I had my eyes opened this weekend. Since I grew up sewing garments since age 8, I just 'assumed' that all the quilters out there knew the 'sewing basics' too. Not true.
Saturday I was at an all day quilting event at a local Inn.
There were two weddings being held there. Around suppertime a gentleman (wedding guest) and his young daughter (about 10) found our room and explained that his daughter's dress had torn, and asked if anyone could help by fixing it. No one said anything, they just looked around at each other. I was aghast, thinking that I was a newbie, and I was in the far corner of the room, that one of the 30 more "senior" quilters would step up. Not so. So I called her over. All it was that the shoulder straps had pulled out of the seam of the bodice. 10 minute fix, and I even had matching ivory thread in my kit. The dad was happy, the girl was ecstatic, and I was wiser.