I busted my wife's beaded necklace - what wires are used? (2025 Update)

You might want to identify as a woman before going into either place. It's as bad as going into JoAnn Fabrics to get naugahyde to recover a motorcycle saddle. Walmart might have it and you could sneak over from sporting goods.

Bah. It's no big deal for a confident heterosexual.*

A millions years ago (1975) I dated a guy who went into the dry goods store for a couple of inches of ripstop nylon to make something-or-other for a model.

My husband owned a sewing machine when he moved in with me. It's just another power tool.

I don't have a problem with Michaels but it is a different world. I try to conceal my ture intentions. "Do you have any bright, neon colored acrylic paint for the front sight on my .357?" "Do you have any earth tone pastels for weathering a model Panzerkampfwagen V?"

HobbyLobby opened here a couple of months ago. I did a walk through last week and was disappointed. I didn't see anything useful for the sort of hobbies that interest me.

My wife had a sewing machine that, iirc, was a prize for selling Rainbow vacuum cleaners. I bought a pair of pants that the store was going to hem to length but she volunteered to do it. Despite hanging around with me i don't know where she learned some of the language that ensued. Then she stormed down the stairs and threw the pants at me. "Hem them yourself."

Don't mind him. He can't help himself.

I learned to use a sewing machine watching my mother when I was 12 or

1. She didn't sew that much, mostly repairs, and Long after there were electric machines, after we moved, She bought a treadle machine for a dollar. ( or 20 in today's money.) It didn't zigzag but it did straight stitching fine. And good exercise now, if you believe those tv commericials for devices that just exercise your ankles.

When I was 34 my girlfriend's roommate found a sewing machine on the street in NY and even though she had a volkswagon bug, she managed to put the machine and the table into her car for me. It also didn't zigzag but it works well. I still have it. (I have a fancier machine I got from Freecycle also. It came with a serger, but I gave that to a friend of a friend who had an upholstery shop.)

I don't sew much, mostly repairs, but I made a cover for the trapezoidal

**They don't come 6' long. I called a foam rubber store next to downtown and asked if he had what I wanted. He said he'd make it, but when I got there he tried to sell me something more like what he had. I insisted and he did it. Had to glue 3 pieces together. It stayed glued for 35 years.

I bought all the parts to make a comforter, but found one I liked for sale before I did it. They let me return the fiberfill, even though they shouldn't, since it was clear I hadn't fiddled with it. I still have the cloth and might still make one. I think I did one other project I can't remember now.

Sewing is probably OK but men doing artsy-fartsy needlepoint might need to have their testosterone checked?

Well, Alex Karras isn't with us anymore, so you can't check his testosterone.

Ouch! All the silly jokes aside, you have 2 sources.

Amazon has many choices too. You need to know the original size and color.

There are also tiny chains but they may be too weak. Jewery stores can repair it but it won't be cheap.

And if you buy it at a tackle shop, that solves the seroius "manliness" problem for those wusses that have it.

Yes. I gave my girlfriend a necklace strung on fishing tackle, a set of beautiful fishing lures. I also gave her a big box of bandaids and a

Don't women wear earrings like that.

To catch a man.

Are cat fights common in the dive bars where you hang out? I've neither seen nor participated in one.

Bet you've had your share of bitch fights though .

I also learned from watching my mother. I can do a straight line, that's it. A hem? Too difficult. I can do a button by hand, though, but I usually pay someone instead. I still have the machine, though. Foot powered.

Bought a curtain at Ikea. It was too long, and they don't cut it for you. They tell you to cut it yourself (they sell you the scissors), and tell you to fold and glue the remainder with a special tape and ironing. It was at a different city than the sewing machine was located, but even if it was available I wouldn't dare try.

I have much respect for people that can sew properly. It is a skill like any other, and it is useful.