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Maria Race's avatar

I learned to sew from my mom in the 60s and even sewed my first suit for job interviews after college. Every once in awhile I still sew something easy, like curtains or a blanket for my adult children.

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

Thanks for commenting. I too used to be a sewer but not as skilled as you. and now, i t am confined to curtains, pillow covers and hems.

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Edie Shedd's avatar

Hate to sew. Love "darn tough" socks!

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Eugene Porter's avatar

I bought bolts of fabric in Nepal and Burma, silk linen, hemp "Ganga Cloth" and a colorful embroidered fabric that I had made into a custom jacket and long vest in Thailand. I still wear them and they are in fine shape!

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Carol's avatar

Yes, much has changed though here in MT most of my friends still sew, quilt, knit and weave. Not me. I remember my mother darning socks when they got holes; in this throwaway culture I just toss them…

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Eugene Porter's avatar

I use them as rags. Most of my socks are pretty battered by the time they get a hole in them anyways. I won a bottle of champagne on a weather delayed, "Socked In", UA flight, when I was able to slip my foot out of my cowboy boot and show the flight attendant " a sock with a hole in it"!

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

yes.

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

FYI, Vermont-made Darn Tough socks have a lifetime replacement guarantee.

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Catini's avatar

I still sew, mostly flags and banners but some clothes too, and would be bankrupt if i had a store selling Indian fabrics anywhere nearby!!

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

I used to really enjoy it and when I lived in Japan, sewed a dress from beautiful woodblock indigo fabric traditionally used to cover futon. I later heard myself referred to as the foreigner dressed in a bedspread. HA!

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Edie Shedd's avatar

Ha ha!

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Catini's avatar

🤣

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Susan Forste's avatar

On the other hand, thanks to the internet and websites like Spoonflower, it's much easier for artists to design fabrics, of the printed variety at least, and for textile makers and manufacturers to find these new designs. Sewing takes a lot of skill, and time, of course--like cooking, and woodworking. And all those things are inherently satisfying and artistic in nature, or potentially so. But to think that my grandmother made all the clothes for her seven children AND cooked for them every day. It sounds impossible.

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Terry J. Allen's avatar

You are right. I'll have to give Spoonflower a look--although my days of sewing anything more complex than a hem or a pillow cover are beyond me. Oh your grandmother!! You'll have to tell me about her.

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