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Thanks marcherlady I will have a look. Well I've been practising and is seems to come to me quite easily thank goodness. I have surfed the net and identified all the attachments that came with it. I have discovered that half my tucker is missing, but since I don't actually know what one is I suppose...

Well yes I am now the proud owner of an 1895 singer 27 K treadle sewing machine. I think I have died and gone to heaven. My local church charity shop had been keeping an eye out for me and I got a call on Sunday evening to say they had one in with my name on it. :iconbiggrin: I have threaded it and ...

Fee fairy what a fabulous idea for the pj's I love wearing jamas. While I was out with my mam today I noticed 2 old machines (Jones and singer adapted for electricity) in a secondhand shop saying they were fully serviced. I went in and asked them if they ever got treadle machines in, they said YES, ...

Wolfhazel that is so great:) When we were young my mam and dad had no money at all and my mam used to make all our clothes, but she says the price of material now is so expensive if you don't find a bargain that it is often cheaper to buy! We recently got a dog and i made him a bed cover out of an o...

Thanks for all your replies :) Well I got a pattern for a straight skirt off my mum today and she said one day she will come round and help me do it so I am looking forward to that. I can't wait to get my hands back on my sewing machine and yes Yvette that's what I thought altering charity clothes i...

Well I am in a state of excitement at the moment... I have got a sewing machine and am just starting to learn how to use it. I have been inspired by a number of members on this forum and the clothes they create out of old duvet sheets, cot covers and just about any kind of material. I wanted some ne...

Hey thanks Old jerry and Graham for your replies, I am only thinking about storing for if I have a glut and don't want it to go to waste. I have looked at some old threads on here for some more information.

I fancy the idea of bottling things how do you do that?

thanks again

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Hi, This is my first year growing my own fruit and veg and I am hoping to try and make some of my produce last a little bit longer... So what I was wondering was which fruit or vegetable you can actually store and how to do it. I am growing second early potatoes can this variety be stored? Do you ju...

Well thanks again MKG and thanks Trinder (chicken sounds delish). I am off work tomorrow so I am going to sort it out, make soup, freeze some portions of cheese and have some with pasta for my dinner. Glad to hear it will let me know, I suppose it will stink to high heaven. I was also wondering how ...

Hi sorry it says "Use by date" not "sell buy" a girl from work ordered it by mistake and it was for the deli counter (we don't have a deli counter) obviously it was meant to be cut into pieces and sold. She has just started the ordering so she just gave it away! Does this effect ...

Hi, I have been given free :cheers: a very large stilton cheese with quite a short sell by date (18th June). Now I like stilton (broccoli and stilton soup especially mmmmn), but am not quite sure i'll be able to eat it all. It weighs 5lb 3oz, so quite a lot of cheese. I am not sure but think that th...

As an aside Mike the shepherds purse isn't really a gift shop (although I think they sell some "knitwear" there), but lots of the things that they do sell you would want to receive as a gift! I would definitely describe it as more of a healthfood store the herbs and spices are amazing as a...

Thanks very much for your reply Ruth, I have started some fruit teabag wine for now, but am seriously thinking of doing the fruit juice one. I love welches grape juice!

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Hi riff raff, I was wondering how you cooked cakes on the top of your stove, do you put it in a pan on a trivet with the lid on? I was thinking about this the other day. I cooked a lovely bread pudding that turned out marvellous on the top in its tim covered with foil and it worked a treat! Thanks f...

Hi, sorry if this has been answered elsewhere I have done a search and can't find the answer. I want to make wine and have seen plenty of people on here make it from fruit juice, but what exactly do they mean :dontknow: Am i right in thinking that it is juice that you buy in cartons usually from con...