Posted by noa on April 6, 2004, at 9:22:43
In reply to Re: other garments.. » Racer, posted by tabitha on April 5, 2004, at 23:58:59
I admire you sewers so much!!!!
I think there are other sewing babblers. Ilene sews and I *think* Coral, too, if I'm remembering from way back when.
Me? My mom tried to teach me the basics like hems and such, but for me, being precise and measuring are just frustrating, and I used to have little sewing tantrums because I'd get so frustrated. My mom sewed a little on the machine, making easy patterns like wrap-around skirts, curtains, throw pillow covers, etc. But she didn't keep up with it much, either, and just went back to using sewing for altering and mending, either by machine, or by hand, which is what she learned from her mom.
The only things I sew now are buttons, and the occasional mending of a loose hem or seam. Once in a blue moon, I've done a makeshift hem to shorten sleeves, but that is pretty easy because I do it the junky way by just doubling up whatever hem is already there, and not doing any measuring and certainly not any cutting. Since the circumference of a sleeve at the wrist is small, the amount that I could veer off course is small, too!
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