Mom sewed Kindergarten tutus, Easter dresses complete with matching coats, and ultimately my Gunnie Sax Prom Dress. She sewed a lovely traditional green Irish Colleen Dress, complete with white lace pinafore, which all three of my girls wore on their first St. Patrick's Day.I used to help Mom cut out the patterns with electric scissors and I understand how to put them together, however I have no talent or patience for sewing. I sewed shorts, and one side was inside out. I sewed a flannel nightgown which self-destructed in a month. Enough, I said, I'm a shopper, not a seamstress.
So, last week, Mom took on the job of teaching the girls how to use a sewing machine, and here are the results; pink flowered curtains for their play house. Lovely!
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Heheh, it's a good thing to know your limits. ;-) I can't sew a thing either and stand in awe of those who can.
Those curtains are very sweet - and they have a great memory connected with them of sewing with grandma.
My girls' curtains are from IKEA. If you don't know about IKEA curtains, you have to "finish" them at the bottom - cut for length and iron on this strip of something that keeps the edge clean. I was, to put it mildly, super-challenged by even that small bit of working with fabric.
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