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...Waddell may be the closest thing to the Sammy Sosa of the textile industry. Walking around muttering iI sew because I am,i the clinical term for such people is usually nuts. But she would probably consider herself more obsessed...

Author: By Juice Fong and Temple W. Simpson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: And Sew it Goes | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...boob tube, usually blamed for inciting mayhem and pyromania, also provided Waddellis sewing inspiration. iI was watching a Garbage video on MTV and I really liked Shirley Mansonis dress. Then I turned to my mom and said, eI want to learn how to sew.i She pretty much taught me everything from there.i At the tender age of 13 she was hooked. And sheis never turned back. Her average daily schedule goes something like this: iI sew for about two hours a day, everyday. My personal record was 12 straight hours of sewing. I sew womenis clothes, menis clothes, underwear, anything...

Author: By Juice Fong and Temple W. Simpson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: And Sew it Goes | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...sips a glass of red wine a la Julia Child. "I have never made cupcakes before," he said, responding to a suggestion that they be served for dessert. "I once did baking powder biscuits." As a junior high schooler, Mansfield took Home Economics. "They taught us how to sew on a button," he recalls painfully. "This might be quite useful...for a man without a wife...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In the Kitchen with Prof. Mansfield | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

Formerly known as the Learning Channel, TLC wasn't always this intuitive. Before Discovery Communications acquired it in 1991, the channel's more scintillating programs included an IRS-sponsored instructional called The Subject Is Taxes and the crafts-oriented Sew What's New. Translating its pedagogical mission into warmer, fuzzier, but still informative reality fare for women fell to daytime-programming chief Chuck Gingold, who had worked at Lifetime and had noticed the huge success of shows about weddings like that of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. With heightened competition for the women's market, voyeurism at a premium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Labor, Love and Ratings | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...having allowed only a first-quarter field goal, Harvard didn't need much to sew the game up. However, it let the Big Red march 72 yards in 11 plays for a touchdown...

Author: By Bryan Lee, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: BLee-ve It! | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

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