--- Carol Adkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>.....I now mount most
> things with the zigzag stitch on the machine, the
> exceptions being things
> which are round or oval, and which I still do by
> hand. I know that
> traditional lace-makers are probably horrified at
> that, but it really is a
> lot neater than I can do it now, and I am also sure
> that, had the old
> lace-makers had these new-fangled machines for
> taking the tedium out of lace
> making, and speeding up the earnings rate, they
> would have used them!
Carol has raised a lovely controversial one here. The
first hankie edging I ever made, I machine-stitched it
on without really thinking about it but the others in
my small lace group were horrified. So the next one I
hand-sewed - not very successfully but it was a
present and fortunately the recipient is no
needlewoman.
Now I have this edging which is a very pretty design
(I can say that cos of course I didn't design it
myself) and it's been wrapped up carefully for the
last two and a half years cos I'm afraid to spoil it
with my sloppy sewing.
So what do other Arachnes think - is the dreaded
sewing-machine really our best friend or an instrument
of Satan? (joke...)
Now I've really stirred things up!
Hazel
(in Oude Wetering, Holland)
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