blueangel

Good for you

valsma

Good for you. Even if you did know how to do alterations, just because you sew doesn't mean you need to feel obligated to do alterations for someone else.
As you told her there are dry cleaners that have people who do alterations.That or look up a person who does tayloring in the phone book or online.

bjnicholson

Good one!!

deb8746

I hate to say it but I like alterations, I like to see if i can get it to look better than it did when it was bought.

Joan

Good for you. :thumbup:

It is just soooo awkward. A very good friend of mine asked me to help her husband to make a pattern for a bra for a car! And, she wants me to put elastic in her several of her coats. She always says that she will "pay" me. Yea, like I would really make my friend pay......

javin22

I agree, I used to do weddings, prom, alterations, home interiors and clothes clothes clothes. I only want to quilt now and it is like pulling teeth to get me to do clothes.

juneayerza

The older I get it gets easier to say no, but I like how you responded. It doesn't create hard feelings or constant nagging from the person asking.

2ursula

I love that last line!
Just love it!

Saying 'No' should always be an option. One of my relatives used to have a lot of 'little favors' to ask: "Can you just do this?" (The 'just' meaning that no reasonable person would refuse.) One day, I was late for work after I watched her children 'just for an hour', which turned into four.
I discovered the word 'No' when only a short while later she refused to let me use her sewing machine for a tiny job. (I did not have one at the time.)
I have issued very simple 'No' answers without explanation ever since. She did ask me why I was "so inconsiderate".

To her chagrin I can say more than 'No'.

sandwich child

Last summer when I was barely learning how to sew a straight line my aunt (she's 85) asked me to make a quilt for her granddaughter's high school graduation. I said, "No, it's way beyond my level of expertise." She pleaded, cajoled, coerced, whined, begged and said she would pay me for it. Finally I got tired of hearing the old refrain and told her I would try. I cannot tell you the pain of cutting, sewing, ripping, kicking the walls and cursing before 160 hours had passed and I got the bloody thing finished. Guess who paid for it? Me, me, me. Then on graduation day my aunt told her granddaughter the quilt was from her!!!

Some people can't hear the word "NO!"

sandwich child

Last summer when I was barely learning how to sew a straight line my aunt (she's 85) asked me to make a quilt for her granddaughter's high school graduation. I said, "No, it's way beyond my level of expertise." She pleaded, cajoled, coerced, whined, begged and said she would pay me for it. Finally I got tired of hearing the old refrain and told her I would try. I cannot tell you the pain of cutting, sewing, ripping, kicking the walls and cursing before 160 hours had passed and I got the bloody thing finished. Guess who paid for it? Me, me, me. Then on graduation day my aunt told her granddaughter the quilt was from her!!!

Some people can't hear the word "NO!"