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From: SummersEchos
Date: 02-25-2005, 10:51 PM (1 of 7)
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I know we all have the problem of one time or another having someone take our sewing supplies and using them for the wrong purpose. When I was going through my divorce, my middle son was the big helper around the house. I have what we call a Florida room and it has screens all around it. My oldest daughter had come home to stay for a while and she brought her dogs (big dogs). Of course the went through the screen and I was left with one good screen. I have 10 in all. So when my daughter left after a week my son said he would repair the screens. I went to work and came home to a beautiful job done on the screens. The next day I told him he did a great job. I was getting ready to cut some strips out and he was just smiling from ear to ear. As I went to remove my cutting mat from the wall I thought it looked strange. It felt a little rougher than I imagined. Then when I went to use my rotary cutter it wouldn't cut a single layer of material. Turn out my son used the mat, cutter and ruler to cut the screening with. He thought it was a wonderful tool. Now I smile about it all but then I was not real happy. He replaced the mat and blade and said he would never touch anything in my sewing room again cause it was to expensive. He has grown up since then and has all the proper tools now. Summer Summer
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User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004 Total posts: 884 |
From: GreenDragonLady
Date: 02-26-2005, 09:42 AM (2 of 7)
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My kids are 10 and 12, and they know never to touch anything in my sewing room. My DD (10) loves to be a big helper, and sometimes she does things she shouldn't, but she knows I would be extremely upset if she touched my things. As far as sewing tools, she has almost all of the ones I have except for a rotary cutter. She got a new sewing machine, wheeled tote, and all the accessories for Christmas. That was nice of your son to try though! I'm glad he replaced the ruined items. photos.yahoo.com/greendragondesigns
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User: GreenDragonLady
Member since: 07-29-2004 Total posts: 495 
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From: Hogmami
Date: 02-26-2005, 10:16 AM (3 of 7)
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I never had too much trouble with my kids taking my sewing things. When they were little I had a pair of scissors. But they were left handed ones, both of my kids are right handed. I had trouble when they were teens, I remember one time coming home from work and my sewing machine was out. I know I didn't have it out because I hadn't been doing too much sewing at that time. My son got it out because my daughter needed something repaired to wear to school. He thought it would be easy. Well, it took me weeks to get it to work right again. He had changed tensions, had thread in places that it shouldn't have been, just a real mess. He never touched it again.
Carolyn
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User: Hogmami
Member since: 09-30-2004 Total posts: 800 
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 02-26-2005, 11:47 AM (4 of 7)
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I had a nice pair of Fiskars that DS ruined by cutting wire. Have not been able to get the nick out of the blade and it has been everywhere to be sharpened. My rotary mat was also ruined by DS (don't read dear here) when he decided he had to cut some mats for picture frames and used a craft knife to cut them. Gouged areas all over my mat. DS said later he thought it was a self healing mat. Yes when you use a rotary cutter. Sad part of it all I had a craft self healing mat-which I gave to him. Luckily there was a sale that weekend for mats and he got me a new one so I guess he is a Dear S again!
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
Member since: 03-06-2003 Total posts: 432 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 02-26-2005, 11:54 AM (5 of 7)
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I don't remember my kids getting into my stuff when they were younger -- but I tended to keep it put away and was quite fierce about it. I'm sure there were incidents I don't remember and even more I never found out about. My girls were sneaky. But just a year ago my daughter -- the "smart" one -- picked up the rotary cutter and ran it across the palm of her had saying "What's this?" She found out. You'd think I wouldn't have to worry about such things with a 24-year-old law student, wouldn't you? Oh well, she's short so when she comes to visit now I can put things out of her reach! Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 02-26-2005, 01:44 PM (6 of 7)
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I remember how I got 'punished' (read 'battered') when I used my Mother's good scissors to cut out my paper dolls.. When I had children, as soon as they were old enough, they each had their own scissors, and I taught them never to touch my sewing equipment without permission.. We never had the problem.. Some Mothers don't supply children the tools they need and that is why they 'borrow' the parents equipment.. After my boys were grown, I was making a tutu for GrD and I told DS I needed a length of Stren (fishing line) for this project and he wanted to know what in the world fishing had to do with ballet.. So, he helped me with zigzagging over the stren to give the edge (hem) of the tutu the body it needed.. Good thing also, cause I couldn't get the two ends secure when I finished, and he had to do that fisherman's knot thing for me..
Sew With Love
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User: LeapFrog Libby
Member since: 05-01-2002 Total posts: 2022 
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 02-26-2005, 09:45 PM (7 of 7)
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Since my husband is the only one in the house with me, I've already warned him NOT to touch my sewing things....I caught him with my sewing scissors ONCE and told him if he did it again, I'd take his (favorite, most expensive) camera and take pictures with it....he hasn't touched my things since... (he knows I'm terrible with a camera, leave the lens cap on, put my fingers where they don't belong, drop things, etc.....)sometimes threats do the job.... 
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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