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From: MaryW
Date: 09-06-2006, 11:46 AM (1 of 9)
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September is National Sewing Month. I would like to urge everyone to share your sewing knowledge with another. This is the main thrust of this site, to share our knowledge of sewing and quilting with others. Encourage someone to learn the basics or perhaps take the next step in their sewing education, no matter how informal it may be. Help mentor someone, give them the confidence they need to try new methods, spread their wings and enjoy the process of creating. This is a pet project of mine, always has been. I love to see someone discover sewing and have a wonderful time with it. Sewing is an art. If we can share our knowledge and perhaps help someone else become successful at sewing we have really advanced the art. Not to mention the fact we have encouraged someone to learn something new. It's a win-win situation. Someone learns to sew and we know we helped. MaryW
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User: MaryW
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From: plrlegal
Date: 09-06-2006, 04:30 PM (2 of 9)
Mary I keep asking my dh if he wants to learn to sew or quilt and he just gives me a look like I'm nuts and walks away.  Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: bridesmom
Date: 09-07-2006, 12:25 AM (3 of 9)
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Yeah Patsy, thenl he asks you to make a cover for something, like a motorcycle cover!! Mines the same way, and now he wants a bag for his ball caps, so when he puts them into the saddlebag they don't get dirty. Yet, I'd never let him try to sew with my machines, He'd probably try to make them go faster, or supe them up so they could sew through 4 layers of leather at once, more power, grunt grunt.
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: keljo60
Date: 09-07-2006, 01:50 PM (4 of 9)
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My dh has tolerated my "habit" for a great many years without much complaint. Last night he actually watched Project Runway with me! It was a fluke, believe me, he just happened to be there when it came on! Anyway, he was making a comment, not derrogatory or anything, but a comment on how he just doesn't understand how men can enjoy sewing (yeah, I know, oink, oink), so I explained to him that it's an artistic expression. He is a woodworker (and a very good one), our younger dd is a pencil/pen/sharpie artist (also quite talented), I don't think our older dd has an artistic talent!, my medium is fabric, and so is the men on the show. He was ok with it when I explained it to him that way, but he wouldn't do it! It's all in the way you look at it.
Kelly
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup! |
User: keljo60
Member since: 07-30-2006 Total posts: 154 
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From: plrlegal
Date: 09-07-2006, 02:40 PM (5 of 9)
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My dh not only tolerates my addictions, he supports and encourages them while at the same time complaining about how much fabric/notions, etc. I have and keep buying. Go figure. He spent yesterday evening completing my sewing room; hung my bulletin board and shelf over my cutting table and put together another set of the wire shelves in another corner of my room for more quilt project/purse making storage. I will have to take all of it apart again, except the closet, when the new carpet arrives and dh is ready to repaint but that is okay. It will go back together really fast now that I have everything organized and labeled. I still have to catalogue all of my garment patterns but I do have them all in numerical order by pattern maker, which was a huge job sorting all of them out; approximately 1,000+ garment patterns. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 09-07-2006, 03:17 PM (6 of 9)
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My husband is pretty good too. When we started talking about moving from our large house to an apartment he said "It will at least have to be a two bedroom for your sewing room." He does make wise cracks about the size of my stash though. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Magot
Date: 09-07-2006, 04:04 PM (7 of 9)
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A colleague today asked what I had been knitting recently - she was highly amused by the dog jumper - and the guts - but was well impressed with the tea cosy. She then admitted to ordering a basic sewing machine as she wanted to sew and was very proud of having hemmed a pair of trousers by hand, Bless her she is 27 and wants to be as self sufficient as possible. What can I do but encourage her.
love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: AndreaSews
Date: 09-07-2006, 08:35 PM (8 of 9)
My husband pins my hems for me Passing it on is my favorite topic too, Mary! I did a library display case last year, and that was fun. Andrea
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User: AndreaSews
Member since: 02-18-2005 Total posts: 1007 
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From: MartySews
Date: 09-08-2006, 06:30 PM (9 of 9)
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Years ago before our DD was born, my DH took a sewing course at the university so he could understand my love of sewing and I took a woodworking course at the same time. We have a good basic knowledge of each other's passion. He never completed the shirt that he started and I never completed the lazy susan that I started but we do understand one another. Also, my DH doesn't really complain about my ever growing stash. He knows that it is just a part of who I am. Likewise, I do not complain about his pipes and his custom tobacco's. It's worked for us and we'll be celebrating our 36th anniversary in the spring. Happy Stitching! Marty 
It takes one moment to change a life.
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User: MartySews
Member since: 02-23-2003 Total posts: 504 
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