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11-05-2011, 08:14 PM

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Anna.425

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Join Date: Jan 2011

Location: Bellevue, WA

Posts: 735

Well, this sounds bad but the best thing my mom ever did for me was leave me alone. When I was 5 I started taking sewing lessons and sewed for about 9 years with my mom over my shoulder telling me what I was doing wrong, that the color didn't look good on me or that I didn't have the fit right. Sometimes she even took over the project. When I was in junior high school I met the girl who would become my best friend. She sewed and we both began to drag the sewing machine, iron and ironing board into our rooms and then get on the phone with each other to talk sewing and make things. Bless her heart my mom left me alone and I learned so much from the mistakes I made and the way that I fixed them that I turned out to be a pretty darned good seamstress.

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