What was the first thing you ever sewed and how old were you?
05-30-2010, 04:17 AM
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Doll clothes I think with needle and thread by hand my grandmother taught me to sew on a electric machine it really scared me at first use to a treddle machine but so started my love for machines. I don't remember a time I didn't sew
05-30-2010, 04:37 AM
#135
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a potholder,by hand, I was only 4 and I can actually remember
my mother telling me I was making my stitches too big and I told her I had to make them big because I was running out of
thread! The logic of a 4 year old. That was a very crude potholder but I have improved with age (Sr. Citizen now).
my mother telling me I was making my stitches too big and I told her I had to make them big because I was running out of
thread! The logic of a 4 year old. That was a very crude potholder but I have improved with age (Sr. Citizen now).
05-30-2010, 04:40 AM
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I see that many of us started with doll clothes, tea towels and aprons. I loved home-ec, learned so many things there that I use today. I think it is such a disadvantage that our kids today dont have the opportunity that we did. Even kids going to college should know the basics. I have grown women today that tell me they cant even sew a button on, but then, Im sure there are things they do that I cant. Thank God we aren't all the same, but glad for us 'birds of a feather'!! lol
05-30-2010, 05:22 AM
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Home ec. in 7th grade,too Half apron with plastic waist thingy. Sewed the waist like you would for a rod-pocket curtain, then threaded the plastic piece through it. They still sell those plastic thingys to use with a towel to make a quick apron.
05-30-2010, 05:43 AM
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Originally Posted by prm
As a retired Home Ec. (now called Family and Consumer Science FACS) teacher I wish all of the respondents to this question could contact their state education departments to stop eliminating Home Ec. from the middle and high schools and return to foods and sewing classes. My state , Pennsylvania says sewing is a craft and not a life skill and has removed it from the middle school curriculum.
PRM
PRM
even crafts turn into trades
how dumb are they ?
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