My fellow #sewing folk, I have a lunchtime quiz for y'all. You're making 50-ish intricately shaped bags with cotton broadcloth. They cannot be washed because it would destroy the shaping. Do you bother with the usual pre-washing if you know from experience that the fabric behaves the same, pre-washed or no, and doesn't trigger your allergies?
(Note: I do this for a living. Textbook answers not required.)
(Edited question to more closely reflect actual scenario.)
@david I mean, if Brother can make sewing machines...
Also this afternoon, I schlepped up to Canoga Park to pick up my newest adopted bébé, a Juki DDL-5550. A workhorse of modern commercial #sewing ops the world over. Very excited to have a straight stitch machine that I can run at 5,000rpm!!!
May need to get to know him a bit before he gets a proper name, though.
@Remittancegirl You can try to tell me, but I might not believe you. You’re so talented. It’s gonna be great!
@artcollisions The receptionist at the hotel took our docs into a back office to do whatever. For all I know, they were making custom dart boards out of them.
@artcollisions I mean… when traveling in foreign lands, and mos def in Japan last month, every hotel made a copy of my passport. But also, just about every government on earth is less menacing than our own these days. So 
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@sinituulia Blerf! Sewing curtains is the pits.
Just got my flu/covid booster. Trying to get all remaining weekend chores done now before the “hit by a truck” feeling sets in.
Is it just me, or is has an ocean of AI slop subsumed all human produced (i.e. actually useful) content when one is looking for detailed technical info on a given subject? Trying to find good info on the kinds of adjustments that I routinely make to my industrial sewing machines has become a nightmare! Almost all results are some wordy blog post/article that looks suspiciously like the last wordy blog post/article in a cookie cutter layout with little to no real information.
The gingery peach pie with lemon pecan streusel is all done and cooling. I’m completely converted to the “cook shell and filling separately” method for fruit pies. It’s faster to make and, more importantly, faster to cool so that I can stuff it in my face!!! #baking
An increasing number of “it’s surprising how quickly the U.S. media have capitulated to a dictator” headlines seem to have appeared in my news feed.
As someone who worked in and around the U.S. media megaplex for 25 years, I assure you that no one here in the belly of the beast is actually surprised.
Long have media companies been run by craven money pigs. And money pigs will do anything to keep on wallowing. #uspol
@MsHearthWitch Good gods, this is absolutely fabulous!