[visionrehabtherapist] Re: Threading a sewing machine and sewing machine suggestions
- From: "Ross" <ssor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dasmot@xxxxxxx>, <Robin.Illers@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:57:11 -0500
You mean there is actually things that aren't made in China? Trust me, it
isn't made here. And does that fact that it is not made here, mean that it
shouldn't be bought?
Ross
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debra Sokol-McKay" <dasmot@xxxxxxx>
To: <Robin.Illers@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:44 AM
Subject: [visionrehabtherapist] Re: Threading a sewing machine and sewing
machine suggestions
| Hi Robin,
|
| Can you give us the name and manufacturer of the product?
| Hopefully it is not just "made in china."
|
| Debbie
| ---- Original message ----
| >Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:52:52 -0800
| >From: "Robin Illers" <Robin.Illers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
| >Subject: [visionrehabtherapist] Re: Threading a sewing machine and sewing
machine suggestions
| >To: <visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
| >
| > There are "handicapped" sewing machine needles that
| > have a slit down one side. They work best for
| > straight stitching, but not well for zigzagging or
| > other patterns.
| >
| > I recently found a flat metal needle threader that
| > is about 1.5 long and has different sized flat hooks
| > on each end. I am looking forward to trying this
| > one, since the hook is open on one side and is not
| > threaded like other needle threaders. I purchased it
| > at a local fabric store last month and am hoping it
| > stays on the market.
| >
| >
| >
| > Robin Illers
| > CVRT, Rehabilitation Instructor
| > Oregon Commission for the Blind
| > 444 NE Winchester, PMB 13B
| > Roseburg, OR 97470
| >
| > robin.illers@xxxxxxxxxxx
| > phone: (541) 492-1171
| >
| > >>> "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
| > 1/8/2009 6:35 AM >>>
| > I am curious if any of you, have suggestions on how
| > to make threading a
| > sewing machine easier? I have a customer who loves
| > to quilt, and has two
| > sewing machines, and has recently lost some vision.
| > I don't have a sewing
| > machine myself, I want one, smile, so I was
| > wondering if anyone has come up
| > with some easy or creative ways to get that thread
| > into the needle. We
| > tried the floss threader, wire needle threader (best
| > so far), self threading
| > needles (she loves), but wondering if there are
| > other methods that work out
| > well?
| >
| > Also, smile, does anyone have a favorite brand or
| > type of sewing machine
| > that is good for a blind beginner sewer?
| >
| > thanks.
| >
| > Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT
| > And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog
| > guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx
| > Guide Dogs for the Blind
| > Alumni Association
| > www.guidedogs.com
| >
| > The people who burned witches at the stake never for
| > one moment thought of
| > their act as violence;
| > rather they thought of it as an act of divinely
| > mandated righteousness.
| > The same can be said of most of the violence we
| > humans have ever
| > committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b.
| > 1944)
| >
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