Last revised on April 8, 2003
Crude, but effective
My sewing room is also my office -- since this box of labels was hanging around,
I obliged it to pull extra duty as a thread dispenser beside the sewing machine.
I'd been using that homemade brass knitting needle as a stylus,
but there are three more in the pencil mug.
And now that the box isn't occupied by a bounding ball,
I might as well use it to store my spare thread, so that the next ball
will be handy when this one runs out.
Note the loop in the thread,
caused by the spool continuing to spin after the sewing machine stopped.
This will be straightened while the thread travels more than three yards,
with two sharp turns,
to the sewing machine.
«»«»«»«»«»
«»«»«»«»«»
«»«»«»«»«»
Back to Rough Sewing
Back to the writing page
Back to the links page
Back to the cover page