I have never been a seamstress, but I tried to learn when I was in high school & when the children were toddlers. In 9th grade I had to sew something in Home EC class. I picked the easiest thing that came to mind. It was a scarf with the GA emblem on the corner. Oh, I wish I had a picture of that thing. I didn't dare wear it.
I have to explain a little bit about this scarf. It was not a fashion statement that we have today. Oh No!!!. All I did was get some heavy green color fabric & cut a triangle. Make a double seam around it. Then get some, I think it was called seam tape, & sew it to two corners of the triangle so it would make a tie. The finally stage was to sew the emblem to the back triangle so it would hang-off just so. The emblem was not the GA state emblem. I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church where all the girls went to GA's on Wed. nights. Besides studying about Jesus, you learned about missionaries all over the world. I can't even remember what GA's stands for now. Also, green was the program's color. Would you believe I still have the emblem in my scrapbook?
When the children came along, I got the bright idea to try to start sewing, again to help save money. I am using the word, again, very loosely. My sweet husband bought me this extremely heavy, portable Singer Sewing Machine. I tried my hand at it & made the children some Christmas PJ's. I probably spent more money making those PJ's than if I had just bought some. At that time you just didn't buy clothes at Woolworth & Walmart wasn't into full swing. Now, most of my day wear is from Walmart. I must say the PJ's did look cute.
Well, that was as far as I went in being a seamstress. From then on I used the machine for mending.
Back to the garage sale. We were trying to give this machine away for $10 to $15. No takers. My sells pitch was that the machine just needed an adjustment. In the middle of the garage sale Dave said that he didn't feel we were being truthful. I thought since the machine didn't work for about 2 yrs now, it must needed some maintenance. I also thought that these adjustments would cost us an arm & a leg. We could buy a new one at Walmart for the adjustment price.
This week on my honey-do-list was to take the machine to a sewing store & get an estament on how much it would cost to repair it. The lady was so nice & very helpful.
The first thing she told me was that I was using the wrong type of thread-hand quilted sewing thread. I didn't know there was such a thing, but I was using it.
The second thing wrong was that I didn't have the machine threaded correctly. Now, I was embarrassed. Defensively, I told her that it has been a few years since I used it.
The third problem was a tiny screw was loose on the bottom plate. I fixed that with my finger nail.
The machine worked perfectly. The real seamstress next to me, told me never to get rid of that machine because it was one of the best on the market. All this advise was at NO CHARGE! And to think I almost gave it away.
I wish I could some how use the Prov 31 Women verses concerning this blog. I think the most appropriate verse would be:
Hebrews 5:2
He can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since He Himself also is surrounded with weakness;
OR,
maybe the phrase "Ignorance is bliss" would be appropriate; no
OR
in my case,
I think I could just use a good ole adjustment.
ann :)
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