jansman wrote: ↑Sun May 29, 2022 3:44 pm
This sewing lark is definitely a high- end skill. I am lucky that my wife is a superb seamstress. Mind you, it’s what she did for a living before the children came along. She amazes me when she fixes, alters and creates stuff! I really need to learn some basic sewing ( buttons etc) because without her , I wouldn’t know where to start.
I remember my first year at secondary school been sat in a room full or Bernina sewing machines. With the needle work teacher slowly showing / demonstrating how to load the bobbin ... Me sat there about 20 seconds into her demo.. foot to the floor on the peddle full whack filled the bobbin queue a chastising for messing about with the dangerous sewing machine....
Once everyone had filled the bobbin it was thread tye machine ..
By this point she stomped over to me began to let fly at me for not paying attention .. it was fully threaded bobbin fitted and drawn up ready to sew.
She looked at me in disgust before asking me how the hell I knew what I was doing... My mum's got the same machine ... She trained as a home economics teacher
Then she had us sewing 2 bits of rag together followed by a lass squealing as she fed her finger between the needle and footplate....
We were ushered out just before the fire service arrived
I'm no expert but could knock some wonkey curtains together or shorten some trousers if pushed
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine