treadles by ana (4.00 / 1) #1 Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 08:04:25 PM EST
i've used them, but it was always a crapshoot whether they'd start up going forward or backwards.

Can you introspect out loud? --CRwM


Yeah. by calla (2.00 / 0) #2 Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 08:21:52 PM EST
My mom had one when I was a kid (I'm not sure if she still has it).

I wonder if the backwards/forwards bit is an issue with all treadles.

Seriously - you sew? Who taught you?

"but i have a vested interest in keeping the people who see me naked interested in continuing to see me naked." 256
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My mother, mostly. by ana (4.00 / 1) #3 Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 08:46:46 PM EST
And then when i was in college, we decided the chaplain needed more vestments, so we made him some. These days i only do minor repairs and buttons and stuff.

Can you introspect out loud? --CRwM
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I am very thankful... by toxicfur (4.00 / 1) #5 Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 10:06:36 PM EST
for this talent of ana's. My grandmother - a home economics teacher - tried very hard to teach me to sew. It didn't work. So, once, as I was getting ready to visit Bostonia, I was on the phone with ana while trying to sew on a button. I think ana got tired of hearing me saying "fuck" again and again, so I brought with me the pants and button, and it was all taken care of. Yay for ana.
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Continue to lean until you feel gravity threatening to discipline you for being stupid. - CRwM
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You are lucky. by calla (4.00 / 1) #7 Sat Aug 26, 2006 at 12:57:15 AM EST
And appreciative.

A good match.

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What a great mom. by calla (2.00 / 0) #6 Sat Aug 26, 2006 at 12:55:58 AM EST
Not even my mom taught me. She sent me and my sister off to sewing class. I also learned in church.

I think you are the first man I've known that could really sew. You've got my respect and esteem.

"but i have a vested interest in keeping the people who see me naked interested in continuing to see me naked." 256
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You just have to know how [tm] by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #4 Fri Aug 25, 2006 at 09:07:27 PM EST

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