She temporarily converted one of her presses to counter space, moved her home sewing machine into the studio, acquired the latest computerized machine for embroidery, specialized sewing machine feet and a range of rotary cutters, oddly shaped scissors and oddly marked rulers more indigenous to a garment factory than a print studio.
I push the pages under the machine foot as in a dance to the music (but also to my own beat), with no plan in a totally visceral way, working from page one to page 16.
Patients were in a supine position and entered the scanning machine feet first.
If the patch placement area is accessible by sewing machine foot, you can sew it on with a sewing machine.
If you hand tack, the thread can get caught on the machine foot and drag your stitching.
You can use a special machine foot that basically "rolls" the cloth over so that the raw edge is hidden... or you could do this "by hand" and fold the raw edge under as you stitch.
The consensus is that Ducasse, with his long arms and sewing-machine feet, is such a unique physical talent that he will eventually win the starting position.
The result was legal and commercial gridlock, broken only when, in 1856, Howe and three of the leading sewing-machine manufacturers (among them Isaac Merritt Singer, who gave the world the sewing-machine foot pedal) agreed to pool their patents and form a trust.
They hunched over their machines, feet exposed, looked at the ground, and avoided questions.
In the end, I had a machine 2 feet wide, 2 feet long and 2.3 feet tall, with moving parts and fancy blue lights.
Most of those fangs come courtesy of the Indominus rex, a genetically modified dinosaur, a killing machine 50 feet long and 18 feet high that would sooner take a bite out of you than look at you.
