Okay, I'll Play

Debbie tagged me for her sewing meme - so here goes: 1. What kind of seam ripper do you use? I use this little baby grey one that came with my sewing machine. I love it! It's sharp and I tend to actually unpick seams - not open the seam and rip the stitches. I have several and every time I loose one - I buy 2 more. They run about $5 each through the Viking dealer. 2. What do you use to snip threads at the sewing machine?

Well that really depends on what I'm doing. For normal, everyday vanilla sewing, I use this little pair of Mundial scissors. I have several pairs around the house - by the machine, on the ironing board, on the end table in the living room, and in my knitting bag. If I'm working on embroidery, I use a little curved pair and a pair of reverse tweezers to grab the threads and lift them.

3. What do you use to cut out patterns/fabric?

I'm an old fashioned scissors girl. I like the way they feel in my hand, love the sound they make cutting through fabric. I realize it's not the most efficient use of my time and I'm sure I'll hear about it later when I say the cutting out is my least favorite sewing task, but I do like using the scissors. I've never really been very comfortable with the rotary cutter.

4. Do you stash zippers?

Yes, I try to keep a fresh supply for Lucy to eat :) That's the not real reason I have zippers on hand, but it often seams like it!

5. Which takes up more space in your stash - knits or wovens

Wovens, although they are closer to becoming even.

6. Are you wearing anything today that you made?

Nope - not today. Although everyday this week I wore a skirt that I had made to work and mostly t-shirts that I had made or hand knits. Yesterday I wore the daisy skirt and a white t-shirt.

7. Does anyone else in your family currently sew?

Sorta, The Princess likes the idea of sewing and borrowed my back-up machine. However she just returned it in preparation for her big move.

8. What is the $$ sewing-related (non-fabric) item you bought?

Hmmm, bias tape, thread and buttons for the cotton tops I'm working on.

9. Cutting out, pressing, hemming. Which one do you like the least?

Cutting out. I just don't like the time involved in prepping the pattern for cutting. Tracing, trimming, ironing, laying out the pattern and finally cutting. The others are small jobs to a finish - cutting out seams to be a much bigger job!

10. Do you have any non-chain garment fabric stores in your local area?

Yes, Nancy's Sewing Basket, Stitches, and even though she really isn't a store front, Marsha's Textile Studios is in Seattle. I rarely go to any of these shops, because I hate to drive downtown, but I'll go if we have an ASG function at any of them.

Before I leave you with the funnies thing I've seen lately, I'm tagging Claire, Carolyn, Shannon, Sharon, and Linda. So, here it is, the funniest thing I have seen lately, this is an ad for Comcast Internet and it was in Everyday, Rachael Ray's magazine. The ad says A Jumper in a Jiffy - make a kid's outfit in seconds without sewing a stitch. The little girl is wearing a paper grocery bag with the bottom cut out (quite badly, I might add) and straps added with duct tape! Isn't that cute?