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New Sewing Machine
This may be of interest to those who need to mechanically stitch
things. Bought a new sewing machine today in Port Of Spain, Trinidad to replace my great Japanese Janome that rusted solid inside after being undiscoveredly dosed with salt water (I should say "our" but I bought it with "MY money" and attended a dress making course in an endeavour to learn something completely new - my owner learned as a school girl in N.Z.). A few Singer shops around, so took some sunbrella and got one shop to try to sew 4 layers. Machine stalled and balked at the mere suggestion with a #16 needle - and they told me initially that it could sew jeans. It did manage to recover from the shock and struggle valiantly through two layers by it being offering encouraging words such as "You can do it etc". Apparently the Singer company has divested itself of its sewing machine division and someone bought the name. The machines themselves are not the rugged four wheel drive go anywhere, last forever tools of the past. Found another shop that sold a Canadian manufactured (possibly in Sina) "White" - never heard of it - as well as the Japanese "Brother" - well known as a good machine at least in the antipodes. The proprietor explained that though the latter would indeed do the joib, the Canadian machine was superior in that it had all metal gears and other moving parts. It just laughed at 4 layers and munched merrily through 6. I fell in love at that moment. When you are reduced to spending hours stitching lee cloths etc because you are far from a sailmaker, a good sewing machine beats a woman (or whatever your preference is in these enlightened days), anytime. Besides, as that noted Englishman Oscar Wilde, said: Bigamy is one wife too many. Monogamy is the same thing. It has everything I want and more including an instant reverse lever to run back over the stiching to lock it. Even has a handy overlock type stitch to stop cloth fraying at the cut edges. Cost after Poor People's discount (I find that they always give me something if I can make them laugh) - $TT 1,600 or US$ 254 And in my ignorance I had thought that Canadians sewed up their seal skin clothing with bone needles and gut after chewing the hides to soften them. If it can sew seal skin, it can sew anything I suppose. cheers Peter |
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