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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 1534456, member: 29&quot;]My grandmother was a couture seamstress. This meant, despite the fact we were NOT a well off family, I had the best dressed dolls in London and some wonderful clothes. She could make magic from scraps, that one. And knitted glorious things. I remember her letting Fair Isle fall from her needles, without seeming to even look at what she was doing. She could whip the edges of silk chiffon with minute stitches - and made my mama a boned bikini once. She&#039;d buy remnants, eye me up, and make me lovely dresses, no paper pattern involved. </p><p><br /></p><p>She did a seven year apprenticeship, startingby picking up needles from the floor at the age of thirteen. </p><p><br /></p><p>Why is this relevant? Guess where she did that apprenticeship.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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