Is a holster a leather boxie thingie which you put your bangie thingie innie?
Fabric store. No, really.
And "squeezy snap thingie"?
The Republic, I weeps for it.
Actually, you're right. Despite what you may think about frillie lacie thingies, there's a lot of technology and engineering involved in sewing and fabric stores have lots of attachie hookie stuff as well as other fascinating thingies.
My mommie taught me a little about sewing when we had a half-finished house out on Long Island, and since she loved to sew, but there was no power out there yet, Pop bought her a treadle-operated machine. I was absolutely fascinated by the complex mechanism involved and I used to love cranking on the treadles and watching that conglomeration of perfectly-coordinated and finely-crafted parts go thisaway and thataway.
Throughout my adult life, I've almost never been without a sewing machine, and among other things, I make my own rifle and pistol cases out of canvas. Here's an example of a case I made for a small auto, with a pouch for the spare mag.
The local Hansen's Sewing shop is used to me browsing around in there for webbing, snaps, strong thread, etc, etc.
Funny thing about it, is if I'm contemplating how to put something together, I'm constantly saying things like, "OK, this goes to that, turn it inside out, run a
bead down here..." instead of "sewing a
seam," as if I were welding something together.
Oh, the ruler in the pic? That came with an SU carburetor rebuild kit for the twin SUs in my Datsun 240Z, which fortunately broke before I had a chance to kill myself with it.
Terry, 230RN
