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Aug. 31st, 2015 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotWatching The Best of Men this evening - it's one of those that's been on my Netflix queue for a long time but never called to me hard enough for me to actually watch it. Eddie Marsan stars (an unlikely start to a sentence, I know) as a Jewish German doctor in an English military hospital who encourages exercise and a positive attitude for paraplegic patients during WWII. Rob Brydon's also in it and steals the show, expectedly. It's a pretty straightforward movie, but decent.
I finally got around to making napkins this afternoon!! I tightened the treadle belt and it worked like a charm, though I also had to take apart and clean the tension assembly and then the shuttle in the process due to tension issues. Now that's one less pile of fabric on the floor. Dad asked me the other day why I didn't just buy napkins, well I could do that, but all I had to do was get a $1 pillowcase at the thrift shop, unpick it and cut it up, let the pieces sit around for four months, buy a treadle sewing machine, service it, learn how to wind its bobbin ... and there I am!
I finally got around to making napkins this afternoon!! I tightened the treadle belt and it worked like a charm, though I also had to take apart and clean the tension assembly and then the shuttle in the process due to tension issues. Now that's one less pile of fabric on the floor. Dad asked me the other day why I didn't just buy napkins, well I could do that, but all I had to do was get a $1 pillowcase at the thrift shop, unpick it and cut it up, let the pieces sit around for four months, buy a treadle sewing machine, service it, learn how to wind its bobbin ... and there I am!
