sewmom

I like this post! I worked in our local mall doing jean hemming at The Buckle clothing store( i got a 40% discount and my kids were teens). Someone brought in a pair of jeans that needed to be hemmed. They looked like they had been worn in a barnyard. YUCK ! I hemmed them but told the manager that I would not hem dirty jeans again! Another time I started to hem a pair and there was blood in the crotch! I about gagged. I absolutely refused to touch those. Turned out they belonged to an emplyee! People are gross!

Tartan

Hemming is not my favourite thing to do but I do it. I hate having mending cluttering up my sewing room so I try to do right away.

Bneighbor

People are gross!! Why would I touch you dirty armpits or crotch! Had a lady bring me a black dress, armpit area covered with deodorant, makeup around the neckline. She wanted the neckline lowered and the sides taken in under the arm. I told her it had to be cleaned before I would work on it. She asked why, since that area was all going to be removed when I altered it! All I could do was look at her with a stunned look on my face. I put it back in the bag and handed it to her. I was very stern when I told her that I would absolutely not work on dirty clothing for health reasons. She huffed as she left saying she was not dirty, told her to stick her nose in the armpit of her dress and take a long whiff. She took it to the local dry cleaner to have it altered, he told her the same thing. But he offered to clean it for her at a reduced cost before he would alter it.

KwiltyKahy

I thought I was the only one who had that situation. I have them marked and sometime I will get to them, after this block or that binding or. . . .

NJ Quilter

Mending is definitely not like sewing in my mind either. That said, hemming doesn't bother me in the least. Guess I've just learned to deal with it over the years being a 'vertically challenged' person. The mending that gets me is when DH asks me to make fabric out of thin air. He'll hand me a pair of pants or shirt that has a hole somewhere and asks me to 'fix' it. Really??? I look at the garment, then look at him and tell him the way to fix that is toss it in the garbage and buy a new one!

Sunnye

Mending and hemming are quite different than quilting!
I can sew on a button, which I do often for my husband. But hemming? No way. I've messed up plenty of my own pants to know not to do that anymore.

Clarice29

I did alterations many years on designer clothes. It was exacting, tiring and often boring but it got us through the rough times. Now I make quilts but I mend. I also make a vest or garment requested by my children. It all needs doing.

Onebyone

No mending here either. Off they go to the alteration lady at the dry cleaners.

Grace MooreLinker

God bless both of you, if my husband( the father of our 7 children) was still alive we would have been married 60 years the 19th..

TX GMimi

After raising 3 daughters, I got home after work one day and found DH ironing! Asked him when he learned to do that..he replied "Mother taught me"! Talk about being shocked!!!