Monday, July 17, 2006
SEW, we’ve got it covered.
Modern technology meets the Banana Bus at last. Having, since we acquired the van, been in need of some sort of covering for the cupboards – the doors have long been missing – Gail borrowed a friend’s sewing machine to get stitching before we head off for a wee day or two up north.
There’s a perfectly lovely electric Singer machine languishing in the shed under heaps and heaps of stuff and neither of us could be bothered to retrieve it so you can imagine our delight when we unveiled the machine Mandy had lent us.
It too was a Singer and is quite possibly one of the most beautiful objects I’ve ever seen. I’ve not had a “Google” for it yet but it looks like it might be the best part of – if not more than – a century old. Its operation and functions are – by today’s standards I suppose – somewhat primitive but there’s no doubting the quality of the craftsmanship and the fact that it still glides smoothly after all this time is testament to the manufacturing process employed not a mile from the Clydebank yards where some of the world’s great liners slipped into the water.
A thing of beauty it most certainly is and the curtains are looking pretty good too.
Modern technology meets the Banana Bus at last. Having, since we acquired the van, been in need of some sort of covering for the cupboards – the doors have long been missing – Gail borrowed a friend’s sewing machine to get stitching before we head off for a wee day or two up north.
There’s a perfectly lovely electric Singer machine languishing in the shed under heaps and heaps of stuff and neither of us could be bothered to retrieve it so you can imagine our delight when we unveiled the machine Mandy had lent us.
It too was a Singer and is quite possibly one of the most beautiful objects I’ve ever seen. I’ve not had a “Google” for it yet but it looks like it might be the best part of – if not more than – a century old. Its operation and functions are – by today’s standards I suppose – somewhat primitive but there’s no doubting the quality of the craftsmanship and the fact that it still glides smoothly after all this time is testament to the manufacturing process employed not a mile from the Clydebank yards where some of the world’s great liners slipped into the water.
A thing of beauty it most certainly is and the curtains are looking pretty good too.
