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Old 03-02-2015, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Onebyone
We were taught to do this in High School Home Ec class. My Home Ec teacher was a great seamstress. She made wedding dresses and tailored clothing. Our first sewing project was a skirt and vest from tissue patterns. No apron or laundry bag in her class. LOL If you finished sewing early, you learned to knit and crochet until the semester was over.
Bwa ha ha ha! That's exactly what we made!

I also was told to cut the thread at the spool end and pull it out at the needle end "right way" through the tension discs after I bought my Husqvarna 875Q.

New to me! I'd always pulled it the other way with my 1965 Elna Supermatic workhorse. *LOL* I thought I was "saving" thread. BTW, she's never been serviced since I bought her. But she's always been oiled and cleaned every time I sat down to sew: she's just as fine a machine as the day I bought her fifty years ago !!!!!
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