some bits of knitting and sewing, and I'll post some pictures just as soon as I get my act together. |
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| It also boasts of a youth skills centre where youths are taught skills like woodwork, sewing and hairdressing. |
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| Although it is of the same size as an old sewing machine, it still works fine. |
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| In addition to darning and plain sewing, she provided instruction in fancy needlework, tambouring, and embroidery in silk and worsted. |
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| We made most of our own decorations from art supplies, crafts, sewing and woodworking projects. |
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| The traditionalists use metal sewing thimbles but lot of people have trouble keeping them on their fingers. |
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| Lenin opened state-run nurseries, dining halls, laundries, and sewing centers. |
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| While his mother and sister spent their days sewing, the boy completed elementary and secondary school. |
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| The school has 50 sewing machines, all the girls are taught to sew and the school makes some money from garments made to order. |
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| I have managed to get good stitches on light fabric, but when I was sewing a patch it caused these loops and tangles. |
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| Australia is the world center of sewing and crafts, so we should be able to get some good thread from them. |
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| Charity, on the other hand, was far superior at stitching and all manner of sewing. |
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| So I went to my room and worked on some sewing and embroidery, to pass the time. |
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| Leslie smiled and turned back to her sewing, moving what looked like a shirt sleeve along the jabbing threaded needle. |
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| Aimee looked up from her sewing, and, seeing that it was Keira, practically launched herself at her best friend. |
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| In addition to the basics, there are many specialized tools with unexpected shapes or special calibrations to streamline certain sewing tasks. |
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| From the cigarette pack he pulled a large sewing needle and began to scrape the insides of the bowl's tube. |
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| Kids who were initially intimidated by the thought of sewing soon came to realize how fun and fulfilling quilting together could be. |
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| You can also use textured-nylon or polyester threads on a conventional sewing machine. |
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| Take a large sewing needle to puncture evenly spaced holes around the top and bottom of the shade. |
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| Needless to say, button sewing wasn't adventuresome enough for him, and he left me home alone to finish my task. |
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| For the modern Cuna, it provides fibers for making clothing, brooms, threads for sewing and weaving, lamp wicks, rope, and hammocks. |
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| They have electricity only during the day, when sewing machines buzz in the craft centre and Khmer pop songs emanate from radios. |
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| Folk craft traditions include beadwork, sewing, pottery making, house decoration, and weaving. |
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| For example, Irniq saw an older woman sewing reindeer skin mittens in the same way Inuit women make caribou mitts. |
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| Throughout her life also, she created many articles of craftsmanship in knitting, sewing and other handcrafts. |
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| I would so rather pay someone to finish all the mending in my sewing pile than worry about never ticking it off my list! |
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| In another building, not far from where the sewing is taking place, cotton is spun into yarn and turned into a material. |
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| In a house in Burley-in-Wharfedale a woman beavers away on her sewing machine in the early hours, surrounded by mountains of cloth. |
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| I joined the Cook Island women's sewing group to learn the traditional art form of tivaevae. |
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| Originally my collection of machines consisted of a very basic sewing machine, and a serger. |
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| Although he's associated with detailed handwork, he happily uses the serger and the sewing machine for many special effects. |
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| Fast and easy, professional results can be achieved when sewing sweater fabric with a serger. |
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| I hated sewing, but merely joined in the gossip of the ladies as they sewed the cloth. |
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| And, as I usually sat sewing with my sisters and my mother, I often had time for such idle daydreams. |
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| A few hours later, Marie stopped her sewing and frowned into the sunset from her window. |
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| Three other young sisters taught sewing or embroidery during the late 1830s and longer. |
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| They made shoes, they cooked, and they did spinning, sewing and embroidery together. |
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| Ann's marriage to Simon, apparently not a happy one, led her to find work in sewing or needlework. |
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| They taught me everything girls needed to know, including sewing, cooking, cleaning, and taking care of children. |
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| Then, as now, I found that sewing with nylon fishing line rather than thread worked best for my needs. |
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| Fabric layers shift while sewing and cutting, so once you've trimmed and trued the edges, the chenille may be smaller than your pattern pieces. |
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| If you wash and dry after sewing up, the material will shrink and the pieces will distort. |
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| I pulled the sewing machine and my wood trunks full of patterns and materials. |
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| I have been sewing for the past 40 years for my family, making mukluks, parkas, and mitts. |
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| In days gone by I would have ordered the non-standard bobbins my sewing machine uses from his shop and got them in mere weeks. |
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| For the bobbin, use either embroidery-weight bobbin thread or all-purpose sewing thread in a matching color. |
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| Wind thicker threads on a bobbin by hand, use regular sewing thread in the needle, and stitch with the right side down. |
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| After sewing the signatures to your end papers, attach to the game book by gluing the whole piece down. |
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| That's a lot of sewing machines turning out lots of t-shirts and sandshoes. |
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| Therefore, the biggest focus of the party was probably the sewing station where hand-stitched, washable sanitary pads were on display. |
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| A number of sewing machines and manual typewriters from Kerry have also been donated to the Zambian Mission. |
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| The traveling merchants usually stocked bolts of cloth and sewing notions such as needle and thread and had stands on which to measure the cloth. |
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| When practical, sew in sleeves before sewing the side seams and sleeve seams. |
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| A cloud of lint hovered over the seamstresses and their sewing machines like a multicolored fog over a river. |
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| Then I discovered I could keep my left leg elevated, whilst pushing the sewing machine pedal with my right foot. |
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| Make new zipper stops by hand sewing a few overcast stitches on the edge of each tape just above the last tooth. |
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| Various thread management accessories are available for both sergers and conventional sewing machines to help you modify how the thread feeds. |
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| He also attributes a chunk of his creativity to his mom, who took Paul scavenging for vintage goods and bought him his first sewing machine. |
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| One problem I often find with sewing machines is missing belt guards and needle guards. |
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| Karen kept quiet and the mother superior ordered Karen to work at a sewing machine without needles for hours. |
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| In twentieth century wars, factories producing agricultural machines and sewing machines were converted to build weapons. |
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| These include providing people with sewing machines for cloths making and boxes for fish and vegetable vendors. |
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| A universal needle can be used in all household sewing machines that accept a flat shank. |
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| Hasina, who knows certain basics of stitching, has oiled her sewing machine. |
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| The figures of three adults, a baby and a dog are constructed of patches of cloth stitched with a sewing machine. |
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| They don't exactly have sewing machines but there is a tailor down the road who could finish them in a day. |
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| About 100 employees can work at sewing machines and then hand-deliver repaired costume pieces to singers before they go on stage. |
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| Thread the sewing machine with monofilament thread in the needle and thread to match the felt in the bobbin. |
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| The artist had acquired a 1959 sewing machine that did chain stitching only. |
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| Can you imagine painting without a brush, sewing without a needle, or writing without a pen? |
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| Stitch, using straight stitch around outer edges, sewing across corners where marked. |
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| The sheath of fibers was made by sewing into a tube a strip of organza cut on the bias. |
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| He was listening to the singing of treadle sewing machines hard at work, not an encroaching fever. |
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| My mother wasn't good at sewing but she had a treadle sewing machine and patched and patched. |
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| It lived for a long time at the bottom of the button drawer on my grandmother's old treadle Singer sewing machine, which I had inherited. |
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| Everybody knows sewing isn't a granny thing anymore, so we're gonna show you how to turn a piece of fabric into a piece of fab! |
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| Their contents were sealed with tiny stoppers, protected beneath gold, silver-gilt or silver screw caps resembling sewing thimbles. |
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| The overall coloristic neutrality of the painting is anchored by the red table where the sewing machine rests. |
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| Craft scissors, surgical scissors, sewing scissors, corkscrews, Swiss army knives and bottle openers, all available at unbeatable prices! |
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| She had no love for sewing, but sometimes enjoyed working at the loom and hearing its rhythmic clack. |
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| He said he will miss repairing damaged sewing machines most, but hopes to keep his hand in part-time. |
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| In this passage, sewing and conversation are allied and inseparable, part of the alternative methodology of speech Walker is explicating. |
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| A most remarkable lady Lily was a genius at needlework and made the most extraordinary patchwork quilts by hand sewing. |
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| Lily loved knitting, sewing and the odd game of cards and will be remembered for the many patchwork quilts which she made. |
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| The family room tree has a sewing theme, with spools, bobbins and buttons for ornaments. |
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| She'd spent countless hours in front of the sewing machine with Jeri, piecing together her corseted bodice and matching skirts. |
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| Americans had sewing machines, phonographs, skyscrapers, and even electric lights, yet most people labored in the shadow of poverty. |
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| Peer was born in Kansas City and helped his father sell sewing machines, phonographs and recordings as a teen. |
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| After sewing each piece into a tube, pressing the seams open and turning it right-side out, I slip-stitched the opening closed. |
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| For example, children are lectured on electrification, automotive mechanics, typing, using a sewing machine, and bottle-feeding their babies. |
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| She found 3 different colored spools of cloth, a few basic colors of thread, a sewing needle, a cheap pair of shoes, and a comb. |
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| The plan, whose details elude me at the moment, had a lot to do with the improvised use of a sewing kit by a crack team of ninja assassins. |
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| Francis creates her work using fabric, scissors and a sewing machine to embroider collages into images. |
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| For garment sewing, where pattern pieces are usually cut on the lengthwise grain, try one or more of the following. |
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| Let's take some time for ourselves, and make our sewing rooms extra special! |
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| For the rich, dressmakers produced the most fashionable garments which often required both machine and hand sewing. |
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| It was rather comical watching girls and boys alike tangle with a new skill as old as hand sewing. |
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| With a sewing needle from her bedside table, Marylyn pricked her finger and squeezed it until two drops of blood fell onto the sheets. |
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| Agnes, our char who comes in once a week and transforms our household chaos into sparkling order, is also a whiz at the sewing machine. |
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| Or she runs them through her sewing machine, without using a needle, and the perforations that emerge give them a hand-made look. |
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| Bifocal lenses, which have a small plus segment, can help a farsighted person read or do close work, such as sewing. |
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| The ability to drop the feed dogs on your sewing machine and maneuver the fabric in any direction makes it easier to stitch a trapunto design. |
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| To believe that there is something wrong with sewing pagans in pigskin is to deny one's faith. |
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| The machine has an expandable sewing field, and can be connected to a computer network or run from a machine-attached disk drive. |
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| Once you've got the material, you can be as creative as you please with sewing or painting on patterns. |
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| Installment buying accounted for more than half of all purchases of radios, pianos, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, and refrigerators. |
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| In 1919 their four plants together held 5,603 knitters, 918 loopers, 715 ribbers, and 70 sewing machines. |
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| The profusion of words on the quilts counterpoints the simple linear sewing on the sheets. |
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| Jane rises early the next morning, and on her way downstairs, comes upon Grace Poole sewing rings on the curtains in Mr. Rochester's room. |
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| To eliminate slippage while sewing, use a flat-bottom presser foot and increase the presser-foot pressure. |
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| We had an excellent arts and crafts counselor who knew a great deal about pattern making and sewing. |
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| She was into horticulture, needlework and sewing and I think that must have run through the blood. |
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| Indeed it seems so strong that you could dispense with the back stitches if the line of sewing does not have to bear a load. |
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| A sewing machine that allows for a lock stitch both top and bottom has been designed and is now available. |
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| Run a plastic toothpick or the end of a big sewing machine needle around the insignia and rings. |
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| When using my sewing machine, large loops and tangles of thread are generated on the bottom side of the fabric. |
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| From running designs up on sewing machines at the back of the shop, Stephen soon grew to be a large-scale manufacturer. |
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| We got through sewing one seam and filling the pig's body with fibrefill for the 40 minutes we had that day. |
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| Willard can create a masterpiece within the eye of a tiny sewing needle, on the head of a pin, the tip of an eyelash or a grain of sand. |
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| From an old sewing kit, he pulled a tiny pincushion, removed the needles, and headed back. |
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| However, in the ensuing minutes there was an argument, during which the sewing machine got broken. |
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| On the wall high above us are a pair of mounted metal urinals, along with a collection of old sewing machines and TV sets. |
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| His job entails patching, sewing, replacing heels, replacing soles and fine polishing. |
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| The installation also includes a video with sound showing images of the sewing group and their community. |
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| About fifty young women and girls were bent over their sewing or spinning large quantities of thread. |
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| But they talk of transformers, coils and condensers like other women would talk of cooking and sewing. |
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| Sometimes, you can help the fit of your garments by sewing these darts a little differently. |
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| For example, why not purchase an old fashioned table based sewing machine, or even a spinning wheel? |
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| Hidden because she works at home on sewing machines crammed into a corner of her laundry. |
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| We recommend sewing a pipe cleaner inside a long tube and then shaping it into an animal. |
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| The girls had been having their daily hour of sewing when suddenly flames had burst from the back of the room. |
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| In addition to washing, cooking, and performing custodial chores, some of these women sold baked goods and took in sewing. |
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| Her interests were sewing, knitting, cooking, gardening, carding wool for quilts and making feather pillows. |
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| A sewing group specialising in cross-stitch, embroidery, quilting and needlework meets on Mondays from 11 am to midday. |
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| My mother was a really exceptional craftswoman, an imaginative perfectionist, particularly in cooking and sewing. |
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| They are given a free nine-month course in basic sewing and crochet skills. |
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| What are your ideas for saving money and being frugal with fabrics and sewing? |
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| I took Ann on full-time and began to manufacture in and out of house using a cutting and sewing firm in Blackburn. |
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| Remove the sewing thread from the cold galantine before garnishing and serving it. |
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| Other common names for dragonflies include sewing needles, devil's darning needles, snake doctors, horse stingers, and mosquito hawks. |
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| With impeccable timing my sewing machine has chosen now to give up the ghost. |
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| Place the serger on one table, and then the sewing machine on the other. |
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| No muss, no fuss, and no swearing at my sewing machine while I try to figure out what I'm doing, and then cursing at my complete inability to sew a straight line. |
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| They're self-taught experts in the minutiae of day-to-day medieval life, tracking down recipes, studying forgotten languages, practising metalwork or sewing. |
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| Use a ballpoint or universal needle for sewing knit fabrics. |
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| Other similar details include the simple clothing, the sewing equipment, the painted furniture, and the patterned floorcloths prevalent at the time in American houses. |
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| You see old women sitting in doorways of multicoloured canal-side cottages weaving lace, sewing lace, cooking lace, or whatever else you do with it. |
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| Therefore I reasoned, the longer I left it before I started sewing, the longer it would be before I was squinting well into the night unpicking it. |
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| Pluses to cosplay is that may sewing skills do improve every year. |
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| Like drawing tattoos, sewing earmuffs, or fashioning model airplanes from old chip bags? |
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| Her quiet, peaceful times were spent knitting afghans for family and friends and patiently sewing beautiful needlework pictures that were displayed in her lovely home. |
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| One minute I am intolerant and snakey, the next I am dancing around the lounge room with Amelia to her CD of Latin music or sewing a tiny dog in a creative frenzy. |
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| While Blanche is busy sewing rocks into her skirt for a Virginia Woolf swim, Randolph and Christabel are making whoopee in fairy-tale fishing villages. |
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| Sewing was still done mostly on a Singer treadle sewing machine, though electric sewing machines became more common near the middle of the century. |
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| In some schools, girls were taught quilting, sewing or makeup application. |
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| Her daughter, Elaina, 24, a trained costume designer and makeup artist, helps out by sewing clothes. |
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| During the course of the program, students are exposed to equipment used in the field such as buttonholers, high speed sewing machines, and cutters. |
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| With this flurry of sewing and stuffing, perhaps the 2012 candidates will now know to pursue the quilt vote. |
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| Such products are not suited for the rigours of public life, and need to be adapted, at the very least by sewing in hem weights. |
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| Before you knew it, I had a needle in my hand and was making patterns and sewing. |
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| In August 1999, while setting up for a trade show in Utah, the two men were caught in a tornado that destroyed their sewing machines and sent them diving for cover. |
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| The essential tool was the sewing machine, which was relatively cheap, so little or no capital was required to set up a small workshop and also find homeworkers. |
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| Work in British prisons has too often involved sewing mailbags. |
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| Without the regular income of Arial's father her mother had been forced to take on sewing and needlework in order for them to keep their heads above water. |
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| A presser foot, for a sewing machine for use in sewing slide fasteners to garments, has a foot portion pivotally mounted on a vertically movable presser bar. |
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| If you are sewing sheers then three times the fullness is what you want. |
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| She opened the sewing kit and took out a pair of shears, and made a cut up the very front to the neck so that the shirt came off the right side of him. |
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| If you scaled up the thickness of the DNA chain to that of ordinary sewing thread, you would need a 4 kilometer reel to represent the length in an average human chromosome. |
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| It was preceded by the sewing machine, fan, teakettle, and the toaster. |
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| Crafters will often use a backpack to transport fabric and other sewing notions to a guild meeting, leaving both hands free to carry the sewing machine. |
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| Women earned money by washing, sewing, and taking in lodgers. |
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| The children's nurse, M. Eagar, recalled the little tsarevnas diligently sewing away, scrunching up the waist of large pants to fit them into small waistbands. |
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| Lyall provided the supporting structure, employing quarter-inch nylon boning sheathed in muslin to facilitate sewing. |
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| The Malhotra parents ran a successful trading business in textiles, typewriters and sewing machines, but Malhotra senior had an eye to the future. |
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| The schoolgirls were attending the first of two 10-day courses arranged by the firm to introduce the needlewoman of the future to the art of mechanical sewing. |
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| Her teaching duties most likely also included sewing and embroidery. |
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| She wanted to see all of my sewing, and the things I had made. |
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| So I sat myself on one of the window seats and took up my sewing. |
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| He expects to find volunteers or hire workers to videotape elders teaching traditional skills like sewing parkas and sealskin mitts, as well as building sleds and igloos. |
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| Even on the night of Chun's funeral she returns to her sewing. |
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| Frantically putting away her sewing, Althia had the courtesy to blurt out a farewell to her mother and sister before dashing off into the hallway. |
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| He's far too busy sewing the sequins on the little one's concert outfit, helping Timmy with his algebra, and talking through the birds and the bees to a pre-pubescent Melanie. |
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| Included in the show are table covers, needlework patterns, needle worked fire screens, valances for mantels and beds, needlework upholstery, and sewing tools. |
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| The Baptist church was the place where people not only prayed but organized their community and exchanged information, including ideas about sewing and quilting. |
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| She went through all the closets, pulling out old clothes, cutting off buttons to sell to sewing and craft shops and used the fabric to make rag rugs. |
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| A good sewing tip from Sharon is to use spray starch on the fabric. |
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| He was employed as a sewing machine operator at a factory owned by Goodwill Industries of South Florida, a non-profit organisation dealing in used clothing and furniture. |
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| This method is preferred by most people and looks neater when finished than slip-stitching, although the latter may be done closely and used as the final sewing if preferred. |
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| To prevent thumb-sucking, one recommended pinning the sleeves shut or wrapping the baby in a shawl to sleep, while another advised sewing mitts onto pajama sleeves. |
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| Agnes was busy sewing together the pieces of a baby's matinee jacket. |
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| As he sat on our lanai sewing and repairing the nets that had been brought to him, he would always cast a knowing eye toward the ocean and the horizon beyond. |
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| Using sewing circles as a cover, women carried baskets of needles, thread and cloth to houses where they gathered to write, read poetry, teach and learn. |
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| There are street of tailors sewing rags on ancient Singers, alleys of people weaving sweet-smelling grass, making traditional dining plates with coned covers. |
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| The containers include nearly 6,000 quilts, more than 3 tons of children's clothing, 3,000 sewing kits, 6,000 health kits, 8,200 school kits and 4,000 layettes. |
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| Charles had finished sewing the wound and was now cleaning the needle. |
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| Informally, women met to socialize and do needlework and sewing. |
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| The elderly take part in activities including sewing and knitting. |
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| Some time during her earlier years, Ellen went to Alta to perfect her knowledge of the Norwegian language, and to learn home economics and sewing. |
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| I use headphones on a daily basis as I do a lot of sewing on industrial-class machines and like to block out the mechanical noise as well as listen to the radio clearly. |
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| I grinned, picturing my mother dashing back and forth in the kitchen, clad in a frilly pink apron and caked with flour, a sewing needle in one hand and a whisk in the other. |
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| Activities like reading, driving and sewing are severely affected. |
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| The unions usually object to prisoners being given gainful employment, whether sewing mailbags or breaking up rocks, on the grounds that it undercuts free labour. |
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| There's unfortunately nothing you can do about this, but you can stabilize the damaged areas by sewing a bit of cotton gauze to the underside with silk thread. |
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| Clearly, I spent far more time gabbing and eating than sewing. |
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| Back home in Utah, McLean ordered some ripstop polyester, rounded up a set of plans, and sat down at his industrial sewing machine to create his own version. |
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| Benevolent societies provided religious schooling to impoverished children, Bibles to their unchurched fathers, and sewing to their underemployed mothers. |
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| I was allowed to use the sacred sewing scissors and pinking shears! |
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| With scraps and fabric recycling, you can be creative and frugal and all those things our foremothers and forefathers were when they were sewing at home. |
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| Mother had given her a beautifully embroidered pocket that Mama had been sewing during her long confinement before the birth of Thomas and Lettie. |
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| Included are samplers, embroidered pictures, portraits, sewing implements and patterns, quilts, clothing, linens, fabric swatches, photographs, and other documents. |
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| Due to its high cost, the Singer company introduced an installment buying plan, which helped place sewing machines in most middle-class households. |
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| These padded garments, now known as gambesons, were made by sewing fleeces, raw wool or layers of woollen cloth between two layers of linen, felt or leather. |
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| The shop stocks Sirdar yarns plus wool, patterns, books, knitting needles, sewing needles, thread, buttons and small haberdashery items. |
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| But now the cost to clad a baby is just a few pence thanks to the bright idea of head of laundry and sewing Gwen Gribble and her staff. |
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| Slapheads are having an op that involves cutting hair from the side of the head and then sewing it on top, said Spencer David Korben. |
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| Pupils made the piece with her in Emin's style of sewing cut out letters onto a large piece of material. |
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| Textiles are used in many traditional crafts such as sewing, quilting and embroidery. |
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| There's also a Victorian sewing kit and religious wall tracts, along with Henry's school work books, pencil box and railway union card. |
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| This movement spins a large wheel on the treadle frame, connected by a thin leather belt to a smaller driving wheels on the sewing machine. |
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| Contests of all sorts dominate the TV screen from sport, to sewing, baking, gardening and haute cuisine. |
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| Heinkel stayed in business by making bicycles and mopeds, while Messerschmitt made sewing machines and automobile parts. |
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| The cabin also contains an old washing machine, a sewing machine, a churn, a dry sink and cane-bottomed chairs. |
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| Modern manufactured sewing threads may be finished with wax or other lubricants to withstand the stresses involved in sewing. |
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| He was to work in Weaste in the offices of Ermen and Engels's Victoria Mill, which made sewing threads. |
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| For example, the repeating chorus that serves as a through-line is a rhythmic, percussive chant of sewing terms. |
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| Da Gama called him a spy, ordered the priests' lips and ears to be cut off and after sewing a pair of dog's ears to his head, sent him away. |
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| The Solutrean toolkit includes the world's earliest identifiable sewing needles. |
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| Additional amenities include a sewing kit, shaving kit, loofah, shower cap, comb, and dental kit. |
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| The native people of North America made much use of beaver pelts, tanning and sewing them together to make robes. |
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| Part of my solution has been to become reacquainted with my sewing machine. |
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| Smocking is one such hand sewing method, promoted in the Antelope Valley followers by a club started seven years ago. |
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| Whipstitch the top bat to the sock using the cotton floss, sewing around edge of the fabric. |
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| Beyond any shadow of doubt, Saudi Arabia is capable enough to manufacture every thing under the sun from a sewing needle to an aircraft. |
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| Many crafts are considered to be simple home maintenance, such as cooking, sewing and carpentry. |
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| But how will Hairy Biker chef Dave Myers fair when he's asked M to get sewing and make an A-line skirt? |
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| As I entered her house early on the afternoon before the ritual, Nadmid Udgan was busy making protective amulets on her manual sewing machine. |
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| Children's exercisers, rehabilitation stimulators, sewing machines, speech therapy equipment, overhead projectors. |
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| Pictured are a travel cot, African art, a sewing machine, a selection of glassware, cream Devon ware and pig money boxes. |
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| She drinks from a thimble, defends herself with a sewing needle, and almost drowns in a mud-filled porridge bowl. |
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| Bobbins are typically found in sewing machines, cameras, and within electronic equipment. |
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| Susan was an avid craftswoman who enjoyed a variety of hobbies such as knitting, beadwork, origami, and sewing. |
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| There were no scullery chores or sewing for this spirited redhead. |
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| The business offers work space with sewing machines, sergers, cutting tables and pressing areas. |
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| A VET was stunned when he discovered a sewing needle stuck in a dog's liver. |
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| Both the weight and the hand combined to affect the feed of the fabric through the sewing machine and the serger. |
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| She uses a sewing machine, knitting machines, and a serger for edge finishing. |
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| At the time of the study, the sewing shop owner negotiated new piece rates with the prime contractor. |
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| He would lie on the green-bed all day long sewing pictures of boats on canvas with coloured wools. |
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| Circular knitting means no sewing of seams and no purling for stockinette stitch. |
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| Purchases include eight new sewing machines, a pair of sergers and some tables for the machines. |
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| An 11-year-old boy is brought in after suffering a prolonged epileptic seizure, and a 19-year-old arrives with a sewing needle stuck in her foot. |
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| The business, owned and managed by Mary Jo and Don Moloney, offers the use of sewing machines, sergers, cutting tables and pressing areas. |
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| Girls generally received instruction from their mothers in the art of spinning, weaving, and sewing. |
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| They do bookwork and have time for practical projects like gardening, cooking, sewing, garage work music, exercise, art, etc. |
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| She has a sewing needle stuck in her foot, which sounds painful but not quite as dramatic as the cases that have preceded it. |
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| Entaco make needles for hand sewing and medical purposes in the south of Redditch on the Washford Ind Est. |
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| When sewing strip sets, use a lighthanded approach feeding the strips under the presser foot so the crosswise grain isn't stretched. |
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| Sew Up a Home Makeover offers a fine resource for any interested in using modern fabrics to make changes with just a few simple sewing projects. |
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| If a woman had the finest conventional sewing machine with all the attachments ever made, she could not do one tenth of the work that can be done on a modern zigzagger. |
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| The invention of a new type of sewing machine led to a new application of mass production after the principles of interchangeability were applied to clocks and guns. |
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| Six weeks ago I bought a sewing machine by mail order with the intention of becoming a skilled seamster overnight so that I could shorten my own trousers. |
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| My mother laughs from her grave, such are my sewing skills, but among these dead-handed men my wielding of a needle is nothing short of a miracle. |
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| Although my aunt, a professional seamstress, had a new electric sewing machine and serger, Granny still did most of her work by hand or on her 1936 Singer treadle machine. |
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| At that time, everyone wore a hankie and we had women who were friends in the GEC factory in Middlesbrough sewing these hankies on their night shifts. |
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| Like dancing lessons in gym class and sewing lessons in home ec. |
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| Simple instructions show how to use a sewing machine to best advantage, how to preshrink wools for optimum results, and how to use templates and patterns for added impact. |
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| The hundreds of embroiderers and stitchers hunched over clattering sewing machines at the New Era Cap factory could be forgiven for thinking these are good times. |
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| Tenders are invited for Supply of various sewing needle 20 items. |
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| I wish I knew why the sewing machine binds up after I use it for a while. |
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| Braiding with rubberbands is quicker than sewing in yarn or thread but it is not acceptable for high-level competition, and it will break off hairs and damage the mane. |
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| The workers were paid piece rate for their sewing and the strips of silk mesh were cut and mounted as postcards in the nearby factories which employed them. |
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| Spanish guitars and vintage home decorations in pastel colours such as decorative wall clocks, small cupboards, mirrors, sewing kits, and many more are on feature. |
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