On 24/07/2015 1:03 PM, wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:38:17 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2015-07-24 8:32 AM, 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.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I guess it wouldn't have been all that difficult to come up with
>>> an airy wooden box with an inner lining and a lid. You could even make
>>> it with rustic appeal using old fruit packing crates.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I bought a small, inexpensive sewing machine a few years ago. I use it
>> for hemming things and the occasional minor repair. My wife has never
>> touched it and could not see any value in having one. When our son was
>> young he used to bring things to me to be sewn.
>
> My father was like that - he went to sea aged 14 and soon found if he
> darned socks and knitted new ones, he could earn some money from it
>
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I have a sailmaker's "glove" with which you can push bodkins through
tough canvas. It was last used in WW2 to sew sailors' corpses into
hammocks for burial at sea.
Graham

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