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Dear Sharon, The stretch and sew book is wonderful. I took their course about 100years ago and loved it. It's a holy book of knit sewing because it's such a good foundation in knit skills. I like it because not everyone has new machines with all kinds of stitches but you can sew knits using it for a guide because it's so basic. When I took the course we had women in the group who were very experienced and turned out works of art . One woman took the basic T-shirt pattern and made a well tailored Channel style jacket. It was beautiful. It's a great find for you. Mine is falling apart but I wouldn't get rid of it for anything. Juno

Sounds like you got some great buys! Barbara in FL

I can appreciate your excitement even though I don't know that book. I'd be thrilled if I could find an old Knitwit book which is the standard knit book here in Oz. I went to all our local similar shops the other day looking for a huge 1970s style ashtray the other day and couldn't find one ashtray of any description in any of the shops. I might have to try an antique/second hand shop.

That's one I've never had, but it's supposed to be excellent. Good job, Sharon!

It sure is!! Thanks. ;) And the best part was I had really good company on this particular hunt.

Sharon

I figured if I only learn ONE thing from this book, I'm good. And I think the DD is wanting to learn to sew. So it will get used there too. She has taken lately to picking a hand stitch from my RDCGTS to practice for a while on scraps. She'll just get bored and pick a handstitch to work on. lol So my library may need to educate one more sewer.

Sharon

That's a good enough reason to add to the collection, Sharon. I live in hope that my girls will want to take advantage of my very large sewing and crafts library. So far, two of them know how to sew, but only one has done much for the last few years. They both have machines (recycled from my school), and the youngest has made a number of pattern-less projects. The middle one pulled her machine out for a couple of projects in college, but she has been living such a nomadic life since she graduated; hopefully she will settle down a bit when she moves to Colorado at the end of the summer, preparing to go to law school in

2009. The sewing machine will definitely go with her there, and maybe a bunch of my other stuff, too.

After I last cleaned up my sewing room, my daughter who doesn't have any of my interests, was inspecting my tidy up work and said: "Mum, before you die, can you please just clear out this room and get rid of this 'stuff'".

I was slightly miffed that my treasures all carefully collected over many years and all of which are worth quite a bit to those who really know the value, had been described as "stuff". I told her that she was to call in a friend of hers who I do know can tell a treasure from crud. I told her to sell all my Bobbin Lace things on E-bay as there were people around the world who knew how much to pay for each bone bobbin. When I told her how much she would get for just one bone bobbin, I'm sure I saw dollar signs in her eyes.