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...well-cropped grass and several cars in the driveway, but I knew that my grandmother saw something quite different. She leaned over my shoulder to rethread the bobbin I habitually tangled as she taught me to make a patchwork quilt. She was transported. She looked out the same window, but instead saw the hills of central Kentucky of 70 years...

Author: By Lee ann W. Custer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Blanket Statement | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...rhythmic sound of the sewing machine punctuates the silence before puttering to a stop. “Sometimes it doesn’t like stretchy fabrics,” she says, as she is forced to rethread the machine. But by four, the dress is finished...

Author: By Kate E. Cetrulo and Emily C. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: FM's Third Annual Fast Fashion Challenge | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...strips of black fabric and pinning them across an open back. The rhythmic sound of the sewing machine punctuates the silence before puttering to a stop. “Sometimes it doesn’t like stretchy fabrics,” she says, as she is forced to rethread the machine. But by four, the dress is finished. Half an hour before the show, Baird is all smiles as she shows off her model and roommate, Claire-Marie Murphy ’10. “This is good. I’m glad it ended up working...

Author: By Sha Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lucy W. Baird ’10 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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