Hello everyone

The only sewing implement you actually *need* is a needle!

Sounds like you will fit right in here! Welcome home! ;)

There is no minimum number of machines (or scissors, or patterns, or...) one needs to have to subscribe to this newsgroup. ;-)

Welcome, what are you sewing?

Thanx. At last, a group of people who don't think it's weird to make clothes instead of buying them.

Smee

Thanks for the welcome. At present, I'm working on some pants and top combinations. Fell heir to a ton of fabric from an abandoned storage locker and I'm busy finding ways to use it up.

Sometimes I just fondle it.

Smee

Found any real treasures?

Well, fabric needs airing reularly, and inspecting for moths and so forth...

We make more than just clothes! If I can get it under the sewing machine needle, I can try to sew it. I've made scale armour out of soda cans before now... (You know, it's really not easy trying to type through a cat!)

...that, along with to altering the ones we've already bought! :)

-Irene

Oh yes, more than I thought was possible. Lots of novelty fabrics, and many yards of heavy weight knits, the kind you make sweat pants out of, and some lovely black knit just crying out to be pants, and yards and yards of print knits, and did I mention the novelty fabrics? Shimmery silky stuff that must be made into some kind of evening wear. The former owner of all that stuff had to have been a professional seamstress and/or designer. Everythng from sheer, delicate fabric to something you could probably make armor out of.

Needless to say, I'm having a blast.

'Zactly.

Smee

I do that all the time. Manufacturers just don't get it; they think humans all come in one basic shape, no matter the size.

WHY, for heavens sake, would the makers of women's plus sizes make tops with broad horizontal stripes?

Smee

No ready to wear manufactuerer could possibly make cltohing in all the sizes and shapes we humans come in. That's why we sew.;-}

Because they know there is demand for them:

(Warning! Rude, crude, and you'll need brain bleach after viewing)

Oh, boy, DO YOU belong here... lol

What's weird about having something the perfect color, the perfect fiber content, the perfect fit, etc., etc.?

Oh, and DO NOT forget about POCKETS, glorious POCKETS in everything you own...

Somehow i don`t like making pockets ,,,,,,, i rather have some tiny bag mirjam

Fantastic question , i have a nice T shirt long sleeved beautiful tricot ,,,,, if only those stripes would have been lengthway ?????? i will feel better ,,,,,,, now i feel like a Zebra street crossing when ever i wear it ,,,,,,,, but i love the material ,,,,, mirjam

My eyes! My eyes!

Smee

I love the term "mental floss" that was used IIRC on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Complete with it going in one ear, out of the other and squeaking as it was flossed.

Lizzy

To each their own, so in your case you can think about GLORIOUS matching bags, one for each garment you own. Does that work? And I wish I had your memory if you can remember to bring everything with you that you need. I always put side-seam pockets in EVERYTHING so I always have keys to get back in the house with if I'm walking the dog and everybody leaves and locks the door.

I have a dry streambed of 4-6"river rocks all along the front of the house (it catches overflow from the eave troughs), and meandering down to the curb in my front yard. I add one of these:

I also have a spare set of keys I keep inside near the front door, I put those in my pocket when I take the dog for a walk. And I agree, pockets are handier than matching bags. ;->

Another really good option is to leave a spare set with a trusted neighbor... and hope they are home when you lock yourself out. :-}

Beverly