Did you learn to sew in Home Ec?

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08-29-2011, 09:12 PM

#91

mzsooz

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Originally Posted by Xstitshmom

Years ago -- had to take Home Ec all four years of high school. I guess it served me well as I ended up winning the Betty Crocker Homemaker award. LOL

Quilting is MUCH MORE fun than sewing clothing!

LOL!! I won the Betty Crocker Homemaker award too!!

08-29-2011, 09:21 PM

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Feathers-N-Fur

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FYI, my teenage daughter says her school doesn't offer home ec anymore.

08-29-2011, 09:34 PM

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Yes in Jr. High. I made a skirt. Wasn't to crazy about sewing then but after watching my mom make quilts when I was in my 20's I got interested. :)

08-29-2011, 09:53 PM

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I learned a lot of what I know at my momma's knee. I was doing all my own sewing by the 5th grade. The rest I picked up largely on my own. Never had a home ec class in my life and I can sew, knit, crochet, embroider, crossstitch, latch hook, tat, and a few other crafty things.

08-29-2011, 09:54 PM

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I absolutely HATED sewing in Jr High. My mother had enrolled me in several sewing classes when I was younger, 8 or so. I hated sewing. When I was in High School, we had a deal, she did all the sewing and I did all the baking.
It wasn't until I was married and my DH wanted a couple of things made for backbacking that I started sewing.

08-29-2011, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by fabric_fancy

no by the time i was in jr high or high school home ec no longer existed as a class.

i taught myself to sew. i just bought a machine one summer and got down to business.

Our schools still have a technology class in middle school. Some needlework and cooking are included as well as a bit of shop--wood and metal. Just a few years back it was required, still is I think.

08-29-2011, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by pocoellie

I wouldn't have been caught DEAD in ANY Home Ec classes when I was in high school. LOL I wanted to take shop, but girls couldn't take shop, of course, they changed that the year AFTER I graduated. LOL

I still wish I'd been able to take shop classes. No way in the early 60's.

08-29-2011, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by maryb119

I helped the teacher teach some of the other girls who didn't know how to sew. I don't ever remember not sewing. My mom and both grandmothers taught me.

I honestly can not tell you when I started sewing. It's a safe bet I learned to walk first. But I don't remember not sewing.

08-29-2011, 10:45 PM

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Our high schools here even teach quilting as part of the sewing class. One of the schools even has a lonfarm machine and the kids learn that too.

08-29-2011, 10:55 PM

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I was in Home Ec - but didn't learn to sew... hated it. I had a willing grandmother who helped me cheat a lot to pass the class. We made 2 of each of the projects (a. a pair of pajamas and b. an apron where the top folded down.) I would sneak one project home, and leave the other at school - until grandma helped me rip seams and show me how to correct mistakes. She had an electric machine, but we worked on her treadle.... now I really miss that machine and her, too.