When I un-picked all of the miles of lace from the edges of Gavi's wedding dress I realized that some of the lace, especially the bits that had been on the bottom hem of the dress had gotten a bit greyish and dingy. It really needed to be clean before I attached the lace to the silk double Georgette. The bit of schmutz might not matter at the back of the hem of a dress but it would be noticeable on a tallit. I can't calculate all of the books of early 20th century helpful home hints I have read since I was in grade school. I am a person of odd passions. I had a period of time when I was little when I had a crush on dump trucks. But I have been reading collections of home hints probably since I was seven or eight ( not long after my dump truck love). Many of these hints are not exactly useful in my every day life, although I do know how to construct a fireless cooker if the need ever arises. As I looked at my big spool of shmnutzy lace I realized that washing mil...
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