Did you learn to sew in Home Ec?
08-30-2011, 02:35 PM
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I learned to sew in 4th grade (tea towel), 5th grade (apron with pockets and 6th grade we made our graduation dress(six stitches to the inch!). In high school I made yet another graduation dress. After marriage, I made most of my daughters' clothes and mine, but never attempted clothes for my husband or son. Now I do quilting.Flo
08-30-2011, 02:37 PM
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I learned to sew in 4th grade (tea towel), 5th grade (apron with pockets and 6th grade we made our graduation dress(six stitches to the inch!). In high school I made yet another graduation dress. After marriage, I made most of my daughters' clothes and mine, but never attempted clothes for my husband or son. Now I do quilting.Flo
08-30-2011, 02:38 PM
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I learned to sew in 4th grade (tea towel), 5th grade (apron with pockets and 6th grade we made our graduation dress(six stitches to the inch!). In high school I made yet another graduation dress. After marriage, I made most of my daughters' clothes and mine, but never attempted clothes for my husband or son. Now I do quilting.Flo
08-30-2011, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by heberstitcher
AHH yes, good old Home Ec class in Jr. High. Seems like eons ago!!! I learned to sew there and also from my mom.
I made alot of clothes for myself, then made clothes for my 3 girls.
It's funny, because I call sewing/embroidering/quilting my therapy!!
I made alot of clothes for myself, then made clothes for my 3 girls.
It's funny, because I call sewing/embroidering/quilting my therapy!!
08-30-2011, 02:41 PM
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Had "Home Ec" classes during 8th grade ....my memory is of sewing hems
on flour sack dishtowels... HA! and we were required to baste hem before
using sewing machine. That cured me from taking further classes in
high school ... and my Mother taught me basics of sewing clothes.
on flour sack dishtowels... HA! and we were required to baste hem before
using sewing machine. That cured me from taking further classes in
high school ... and my Mother taught me basics of sewing clothes.
08-30-2011, 03:09 PM
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Interesting reading about the Betty Crocker Homemaker Awards...Even though our small high school didn't have HE classes, the senior class girls could take a test qualifying us for the award. The girl who won in my class told me years later that she felt I should have had it because I DID know how to cook! She never did care for it.
08-30-2011, 03:10 PM
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I did not learn to sew in Home Ec, I was slowly driven crazy by a teacher that had nine (count 'em 9!) steps to getting ready to put a zipper in, buttons had to be sewn in and out of each hole 20 times, and not one batch of cookies ever came out of the oven before they were burnt. (she walked real slow, and we could not ask her to check them until the timer went off!) Hated Home Ec! Love being a wife, mother, and housekeeper!
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