Yes! One time a man called me, I had no idea who he was or how he got my # but he wanted me to make him some cushions for his camper. This was at Thanksgiving time and he wanted them just a couple of weeks before Christmas. I said no I can't do it. Anyway a lady I know called right after and said "I just wanted to help your business you didn't need to get mad!" I said I did not have a business and I wasn't mad I just couldn't do it at that time. Weird!!!

And then there is altering that people want me to do. I hate to alter. On guy just recently wants me to take his dad's jacket and make the sleeves and the body longer. I said noooo.

I'm glad you clarified "surrounded by monkeys." When you said you'd try to find the pattern, I thought you might have to fight off monkeys to get to it. :lol:

2manyprojects, I LOVE your avatar.

Just family and I always do it. The most fun one was a snowmobile cover that was heavy canvas that had gotten torn, hard to squish it under the needle, but the repair was a thing of beauty! My DSD is very petite and asks me to hem to jeans then never gets around to having me measure her inseam so I can hem them...works for me!!! Luckily they don't ask very often cuz I really don't enjoy it like I enjoy quilting.

I hate that, all my friends think that because I quilt and am a stay at home mom.. that I have all the time in the world to do their mending and hemming....haha if they only saw my own pile of things that need mended.. but sadly I have given in way to many times and did it for them... I need a backbone

I laugh and tell hem Don't trust me with mending or altering clothes. I tell them the I shortened a pair of jeans for my husband , I cut the same leg twice (true). They usually don't insist!

Tell them asking a quilter to mend is like asking Michaelangelo to paint a bathroom

I was a seamstress before I ever made my first quilt, so my family knows I can do mending. I just hate doing it!
So now I say I'm sorry my sewing machine doesn't know how to
mend, it only makes quilts. ROFLMAO
I used to sell sewing machines inside a Joann's super store and people would ask if they could use our machines for just a minute. grrrr I would say they could rent them for $200 for 5 minutes; amazing how fast they went away. ;o)

Hahaha....now THAT would be me, too! :D

That's the only way I hem things, I'm short and anymore the petite length is about 2-3" too long. My Viking has a wonderful
blind hem stitch. I only hem my pants when I absolutely must.