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The sliding buttonhole foot is one type of buttonhole foot.  It came with my Pfaff 1475 (on right) I obtained late 1991 and with my Riccar 808E obtained late 1978. (on left) The red arrow indicates where the buttonhole will begin.  As you stitch the slider moves and the calibrated lines will help determine the buttonhole length. How is this buttonhole length determined?  Many times I've read to put a tape measure around the button.  What?  A better idea would be to put a string around the button, then measure the string. I have a different way of doing it which I have been using since the early 80s. An old piece of scrap fabric was used upon which I stitched buttonhole to the lengths of each red mark and the half red ones. It doesn't have to be anything fancy.  This was done on scrap fabric and buttonholes were mainly for length, not beauty.  After all,, no one else was going to see this but me. Ha! Just slip the button through the b...

Pattern Making Systems allow a person to make just about any garment to his/her size.  The two most popular are Lutterloh   www.Lutterloh.com  and Sure-Fit Designs.  SureFitDesigns.com  . There have been others along the way. The American Way to True-Fit Patterns  was apparently connected to Lutterloh in some way.  Recently I found the same outfits in same pose, in a Lutterloh manual for sale at ebay. There was a True-Fit (Lutterloh) in Florida, but that has been inactive for a few years. I've been told that Sure-Fit developed as a result of Dusan's Magic Fit but am not certain. on this. Using a special tape measure, you measure yourself, then make dots to correspond with the numbers given on the pattern, in a radiating fashion, then connect the dots. This is the pattern for this outfit.  (I've covered the numbers, because of copyrights.) This True-Fit (manual only) was $2 at an estate sale.  The original credit card...

For several months I kept getting disconnects on my laptop.  Sometimes hours would go by and I stayed connected; sometimes I would get disconnected several times in an hour.  It got to be quite annoying.  Was it my laptop, my browser, my ISP (DSL), my modem/router? The laptop was ruled out since I was able to stay connected when on a wired connection with a different ISP (cable). The browser was ruled out because somehow it was updated to IE11. The ATT Boards, where several others were complaining, suggested checking the phone line filters.  I made certain they were functional, clean, and the little metal part was intact. Others suggested to re-set the modem which helped a bit. It was down to my ISP or the modem/router which is now 4 years old.  The thought of waiting for a replacement and being without the internet is not a pleasant one. Then I read somewhere to get a replacement for the surge protector.  It was worth a try, especially sin...