First thing I have ever sewn
09-22-2021, 05:56 PM
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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.
09-22-2021, 06:04 PM
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09-22-2021, 07:58 PM
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You’re on a roll! Once you learn to sew people will be bringing you everything. I think the second thing we need to learn is to say NO and that is not for New Orleans!—lol- I couldn’t tell if your squares were double knit like leisure suits were made of or fleece like we use today, but you did pretty good matching the seams.
09-23-2021, 04:34 AM
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You’re on a roll! Once you learn to sew people will be bringing you everything. I think the second thing we need to learn is to say NO and that is not for New Orleans!—lol- I couldn’t tell if your squares were double knit like leisure suits were made of or fleece like we use today, but you did pretty good matching the seams.
I sewed this on a 1957 Kenmore 117.720 rotary machine.
thank you everyone for the encouragement and kind words.
