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Anyone wishing to see the other Offerings from the thieves go HERE Sorry about the simplicity but I'm using a lap top. Thank you Bev...
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“I Won’t Be The One to Let Go” Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here . Pretty song, Sam. I love both of these singers. Anyon...
I love, love, love Berninas! I learned to sew in the costume shop at my college (it was a small school, and if you were cast in a play you were also expected to do costume, scenery, or lighting work). The Bernina's got constant use: 8 hours a day, six or seven days a week, year after year, after year--and they always cooperated. At Mills (my college) we only had Berninas. When I worked in various summer stock costume shops where tere was a mix of machines, we would get into real battles over whom would be forced to use the non-Berninas. (In one shop we had a set of Singer "Touch 'n Sews" that we called the "Touch 'n Fall Aparts."
ReplyDeleteHi Zippi, I am here! (waving wildly)lol.
ReplyDeleteI have been giving serious thought to a used Bernina 170 as an entrance level machine because I don't really have another hour in the day to take it up full-time. But if a Nina 200 fell into my lap, I wouldn't stand up.
Love your blog.
Heather
Hi Sarah-Hope and thanks for your comment. :o) Boy, do I love, love Bernina's, too. My SM, Serger and Cover Stitcher are all Ninas. I still have a now rather ancient Pfaff, the first great machine I ever owned. I use it now for patchwork, and like it best for that. The built in walking foot is just amazing. I hear you about the Touch and Sews. We used to call them "Touch and Blows Up"!
ReplyDeleteHow fun to be in acting, running around the lighting rig, painting sets, and sewing costumes in theater. However small, it's fast paced and exciting.
I almost started as a volunteer to make costumes for a wonderful smallish theater here(Lamb's Players). If it hadn't involved an 80 mile roundtrip three days a week, I'd have done it. I don't want to drive that much on freeways in a week. lol!
Hey there Heather. Thanks for the comment. A birdy told me that the dress is finished. I'll bet you are happy about it all, though. Oh, a 170 sounds like a great Nina for starting and to keep, really. They are nice machines.
I seriously look at the new BSR Artista 440 QE Nina but are they EVER over the top expensive. It's a quilter's dream machine. It would be silly for me to have but sometimes I daydream about it.