Quilting cotton at $15/yard? What special hell is this?
The location of my new apartment turned out better than I expected. I knew it was two blocks from Nick's office, but I did not know it was around the corner from a specialist cheese shop and a sewing supply store.
I'm not sure which is more dangerous, the cheese shop or the sewing store. At the first I could do a lot of damage every day. At the second, I walked through the front door and the owner was playing with a Pfaff embroidery machine that runs 8,000 euros. The first thing she said when she saw me looking was, "You can make your own designs on the computer, then embroider them!" which was a much better sales tactic than the lady in New York who said, "And you can buy all these embroidery designs! Like it has this pack of Disney characters, so you can embroider Bambi to put on a pocket."
I'm a little concerned about my sewing machines working over here. I'm unsure of the voltage.
I'm not sure which is more dangerous, the cheese shop or the sewing store. At the first I could do a lot of damage every day. At the second, I walked through the front door and the owner was playing with a Pfaff embroidery machine that runs 8,000 euros. The first thing she said when she saw me looking was, "You can make your own designs on the computer, then embroider them!" which was a much better sales tactic than the lady in New York who said, "And you can buy all these embroidery designs! Like it has this pack of Disney characters, so you can embroider Bambi to put on a pocket."
I'm a little concerned about my sewing machines working over here. I'm unsure of the voltage.
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August 10th, 2012 by Betty Valentine | Comments Off
The location of my new apartment turned out better than I expected. I knew it was two blocks from Nick's office, but I did not know it was around the corner from a specialist cheese shop and a sewing supply store.
I'm not sure which is more dangerous, the cheese shop or the sewing store. At the first I could do a lot of damage every day. At the second, I walked through the front door and the owner was playing with a Pfaff embroidery machine that runs 8,000 euros. The first thing she said when she saw me looking was, "You can make your own designs on the computer, then embroider them!" which was a much better sales tactic than the lady in New York who said, "And you can buy all these embroidery designs! Like it has this pack of Disney characters, so you can embroider Bambi to put on a pocket."
I'm a little concerned about my sewing machines working over here. I'm unsure of the voltage. <lj-user="diadiadiadia"> and I have the same serger, and from what she said I'm a little concerned that it can't handle the higher voltage here. I'm completely in the dark about the machine.
(Messing with the voltage doesn't work. My Chi flatiron is OK with different voltages, so I was able to use it in China with no trouble. Then one day I went to use a curling iron I've been good friends with for 10 years, and suddenly the entire apartment reeked of burning hair, and I had a little burned-off tuft right in the middle of my forehead.)
On the other hand, the sewing store might qualify as the Special Hell, because their sale table had quilting cotton for an unconscionable $15/meter. Whatwhatwhat? I was horrified. I'm concerned that fabric might be something that can't be done here. I might have to either order from Fashion Fabrics Club and see if they ship internationally, or I might have to start mailing fabric to my mother and having her send it to me. (She didn't like it last time I did that, because a 10-yard roll showed up and she was like, "OK, how do I box this thing?")
I'm not sure which is more dangerous, the cheese shop or the sewing store. At the first I could do a lot of damage every day. At the second, I walked through the front door and the owner was playing with a Pfaff embroidery machine that runs 8,000 euros. The first thing she said when she saw me looking was, "You can make your own designs on the computer, then embroider them!" which was a much better sales tactic than the lady in New York who said, "And you can buy all these embroidery designs! Like it has this pack of Disney characters, so you can embroider Bambi to put on a pocket."
I'm a little concerned about my sewing machines working over here. I'm unsure of the voltage. <lj-user="diadiadiadia"> and I have the same serger, and from what she said I'm a little concerned that it can't handle the higher voltage here. I'm completely in the dark about the machine.
(Messing with the voltage doesn't work. My Chi flatiron is OK with different voltages, so I was able to use it in China with no trouble. Then one day I went to use a curling iron I've been good friends with for 10 years, and suddenly the entire apartment reeked of burning hair, and I had a little burned-off tuft right in the middle of my forehead.)
On the other hand, the sewing store might qualify as the Special Hell, because their sale table had quilting cotton for an unconscionable $15/meter. Whatwhatwhat? I was horrified. I'm concerned that fabric might be something that can't be done here. I might have to either order from Fashion Fabrics Club and see if they ship internationally, or I might have to start mailing fabric to my mother and having her send it to me. (She didn't like it last time I did that, because a 10-yard roll showed up and she was like, "OK, how do I box this thing?")
