Originally Posted by CindyBee
Originally Posted by Kimcatlou
I'm retired, but friends and family seem to think I am a sewing robot and keep flooding me with sewing/mending that "won't take much time." My piles of UFO's and quilt patterns I want to try keep crying out to me.
I wish I could learn to say "No!" to these requests.
I get a lot of those too. I really don't like mending and hemming but I do them anyway. It's just one of those things that goes with the territory when you have non-sewing friends and family. Sometimes I have resorted to the "sure, I'll be happy to, but I'm bogged down for the next few weeks". It really is kind of amazing to me that the average person these days has no idea how to hem a pair of pants. Even by hand this would take about 30 minutes.
Amazing to me that if they can't get it NOW, they will find an alterations shop that does hemming and mending! The non-sewers appreciate my skills more when they have to actually pay someone to do it. They are usually much less demanding after this..."Pardon me, but would you have a chance to get this or that done for me. I don't need it right away...."