Sleeve Board Update

Thanks for the review, Phae. I rarely use one, and so like the one I bought at Target a couple years ago, from their Michael Graves design line. My sleeve roll gets more use.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Phaedr> Awhile back I posted that my old sleeve board fell apart whilst I was

Glad you found one you like! I'd love an excuse to get a nice new wooden one. :)

My fold-flat metal one got it's cover replaced at the back end of last week, as part of The Great Sewing Room Tidy-Up for guests both this weekend gone and next. I found it lurking, coverless, as it has been for some years, at the bottom of a heap... It now has a nice new calico cover and a pad made from an off-cut from the last time I covered the ironing board, and is good do go!

There are times when the wider, flatter area of the sleeve board is better than the sleeve roll.

Thank you, everyone in this thread, for prodding me into one of those little jobs I keep putting off that take about 15 minutes when I get down to them!

I know.... I was so lucky to have an excuse!

I surely do agree. I have a sleeve roll and that works great especially when you need to press a seam and you don't want the seam edges to show on the right side. But the sleeve board is a lot easier for pressing the seams and darts in most everything else except items that can just be slipped over the entire ironing board.

Happy for you Phae. I love having reasons to upgrade the equipment. You're right to recommend it to beginners. These seeming little things add up to a big difference.

Pora

Indeed they do. It saddens me when newbies get discouraged and frustrated, especially with faulty or lackluster equipment. My step-mom used to have the most awful machine and I recall how I just hated sewing on it. And each piece of equipment that we have that does not work quite right not only slows down the process but increases the likelihood of of those discouraging errors. When I hear that someone has tried sewing and then quit, it's often a $100 "special" machine that never did work right or lack of space for an adequate sewing setup, or lacking the basic tools that caused the person to get discouraged.

Phae

Amen to that. A friend just bought his teenage daughter a Costco special (a Brother?) against my recommendation. I'm not sure if it will be able to hem jeans, which seems basic for a teenager! I argued for a used older model Bernina/Viking/etc. I'm easily discouraged during the learning process, so these things matter to me.

Pora

Don't feel bad. There are people who will throw out grandma's Limoges china so they can go to WalMart and buy a brand new set of dishes. There's no accounting for taste, said the old woman as she kissed the cow.

Jean

*chuckle* For some reason, this is reminding me of a quote from Miss Bates (good old Miss Bates) in one of the versions of Emma that I have

-- "The whole th>> Don't feel bad. There are people who will throw out grandma's Limoges

I love that one!!!

Don't get me started on HGTV!!! How they take a pretty nice house and knock down walls, tear out the bathroom and the kitchen and put in brand new stuff not nearly as sturdy or good looking as what they took out. Then they paint it crazy colors.

Until I watched HGTV, I didn't realize that kitchens became "dated" in

15 years and had to be completely redone.

My parents did that! They had wonderful wooden cabinets....tore them all out and stuck in some stock items from Home Depot.

My friend bought a house that still had the original 50's tilework in the bathroom. I thought it looked so awesome I probably would have designed the rest of the house around it, but she ripped it all out and put in a horrible-to-keep-clean shower stall with glass doors. Ugh.