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Old Style Sewers - Help Needed

moggins · 2005-10-19 10:36:27

I managed to pick up a rather ancient basic Singer from the bootsale this morning. It works perfectly but unfortunately I am still rubbish!! The thread is all knotting up on the underneath of the fabric. What am I doing wrong. The instruction book is very good and comes with very easy to understand pictures so I can even…

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moggins Posts: 5,190 Forumite

22 October 2005 at 4:57PM

I found the most amazing book in the Oxfam shop today, it's all about sewing toys and characters based around the three bears story. It's so well done that even an idiot like me can understand it and best of all they can all be hand sewn

Organised people are just too lazy to look for things

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