Does anyone else sew barefoot?
05-31-2010, 07:46 PM
#231
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Location: Midland, TX
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I HATE SHOES!!! Very high arches, AAAA narrow heels. Shoes never fit me anyway, so why bother! I am a barefoot girl, no matter what the season...nearly 50 years old and my mother still hollers at me for going outside in the winter barefooted...funny, I have yet to "catch my death" of anything! Tried to sew with shoes on...got so distracted by it that I forgot what I was doing! BOOOO to shoes!
05-31-2010, 08:13 PM
#232
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Sonoma, Calif.
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I have always sewn either barefoot or with my socks on (in winter). It is a good thing too because one day I was sewing along and my foot on the foot peddle felt a little warmer than the other. It kept getting hotter and hotter...my foot peddle was overheating! Thank goodness I didn't have my shoes on and caught it before it started a fire as it was shorting out. Whew!
05-31-2010, 10:12 PM
#236
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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I have short legs and some of my chairs are too high to comfortably reach the pedal without my shoes. I can still feel the control just fine. A friend from guild dropped her rotary cutter on her foot and had to have surgery to repair tendons.
05-31-2010, 10:14 PM
#237
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oh my that is awful, hope she is doing better now from her surgery
Originally Posted by patmmm
I have short legs and some of my chairs are too high to comfortably reach the pedal without my shoes. I can still feel the control just fine. A friend from guild dropped her rotary cutter on her foot and had to have surgery to repair tendons.
05-31-2010, 10:21 PM
#238
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Sacramento, Ca. USA
Posts: 311
I am always barefoot or have socks on in my house. I have a little dog that panics whenever I put on shoes or even touch my purse because he knows I am leaving. I don't even think I could sew with my shoes on. If I had my way I'd even drive barefooted. Whenever I go over some of my friends I ask if I can take off my shoes.
06-01-2010, 01:31 AM
#239
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: New Hampshire
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This is so enlightening to me! I thought I was the only one who never wore shoes! I love the feel of clean, bare floors on my feet (and they don't stay clean if you wear shoes in the house). I seem to have a better "feel" for my pedal if I am barefoot (or in the winter, sockfoot). Quilters seem to have quite a few little things like this in common. No wonder we instantly bond in the fabric department!
06-01-2010, 02:13 AM
#240
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Posts: 1,915
Being country bred gal, I love going barefoot in the house. I do sew with slippers on sometimes, but I love going barefoot. I, too, have foot problems and find it difficult to find shoes that are kind to me "tiny" 8 1/2 size feet.
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