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~**Army QM**~

thejennigirlthejennigirl
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Yes, lol!  I did buy a sewing machine last weekend too.

I bought the one last weekend for the cabinet it came in, but am in love with the machine too, so now it's an antique that I'd like to get up and running just to have in working order.

Today's find may find it's way to the MOPs group (I'm the creative activities coordinator) or it may become a good "traveling" machine since it has a good case and all.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it (other than sew).

Perhaps I will keep buying used machines for $5, and then Glad & I will open a traveling sewing school and teach willing EFFers?

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    I thought that was you!

    Sign me up for those classes!

    I was telling my mom tonight about you buying all these old machines so I asked her about the old treadle machine they used to have when I was growing up.  Supposedly they still have it and want to give it to me (it's in the garage taking up space).  It's a 1929 Bruce that belonged to my great-grandmother.  Unfortunately it's missing the bobbin and I'm guessing those are not easy to come by  these days.  

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    Oh, and I'm too lazy to sew with an electric machine so I dont know why my mom thinks I'd actually use a treadle!! 
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  • GladToBeMrs.SRSGladToBeMrs.SRS member
    imagethejennigirl:

    Perhaps I will keep buying used machines for $5, and then Glad & I will open a traveling sewing school and teach willing EFFers?

     

    I'm so game for this right now, you have NO IDEA.  Where shall we begin?

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    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:
    imagethejennigirl:

    Perhaps I will keep buying used machines for $5, and then Glad & I will open a traveling sewing school and teach willing EFFers?

     

    I'm so game for this right now, you have NO IDEA.  Where shall we begin?

    Here!
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  • GladToBeMrs.SRSGladToBeMrs.SRS member
    I'm on my way.  Jenni, start packing your machines.  I'll meet you there. 
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  • thejennigirlthejennigirl
    imageArmyQM:

    It's a 1929 Bruce that belonged to my great-grandmother.  Unfortunately it's missing the bobbin and I'm guessing those are not easy to come by  these days.  

    Google, eBay, and sewing machine repair shops are your friends :)

    That sounds like a fab machine!  I feel like I made a new friend with the 1928 sitting there in the entry way.  I pet her everytime I go to and from the stair case.

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    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:
    imagethejennigirl:

    Perhaps I will keep buying used machines for $5, and then Glad & I will open a traveling sewing school and teach willing EFFers?

     

    I'm so game for this right now, you have NO IDEA.  Where shall we begin?

    With buying more $5 machines, duh!

    I'm on a one woman mission to rescue these babies from rusting away in basements, garages, sheds, and scrap piles!

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  • GladToBeMrs.SRSGladToBeMrs.SRS member

    My serger is a "she," too.  She's a very butch "she," though. 

    hehehee.  

     

    =)

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    imagethejennigirl:
    imageArmyQM:

    It's a 1929 Bruce that belonged to my great-grandmother.  Unfortunately it's missing the bobbin and I'm guessing those are not easy to come by  these days.  

    Google, eBay, and sewing machine repair shops are your friends :)

    That sounds like a fab machine!  I feel like I made a new friend with the 1928 sitting there in the entry way.  I pet her everytime I go to and from the stair case.

    Damn, I thought I had an excuse not to take the machine.
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    imageArmyQM:
    Damn, I thought I had an excuse not to take the machine.

    They're alive.

    Believe me.

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    Ok, so let me see if I have this right.  I need to get that machine from my parents, get it fixed and then you and Glad will come teach me to sew?  What else do I have to have in order to make this happen?  Beer, wine, brownies? 
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  • GladToBeMrs.SRSGladToBeMrs.SRS member

    imageArmyQM:
    Ok, so let me see if I have this right.  I need to get that machine from my parents, get it fixed and then you and Glad will come teach me to sew?  What else do I have to have in order to make this happen?  Beer, wine, brownies? 

    Yes.  

     

     

     

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    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:

    imageArmyQM:
    Ok, so let me see if I have this right.  I need to get that machine from my parents, get it fixed and then you and Glad will come teach me to sew?  What else do I have to have in order to make this happen?  Beer, wine, brownies? 

    Yes. 

    Hmmm....I could make this work.
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  • GladToBeMrs.SRSGladToBeMrs.SRS member

    Me too.  Oh, how I could make this work. 

    I'll bring the fabric.  Any preferences?  

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    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:

    imageArmyQM:
    Ok, so let me see if I have this right.  I need to get that machine from my parents, get it fixed and then you and Glad will come teach me to sew?  What else do I have to have in order to make this happen?  Beer, wine, brownies? 

    Yes.  

     

     

     

    All of the above, hot tea, & a place to sleep.

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    I'd say minkee but I am guessing that's not the easiest thing to learn to sew on.  So I'll go with whatever you have that's not girly.  Bring it all!!  And yes, I know you have tons so that's why you need to bring it all!!  Rent a UHAUL and come on up. 

    I wish I had something exciting up here to entice you with but it's just me and my cute kid....and two annoying but cute dogs as well.  

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  • GladToBeMrs.SRSGladToBeMrs.SRS member

    So long as I can leave my stress here, I'm down with the cute dogs, cute kid, and fabric-fest. 

    I recommend flannel or cotton wovens for learning.  MUCH easier than minkee or other knits.  PUL is pretty easy, though.  Want me to bring some of that, too?

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  • thejennigirlthejennigirl
    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:

    Me too.  Oh, how I could make this work. 

    I'll bring the fabric.  Any preferences?  

    Pick me up on your way there.

    I'll bring jelly.  I got 10 lbs of rhubarb today :)

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    imagethejennigirl:
    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:

    Me too.  Oh, how I could make this work. 

    I'll bring the fabric.  Any preferences?  

    Pick me up on your way there.

    I'll bring jelly.  I got 10 lbs of rhubarb today :)

    Ooooooo...wiffeeeeeyyy....I looooooveeee youuuuuu......

    ::swoon::

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    But of course!  Who doesnt need more PUL?  Diapers, diapers and more diapers would be in Carter's future! 

    Honestly, it seems every day I think of something I think I could potentially sew.  I do know a little of how to sew the basics from my days in Home Ec and summers with my aunt who used to try to teach myself and my cousins (god we made some hideous outfits!) but alas I am a bit too lazy to start such endeavors.  My husband would say "add it to your list" of things I always say I want to do but never actually attempt.  

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    imagethejennigirl:
    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:

    Me too.  Oh, how I could make this work. 

    I'll bring the fabric.  Any preferences?  

    Pick me up on your way there.

    I'll bring jelly.  I got 10 lbs of rhubarb today :)

    Interesting, I've never had rhubarb.
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    imageArmyQM:

    But of course!  Who doesnt need more PUL?  Diapers, diapers and more diapers would be in Carter's future! 

    Honestly, it seems every day I think of something I think I could potentially sew.  I do know a little of how to sew the basics from my days in Home Ec and summers with my aunt who used to try to teach myself and my cousins (god we made some hideous outfits!) but alas I am a bit too lazy to start such endeavors.  My husband would say "add it to your list" of things I always say I want to do but never actually attempt.  

     

    Jenni and I can fix this.  Trust us.  We shall be the Sewing Quarter Masters.  Mouhahahahahahaaaaa!

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    imageArmyQM:
    imagethejennigirl:
    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:

    Me too.  Oh, how I could make this work. 

    I'll bring the fabric.  Any preferences?  

    Pick me up on your way there.

    I'll bring jelly.  I got 10 lbs of rhubarb today :)

    Interesting, I've never had rhubarb.

    Actually, it's almond cherry rhubarb jelly.  Glad's drug of choice, cooked up by your's truely in my kitchen.

    All the fruit is local grown whenever possible.  This rhubarb was picked 15 minutes before I put it in my car this afternoon.

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    imagethejennigirl:
    imageArmyQM:
    imagethejennigirl:
    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:

    Me too.  Oh, how I could make this work. 

    I'll bring the fabric.  Any preferences?  

    Pick me up on your way there.

    I'll bring jelly.  I got 10 lbs of rhubarb today :)

    Interesting, I've never had rhubarb.

    Actually, it's almond cherry rhubarb jelly.  Glad's drug of choice, cooked up by your's truely in my kitchen.

    All the fruit is local grown whenever possible.  This rhubarb was picked 15 minutes before I put it in my car this afternoon.

    ::tilts head and bats eyelashes at Jenni::

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    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:
    imageArmyQM:

    But of course!  Who doesnt need more PUL?  Diapers, diapers and more diapers would be in Carter's future! 

    Honestly, it seems every day I think of something I think I could potentially sew.  I do know a little of how to sew the basics from my days in Home Ec and summers with my aunt who used to try to teach myself and my cousins (god we made some hideous outfits!) but alas I am a bit too lazy to start such endeavors.  My husband would say "add it to your list" of things I always say I want to do but never actually attempt.  

     

    Jenni and I can fix this.  Trust us.  We shall be the Sewing Quarter Masters.  Mouhahahahahahaaaaa!

    Does this mean I can dring the whip & you'll bring the bobbin needles, Glade dearie?

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    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:
    imagethejennigirl:
    imageArmyQM:
    imagethejennigirl:
    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:

    Me too.  Oh, how I could make this work. 

    I'll bring the fabric.  Any preferences?  

    Pick me up on your way there.

    I'll bring jelly.  I got 10 lbs of rhubarb today :)

    Interesting, I've never had rhubarb.

    Patient.

    MIL & I must have pie first.

    Then I make jelly.

    Priorities.  Please the cook, before the masses.

    Actually, it's almond cherry rhubarb jelly.  Glad's drug of choice, cooked up by your's truely in my kitchen.

    All the fruit is local grown whenever possible.  This rhubarb was picked 15 minutes before I put it in my car this afternoon.

    ::tilts head and bats eyelashes at Jenni::

    Patience.

    MIL & I must have pie first.  Then I make jelly.

    Please the cook before the masses.

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  • GladToBeMrs.SRSGladToBeMrs.SRS member

    Is that pie I smell baking? 

    ::continues to bat eyelashes::

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    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:
    imageArmyQM:

    But of course!  Who doesnt need more PUL?  Diapers, diapers and more diapers would be in Carter's future! 

    Honestly, it seems every day I think of something I think I could potentially sew.  I do know a little of how to sew the basics from my days in Home Ec and summers with my aunt who used to try to teach myself and my cousins (god we made some hideous outfits!) but alas I am a bit too lazy to start such endeavors.  My husband would say "add it to your list" of things I always say I want to do but never actually attempt.  


     

    Jenni and I can fix this.  Trust us.  We shall be the Sewing Quarter Masters.  Mouhahahahahahaaaaa!

    The hubster would be quite surprised to come home and find that his wife became a domestic goddess.....well, was on her way to being one anyway.  I'd still have to learn to cook, bake, and all those other things I sorta wish I could do but again was too lazy.
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  • thejennigirlthejennigirl
    imageArmyQM:
    imageGladToBeMrs.SRS:
    imageArmyQM:

    But of course!  Who doesnt need more PUL?  Diapers, diapers and more diapers would be in Carter's future! 

    Honestly, it seems every day I think of something I think I could potentially sew.  I do know a little of how to sew the basics from my days in Home Ec and summers with my aunt who used to try to teach myself and my cousins (god we made some hideous outfits!) but alas I am a bit too lazy to start such endeavors.  My husband would say "add it to your list" of things I always say I want to do but never actually attempt.  


     

    Jenni and I can fix this.  Trust us.  We shall be the Sewing Quarter Masters.  Mouhahahahahahaaaaa!

    The hubster would be quite surprised to come home and find that his wife became a domestic goddess.....well, was on her way to being one anyway.  I'd still have to learn to cook, bake, and all those other things I sorta wish I could do but again was too lazy.

    You know I know how to can right?

    And bake from scratch?

    We've got you covered!

    We might even get out the knitting needles!

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    Woah knitting too?  You guys will be here for a while!  I'm a quick learner but I dont know about knitting, that could take me a while.
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  • GladToBeMrs.SRSGladToBeMrs.SRS member

    I shall teach you to bake pie.  And croissants.  And your hubby will love me forever.  Er, I mean, your hubby will love you for ever. 

     

     

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    imageArmyQM:
    Woah knitting too?  You guys will be here for a while!  I'm a quick learner but I dont know about knitting, that could take me a while.

    You'd be surprised.

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