This is a great thread -- lots of smiles :thumbup:

Tuckyquilter, I too use the French seam for my pillow cases -- as my Mother and Grandmother did before me (I can't remember when I made my first pillow case -- they started me early). I still see flat felled seams in jeans -- usually the outside leg seam and the center back seam.

Wildyard, I hear you about the ugly feed sacks -- my quilting Grandma made me lots of clothes from feed sacks that I thought were gastly. Interestingly, she made me a quilt out of the left overs from the clothes she made me from feed sacks and I have to say the fabrics look much better in the quilt.

Creedence Clearwater Revival 's "Bad Moon Rising", has some rather ambiguous sounding lyrics. The line
"There's a bad moon on the rise." Some hear it as "There's a bathroom on the right."

Me too! I wore those scratchy chicken feed dresses my Grandmother made throughout my childhood! Now I wish I could find and afford to make a quilt out of those fabrics. Wouldn't that be a hoot?:D!

Here's another non-fabric story. You may have to be Southern to understand it. In my parents' house there was a short hallway to the bedrooms, with a little extra space at the end of the hall, past the last doorway. In this space was a short dresser where we stored various things. I always assumed it was a piece of furniture given to us by a relative because we always referred to it by that person's name. When I was around eight years old, I asked my mom, "Who's Chester?" She said, "You mean on Gunsmoke?" (There's an age reference for you.) I said, "No, one who gave us Chester's drawers at the end of the hall." Mom laughed and very carefully said, "It's a . . . chest . . of . . drawers."

I have a friend I told this story to and he said the same thing happened to him, but he wasn't going to tell me how old he was when it happened to him.

Tate

Me too, thanks for clearing that up!!!

That is a good one! What a surprise when you found out what it actually was.

My thoughts also. There was the flat felled seam and then the French seam in which the narrowly trimmed seam done on the RIGHT side was turned inside and seamed again enclosing the raw edges.

Thank you soooooooooooo much for a good chuckle. This has not been the best of days so far. I needed that

I had an argument one time about wrought iron furniture. They were calling it rod iron because it was made with rods. Ha ha. They got their knickers in quite a knot over it.

As a young child my mother asked if I had diahear. I said my ear was fine. Of course not what mum meant. She just burst into laughter and never let me forget my mistake.