Today's The Day!
This afternoon at 3 pm I'm to have my 30 minute lesson on the library's serger machine. Please wish me luck everyone!
Later, after I get back home I'm going to continue cleaning and straightening up the front room. (I already spent three hours on it this morning.)
The worst part of the job will be organizing my patterns into their separate bins. ( Read more... )
I wish you good work, good learning, and good success!
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Things didn't go as planned. Apparently someone "monkeyed" with the serger over the past few days and something is either missing or broken.
Since we couldn't do justice to the serger, we went forward and I made friends with the Singer Curvy sewing machine they also have.
I will probably have more fun with it than I will with the serger, truth to tell. One thing we agreed upon: The library badly needs to order some button-hole feet for their sewing machines and hopefully soon!
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And what does a "Curvy" Singer do that other Singer machines don't? I've not heard of a "Curvy." Googling, I'm sure, would tell me some things, but yesterday was your day which got...um...re-done, more or less on the fly, so it seems to me you ought to have the dubious pleasure of talking about this machine.
I have clear recollections of hand-sewing buttonholes when I had only that means of making them, and being disappointed when at long last I acquired a buttonholing attachment at the appearance of those machine-made buttonholes. Eventually, a machine with a built-in buttonholer joined my first one and some time after that (I think!) I read somewhere---maybe Threads Magazine, maybe somewhere else---that hand-done buttonholes, beautifully evenly stitched, are a hallmark of custom sewing and custom tailoring and worth the investment of the time they take to do.
In fact, there's a machine-made buttonhole-making trick of going over your buttonholes twice by machine as you make each one to make them look more hand-sewn!
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Take a look. THESE are the machines that the library has:
In all honesty, I'm not a fan of buttonholes either hand-made or machine-made.
It was a happy day for me when I found a blouse pattern with a hidden button placket on it.
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<*long, drawn out whistle*>
Wow. Does it do windows, when it's not sewing? That's some slick machine!
I'd think those buttonholes made by the "Curvy" (is it named for the topline of its harp, by the way?) would convert just about anybody to buttonholes. So smooth, so even, simply gorgeous!
But perhaps your buttonhole objection is something else? Since you were and are happy to have found a blouse pattern with a hidden button placket, I'm going to assume, perhaps wrongly, that it's not the idea of fastening up a button closure that irks you?
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Curvy does the best buttonhole that I've personally seen. (I've yet to see a handmade buttonhole that I liked.)
I will have to "wait and see" before I pass judgement on the rolling foot that's used for sewing suede and leather though.
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Those are unquestionably the best looking machine made buttonholes I've seen.
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