Sshhhhhh - domestic sewing
01-18-2010, 07:18 PM
#22
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Location: Great Falls,Mt.
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when i first started quilting I got lots of request for alterations, shortening curtains, and all kinds of repairs. I felt so bad saying no I don't know how to do those things. Non quilting people just don't get it.
01-18-2010, 07:37 PM
#24
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Location: Oregon
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Originally Posted by Barbm
my son moved out 2 years ago. there are shirts hanging in the closet- I keep feeling them and thinking they would be awesome in a quilt. I wonder how long before they are officially "abandoned"?
01-18-2010, 09:00 PM
#25
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Location: leavenworth, ks
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When I started organizing my sewing room, found several piles of mending, hemmimg and repairing that had been in there for quite awhile (I remember putting some of it there myself.) Did get it done but did tell DH and DDs that I don't mend but maybe once a year if they're lucky so my mending for 2010 is over. Somewhere I still have a bottom sheet to finish fixing but it's for my bed so it has a good chance of actually getting worked on BUT not in the near future. :)
01-19-2010, 05:04 AM
#27
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Location: Colorado
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Without a free arm on the Janome, wasn't it hard to hem? I "messed" up on a pair of pants for my husband and now he takes them to an alteration shop on base. I will do his patches because I do a better job than most alteration places, but hems are a no-no.
I too have a mending pile mounting. With young kids, by the time I get around to fixing their clothes, they have outgrown them, but at least I feel good that I had the right intentions. :-)
I too have a mending pile mounting. With young kids, by the time I get around to fixing their clothes, they have outgrown them, but at least I feel good that I had the right intentions. :-)
01-19-2010, 05:45 AM
#29
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Originally Posted by MistyMarie
Without a free arm on the Janome, wasn't it hard to hem? I "messed" up on a pair of pants for my husband and now he takes them to an alteration shop on base. I will do his patches because I do a better job than most alteration places, but hems are a no-no.
I too have a mending pile mounting. With young kids, by the time I get around to fixing their clothes, they have outgrown them, but at least I feel good that I had the right intentions. :-)
I too have a mending pile mounting. With young kids, by the time I get around to fixing their clothes, they have outgrown them, but at least I feel good that I had the right intentions. :-)
01-19-2010, 08:52 AM
#30
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Originally Posted by Katrine
Originally Posted by bj
He's lucky you didn't cut them up and use them in a quilt :) :) Men are so trusting!
LOL, that is the way I look at all aterations: scavenging for quilting!!!:thumbup:
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