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Show Stitching Witchery Sawing (SooeSies By BETTY W. KINSER Copley News Service Sending me to a sewing convention is like turning a child loose in an ice cream parlor and saying, "No limit!" I stuffed my head so full of notes, I came back with overweight over-weight luggage. To tell you everything I learned would take this entire newspaper, so I will give you what I can squeeze in today, then slip in a note or two each week until, either you get tired of reading about them or J run out of notes. t FROM Panhandler comes Rapid Ripper. It is a small tool that attaches at-taches to the presser arm of your machine and can rip out a seam almost as fast as you can stitch it in ... yes, even that triple stretch stitch. I watched it work -- several times -- and it is an amazing little gadget. IF YOU can't find it in your area, write to The Panhandler Co., Box 3655, Van Nuys, Calif. 91401. Uniquely Yours has done the impossible - developed a fitting form for pants. If you have had success with a dress form, you may want to inquire about this pants form. ' WRITE to Contemporary Sewing Accessories, 519 W. Pratt Street, Baltimore, Md 21201. Pellon has two goodies for you. Fairly new is their Pel-Aire, Pel-Aire, a fusible "hair canvas" that will fuse to velours, corduroys, cor-duroys, suedes, wools and other fabrics that, until now, have been difficult to work with. IN LATE spring Pellon will be coming out with a new suede, Sofsuede thai will sell ; for $10 a yard. Write to Pellon at 1120 !i Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10036. ;i TO PRESS all those "touchy" fabrics there is a Teflon iron cover called E-Z. The thick Teflon sheet molds I to (he sole of your iron and will withstand more heat than you'll ever give it. Write to Impact Marketing, Inc., P.O. Box 21445, Salt Lake City, Utah 84121. FOR THOSE of you who have asked me about smocking patterns, 1 have a gold mine! Little Miss Muf-fet, Muf-fet, 6709 Glen Brook Drive, j Knoxville, Tenn. 37919. has i everything -- patterns, i designs, instructions. If you ' are a smocking fan, you will like what they have. And, to bring you up to date on the authentic ethnic patterns pat-terns at Folkwear, they are coming out with yet another new pattern. What is it?I'll let you be surprised. IF YOU would like their current catalog, send 50 cents and your name and address to Folkwear, Dept. SW, Box 98, Forestville, Calif. 95436. There can't be anything cuter than Simplicity's menagerie of Pet-Abies, irresistible craft kits of hug-gable hug-gable little panda, lions, elephants, koalas, monkeys, etc. Check the pattern book. IF THERE is still time to make one more toasty warm winter jacket or vest, you will want to check out Warm Up. It is a lightweight, tricot-backed tricot-backed insulator that is as easy to work with as fabric. It comes from Staple Sewing Sew-ing Aids, 141 Lanza Ave. ", Garfield, N.J. 07026. - SAVE this column! I may forget the addresses. |
