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There Are Rules About the Scissors
An unnecessary survival guide for sewists and the people who live with them.
51 rules. 65 pages. Almost no useful sewing instruction.
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Before we begin
This guide will not teach you how to sew.
It may, however, explain a few things to sewists and improve everyone else's chances of surviving around one.
The following rules have been assembled from fabric scraps, broken needles, misplaced tape measures, and conversations that should probably have ended sooner.
Read carefully. Especially the bit about the scissors.
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A few rules before you begin.
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Dinner in the Atelier
Once the dining table is covered in fabric, patterns and sewing supplies, it is no longer a dining table.So why is everyone trying to eat in my atelier?
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The Fabric Scissors
Do not cut paper with them.This rule has no appeal process.
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Machine Maintenance
Remove the cover.Clean the mechanism.Oil the moving parts.Diagnose the strange noise.Apparently, I'm a mechanic now.
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You now understand almost nothing about sewing.
But you are significantly less likely to cut paper with the fabric scissors. That is progress.
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