So when she broke the machine, she started making calls to sewing machine repair shops.
Li sports short black shorts over black tights, working the pedal of her sewing machine with high-heeled boots trimmed with faux fur.
In the past, a dollar spent on a shirt would start a virtuous circle, as the clothing factory expanded, adding more workers and buying new sewing machines.
My mother-in-law has a sewing machine.
Skinny jeans, Christmas decorations, old wrapping paper, the fondue pot, that old sewing machine you think you can fix "when you have the time".
The quickest way to sew is with a sewing machine.
As if to prove her point, Wirasinghe brings out the rusted shell of an electric sewing machine.
She ran up a skirt on her sewing machine.
So Karen sat down at her sewing machine and made a device that tightened around a baby bottle or sipping cup with Velcro, attached to a tether that could be looped around a seat belt.
My mother spent nearly a decade working in the villages of Southeast Asia, helping women buy a sewing machine or an education that might give them a foothold in the world economy.
Tucked behind apartment houses, the garage-like space was filled with rows of sewing machines, with white fabric strewn about and lace shirts lying unfinished on the concrete floor.
Did you get a good trade-in on your sewing machine?
In the hierarchy of jobs in poor countries, sweltering at a sewing machine isn't the bottom.
