feeling pleased with myself

Well done you. I have enthusiasm but no real talent when it comes to sewing! Can do stuff like basic alterations and curtains, but if I try anything more involved than that, nothing ever comes out quite right...

now i find alterations a complete night mare ,and if you can sew curtains then you are doing well,don't put yourself down,these days i have to be in the mood or have a motivation for some project or another,when my sister and i were in our later teens,she would bring me a yard of cotton,and a simple shift frock was duly run up in no time at all,and she was of out in it,the same day,she was very slim then,

All very clever stuff lottie dolly. Most of the sewing here gets done by me because Mrs snuffer hates sewing. Never made anything complicated but can run up a dog bed when needed or more to the point if I can be bothered.

Am also impressed that you can keep your gardening gloves long enough to get a hole in them. I've lost dozens of the things. Can't imagine where. They never turn up in the garden or on the lottie. They must go off and join all the missing odd socks.

I can't sew, can't even do buttons very well so mega-impressed with anyoe who can! Brilliant. I have so many pairs of gloves all half-worn out. They only last me a few weeks. though

janeyo

I hate altering things too. I used to make shirts for Himself (when fabric was cheaper) and I'd rather make a complete new shirt than sew a button on! That is mad - I had to sew 6 on - and 2 on the sleeves when making it - but you're sort of psyched up for it then.

Quilters say, when asked by rellies to alter a garment, that it's like asking Monet to paint your garage!

snuffer,i usually have 3or4 pairs on the go,all diferent colours,so i have always got at least 1 pair to hand,pardon the pun,i then put together any odds until i gone,then start again,how ever my stronge ladies swade ones are still good.

janeyo,if you not want to buy another pair yet,is it posible you can put a patch on the worn out bit,just tack it on,even if you have to sacrifice an older 1 to do it,just a thaught.

flummery,i had a go at shirts,but did not get on with doing the collar upstand,horrible job,as regard to alterations,people think because you can sew many things,you can just do it for them,not take you long,humm,until you tell them what is involved in doing what they think is sooo easy,

a few years ago,we had a market trader sold his fabric for 50p per mtr,so i stocked up on fabric expecting to move home,but never did,so i have enough fabric to start my own stall,even got some genuine whynciet,spelling,from my late mothers little pile,i went of sewing for a long time,but every now and then i get the notion,but clothes,is just as cheap to buy ready made,i used to alter 1 pattern,to make another designe,my dream was to be a dress designer and pattern cutter,but failed the 11 plus,and mam made us go into a factory,it was very much,DO AS I SAY,but you cannot go back in time,

I'll have to remember that. I've given up telling people I sew, because then I am inundated with requests to raise hems, take in waists, mend zips etc. They don't realise it's easier to make something from scratch than to alter

i dont bother wearing them anymore.....pairs and pairs of them every Xmas, there for emergencies I tell everyone, what emergency.........i dont know lol