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bashfully seeking sewing advice
By:Will Brockman
Date: 11/8/1999, 9:37 am
In Response To: Make Your Own Drytop (Shawn Baker)

Shawn --

Very nice work.

I have been pressuring a friend whose mother is a home-ec teacher to line me up with a surplus sewing machine. But I don't really know what features are necessary. I first started thinking about getting a hold of a sewing machine -- and suffering through the taunts of other boys -- when I saw commercial prices for sprayskirts and cockpit covers for my newly built kayak. Then I started noticing the outrageous prices for dry bags, outdoor clothing, drapes, sofa covers, you name it. So my questions: For these kinds of projects, how fancy does the sewing machine need to be? Would a used Singer with a zigzag function (this is all I know about the machine my buddy's mother can sell me) have the other necessary features? What is a serger?

Thanks in advance.

--Will

Messages In This Thread

Make Your Own Drytop
Shawn Baker -- 11/5/1999, 2:13 pm
bashfully seeking sewing advice
Will Brockman -- 11/8/1999, 9:37 am
Re: bashfully seeking sewing advice
Tom P -- 11/8/1999, 9:15 pm
Re: bashfully seeking sewing advice
Shawn Baker -- 11/8/1999, 10:12 am
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Shawn Baker -- 11/6/1999, 10:41 pm
Link to seattle fabrics
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/6/1999, 10:56 pm
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Nancy -- 11/6/1999, 7:43 pm
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Don Lueder -- 11/6/1999, 9:57 am
Re: Make Your Own Nylon Sprayskirt
Shawn Baker -- 11/7/1999, 11:08 am
Re: requests
lee -- 11/5/1999, 11:00 pm
Re: Fabric Paddlefloat
Shawn Baker -- 11/7/1999, 10:38 am
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
mike allen -- 11/5/1999, 7:20 pm
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Dean Trexel -- 11/5/1999, 7:32 pm
I Humbly beg the forgiveness of All!
too ashamed to say -- 11/5/1999, 7:37 pm
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Tammy Hanks -- 11/5/1999, 6:48 pm
Re: Make Your Own Drytop
Dean Trexel -- 11/5/1999, 6:33 pm