Computer Lady the

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My third love is sewing. I taught myself to sew when I was 18. There is more about my sewing below. My fourth love is computers and technology. I love to teach others about computers, and I like to play with my gadgets like my digital camera, PDA, and MP3 player. I also love scented candles. In fact, I am a distributor with Scent-Sations , a great company that makes the best smelling scented candles I have ever seen. They are soy and vegetable based, and I just love them. My oldest daughter is also a candle distributor. My very first sewing machine was given to my by my grandmother when I was 18 and had just gotten married. It is a very special machine because it was one that she had made clothes for my father on. The sewing machine is an old black Singer that at some point had been converted from a treadle to an electric. Instead of a foot control, the control was built into the table and you pushed it with your knee. That came in handy when I had young children, they could not figure out how I made the machine go. The Singer only had a straight stitch and no reverse. I quickly became good at turning the fabric at the end of a seam to backstitch. I still have that machine, and will keep it for sentimental reasons. My grandmother went home to be with The Lord in 2007. I taught myself to sew on the old black Singer machine that my grandmother gave me. The first thing I did, was take apart a clothespin bag that looked like a little dress on a hanger and made clothespin bags for Christmas gifts that year. The next project I agreed to undertake was to make three bridesmaid dresses for a wedding I was going to be in! How is that for jumping right in to deep water? Those dresses were made of a slippery knit fabric, and I learned a lot sewing them. Two of the bridesmaids, myself and another girl, were pregnant at the time of the wedding, I with my first child, and she was having twins! I'm sure that the seams on those dresses were a little messy and not very straight, but the dresses looked wonderful on the day we wore them. I know that I had one sewing machine after learning to sew on the old black, straight stitch only, no reverse Singer, but I don't remember the details of that machine. I do remember that it wasn't new and the thread tangled up a lot. I finally traded it in for a used Singer Touch and Sew. What an upgrade! I could sew in reverse, zig zag and it even had cams for decorative stitching! I had two little girls by then, and I had the time of my life making ruffled dresses and little jumpers. I even made matching mother - daughter jumpers. I used that Touch and Sew for almost 20 years, until I wore out the parts and the needle would no longer stay in the middle. The repair shop told me that it could not be fixed because the metal had worn away. Even then, I used it for a couple more years, just compensating for the off-center needle position. In 2002, I decided it was time to retire the old Touch N Sew that no longer stayed aligned. I guess I should mention that along the way, I had acquired two sergers. They work great for finishing seams and I keep one threaded with black thread, and one with white.

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