"If you are sewing, you come here," she said.
Other metallurgical products are sewing machines, auto parts, and surgical instruments.
If you are sewing by hand, then the best hand stitch is the backstitch.
There are sewing cafés (where tea and cake comes with a Singer for hire), even "guerrilla" craft nights in pubs.
Contour seamers are sewing machines that sew curved seams automatically; most such machines were semiautomatic by 1970.
But maybe what they really need are sewing machine to help their small-scale businesses get off the ground.
Their idea was to create a fashion version of a cybercafe: Instead of computers, there are sewing machines that can be rented by the hour.
Times readers were further misinformed by Roger Lewis's suggestion that "the dons are sewing it up to elect" me this time round.
She seems less a participant in the action than a visitor from the Land of Allegory, a "curly-haired goose girl" whose only human skills are sewing, acquired on shipboard, and, eventually, motherhood.
If you are sewing a button on to a coat you will need to make sure the button has enough room underneath to fit the coat fabric when it is done up, otherwise the fabric will pucker.
Meanwhile, electronics engineers are sewing conductive threads and sensors into body suits that map users' whereabouts and respond to environmental stimuli.
