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Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Tuesday's Top Tip - Tea Break

Every serious sewing session includes a tea break.  Five minutes in the kitchen for a breather, dreaming up marvellous projects and scoffing biscuits, back to the sewing machine with the second mug of tea, put it on the table, start stitching again from where you left off... aagh... oh horrors...

The moral of this story applies mainly to right handers using a hand machine.

Don't put your tea on the table too close to the sewing machine.  As soon as you start sewing again the tea goes flying.

How do I know?  Bitter experience, many years ago when I was young and foolish.  Such an awful waste of tea.  I just want to spare you all the same agony.

2 comments:

  1. As Soon as I saw that picture I thought "there's a health and safety issue right there". I always put my cup and saucer "beyond" the machine, so that it is another lovely thing to look at while I work.
    My loves are
    Tea ( amongst the others)
    cake
    Time
    Sewing
    peace and quiet

    and when they're combined it's just the BIZ. So you can imagine why I liked your site from the first!

    Catcha!

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    1. Cup and saucer - gosh, that's posh. It's usually a beaten up old mug on the table here.

      Love,
      Muv

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