Would you mend my ******
08-22-2010, 05:12 AM
#161
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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?
08-22-2010, 05:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Gwyn
How about "sure. be glad too. I charge$5.00 an inch." or "I'm really sorry, but I am booked so far out, you will outgrow it before I could get it done,."
08-22-2010, 05:56 AM
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My son and nephew have me mending their pants all the time. I would not have it anyother way My son works in Arizona and comes home for a weekend every 8 weeks always with jeans he has ripped on the job. Today is my birthday and I will doing some tonight. I feel a little of me is going back with him in the morning.
08-22-2010, 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Aunt Zaz
My son and nephew have me mending their pants all the time. I would not have it anyother way My son works in Arizona and comes home for a weekend every 8 weeks always with jeans he has ripped on the job. Today is my birthday and I will doing some tonight. I feel a little of me is going back with him in the morning.
08-22-2010, 08:03 AM
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I was in Walmart buying fabric yesterday and a young girl came over and said I noticed you buying material and want to know if you sew ? I told her I'm a quilter not a sewer, Lol...My older sister was the sewer not a quilter...
08-22-2010, 10:06 AM
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One can always suggest they contact their cleaners, who usually offer these services....but there is not one I recommend. Tailoring services are in phone book too. That way I am not just saying "no" to them, but offering some help.
08-22-2010, 12:35 PM
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Have been reading through this thread--really strikes a chord. I sewed before I quilted and with 3 boys I have patched a lot of jeans in my day. They still ask me to "fix" things, even though they're in their 20s and 30s. Other than my boys and a handful of sewing friends, most women I know or work with are clueless about home mending--don't think they are even aware of the concept.
There is a fascinating book (actually a Rutgers University PhD history department dissertation) by Sarah Gordon on women and sewing entitled "Sew It Yourself--Home Sewing, Gender, & Culture 1890-1930. Embedded in the online.pdf are oral interviews with a number of women sewers who recall their own sewing experiences in their youth or their mother's or grandmother's. You can find it here:
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/gordon/acknowledge.html
At 5 chapters it's on the long side, but I think many of the responders to MaryMild's thread would enjoy it.
I, too, would love to know the quilt pattern in your avatar! Enjoy what's left of this Sunday afternoon.
There is a fascinating book (actually a Rutgers University PhD history department dissertation) by Sarah Gordon on women and sewing entitled "Sew It Yourself--Home Sewing, Gender, & Culture 1890-1930. Embedded in the online.pdf are oral interviews with a number of women sewers who recall their own sewing experiences in their youth or their mother's or grandmother's. You can find it here:
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/gordon/acknowledge.html
At 5 chapters it's on the long side, but I think many of the responders to MaryMild's thread would enjoy it.
I, too, would love to know the quilt pattern in your avatar! Enjoy what's left of this Sunday afternoon.
08-22-2010, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Chele
Love that Suzan! I have to hem my daughter's school uniform skirt and I'm sweating just thinking about it! I'd rather do paper piecing and Y seams. Blindfolded! Okay you chickens, send me hemming vibes. I need you!
can anyone say stitch witch... great for an emergency fix... when it started to fail & the hem fell out, i gave him his very own package..told him figure it out or take them back to the men's wear store...
i will sew on a button though!
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