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Yes, I still hate sewing, but I also still think it’s an amazing process and I find this image totally fascinating as I’ve never really understood how a sewing maching, well, sews. I hope nobody comes up with a version of this for serging machines or I’ll end up cross-eyed and perhaps quite mad. Cool, eh?
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Wow….thanks. I’ve always thought it was a pretty magical process. Fascinating to see it’s strictly mechanical.
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Ghandi was quoted as saying that the Singer sewing machine was “one of the few useful things ever invented, and there is a romance about the device itself.”
The magical thing is that anyone ever invented the bobbin. Quite mind boggling.
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Sewing machines always scared the living shit out of me. I too found them mysterious and indescribably forbidding — it seemed you had to be girly to use them or else a needle would probably punch right through your finger. I never could get up the nerve until a guy from my high school days learned how to do it and made himself some period clothes. He was unpunctured so I figured I could get away with it.
You wouldn’t believe some of the things I’ve done with those devilish devices and hope never to do again…
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Apparently in Seattle they say you haven”t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running. Can’t imagine you ever trying that. 🙂
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oh lordy, that makes my brain hurt.
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I know. It’s kind of hypnotic and “wtf?” at the same time.
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I think that’s amazing – I will look at my little machine with new respect now. Planning on doing a heap of sewing this week to help ground myself while off work. Can’t seem to switch off yet – here I am sitting at my computer ready to work – no work to do!
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Well, you could always go and play on your new blog…
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I’m not a sewer – never learnt in school – but have recently bought myself a mini machine for little sewing jobs and also for craftwork. I haven’t had it out of its box yet … even a mini machine is a bit intimidating to a novice! … but your animated diagram is truly amazing & inspiring so I might just give it a go a little later on. I’ve got a guy here at the moment doing a few odd jobs … he’s just fixed a leak in one of the tanks in the attic & now he’s working on the fence which is half way to falling down … just hope the rain holds off long enough!
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Can you send your guy over here? There’s a scary leak under the sink…
Thing about sewing is that it’s all in the bobbin. Or rather, the bobbin casing. I’m still in awe.
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Pretty cool picture, I used to sew and am fairly good with my hands, but don’t seem to get all that excited about it anymore. I’ve never really thought about what went into making the sewing machine…now my mind’s a running.
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All that was required to fix our leak was a new rubber diaphragm … apparently they wear out reasonably regularly. Hopefully, the cause of your leak is similarly minor & cheap to fix … no good suggesting Nog takes a look?!!
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Actually, Nog had to have a look today because I am no longer able to look under the sink after seeing ONE OF THESE down there a few years ago…
I would totally stop using that cupboard if I lived alone. Heck, it took me over a year and a half after this incident to be able to sleep without the bedside lamp on.
Luckily (?) these sightings are few and far between, but still way too often for my general happiness and well-being.
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That is a very cool image indeed. I always wondered how the innards of my sewing machine actually accomplished the formation of the stitches. And now I see why it is so critically important that you put the bobbin into the bobbin case right side around, I know you get horrible tangles if you put it in backwards but now I see why it is so important for it to run out in the correct direction.
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