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Janet

In article >, says...
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> On 24/07/2015 7:07 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Friday, July 24, 2015 at 8:32:22 AM UTC-4, Xeno wrote:
> >
> >> We have a sewing machine here but last time I used it I broke it. I've
> >> been banned! Given my sewing ability, this is not a bad thing.
> >
> > It's a power tool! Any man should be able to use
> > a sewing machine (and any woman, too).
> >
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
>
> My mother and her sisters taught me to sew (and even darn socks!) so I
> tackle minor repairs by hand. However, I would use a sewing machine
> much, much more infrequently than my other power tools so I haven't
> bought one.
> Graham

I let my husband use mine. His tailor grandmother taught him as a
small boy, and as a boyscout, he designed and made his own tent. Now he
mostly just mends his own trouserpockets. My sons all learned to knit
for Action Man, and were taught machine sewing at High school and passed
their " machine driving test" (obviously a teacher who knew how to
motivate).

My sewing machine was my mother's, it's a pre-WW2 electric Singer,
still going strong at 70+. (I'm in the middle of making curtains with it
atm.). However, its sturdy capabilities are very plain (doesn't even
reverse) and having tried my friend's modern machine I'm greeneyed about
the scores of different stitches at the push of a button, etc.

Janet UK