I must admit that, as a former seamstress who still guiltily has loads of cloth
I think I have enough to open a small store....
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Let’s not forget that even Lois could make an ‘S’. The following is a set-up from the Tempus Anyone script:
Lois on the phone, at the dining room table, surrounded by bolts of red and yellow cloth, a sewing machine. Littered at her feet, a half dozen red-and-yellow S's -- crooked, mis-sewn or otherwise botched and discarded. In the kitchen behind her, a huge kettle is bubbling and steaming.
So Martha must have been making them, too - that would be how Lois got the idea. But, like Elizabeth said, it would have to be a specialized sewing machine - not just your every day sewing machine. And they still had those types of specialized machines before CD's could 'drive' them. They were just more time consuming and required more work for the seamstress. I've seen them, but the only kind I've used have been the computerized ones so I'm not exactly sure how they worked but they still had some kind of manual pattern that the machine followed.
