June 20, 2011

utilitarian sewing

Do you do it? I hate it. Hate!
I'm happy to make something from new flat fabric.
But - need a dress altered? Pants hemmed?
Take them to the dry cleaners, please.


JB had 3 relatively new pairs of jeans.
They were too long.  Enough too long that he was folding them up.
So - since I was Father's Day I finally hemmed them.
I really wanted to finish the dress I've been working on.

I don't even have proper Jeans thread.
He won't care, he's just happy to have pants that aren't too long.
So - do you do utilitarian sewing?

8 comments :

  1. Oh, you're a good wife! I do DO this kind of sewing, but like you, I don't do it willingly. I hate when hubs brings me something that 'should be easy" to fix...grr...how would he know what is 'easy' re sewing?

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  2. Does sewing buttons back on count? If so, yeah.

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  3. I hate it, too. I'd rather make a whole outfit from scratch than hem a skirt or pants. I usually let it pile up, then do it all at once. Rob does his own buttons.

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  4. I have spent the last 4 weekends - or parts of them, anyway - cleaning out my closets. I took 2 dresses, chopped them up and turned them into tops. I repaired a few hems. I hated every minute of it. I always have to hem my dearly beloved's jeans, because he needs 35" inseam, not the readily available 34" or 36". I guess the consensus here is "We all hate utilitarian sewing!"

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  5. It is something I struggle with most of the time. At this writing I've a small pile waiting for me to do of my mothers. I've turned into her private seamstress,and she never runs out of clothing to shorten,etc.
    Having never sewn a button, she says "Oh just zip,zip and it's done,what's the big deal"? I've got mother issues , Lol. ;)

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  6. i do...but not often enough. I really have a stockpile going though, so should just take them to a seamstress.
    LOL chan about the buttons....sometimes i am good about sewing them on...sometimes not!
    Jess

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  7. That's about the only type of sewing I can do. lol And not well, at that.

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  8. ick, I do it for a select few (DH and 2 friends) always pant hemming and no, I don't like it either (but I'm certainly not paying for someone else to do it, at least in DH's case !)

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