Lea01

as i am new and learning about this stuff... forgive me if it's a certain type of sponge that you use but thought i'd give some input re: sponges If it is the typical aborbing good sponges you buy from the groc. store I wonder if this is what could be what had happened... I bought a couple of packs of sponges different times...and they felt spightly lightly damp when I opened the packages... I just thought that the first time I opened up a pkg that perhaps the store I got it from the whole box gotten wet (as I live in a wet/ damp type of climate as I live near the ocean. After buying a new pkg of sponges a month later again it was alittle damp kind of I went back to the store and looked closely at all the sponges same thing for all......I then searched the net as I was questioning if / why sponges were like thins... Surprisingly I had found out that new sponges are soaked slightly to prevent sponges from allowing bacteria breeding and other stuff. I don't know what the stuff they put sponges in then it is pkged but it isn't water. You have to give a good good rincing of the sponges . Apearently it's a safe non-toxic liquid..I'd check with other pkgs of where you bought your sponge from see if got this stuff in it...(look at the clear plastic to see if there is a inside film...or buying another sponge and check if it's a sponge free of this liquid or has this liqid stuff....by squeezing the sponge you can't tell unless you actualy feel directly the sponge itself...( i found that they started doing this over the last few months... le us know what you find out what happened Lea

thank, I could use this for sure!!

Besides a seamstress I am an author and self publisher...after doing many many searches over the net a few years back I finally came across this site and since I've always keep on hand/ use and pass along this would probably help you and many here's a website that is greeat for how to bound paper and make your own books, I believe that this will help you in making your wedding gift! here is the website Hope that this works great for you (and others) http://nomediakings.org/doityourself/doity...book_press.html lea

" crappiest piece of leather" you can take any bad/ ugly piece of fabric/ leather and make something out of it...but it takes the work of art and the good skilled person that can make the worst piece of something and turn it into a beautiful product etc thanks for showing how to put this item together with your easy understanding diagrams etc Lea

Hi I'm Lea a Seamstress from BC canada, and I do alot of custom stuff but haven't worked with leather. I've never sewn leather anything but have been intrested in it and I am sure, here, I will learn and meet good people along the way. I have been intrested in how people make things, do the puting together and making the items turn into the final product. I always was intrested in how the indentations happen making the pictures/ patterns etc in the leather etc etc but never seen it done or what exactly what all goes nto it. it has always intrested me. I've always wondered if my seamstress sewing is the same or different what is different and what is the same about the two. I'd also like to learn about the leathers...I know that there are firm leathers and ones that feal like they nearly melt in your hands like cause they are sooo flexable etc. I've always wondered if they sewd the same...satten/ silt you have to be very carful not to make a run in the matereal yet other matereals are so given and if you make a mistakeit's ok easy to fix and no trace of threads been re-sewn prior...type of idea. I aso thought i'd like to extend my knowledge and learn new things/ ways of sewing. thanks for allowing me to join Lea

hi every one, Just passing on a what I have done, as well re: sewing machine peddles Some start with the hill of your foot presses down and the ball of your foot rests upon the peddle to excelerate it to go... with a pressor foot like that ,I've turned the foot around and press it like you would a vehical ( heal resting and ball of foot does the pressing ) while driving along with your heal of your foot is able to rest and easy functioning on the brain so to speak... I found that with these kinds of pressor feet by doing this, you how have full control over your sewing machine. Another good idea wen getting a used sewing machine or pulling out one from the closet for quite some time to save you alot of greif...is to take it in and have it lined up, and they will oil it as well. Beleave you me nothin like trying to sew and having the frustration of it not running very smothly and having to restich where you've made holes prior in your work... not funn at all... when thread does break when it goes in where the bobbon is most of the time it means that the timing is out what I found was with my older machine which I had bought some time ago and it was in storage (so I bought a new one) the new one has alot of plastic and compared to my older one -both having the same features pretty much..(fancy stitching) I prefure my oldder one over the newer one cause of the durability! When doing the turning of the matereal so that you are able to back stitch.. give it 2-3 back stiches the turn it back to the starting of how you sewing and give it 1 more stitch. remove the artical then pull one string so its firm with a little tug, then do the same with the 2nd string...it double locks in your stitching then cut the strings close to the fabric where the strings do come out on each side. This gives it a nice professional finished look as well Hope all is going well with your sewing etc lea01