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Old 08-21-2010, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by KathyAire
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?
I once heard someone say:


Asking a quilter to mend is like asking Picasso to paint your garage.
Now THAT'S the truth!!
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Old 08-21-2010, 03:20 PM
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yes i will mend my kids and grandkids things but other people i tell them i do quilting not mending or fixing in a nice polite way so they understand the differance between quilting and sewing
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Old 08-21-2010, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by mytwopals
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?
No one asks me to mend for them. At 6 foot tall and 240 lbs., I don't get many requests like that. They just say really, that's interesting.

Oh. Did I mention I'm a 50 year old male?

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I'm sure glad you cleared that up. I was trying to pix a very tall woman. LOL
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Old 08-21-2010, 03:25 PM
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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?
Oh yes, I get it all the time in the RV park I live in during the winter. Problem is they are usually very good friends that are hard to ever say no to. Then I'm stuck doing it whether I want to or not.
It's all paybacks though since they're all going to take care of me in the fall when I have foot surg. I feel everything is paybacks in one way or another.
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Old 08-21-2010, 03:29 PM
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I only offer to sew on buttons - hemming and alterations I COULD do but prefer to do my own now, sewed once for a friend and vowed never again - and I thought I was picky!
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Old 08-21-2010, 03:41 PM
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Asking a quilter to "mend" is like,
Asking VanGogh to paint a "garage"!

Have this on a sweatshirt. Think it says it all!
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Old 08-21-2010, 03:45 PM
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[quote=mytwopals
Oh. Did I mention I'm a 50 year old male?] quote

LOVE IT!!!



8-)
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Old 08-21-2010, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by SHayes
I have heard asking a quilter to mend is like asking Michaelango to paint your house!
I love this one too!!!

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Old 08-21-2010, 03:54 PM
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Mend and Sew requests:
I tell them, No, I won't do it, but I will show you how.
They don't care for that.

As to the quilting, the ones who ask me for a quilt fall into 2 categories:

Young adults (girls) in the generation from me, mostly neices, who have not taken care of the quilts that my mom/their grandmother made for them back when.

And people who want me to make them a quilt because I quilt.

To the first, I say No, but I will show you how to make your own quilts. Some of them like the idea, but some of them actually want a quilt made by me, the oldest of Mom's kids. Next best thing to herself, I think.
But I've not seen one person in my generation nor the next one down take care of one of Mom's quilts. Why would I make them one??

To the second, I say, I guarantee you have no idea how much a quilt from me would cost you, really you don't.

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Old 08-21-2010, 03:57 PM
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My husband always wants me to hem his jeans, last time I told him to take them to the tailors as I broke 3 needles last time I did his hemming. Hopefully he won't ask me again. My son asks to patch his jeans, he doesn't really care how I do it just so the jeans are wearable for his work.
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