sewing | sewing
Oct.03.2012
October 3
SEAM ALLOWANCE
The space given and taken, the space used to bind us and sew us fast.
The permission for humanness and the need for seams to make us whole. The narrow margin, a shoulder on which I lean, the slender strip a place of refuge.
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Apr.05.2012
Sewing is meditative, mentally stimulating (usually includes simple math) gets you in touch with your body (you have to fit it to yourself) and stimulates the creative part of the brain. It's ego building and relaxing... what's not to like? And guess what? Guys do it too.
Suellen Ocean is...
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Jan.16.2012
A well meaning interviewer once said to me, “It must be wonderful to have endless, uninterrupted hours to just write and write.”
I replied, “It must be. I hope to experience it sometime.”
Today is one of those days that drives a writer (or any person) crazy. Every time I start on a task,...
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Aug.08.2011
Hello it is quiet here in Betheltowne. I joined Sara's sewing circle. We don't have anyone in town yet that owns a camera, but here is a pic from another state of a sewing circle. I think I am going to talk Robinson into purchasing a camera and set a shop up on the side. Geri
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Mar.10.2010
I have no embarrassing photographs to share because nobody took photographs of me in school. In fact, photographs were not really given any thought at all and with the hum drum element of school routine meant that there was no time for a keen photographer to come and capture us all smiling and...
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Mar.08.2010
Home Economics Home Economics:
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (Oxford World's Classics) by Isabella Beeton
New Complete Guide to Sewing (Readers Digest) by Editors of Reader's Digest
Home Economics by Wendell Berry
Essential Lessons in Human Physiology And Hygiene for Schools by...
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Oct.03.2009
October 3
SEAM ALLOWANCE
The space given and taken, the space used to bind us and sew us fast.
The permission for humanness and the need for seams to make us whole. The narrow margin, a shoulder on which I lean, the slender strip a place of refuge.
Darts are snipped to hug the...
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Jun.20.2009
We all meet our sphinxes, our challenges, once in a while. At the moment mine is a Singer 4205 sewing machine. Today I was finally able to make it work :-) the way I imagined it should : helping me give shape and form to fabrics.
I´ve always had a curiosity about sewing. The touch of fabrics and...
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Jan.27.2009
Sleeping Beauties
As I sat at the sewing machine the other day, making curtains for my daughter, it brought my mind back to the day when I was in my late teens. Forty years ago, and the first time I ever followed a pattern in sewing, by making doll clothes for my youngest...
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