My DH and I watched Steve Irwin’s Memorial tonight on Animal Planet. We recorded it for the kids to see tommorrow. It was a perfect memorial to Steve for all that loved him so much. There was a song played, “True Blue” by John Williamson which was Steve’s favorite song. [...]

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I ran into this pattern on crochetpatterncentral.com and decided to give it a try. It was fun to do. Accidently, I crocheted the same stitch for three rows, which made kind of a cute ruffle at each end, so I left it. It will make a great scrubber and it was [...]

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My Singer 5127, which held so many memories, has donated her organs (no not the needles, just the motor) so that my new 1975 Repro treadle singer that Mom gave me can live an electric life.
Luckily, I discovered that this machine has a motor mount under the handwheel. After pricing the parts to electrify [...]

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Who knew that not only did they make sewing machines (and gorgeous workhorses are they) but they also make thread? This one turned up on Ebay Express as Vintage Necchi Thread after googling for Necchi.

The rayon I’ve been using is a 40wt. so I wonder how that compares? Is the “30″ in their [...]

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TGIF
It’s been a longer than usual week and I’m dog-tired. The kids are doing really well with their schoolwork, playing really hard in the evenings, going to sleep late and still waking up early. They look healthy and happy and Daddy and I are exhausted. Doctors always say that if you get up [...]

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It was a day mixed with sorrow and tears, thoughts of heroism and anger and lots of supportive hugs as we remembered 9/11 throughout this day we were given.
We must never forget to stand as a United nation. We must have the courage of our convictions just as the passengers of Flight 93, ney, [...]

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This site will be silent on Sept. 11th in memory of all those that lost their lives.
May God bless their loved ones and the heroes that fight to protect us and care for us.

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I’ll write more about her later, but for now, here’s her photo spread. The pictures are clickable for larger images.

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My Sweet Darling Husband bought me the domain name, http://www.sewingmemories.com. The address is populating the net as we speak. What a guy! He spoils me rotten!
It would be really nice to use this sight as a memory post where all of us seamstresses and seamsters can post pics and memories that our [...]

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I recently joined a Necchi Sewing Enthusiast group on Yahoo. After a quick chat via email with the group owner, she had mentioned that she would like to see pics of my Necchi machine, which I’ve named, “Layla”.
I’ve spent most of the day taking pictures of my machines, scanning a couple of [...]

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