Compact sewing machine suggestion

It would have cost her $80 to take it on the airplane, and we agreed that I would find her an appropriate one and send it to her.

I suppose I ought to ask her how important zigzag is to her. I'm sure I could find her a 301 somewhere if she can't arrange to use the schools machines when needed.

She's not coming back except for Christmas for the next 4-6 years unless she ends up having to drop out to work more to pay for her tuition. And we both agree that she cannot take a machine with her -- they are all too big to take as carryon, and my dad flew for TWA for 40 years before he retired and I know too many horror stories about checked-in luggage that I will not let her take one as check-in luggage.

She doesn't want to sew -- she wants to make sure that she keeps her clothing in good repair.

The Outdoor Education types - those who were doing a combination of climbing/mountaineering, sailing, white water canoe stuff... Always ripping gear and needing it mended. I ended up one afternoon with 3 blokes sitting in my room with no trousers on while I sewed bits back on their breeks! They were also the crew who had me sewing the lorry tarp (Ian's Land Rover [ex army and... hm... 'tatty' fits the bill!] needed a new one made from a tarp that literally fell off the back of a lorry onto his bonnet on the A1!), spray decks for the circumnavigation or Ireland by kayak (all the way round with no land support team!), and various other things like tent zips - for which I was payed in beer, bottles of wine, free trips to Scotland (and guaranteed place in a tent, rather than having to bivvy), and other things. I was dangled off rocks, hauled up hills, given hypothermia and resuscitated from it, dunked out of kayaks into the river, and generally shown a good time as only mountain freaks can do it!

That gives me an idea. My mom used to have an old hand-held sewing thing that made a chain stitch, and my dad used to have a sewing awl to use on leather. Maybe something like that, which would give her a better stitch than she can do by hand, might work.

This part I didn't know. That makes more sense now. You hadn't said she did say she wanted one, and that's why I was pushing the "talk to her and make sure she wants one."

I hope you both find one you agree on. :)

-georg

Now I know you had a good time in college...

lisae

and the outdoors types are always so .....healthy...tanned... muscular..fit...fun....<g>

And gentlemen! ;D MUCH more fun than the ones who thought it was daring to mess with drugs, or regarded getting drunk every Friday night as a necessity. I'd be dragged up round aircrew: adrenalin was always my choice over drugs, booze, or stupidity.

Though I did go out with a bloke who was into potholing and cave diving for a while. I never joined him underground... He said the most unpleasant thing he'd done was put on a half frozen, muddy, gritty wet suit for a second trip down a hole after camping out over night...

Can you translate please? I don't understand..."I'd be dragged up round aircrew"...

Anyhow, in my experience adrenalin and stupidity are not mutually exclusive, although those who mix the two often don't survive...I

So sorry -- I am world famous for never giving the entire picture on the first shot.

Thanks.

My dad was RAF aircrew - I knew a lot of young pilots of fast jets. They live on adrenalin, and like fast stuff! Once you have lived that life, anything with adrenalin in is fun, but you have little patince for the terminally stupid... ;D

Two guys I played bridge with were killed avoiding a school full of kids when their craft developed a fault on take off. If they hadn't stayed with it and gone in, a whole school full of kids might have died rather than the 3 smalls in the houses they hit on the edge of the dog track they were aiming for.

I think Heirloom sells Bernina ( on the same road as BJU but about 2 miles up towards town). DD can check in Greenville's Yellow pages. There is also Classic Keepsakes with Viking (on Congaree Road behind Haywood Mall and in a small shopping center about 4 miles from BJU), and downtown isVacumn & Sewing Center (or is it Sewing & Vacumn Center) with Singer, Pfaff and the more expensive machine ( but they sometimes sell rebuilt machines because I've seen them). They are on Augusta Rd. at the corner of Augusta & Main, about 4 miles away. BTW, depending on what your DD plans to do with her education, but BJU's diploma is not always accepted out of SC, unless they have been certified within the past 2 years and I missed reading about it in the Greenville News. Especially the teaching certificate. Didn't know if you realized that. BJU is an excellent school with a good reputation. Barbara in FL & SC

Please contact me privately and I'll look in my phone book for the telephone numbers. Barbara

There is a Sears store in Haywood Mall that should have one of the inexpensive $40 machines that does a straight stitch only. Barbara

I suggest a Janome Gold or something similar. I think I paid around $300. for it a few years ago. I got it because I wanted somethin to take to quilting classes. I was "sewing machine" challenged until I got it. I think it was because my Singer Golden Touch & Sew never worked for longer than 30 days without something happening to it, and also because my mother told me that I was hopeless when it came to sewing. She was almost right. I never could make a garment that I would consider wearing. That is probably because there weren't any sewing classes offered in the private school that I attended. My Singer was an expensive pile of junk. Our television sits on the cabinet now. I enjoy my little Janome. I hope to get another machine soon.

Sherry Starr

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Thanks for the names of the places.

She is not getting a teaching credential so it doesn't matter. Even if she was getting a teaching credential, she couldn't get a California one in South Carolina, that's for sure. She is majoring in counseling and is still thinking about doing a double major in financial management. I have known about BJU for 20 years and know all the up sides and down sides, and so does she.

FWIW, they have applied for a certification with some international Christian college accrediting agency that will allow students to apply for Pell grants and the like.

Melinda, My younger DS lives near Greenville, SC and I sew for the DD, my youngest DGD. When I fly there, I gate- check one of my sewing machines(not the embroidery one) and/or laptop. I have a soft-side case that holds both of them. I also gate-check them when I go to FL to visit the DD and MS to visit relatives and have never had any problems. Are you going over to visit sometime, perhaps you could take one to her. Emily