An all-purpose plate has an oblong hole, maybe 8 mm across, to accommodate stitches like zig-zag stitches, where the needle comes down on the left side and then the right). It's maybe 1 mm in diameter, and it's harder for fabric to be pulled down in there. A straight stitch plate has a tiny hole not much bigger than a needle. The needle goes up and down into that hole. It also had a terrible tendency to suck any kind of thin fabric down into the throat plate, despite using the appropriate needle, and a straight-stitch throat plate (for those of you who don't sew - the throat plate is the small metal plate under the fabric, with a hole in it. Skipped stitches, distorted decorative stitches, you name it. First, it really handled slippery flimsy fabrics poorly, and to date, I've made two Halloween costumes out of that sort of fabric. I've also made valentines for my kids - my daughter got a small puffy heart-shaped pillow, and I made heart-shaped juggling bean bags for my stepson (made from red, white and black bandanna fabric with hearts and flaming skulls).īut the Singer was giving me problems.
I've made a couple of nightgowns, three capes and Halloween costumes, a dress, and a shirt for my daughter, a bathrobe for my husband and several doll quilts. I started sewing, and have been sewing somewhat more seriously for about two or three years now. But, it came with a sewing table/cabinet and every conceivable accessory (Mom was an avid and talented seamstress), so I was hesitant about replacing it. I think my husband and I dragged it along on two cross-country moves before I ever gave sewing a serious try. It sat around for years - maybe six years - without getting much use.
What was wrong with the Singer? But, I wasn't going to complain, as she gave me the Singer. Mom upgraded to a used Bernina when I was in my late 20s or early 30s, and I just couldn't understand why.
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So revolutionary." I was 5 or 6 years old when Mom got it, and I even used it a little bit growing up - enough that I actually knew how to thread it, though I can't claim to have learned to actually sew. As someone on a sewing message board told me, " I remember when she came out and was the absolute last word in a machine in her day. It cost about $1200, and was the Singer Athena 2000. The reward is this buried treasure (a red *) that the hero may dig out and retrieve.Back in the mid 1970s, my mother spent an ungodly amount of money on the very first electronic sewing machine. This hero has been tunneling through a vein in the dungeon and lighting the area with a common artifact, that Phial of Galadriel.
This is a small level, so it scrolls up and down but not left and right. The room to the left has no dots because it is dark. After leaving this randomly-generated level, the player will not see it again. The player is the highlighted next to the downward staircase >. Zangband provides typical Angband-style play the player must repeatedly explore random dungeon levels to build experience and find better items, gradually becoming more powerful before challenging the final bosses.Īn example of a low-level player's inventory.Ī screenshot of part of level 1 of the dungeon. The entrance to the dungeon is always in the first town. As players progress through the game, they wander to farther towns to buy and sell better items. It replaces Sauron with Oberon and Morgoth with the Serpent of Chaos.Ī unique feature is that it replaces Angband's one town with a random overworld. Though it inherits Tolkienish elements from Angband, Zangband exists in order to borrow elements from the Amber universe of Roger Zelazny. The latest stable version is 2.6.2, and the latest development versions are 2.7.x. Zangband (short for Zelazy Angband) is another variant of the roguelike game Angband.
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