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The highlight of the book, really, is how to make new things from old such
as the chapter on how to turn your husband's old suit into a stylish new
outfit for you.
It demonstrates how to dis-assemble the suit and lay a new pattern over the
old pieces and really is a very clever thing.
I collect the odd sewing book, and have a lovely wartime book on
how to make do and mend clothes that have moth holes, have shrunk
etc. And I remember wool knit jumpers being unravelled, the wool
washed, and new
Possibly my earliest memory is of unravelling a red wool jumper
while watching Princess Anne's (first) wedding on television. I
think I would have been about three years old. I remember the red
wool - I don't remember anything about the wedding!
Totally O.T. That was the day my now husband proposed to me for the
first time! Long and silly story should follow, but won't. Suffice it
to say we've been married over 30 years!
Suzi
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