mar32428

Yoyos for my GM's quilting bee once a week. Age four.

quiltmom04

Barbie doll clothes about about age 8 or 9.

pins4

Wow long time ago. 6 years old, grandmother taught me to embroider. She made all my dresses and I had to trim the collars and cuffs. hated it then love it now, as well as quilting

dixiechunk

Home Ec but couldn't say at what age or year. My father raced horses and my mother once counted up that I went to 52 schools. The point being that everything kind of blended together in my mind. Made the usual apron, skirt kind of thing.
I do remember an incident in HS where we made those "tent dresses" and when I clipped the seam allowances on the sleeve interfacings I clipped through the yoke of the dress. Teacher wanted me to take the dress completely apart and put in a new yoke. Of course...yeah right. Went home and made a complete new dress over the weekend. She never knew the difference.
That was how I learned to sew but my dear grandmother actually instilled the love of sewing and sewing machines in me and we spent many a summer sewing dresses for school in the fall.

RugosaB

When I was 6 or 7 I wanted my Barbie to havve cslothes, so I made them. Then I joined 4-H. I have been interested in quilting all along but really sewing clothes was my main interest. It's funny, when I met my husband (over 30 years ago) he had his tools in the back of his van wrapped up in a quilt his Grandma made. I rescued it immediately and told him if we broke up he could have it back, but it has a treasured spot in our house. Let's see in I can share a pic of it:

This looks to be more involved than I can do right now, let's say for now it's a gorgeous appliqued quilt. She died a few months after we were married, I know we would have been best friends
I have to tell abbout my daughter. She was scheduled for scoliosis surgery when she was 16 and had a few appointments before the surgery to give some of her own blood 'just in case' She was lying there and I noticed what she was wearing and I asked "Where did you get this skirt?"
Seems she bought a top at Goodwill and she's so tiny, it was enough fabric for her to make a skirt out of it! We bought her a new sewing machine as a 'glad you made it' gift after the surgery.

ma feet

So glad so many of you learned to sew in Home Ec classes, having been a Home Ec teacher for many, many years. Started sewing when I was about five. I learned on the old Singer treadle (I loved the story of Rumpelstilskin, so with the old treadle I was able to "spin much, much gold!!) As I got a few years older, if I did the mending I didn't have to do the dishes -- great incentive! I made my first quilt when I was in fourth grade, and I still have it. And I still like to "leave the dishes" and sew.

vivoaks

I started in 4-H, probably 9 or 10...the first thing I ever tried on my own was an A-line skirt with side pockets... I sewed those darn pockets 4 times before I did it without sewing them shut!! I remember being VERY upset with myself each time I finished the seam, only to realize I'd sewn it shut AGAIN!!!

bstanbro

Hmmmm. I'd have to go with a skirt I made for myself in home ec class in the 8th grade--so 13? I chose the more horrible fabric for it too. I never wore it, but my girlfriend loved it.

Sewslow

When I was about 7 I made a pair of shorts, inadvertently cut to paper doll, not human, shape. Big sister's ridicule put me off sewing for years. The next thing I remember is a home ec project of a black and pink checked dress. In my zeal to be done first for chance to model, I sewed part of skirt bottom in side zipper. Fortunately the home ec teacher was more diplomatic than Big Sister so I went on to greater things and have sewn for myself, a son, 3 granddaughters and friends for many years. I'm fairly new to quilting, though, so I feel like I'm starting over.

steelecg

I made a doll dress for my byelo baby when I was in 4th or 5th grade and then took home ec. in HS - In the 60's we thought polished cotton was terrific in pink no less - Do you have the picture of a big pink outfit headed your way - boxed pleated skirts and tops - What were we thinking.