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How to prove your love for your husband

Old 12-01-2012, 03:48 PM
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Asking a quilter to mend is like asking Picasso to paint your garage - a waste of talent.
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Old 12-01-2012, 03:52 PM
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I once sewed the reflective tape on miner's bibs for my son with a tiny little Brother machine. I was actually holding the machine in my lap and wrenching the legs through the machine. It got done.....but only for a son. None of his miner friends need knock on my door!
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Old 12-01-2012, 05:45 PM
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They make iron-on denim? Dang, now I have to decide whether to tell DH that or pretend that I don't know. LOL
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Old 12-01-2012, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by paulswalia View Post
Asking a quilter to mend is like asking Picasso to paint your garage - a waste of talent.
Love this!!!! LOL
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Old 12-01-2012, 06:28 PM
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I am the lone outcast. I don't mind mending jeans. I even hem them, buying them as long as possible so to have patch material and use gold-ish thread. I just turn the wheel by hand in the tough going areas and sew either side of the belt loops. Now when the patches need patches??? Ya, he has asked. *sigh*

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Old 12-01-2012, 07:08 PM
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"Hey look, would you ask Picasso to paint your garage door?"
"You don't do _____, I don't do hems/buttons/waistbands/etc." Sweet smile. "Would you like a beer, Honey?"

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Old 12-01-2012, 07:12 PM
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I would not mend any jeans nor anything else.
I make quilts.
There has to be better and easier ways to prove you love your Husband.
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Old 12-01-2012, 07:26 PM
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Gather up those old jeans & put a quilt together from them. You can find lots of ideas on the net.
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My DIL asked me to patch a couple spots where her jeans had rubbed through in the inner thighs. I patched and noticed there were some other holes in the legs. I proceeded to fix all the holes and did the "matchy matchy" patches all over and thought they looked like designer jeans when I was finished. I gave them back to her and she cracked up....the holes in the legs "were supposed to be there" and she had bought them with holes in them. She agreed not to ask me to patch anything again.
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Old 12-02-2012, 01:35 AM
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When my oldest BIG boy was in high school they were wearing those big legged jeans. They had just come into fashion and weren't in his size. So I took his jeans and split the legs down the front and backs, added all different faded colors of old jean fabrics and made him several pairs of big legged jeans. I even added an extra hip pocket to the left thigh front above the knee. He loved that especially. And then everybody wanted jeans like them. He knew me well enough to say that wasn't going to happen! Now I wonder how I ever did that.
I have a pair of DH's jeans that need some hem work by the machine now waiting on a "Round Tuit" I guess. I will do anything he wants though because this guy is the one who sends me back into fabric stores because I don't spend enough. The first time he did that, I had spent $200 and he made me go back until I had spent $500. We're both widowed from great first marriages so I got lucky TWICE. Heck yeah, I'll patch whatever he wants patched. . . but I do have to get to a good stopping place in my quilt piecing!
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