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Article: SEWING INTERFACES WITH COMPUTING.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 27, 1994
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Byline: DENISE COWIE Knight-Ridder
Home sewing? Forget that image of Granny bent over her old Singer. It's a high-tech world out there.
Not that Granny doesn't sew. But today's dedicated stitcher might just be a career woman using a $3,000 sewing machine that interfaces with her home computer.
This is not your mother's old machine.
``Machines are getting smarter so that the people who operate them don't have to be,'' said Linda Turner Griepentrog, editor of Sew News magazine.
How about a machine that offers 20 built-in embroidery motifs? Just touch the display and presto! your work has the look of hand embroidery. The ...