Aaaack!

Back story: DD and DGD are traveling to several colleges for auditions at their music conservatories.

DD: "Mom, could you hem these pants for me before I leave for NYC next Friday?"

Sure, sez I. (She wore them in Cleveland two weeks ago, and the hem on the left leg (shorter by 3/4 of an inch than the right leg) were worn through on the fold from being dragged in the salt they use to melt snow.) So I ripped out the hems and went downstairs to serge-and-hem. BUT... with about a thousand spools of thread and five different shades of gray, I had no matching thread. :-(

Off to JoAnn's...

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BEI Design
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OCD??????

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Juno

BUT... with about a thousand spools of thread

You know I am! I actually found a serger cone in a really good color, ran off three bobbins, and serged the new cutting line with matching four-thread overlock. So there. :-P

They are done, pressed and awaiting DD's pick up.

Off to cut out a zebra-print cape... .

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BEI Design

I do love pushing your buttons once in awhile. It's my evil self showing!

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Juno

Oh, SNAP!

;-D

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BEI Design

She's serging the *inside* of the leg, right? The part that will be folded up inside the leg when the hem goes in? So she's running around getting matching thread to sew up something that nobody will ever see? Uh huh. And when the hem goes in, it will be an invisible hem, right? The kind where you pick up one thread every quarter inch or so? The kind that requires a magnifying glass to see?

How could you ever think she's got OCD?

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Pogonip

Wild guess??????

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Juno

*I* will see. DD will see...

Pfffftttt! Wrong! When I do hem alterations, unless the client asks me to do differently, I replicate the original hem. Since both hems needed to be shortened (one about 1/4" the other 1") I *could have* serged and blind stitched (that is how I hemmed DGD's nice suit slacks), but the original hem on DD's slacks was serged and

*machine* stitched. (I know, yuck, right?). I *had* to have gray thread that matched so the line of machine stitching (which showed on the outside), matched. And since the best color match was a serger cone, winding bobbins for the upper looper and two needles threads was a no brainier (I only bought the one cone).

Kisses, sweetum. Let's see some of your work.

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BEI Design

On

Not only can we push her buttons, we can get a rise out of her. Accutualy Beverly, I'm sure the look better than the original hem.

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Juno

On

Not only can we push her buttons, we can get a rise out of her. Accutualy Beverly, I'm sure the look better than the original hem.

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Juno

Every time!

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Pogonip

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