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Post by Nova Darklighter on Sept 15, 2002 4:13:22 GMT -5
Homeschooling is fine, you guys are doing ok, I think it's a problem if things are left out by the person doing the teaching for a personal agenda thing, the more you learn, the safer you are.
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Post by Eqin Ilis on Sept 16, 2002 16:54:51 GMT -5
::whistles and stares guiltily at the ceiling:: The only thing we "left out" was some American Literature... I like Mark Twain's stuff, and I liked Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Two Years Before the Mast). But I can't stand most of the other American authors... Well, the ones I hadn't already read. I'm a British freak.
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Post by Nova Darklighter on Sept 17, 2002 2:38:59 GMT -5
Poe is fun, Hawthorne's a bit of a bore at times, but serves a purpose, he's fairly accurate in portraying his period, and the moral ideas of the time. I like Louisa May Alcott, though I was in my 20's the first time I read her stuff, it's sweet at times, but she was very much into women's rights for her time.
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Post by Eqin Ilis on Sept 17, 2002 12:13:14 GMT -5
Poe is twisted. I know, he was on drugs, and he was depressed... he was still twisted. You're right about Hawthorne. Zzzzzzzzzzz. Louisa May Alcott... Let's just say she isn't thrilling if you're part of the male population. ::points at self:: (My mom *did* read Little Women to me though... I was 8 at the time.)
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Post by Ryss Fal-Orran on Sept 17, 2002 17:30:28 GMT -5
I couldn't get very far into Little Woman....too boring.... And I just finished reading The Old Man And The Sea....borrrrring too.
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Post by Xana on Sept 17, 2002 21:24:29 GMT -5
Little Women-- blech! Just couldn't read it. The movie was good!
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Post by Nova Darklighter on Sept 18, 2002 0:08:45 GMT -5
Wow, I loved "old man and the sea" but not much Hemingway otherwise, I've read so much that I forgot what I've read, until you mention it. Not literature, but, I always Loved Robert Heinlien, He and Ray Bradbury were a couple of my favourite authors, as well as Asimov, Norton, HG Wells. Funny though, the only books by Frank Herbert that I ever could finish were Dune, Dune Messiah & Children of Dune I never finished anything else I ever tried to read by him. So Eqin, what Kind of Sewing Machine does your grandmother have?
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Post by Eqin Ilis on Sept 18, 2002 11:36:45 GMT -5
An old one? Um... I think it's a Singer. All I know is, she's had it for over 20 years, and it still works. (Even though she uses it alot!)
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Post by Xana on Sept 18, 2002 21:11:35 GMT -5
An old one...... lol! My mom has a 40 yr. old one her father gave her when my youngest older brother was born. A last attempt to domesticate her. It didn't work. lol! The same stitch that was on it then is the one that is on it now.
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Post by Nova Darklighter on Sept 21, 2002 0:47:43 GMT -5
My oldest working sewing machine is not even electric & does 1 sticth, it's the machine that I really learned to sew on, I would occasionaly use my Mom's before that, but not to do anything brilliant.
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Post by Eqin Ilis on Sept 23, 2002 12:04:25 GMT -5
::gives a low whistle:: That thing must be ancient. Personally, if the technology on a machine is older than me, it's old. Of course, I'm from the computer generation....
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Post by Nova Darklighter on Sept 24, 2002 21:52:31 GMT -5
It was made in the 1800's, it's an antique singer, foot treadle machine, solid wood & cast iron. LOVE IT!
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Post by JediMistressDragon on Jan 31, 2003 12:15:40 GMT -5
I had to get a new one since my old Singer was messing up and hubby bought us one at Walmart--the next to cheapest brand. (I said us--he can sew too!). The best is Huskaqvanas, but they can bee expensive. But my Brother is a good one, and does what i want of it--which is mostly for costuming (I don't do much sewing of other stuff--I van buy jeans, shorts and T-shirts cheaper!). Advice for those who don't sew--if you don't ahve a friend or relative nearby that can sew and teach you, take a small class from a fabric store or nearby nightschool. What little you may learn will help you; then rest is trial and error, experience is how those master costumers become that way and win in masquerades--don't believe one who says they became that way off the bat! they all started same as everyone. JMD
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Post by Schph Gochi on Jan 31, 2003 18:37:08 GMT -5
amen....it seems to be my errors that teach me the most!
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Post by Nova Darklighter on Feb 2, 2003 2:02:43 GMT -5
I've been sewing seriously for 30 years and I still learn from my mistakes, though I make them less often, and mostly when I'm half asleep. I hope you have better luck with your Brother machine than I did with mine, but I think it was a lemon from the start. My next machine is gonna be an industrial, probably Juki or Singer, I've used both in production situations and they're both reliable and not out of reach pricewise. And for a laugh, one day I bought one of those Mini Sewing Machines, they do work, pretty much one stich, one speed, but it can run on batteries, and weighs almost nothing and I can pack it in my suitcase when I go to Britain in the spring, I always have to finish my costume while I travel so this will be a breeze this year, and if it isn't mine someone in my group of buddies will need help. Imagine sitting on the train, traveling the British countryside as I SEW! That's a VACATION?
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