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Post by lulu1265 on Aug 8, 2014 19:33:32 GMT -5
Count me in as someone who knows how to sew! I too learned in home-ec, but my Mom was an excellent seamstress (sewed nearly everything I wore from childhood on up) and she was always trying to show me shortcuts, but ended up sewing all my projects for me. I finally learned to sew myself when I was pregnant with my daughter and I sewed for my daughter a lot when she was growing up. I even sewed her overalls when she was in elementary school.
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Post by Holst on Aug 8, 2014 19:33:29 GMT -5
Okay, I'll shut up--gabby today. But we are still in need of some comments in order to get to my self imposed 10-page minimum for the daily thread. That has not been a problem with the tour.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 19:35:34 GMT -5
Sounded to me like he is in Seoul for some reason & will see the show while he is there. I guess it is OK for him to see it twice!  I think we just read that Andrej a now identifies and female. This news happened during the tour, I think. Thank you, I forgot and was posting fast. I corrected it!  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 19:37:16 GMT -5
I wonder why @andrejpejicpage is seeing the show in Seoul. I thought she was at MSG -- maybe just an after party then. whoever the fan is that runs @andrejpejicpage is who is going to the show not Andreja |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 19:49:21 GMT -5
Guess I'm so old-fashioned! Love to sew. Particularly love making teddy bears and some dolls. Sewing isn't hard with a machine. Yes and make clothes, too. Bought big t-shirts and fixed them. Easy! :D Fianlly--a sewer. OKAY, ALL YOU BABY BOOMERS WHO DON'T SEW (and I mean stitching with thread)! How did you escape learning? My mom was a woman's libber before they actually got organized. But she is an excellent seamstress and taught her daughters. I made some of my clothes starting in 5th grade--yay Simplicity patterns and J.C. Penny's inexpensive fabrics. She hated cooking and baking but taught us that at the same age because a person should know. On the other hand, she did a lot of remodeling (with her own hands) of several houses. I got plenty of funny looks telling how my 60-yr-old mother chipped a tooth while using a crow bar to rip up an old floor. I also do remodeling as a hobby (plus, I'm too cheap to hire people to do something I can figure out.) She and I have both reupholstered a number of couches and chairs too. That's me ( figuratively).  This is not my figure either (literally).  Times have changed since I started in the do-it-yourself racket. No longer do hardware sales people assume I'm buying tools for my husband or that I don't know anything because of my gender. Hell, I love it when the plumbing sales person is sometimes a woman nowadays. Back on track. I didn't buy a T-shirt, but I'm thinking of it. I don't wear legible clothing much, but maybe I'll make an exception. Holst - does your mother have a long lost sister???? Your upbringing sounds so much like mine, there was no girl/boy stuff everyone learned how-to on everything. Maybe that was just growing up on an isolated farm, you had to be self-sufficient. From driving the tractor, to tending the animals, to cooking, to helping make an elaborate beaded wedding dress for my sister. |
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Post by lilly on Aug 8, 2014 19:55:19 GMT -5
youtu.be/hOT-jbXJJL4 sew on a sequin jist so ye all ken am still alive , an no i dinna sew either , but winna be back fer a wee while ,,edinburgh arts fest ,an these fab ladies are with us
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Post by lilly on Aug 8, 2014 20:06:40 GMT -5
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Post by 4EverAdam on Aug 8, 2014 20:28:54 GMT -5
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Post by VoiceFan53 on Aug 8, 2014 20:39:44 GMT -5
Another "Home Ec" student. Loved sewing for many years. First job out of high school - fabric dept. in Leggett's Dept. Store, for about 5 years. You can imagine the amount of patterns and fabric I brought. After my first marriage, it just went by the wayside; gave away so many patterns and fabric.
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Post by readon on Aug 8, 2014 20:42:40 GMT -5
 I was thinking the same thing. Now I know why the "ladies of the evening" in Discworld are in the Seamstress Guild. WOW!! The things you learn on ATOP. Yah. Wasn't it poor Carrot who was desperately trying to find someone to mend his shirt, and despite all the seamstresses he found, he couldn't locate one who actually sewed?! As I recall, the Seamstress' Guild didn't have two sewing needles in the entire guild.  |
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