I have always loved going to auctions and one day I bid for an
overlocker which enables you to create professional looking seams.
One of the mums can show us a quick way of making a sewing pattern that fits any person and another is a whizz with a sewing machine and
overlocker and is happy to teach us all how.
Susan Robertson, 41, left school and went straight into a local clothing factory where she trained as a machinist and
overlocker, finishing off garments for many well-known names.
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overlocker Lillian Mills rustled up some unusual creations at her Hinckley hosiery firm at Christmas and raised hundreds of pounds in the process.
I have four sewing machines and an
overlocker - and a really good iron.
This is a girl who travels with a twin-tub, two industrial dryers, industrial steamers, two sewing machines, an
overlocker, two assistants, clothes rails, "and at least a thousand coat hangers," plus main and spare costumes, understudy costumes and spares for understudy costumes!
Tearful Kitch, an
overlocker who finishes off cashmere clothes, said: "It is a monotonous job and singing was just a way to beat the boredom.
"We have a large cutting table, sewing machines, and
overlockers - basically everything you need to make things and hopefully I'll continue to add to it," said Angharad.
This he did so well that he soon got flooded with work, such that there are numerous sewing machines and
overlockers, declared "unable to repair" by their dealers, sill working today.
As Ethel recalls, "there were hundreds of girls working as spinners, knitters,
overlockers, bar tackers, tabbers, pressers and packers,
overlockers tied (locked) the loose ends.
The workroom also had button and button hole machines, belt machines,
overlockers and hemming machines, then there were the hand sewers and the passers.