Would you mend my ******
#131
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Michigan
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Originally Posted by marymild
Have you noticed when you tell people you quilt, they want to know if you will do their mending for them?
And then there is altering that people want me to do. I hate to alter. On guy just recently wants me to take his dad's jacket and make the sleeves and the body longer. I said noooo.
#134
Just family and I always do it. The most fun one was a snowmobile cover that was heavy canvas that had gotten torn, hard to squish it under the needle, but the repair was a thing of beauty! My DSD is very petite and asks me to hem to jeans then never gets around to having me measure her inseam so I can hem them...works for me!!! Luckily they don't ask very often cuz I really don't enjoy it like I enjoy quilting.
#135
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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I hate that, all my friends think that because I quilt and am a stay at home mom.. that I have all the time in the world to do their mending and hemming....haha if they only saw my own pile of things that need mended.. but sadly I have given in way to many times and did it for them... I need a backbone
#138
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
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I was a seamstress before I ever made my first quilt, so my family knows I can do mending. I just hate doing it!
So now I say I'm sorry my sewing machine doesn't know how to
mend, it only makes quilts. ROFLMAO
I used to sell sewing machines inside a Joann's super store and people would ask if they could use our machines for just a minute. grrrr I would say they could rent them for $200 for 5 minutes; amazing how fast they went away. ;o)
So now I say I'm sorry my sewing machine doesn't know how to
mend, it only makes quilts. ROFLMAO
I used to sell sewing machines inside a Joann's super store and people would ask if they could use our machines for just a minute. grrrr I would say they could rent them for $200 for 5 minutes; amazing how fast they went away. ;o)
#139
Originally Posted by marthe brault-hunt
I laugh and tell hem Don't trust me with mending or altering clothes. I tell them the I shortened a pair of jeans for my husband , I cut the same leg twice (true). They usually don't insist!
#140
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
Posts: 6,135
Heres one rememdy for that, most machines have a blind hem stitch, whip it out in no time!
blind hem stitch. I only hem my pants when I absolutely must.
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