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THE EAGLE HAS LANDED
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Substack's Burgeoning Sewing Community
Feb 26, 2025
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How Tariffs Changed the Sewing Machine Business Overnight
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Top 5 Vintage Sewing Machines
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Why We Carry Certain Sewing Machine Brands and Not Others
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Pareto Principle Applied to Sewing Machines
For the Majority of Negative Sewing Outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes
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Fear & Loathing at Bernina University
I flew to New Orleans for Bernina's annual mega-event for sewing machine dealerships. Here are 6 of my biggest takeaways.
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The Intersection Where Sewing Machines Meet Leveraged Buy Outs (LBOs)
The Untold Story of Singer, Viking, & Pfaff
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How to Calculate the Power of a Sewing Machine
Wattage, motor strength, mechanical effciiency, and why "feel" still matters more than specs.
Jun 29
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What it means when a sewing machine is "out of time"
Needle-Hook Timing vs Needle-Feed Timing on a Sewing Machine
Jun 12
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Mettler Sewing Machine Thread Investigation
"Tensile Strength", "Linear Density", & "Elongation at Break"
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Sewing machine making strange sound? Troubleshooting trips from a a sewing machine repairman
Troubleshooting method for locating unusual sounds on a sewing machine.
May 26
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The needle dropped into my machine and I can't find it..... what do I do?
Sewing machine repairman answers the common sewing question of what you should do if your needle breaks and disappears into your sewing machine.
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Sewing Machine Space Race
Sewing Machine Manufacturers continue to make machines with larger and larger throat space. My analysis on what this means for sewists and the sewing…
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