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| a good cheap project (and useful) to get you started would be a pair of garden gloves. |
This does sound a good project, Deedee. I'd like to do something that can be completed quickly just to make me think it's possible for me to carry on. Today I've got Start Sewing by someone whose name escapes me, and the Readers Digest Book of Sewing and Knitting, which I'm hoping is an ancestor of the one Jocorless recommends (both from the library, which is a rubbish library built for the wilfully illiterate - they don't put the paperback fiction in any kind of order, and more space is taken up by computers and music and videos than it is by books, and most of the other books are not on the shelves when they should be, and I hate it but there's nowhere else to go...went in to the library in my home town last weekend on my way to my parents and it's such a nice building and still quiet. You know. Like a library. Rant over  )
Will let you know what I think of the books later. Assuming they have all the pages in them  - when I borrowed mushroom books all the Liberty Cap pages had been torn out - not by staff, they were marked as damaged. Some people have no imagination. I'd be surprised if they managed to harvest any magic mushrooms intact, you'd think their knuckles dragging on the ground would knock 'em all over before they got to them.
Did I say rant over? I was lying. When I'm prime minister (or president) there'll be hard labour without parole for anyone who wilfully damages books ). |
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I may well be calling on your help soon as well!
problem is I'm too soft to say NO!!!!! Tysons have a few shops about one in Kingston and one in Southall..I tend to order most of my supplies off ebay now,fabric etc..I used to sell fabric on there til just before xmas had a few health probs with the kids so had to retire from it all but thats a looong story!Made many good friends there and hope to find the time to get back to it one day 
. But I did do extra lessons in 6th form when I had a free moment, so must have enjoyed it really. It is about practice, and having a go. I've sort of always sewn, made all Sindys clothes - remember her!. But then my mum and gran did too. Have you tried the local evening class scene - I have seen courses for sewing in them - but it will be held in a school sewing room which may bring back bad memories of course. 
I buy all my fabric from the U.S for peanuts in the shops here you're looking at around �10+ a yard on ebay its generally �5.99 in the states its $5 for 2 yards plus around $9 shipping..
Someone suggested charity shops for fabric and stuff these can be great to build your sewing stash.My friends and neighbours also bring in curtains and stuff for me in case I can use them.If they're nice I usually incorporate them into a quilt or something if they are really dire they go in the scraps bin for cleaning my machines 
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