Re: Mending clothes by hand


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Mary Fisher wrote:
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Mary Fisher wrote:
Cue for members to claim they have silent machines :-)

Mary
My treadle machines make a very soothing clickety-clack.

The one I used to use did too and it wasn't unpleasant - but it
interfered with my radio listening (plays and other voice-based
programmes).

Hand sewing, apart from being very satisfying, is an excuse to sit and
relax while enjoying the radio.

I do a lot of knitting too and have a machine. Guess how I knit!

:-)

Mary

*sigh* You're a luddite? OK, you sew by hand, and knit by hand....do you
own a food processor but never use it?

I own a bread making machine but very rarely use it. I use the Kenwood mixer
for making dough (I make a large amount at a time, enough for a week).
That's because my old hands are so arthritic I can't mix by hand. When the
dough has been mixed I fold and stretch rather than knead. Nothing Luddite
about that, it makes better bread in our opinion :-)

No, I'm not a Luddite, nor a Chartist, nor a Leveller or any other of the
political idealists, it's jkust more satisfying to make things by hand, with
the feel of the textures and smell of the materials than it is to use a
machine. I did use sewing machines of various kinds (hand, foot and
electric) for about fifty years, now I have time and leisure I've discovered
the delights of a slower pace of life.

Oh - and I cook all our own food from raw ingredients - even grow some of
them. When the hens aren't laying we don't use eggs, it's not difficult!
When we camp I cook in the same way, making everything over charcoal or
occasionally bottled gas. In the house I recently acquired a microwave and
find it good for some things. But we still don't have a tv ...

Mary

But I love my computer and so do my correspondents because my handwriting
has always been execrable :-)


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