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consists ore in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life, said Benjamin Franklin wisely in his time. And this is still true!
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Last week on Saturday I visited a workshop in a fabric shop quite spontaneously. There was introduced the patternsystem „Golden Cut“, that 1935 was invented by a German seamstress. It was promised, that with it everyone can make fitting pattern within 10 min. Could that be true?
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In order to give my shelvs in the sewing room a tidy appearance and to prevent them from being dusted, I had sewn a curtain. But after two years I do not like the pleaded look anymore. So when I saw the pretty shelf design fabric last October at the dutch fabric market, I knew that I wanted to replace my curtain with it.
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Today repairing things was the order of the day. First my husband came with a loose button of his jacket. Then my son came back from school and was sad, because a schoolmate had torn his comic apart. Children can be so mean.
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Last year I have sewn the Marie by pattydoo and added the sleeves of the Chloe, as I do not like sleeveless dresses on myself. That did work out though I was not perfectly satisfied with the sleeves. The are standing a little bit too high. Therefore I bought the new pattydoo pattern Eliza as soon as it came out last November, it is a Marie with sleeves.
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Last October my daughter and her friend had bought fabric to sew the girl’s shirt Pia by pattydoo. Back then we also bought fabric for my son, if he also wanted to sew. But he did not want. Now he wanted!
Continue reading “Who is Paul?”Still waiting for the spare part for my broken embroidery maschine, Today I learned that it has to be shipped from Japyn and that it has to be produced. They said it will be due mid April …
Continue reading “Waiting for the spare part”As I stated already in January happiness on Sundays is to sleep as long as I wish and to find time to read and dream. Or if there is a film on TV that temps me to watch it. Today it is „Sleepless in Seattle“. Which films tempt you?
Now it is already a fortnight that my patchwork workshop is over. Though this time I have not done a big embroidery quilt but had plans for several smaller projects.
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Since my first sewing workshop I always take my sewing machine with me in order to be certain of having a clean, working machine and of having all accessoires that I use at home at hand. As the parking deck is directly below the workshop rooms I always took the machine with only its dust cover. But this year it was quite hard for me as she is not light-weighed with its 11 kg.
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