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Industrial Serger - Stuck Crankshaft / Handwheel / Differential
Hi All. =20 My wife recently purchased a Wilcox & Gibbs Industrial 5-Thread Serger (515= -4-52). The handwheel and crankshaft mechanism are completely stuck and on= ly rotate about 1/8" in either...
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Dying of the pretty! Dress diary
I finally posted the dress diary of making the wedding gown: A week ago now, this minute, I was carefully packing the gown and veil for delivery... And for once ravenrigan and I did not have to make...
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Good for a chuckle
And it's On Topic here August 02, 2012
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Coals to New Castle?
At the risk of the above, if anyone doesn't know of this site, she might find it as much fun as I do. I've never bought a thing from them, but they loyally send me their newsletter. Oh, yeah - it's...
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<PING> Juno
In case you don't get sale e-mails from they are having a rayon challis sale:
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Jackets
Ursula, I found these 2 patterns today I thought you might like to have a look at. With you could probably make changes in them to come up with something very close to the Garbo Jacket. The first...
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Rubik's Sewing Room!
The Great House Shuffle has started... The GMNT outgrew his room (all of 5'11" wide by 8" long, plus a square for the door!), so is moving into the sewing room. Su and I have outgrown the sewing room,...
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PING @ Cea
Hi Cea, everybody round here seems to know you so well; only me, who has been posting here for perhaps only four or five years has no idea who you are. Yes, it's a bit bold to ask but perhaps you feel...
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Pattern slipped from dress
I 'slipped' a pattern from a favorite sundress, and finally got around to= sewing it today. Couldn't, of course, find a similar soft rayon blend fabr= ic,so I bought some pretty pink/grey print,a...
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Loes Hinse
Hello all, and Juno! Juno pointed me to Loes Hinse design for my tweed jacket pattern, and I promptly fell for the Garbo jacket. When I tried to order, it turned out that the cost would increase by...
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<Ping> Ron
Ron do you know if this: provide the necessary information to allow me to swap a part out of a 500 into a 401A? My brother bought a used 401A on my recommendation, but the A-L dial was locked up. I...
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Long Time No Sew
Hi all. I've missed our little sewing chats, my rambles and bad jokes. Thought I'd drop by to say HI! Cea
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Haven't shared this lately
My brother and I were discussing amazing inventions today, and I sent him these links: Scroll down to "lock stitch", then imagine that sequence occurring at 600-to-1200-stitches-per-minute: honestly...
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Newbie needs some advice
The Mrs has just bought a Brother RL417 basic sewing machine. there an on-line guide for the newbie that explains what all the stitches do and in what situation i use should certain stitches, for...
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The guys wore their new kilts and shirts!
Today, we all went out to the Portland Highland Games: DSIL marched with the Gunn Clan, we wandered around the events and shops (no dance for DGD this year), the fellows bought their sporrans and...
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