I design activewear for kids. This allows me to write off trips to competitions, as well as a portion of my utilities and rent. I also make as a lot of my own dress clothes.
Yeah, as a kid back in '68 I dropped out of school & spent my last 3 months down in the Redland/Oregon City area working @ Oregon City Boat Top & Auto Upholstery. For the first 5/6 weeks I pulled tops/superstructure, curtains, mattresses, seats, sails, anything that could be reupholstered in both the land vehicle shop & the smaller boats(24') inside the boat shop & bigger boats outside the boat shop. Then the boss put me in shop & trained me on a Pfaff 145 H3(strait stitch not zig zag), power machine, safety, machine timing, thread feed/tension, lubrication etc. I spent the last 5/6 weeks mostly stitching so I must have impressed my boss despite a bogus right eye. I was impressed with the journeyman stitchers @ their speed & accuracy.
I never forgot the sound of that electric motor(soothing) & the machine itself, ESPECIALLY @ speed! I was REALLY impressed with both the knowledge & quality of work those journeyman/gals working in that shop. So I seen Designing Woman & thought "she's gotta be a stitcher" & I was right! As touchy as folks are about their upholstery they are REALLY touchy about the clothes they wear. COMPETITIONS, then you do it all including making your own patterns meaning you are a full bore Master journeyman/Woman like WOW!
Below is an image of a Pfaff 145 H3 virtually identicaI to the machine I trained on save this one is for leather. The leaf spring spanning the arm to the head for the presser foot tension is obvious.
hi everybody, my name is Sandrine and i live close to Montreal in Canada : ) Yesterday i bought my first industrial sewing machine : a PFAFF 145 6B H3SN I sew a lot with domestic sewing machines And i was stuck with some leather projects so i decided to jump I thought the PFAFF 145 was for leathe...
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The machine I have now is a Pfaff 145 H4 High lift. It has a coil spring for adjusting the presser foot pressure so the leaf spring is gone on this model as seen below. The machines in the images are not my machines.
Did not mean to talk your head off but it's not every day one meets a person that is a Master artist with the ole thread & needle! Been a pleasure to meet you, take care till next time!