The Aporkalypse Cometh
No, I didn't come up with that 'aporkalypse' thing. The internet is far more clever than I.
I got to use a truly awesome sewing machine this last weekend. I went over to Tom's place to make a hakama on saturday. He laid out the pattern pieces and did most of the cutting. Then he led me to the heart of the machine, the chamber of unspeakable wattages. Seriously, there were two sewing machines and an iron in there. The *iron* made the lights dim when it turned on. The machine I was using could suck fabric faster than I can run. Seriously, you just twitched your foot and the needle would just become blurry. You couldn't really tell it was moving; it just went all blurry and the fabric just got sucked through. It was so sweet! The feed dogs had a little trouble on the thick, lumpy parts (more than 10 layers, doubled up seams, that sort of thing). Ah, but its neighbor, which had an inappropriately cute name, would sew through a half-inch of anything. Seriously, whatever you could fit under the foot would come out beautifully stitched, and if you weren't careful, it would be beautifully stitched to your hand. So fun.
And I have just seen this which is terribly, terribly awesome:
I got to use a truly awesome sewing machine this last weekend. I went over to Tom's place to make a hakama on saturday. He laid out the pattern pieces and did most of the cutting. Then he led me to the heart of the machine, the chamber of unspeakable wattages. Seriously, there were two sewing machines and an iron in there. The *iron* made the lights dim when it turned on. The machine I was using could suck fabric faster than I can run. Seriously, you just twitched your foot and the needle would just become blurry. You couldn't really tell it was moving; it just went all blurry and the fabric just got sucked through. It was so sweet! The feed dogs had a little trouble on the thick, lumpy parts (more than 10 layers, doubled up seams, that sort of thing). Ah, but its neighbor, which had an inappropriately cute name, would sew through a half-inch of anything. Seriously, whatever you could fit under the foot would come out beautifully stitched, and if you weren't careful, it would be beautifully stitched to your hand. So fun.
And I have just seen this which is terribly, terribly awesome:
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