First thing I have ever sewn
09-23-2021, 01:44 PM
#15
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 251
Yes, you did very good. I wish my first quilt top looked like yours. My seams were all over the place. Tried to say it was the design.
, but I don't think I fooled anyone. Getting good at matching your points and intersections should be helpful in learning to upholster as well. Looks like you got what it takes, so keep it up.
, but I don't think I fooled anyone. Getting good at matching your points and intersections should be helpful in learning to upholster as well. Looks like you got what it takes, so keep it up.
09-23-2021, 02:13 PM
#16
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Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 2,006
Oh I wanted to add my first thing I made was a gown. We were a family of 3 girls, me being the youngest. Mom bought us a pattern with a high yoke and skirt of gown gathered to fit. She also had a bolt of plisse’ fabric. She told us to read our pattern guide and if we needed further guidance to come to her, otherwise we were on our own. My oldest sister and I got our gowns made and I must say that were pretty good. We always said if Mother had not made our middle sisters gown, it was possible she would have slept naked! -lol-She was determined she was not going to learn to sew! …I think in later years she might have regretted her stubbornness a time or two.
I hope you got a laugh-Toogie
I hope you got a laugh-Toogie
09-23-2021, 08:27 PM
#18
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Join Date: Mar 2020
Posts: 148
I am trying to learn auto upholstery and need to learn how to sew, so I ask my mother who is 84 to teach me. So she shows up at my house with a bag of fabric and says make a quilt. I ask her if she was going to help, she said I just did, gave you something to sew. See you in a week and be finished with the top!
I ask but what do you want it to look like? She said a quilt, duh! She said I have been around her and my grandmother quilting all my life I can do it. Oh and by the way these pieces are from your great nieces baby blankets so don’t mess it up there is no more material.
talking about pressure, I did not have enough material left to make one more square.
it gets better so after she sees the top, she said that looks fine, now I need my driver seat in my van recovered. So I repaired it last week sewed in new panels in the cloth seat and reinstalled.
So I am confused, am I an upholster, quilter or just a man with a 2 sewing machines that will sew whatever someone brings me? Probably the latter. Because I also repaired my wife’s bra my dog chewed the strap into on..
all I know is I enjoy sewing.
I ask but what do you want it to look like? She said a quilt, duh! She said I have been around her and my grandmother quilting all my life I can do it. Oh and by the way these pieces are from your great nieces baby blankets so don’t mess it up there is no more material.
talking about pressure, I did not have enough material left to make one more square.
it gets better so after she sees the top, she said that looks fine, now I need my driver seat in my van recovered. So I repaired it last week sewed in new panels in the cloth seat and reinstalled.
So I am confused, am I an upholster, quilter or just a man with a 2 sewing machines that will sew whatever someone brings me? Probably the latter. Because I also repaired my wife’s bra my dog chewed the strap into on..
all I know is I enjoy sewing.
You are a quilter AND an upholsterer, AND a man with 2 sewing machines! Just change the conjunction of “or” to “and.” And if you don’t mind my saying, your first quilt is lovely! I am impressed that you managed so well with stretchy fabric. Quilting with cotton will be so much easier!
09-24-2021, 04:36 AM
#19
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Davenport, Iowa
Posts: 3,809
Your story is much like mine. At 21 ( I'm now 69) my mother came to the house with a sewing machine and said "here, learn to sew." and then left. It was perhaps the greatst gift mom ever gave to me...the ability to make my own mistakes and rectify them. I've since made men's clothing (matching suits for a CW band), worked in a bridal shop doing alterations, made childrems clothing, curtains, and lately quilts for the last 20 years.
You can do anything you set your mind to. Good luck to you!
You can do anything you set your mind to. Good luck to you!
