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Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 11:11 am Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

I'll be there!

I've got a set of Edwardian 'speed darners' that we can play with if anyone has a really enormous amount of darning to do

Ren

Joined: 27 Jan 2009
Posts: 1782
Location: southwesterly

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 12:15 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Oooo. Sewing machines! Our school is flogging some off - I've been told a bid of a fiver would probably secure one. Anyone interested?

I'd be interested if there are any more going..

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15925
Location: Earth

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 12:59 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a good idea, I may well be interested, depends what's happening though as it's my Ma & Step-Pa's birthday weekend. But I'm a possible!

Jamanda wrote:

I can't thread a sewing machine

That reminds me, must get my sewing machine out for my Mum to re-show me when she's hear tomorrow, I swear my machine's broked

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 4:02 pm Post subject:

lottie wrote:

I've loads I should be doing instead of the internet and now I need to look up speed darners

they are very strange and slightly lethal looking devices full of sharp pins, you stab them through the fabric, perform a sort of zig zag interlacing with your thread that forms half the darn, then just sew through in the other direction, meant to take half the time of 'normal' darning.

BelindaC

Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Posts: 464
Location: Hertfordshire

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 7:27 pm Post subject:

I have a set of original wartime Make Do and Mend Leaflets, plus the 1943 original MD&M booklet. All potentially photocopiable if anyone needs mending/darning tips.

I used them today in the Clothes and Textiles class I'm teaching - we were investigating clothes rationing and Making Do. I'm sure they suggest at least 27 ways to patch a shirt.

The weekend sounds wonderful but is too far for me to travel. If anyone runs one closer to Herts I might well be interested. I can sew/mend anything that can be done on a 1929 Singer handcrank.

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 7:41 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

lottie wrote:

I've loads I should be doing instead of the internet and now I need to look up speed darners

Thanks---I'd tried to find the info with no success---I just love practical gadgets ancient and modern.

ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 2469
Location: Beds

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 8:07 pm Post subject:

Belinda wrote:

I have a set of original wartime Make Do and Mend Leaflets, plus the 1943 original MD&M booklet. All potentially photocopiable if anyone needs mending/darning tips.

hmmm, I'm sure my home ec teacher in St Albans in the late 70s was called Belinda

jamsam

Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 2560
Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 8:49 pm Post subject:
thats the weekend of my birthday, but im sure i could do it!!! I really need to learn to knit! I'll bring cake!

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 8:51 pm Post subject:

jamsam wrote:

thats the weekend of my birthday, but im sure i could do it!!!

I really need to learn to knit!

I'll bring cake!

shall I put you on the list?

jamsam

Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 2560
Location: erm....i dont know, its dark.

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 9:05 pm Post subject:
put me down as a possible for the day.....i have some friends who are all sewers/knitters/dressmakers etc who would lve to see the farm and join in, i will start a list!!

Helen_A

Joined: 26 Jan 2005
Posts: 1548
Location: MK, Bucks.

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 09 11:17 pm Post subject:
Possibly interested... depends in part on whether DD1 would be scouting or not on those dates, as she needs these skills too!

Chickem

Joined: 27 Mar 2009
Posts: 3959
Location: Slightly soggy South Wales

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 09 9:21 pm Post subject:
Me Me Me (dont care what he say's i wanna come too!)

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35139
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 10 1:31 pm Post subject:
Thought I'd bump this so people remember to to put the date on their new calendars.

cir3ngirl

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 4846
Location: Cirencester

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 10 1:53 pm Post subject:
Don't think I was given a choice about going. Would love to crouchet and spell the word

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jan 26, 10 4:42 pm Post subject:
Do you want me to teach a crochet thing? Dodes the £55 apply to teachers as well as learners? Have I missed things? Have I got a brain?

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