For what has been a genuinely awful year for all, whatever your reason for seasonal celebrations, make sure you paint the town red, white and blue with polka dots and don't get caught. ;D
What color are the poke a dots to be painted? Green, orange, yellow or purple?
Merry Christmas Y'all.
Something for your stockings, er uh, computer drives..
Make the reason for the season last all year!
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Merry Christmas and all the best to everyone for a change for the better in 2021.
Cheers🥂
Merry Christmas, or,whatever you celebrate.
A merry Christmas to all of you. And happy new year.
Being a new age sensitive barbarian, my solution was to eat and sleep all day, slightly too much Christmas cheer and polished off a bottle of Kahlúa and late in the day a Pure Blonde but only for medical reasons. ;D
Goodness, now that's all over, :)
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :)
Hope everyones' Christmas and New Year"s was the best possible.
Here"s hoping '21 is as fun and exciting as turning 21. Oh, to have so much promise to look forward to once again.
Instead, highlight of my holidays was finding out my parents can register for a Covid vacination this coming monday morning and as their care-giver I "might" be able to do the same.
Gonna hafta place that one in the same category as receiving a washer and dryer for Uni graduation. Where the machines were my "Welcome to Adulthood", I think looking forward to a vacination is "Welcome to Old Age".
Fortunately, though my mind realizes the truth - my brain is determined to happily hold onto age 40 ! Only wish the mirror reflected the same! ::)
Cheers to All!
There is nothing wrong with old age (as long as you are healthy enough), it just takes a lifetime of experience to get there. ;D
Everyday is a gift. Don't waste a moment of it!!
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C Napier Hemy Through Air and Sea
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A 1910 photo found in a document on early airship clothes.
Beautiful Cutter Steelmillal, love the airship clothes too.
Here in our parts of the world its just cold!! Thick wool is the rule, and layers of it. Wish I could find a conex container full of forgotten +480gram tweeds! Mackinaw cloth comes from Michigan, or did years ago. Think melton with attitude.
As to the boat, "simply messing around in boats" is a Great Lakes way of life.
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As a kid, my grandparents used to buy Scottish tweed overcoats for us in the winter and they were about a half an inch thick. We don't have extreme cold in the winters here in OZ but these overcoats did the job when the cold would go through your bones.
Sir, yes Sir. Gimme a tonne of 32oz tweeds and I'd be a happy fellow!
I was working with some older 1950's overcoats and yeah, they were thick! I dont think any of my current machines would have enough clearance to get the layers under the presser foot, not to mention the weight of hefty the fabric around while sewing the armhole.
I wonder if they used a walking foot or a specialized machine to sew them?
It was probably an old clunker made back when you could get fabrics like that. There would be something in modern times that could do that task but it would be a bit specialised. I vaguely remember multi-layers of a fleece I use started to get difficult to get under a pressure foot. Probably the trick would be to have a foot that you could adjust the height of so you could set the maximum thickness manually but I imagine you would still need a decent industrial to do the stitching.
Started new thread.
http://movsd.com/BespokeCutter/index.php?topic=988.0
And bookend for New Year...
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