Would you mend my ******
#102
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 89
Originally Posted by kacie
I CAN mend, but I don't. I used to put the kids' mending in "the mending pile" until they outgrew it. My husband learned long ago that if it was important enough for repair or alteration, just take it directly to the tailor or he'd probably never see it again.
#103
I still make most of my clothes, used to do alterations. Most of the people I know have quit asking me to do repairs. But when some one does ask I try to suggest someone else. I'd rather make something new than repair/mend. Sometimes DD will bring something to be fixed. I wait until she's forgotten about it and give it to Good Will. If she catches me at her house I have to give in. She has the machine I gave her years ago so she drags it out so I can fix/mend for her. The biggest problem, I'm sure all of you face is that no one wants to pay for your time, since it doesn't take long and what else do you have to do. Yea, right. My list is so long I won't live long enough to complete it if I sewed day and night. :lol: I do have to hem all DH's pants, don't mind that as he is so good to support my habit.
#105
Originally Posted by marymild
Have you noticed when you tell people you quilt, they want to know if you will do their mending for them?
Often the price of my work plus the cost of materials stops the conversation. <G>
I do make my own clothes, mostly. And my husband's shirts. When we got married he didn't own a tie because he couldn't find a shirt that he could button at the neck. (At the time he wore about a size 16 shirt but had a 19" neck. If he found a shirt with a large enough collar, the rest of the shirt was way toooooo big. )
So my mother-in-law never gave me any problems after we showed up for dinner one night and Rick was wearing a shirt and Tie.
I enjoy sewing. Love making almost anything. I do have to hem DH's pants most of the time..... finding 29" inseam pants is difficult. But I won't even replace zippers in his jeans. I can, but won't.
If it is fabric, I enjoy working with it. But not for other people any longer. But I will try to help explain things for others. Even had an article published in SEW NEWS magazine a couple of years ago.
Pati, in Phx
#106
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Newberg, OR
Posts: 1,911
Originally Posted by lynmh
Actually depends on who it is and what they want done--- Worst case is I tell them it would be cheaper to buy new--my price would be higher !!!
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#108
My kids know that their "mending" will generally lay in my pile until they outgrow it... :)
When a friend of mine bought her new "quilting" machine. She gave her old one to her daughter and now tell them all - sorry - this new machine is for quilting and does not have the mending attachment... :D
When a friend of mine bought her new "quilting" machine. She gave her old one to her daughter and now tell them all - sorry - this new machine is for quilting and does not have the mending attachment... :D
#109
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Manchester, NH
Posts: 701
Originally Posted by virtualbernie
Originally Posted by amma
Yes! :roll: They also think that making costumes would be "easier" than making a quilt too LMBO
Ho, Ho, Ho - dreamers!!
#110
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Manchester, NH
Posts: 701
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
All it takes for people that won't take no, meaning to shut up about it, is to botch the mending job so bad they won't ask again. This really works.
:lol:
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