Sewing Again

How could you keep quiet qbout it? I would have waited till maybe the next day, then mention something like "how you ran out of eggs or whatever and had to make a rush trip to the grocery to finish the cake". Emily

My daughter never recovered from the picture day for which I put on one arm of her special cardigan slightly akimbo. It was an all-nighter after all, and she was wearing a turtleneck under it, so it's not like she really HAD to wear it all day, right??? *sigh* I do see her point and have apologized about 60 times. Problem is that since then anything I have sewn for her has been approached with an almost panicky trepidation, so much so that now it's been a ridiculous 8 years since anything I've sewn for her has been trustworthy. I told her that the next thing I make for her is going to be "stealth" handmade, complete with "stunt" storebought tags, just to get under her radar. What are stunt tags? LOL Storebought care tags, to put on a handmade garment that has seams finished so that she can't tell it's not storebought. heeheeheehee Xena

I'd be really tempted to give them a gift certificate to a fabric shop, perhaps for a sewing class of their own. Xena

Ditto! :-) Xena

Easy. It's the satisfaction of knowing that she really didn't mean what she said but was just trying to be controlling, and I successfully outsmarted her.

Second that. You must have the patience of the saint not to mention it and just enjoy your own satisfaction. No good at this myself...

:) Trish

A friend gave me a bunch of these to sew into my hand-mades, he is so label-conscious. They were all 'name' labels, too, like Ralph Lauren. How weird is this? I absolutely hate labels and logos (and have NEVER in my life owned a t-shirt that 'says' something, for instance). I like that Saville Row reticence of putting the label on the inside of the inside pocket...

:) Trish

Oh, it's not worth the bother, is it? Definitely best to put the effort where it's appreciated.

Glad I'm not the only one, though ;)

Trish

I sew my maker's labels into customer garments, but the only thing i've ever done that with for myself was my Harris tweed jacket: the length of fabric came with a woven label with the license or serial number on it, the Harris Tweed trademark, and the weaver's name, and the Vogue designer label from the pattern I used. I have had slogan T-shirts, with daft things on, like 'If you are close enough to reed this, you are invading my personal space!' in GIANT lettering, easily read from 200 yards away!

I sew my maker's labels and care labels into garments I make for customers as it makes it easier for them to get them dry cleaned. I'd never sew a manufacturer's name into something *I* made - how naïf! ;)

HEEHEEHEE The mother of these girls used to take the little critter on Izod shirts off old shirts and sew them on new generic shirts.

Sharon

This same SIL started (briefly) sending me projects she wanted done, earlier this year - her reasoning was, since I'm on disability, all I do is lay around. The topper was when she sent over a pair of drapes she wanted me to line. Of course I was expected to find the lining material, just the right color of course, and she wanted them the next weekend. Those drapes sat right where my MIL put them, and I told SIL she'd have to take a number because I had at least 15 other projects I was doing first.

I tried teaching her how to sew several years ago, but she didn't have the patience, and quit the first time she had a seam to undo.

Sharon

I'd have been grinning all day, and I'd have to say something! Sharon

OMGosh! That's exactly how I felt too these last couple of weeks, I couldn't even bring myself to word it, much less sew it. It's like I get this huge throbbing mental image of that person going "NO NO NO BA-A-AD" ... ha ha!!

Sewer's Psychosis?!

I have had slogan T-shirts,

Great idea.

Working the other way, I heard that Katharine Hamnett studied what size she'd have to make her 'No To Pershing' lettering on her T-shirts in order for it to be readable, small size, in a newspaper picture - she knew they'd take pix of her with Thatcher.

:) Trish

Trust me. If you knew her, you wouldn't *dare*!!!!!

Oh dear, one of "those". I guess we all have to be burdened with one. Well, I hope you snickered all day, which would be almost as good :>) - she'd go nuts, wondering what was so funny.

I've seen pillows made of those. A huge collection of the biggest names in clothing, all sewn together to cover a throw pillow. There, now you have a use for those labels! ;-)

rage to sew these on a blouse. I had none; my clothes were custom made by my DM. Jean M.

You betcha! (ROTFL)