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 !!!

lyn

nanjam62

I have been cleaning my sewing room this morning & I have a stack of clothes I am returning to my kids because their kids have outgrown them. hmmm..maybe subconsciously that was my plan all along...I reaaaalllly don't like doing repairs & especially alterations. I also like the one about "would you ask Michaelangelo to paint your house! may have to try that one.

Olivia's Grammy

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.

JudeWill

Ha! I don't even do my own mending! Hate to mend--always have. :lol:

Pati- in Phx

LOL I used to work as an Alterations Tailor. And have a degree in Clothing and Textiles. So I have been asked a lot. And I used to do alterations/repairs as a business. And I have sewed for others. But I state prices right up front.
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

catrancher

I like this. A dear friend's husband (husband is definitely not a dear friend), asked me to make a quilt and he had very specific ideas about how he wanted it: it should have (his favorite animal) in the center, then certain blocks, then some borders, a drop of so many inches. For goodness sake. I tallied up the cost of everything that would go into this, oh yes, and the cost of the quilting. I told him to think about it and let me know. Didn't hear from him again.

2manyprojects

yes......and now am making a dress for a re-enactment for revolutionary female

quiltedrunner

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

majormom

Ho, Ho, Ho - dreamers!!

majormom

That is too cool

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