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Post by toshtego on Oct 19, 2022 14:46:20 GMT -5
I do my own mending of clothes and shoes. WHile I am not skilled with a needle and thread combo in different sizes, I can get the job done. Tears in shirts and pants, shoe soles separating from their Uppers. Leather, cloth. I enjoy it for a time.
How about you? Any hobby or craft people here or just mending taylors, like me?
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Post by adui on Oct 19, 2022 15:00:38 GMT -5
Can't ay I enjoy needle work, but I do enjoy tinkering with things around the house when the occasion arises and we need to fix something.
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Post by Legend Lover on Oct 19, 2022 15:45:03 GMT -5
I can mend a hole in my pocket or something like that, but that's as far as it goes. I wish I was good at craft. I dabble in photography, but I wish I could do more with the digital art side of things, but I'm not arty at all. I admire those who are.
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Post by mgtarheel on Oct 19, 2022 16:16:10 GMT -5
Will sew up a tear or rip in pants, can sew on buttons too.
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Post by instymp on Oct 19, 2022 17:21:32 GMT -5
I can mend a hole in my pocket or something like that, but that's as far as it goes. I wish I was good at craft. I dabble in photography, but I wish I could do more with the digital art side of things, but I'm not arty at all. I admire those who are. Photography (good) is an art! Composition, exposures etc. is an art. Digitally....you can't make a steak out of hamburger.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 19, 2022 17:26:08 GMT -5
I have so many clothes, that if something rips, tears or lose a button, it is off to the trash or a thrift store donation.
I used to have a mending pile for the wife and nothing was ever repaired.
Her mom was a sewing fanatic.
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Post by username on Oct 19, 2022 18:37:55 GMT -5
I took a couple of classes in college on seeing and garment constituents. I can follow a pattern and use a sewing machine. But I haven’t done it in over a decade but I think if I needed do I could do it.
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 19, 2022 18:45:17 GMT -5
Always tinkering with suchlike, but not all that good at it. Lots of incidental leather work using deer and elk hides. Making rifle slings, possible bags, various accouterments, that sort of thing. All my stuff looks decidedly “rustic” but seems to never wear out. I have stuff that is 65+ years young and still doing yeoman service. But my buttons don’t stay on that long. Shirkers!
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 19, 2022 19:21:47 GMT -5
I do my own mending of clothes and shoes. WHile I am not skilled with a needle and thread combo in different sizes, I can get the job done. Tears in shirts and pants, shoe soles separating from their Uppers. Leather, cloth. I enjoy it for a time. How about you? Any hobby or craft people here or just mending taylors, like me? If you didn't do it you'd probably be wearing skins. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 19, 2022 19:24:08 GMT -5
I can repair a tent or a button, but nothing in between.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Oct 19, 2022 21:49:19 GMT -5
I can sew with a needle or a machine, knit, and crochet. I've been working on a blanket for my baby girl for a while now and I really need to get back to it and get it finished. My hands don't allow it for extended periods of time anymore.
My grandmother on my mom's side was happy to teach any of her children and grandchildren if they asked. My sister, 2 female cousins, and myself are the only ones who took it up. Her father loved to knit when he wasn't building REAL furniture. It's a family thing that I hope to pass down to at least one of children.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 19, 2022 22:10:05 GMT -5
I learned to crochet when I was 9 and 10 and I spent a couple of summers with my aunt and her 3 daughters. I couldn't make the first stitch now. I used to make some great doilies.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 20, 2022 7:53:32 GMT -5
 My wife’s mother would look at a dress in store, would go back and sit on the floor and start cutting a pattern, her dress would be the exact image of the one in the store. She died when my wife was a small child, wife’s Aunt raised the 4 children as her own. Wife inherited her skills, she even made me a boat top for my shrimp boat. She has several old Singer Sewing machines, she must of passed that skill to my oldest son, as he is making for himself custom bags and cases for his shooting equipment. I can iron with the best, taught by our next door neighbor while growing up, she ironed for the public and taught me, came in handy in the Navy.
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Post by just ol ed on Oct 20, 2022 10:59:33 GMT -5
High % of all my clothes pull-overs, any with buttons, late wife's basic sewing kit available, a few shirt buttons here/there I can do easily. The few I have.....all in good condition. Has to be at least 6yrs since had to buy any new "rags", new parka 3 yrs ago.
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
part of mostly simple living
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Post by toshtego on Oct 20, 2022 11:28:28 GMT -5
I kind of enjoy mending with needle and thread. It is a challenge to work with such small items and with some precision. I do not want a pile of it to do but the occasional project!
I have made a few leather applications for the animals.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Oct 21, 2022 10:42:44 GMT -5
I can sew with needle or machine, but my honey is the needle arts master here: quilts & Afghans for friends' kids and grandkids, but her hobby is cross-stitch. She does beautiful work, but life has gotten in the way of projects for a while.
I have to make a new sleepy time cover for the bird cage soon. I'm not looking forward to it because inevitably I'll do something wrong and have to correct it, canceling any relaxation I'd hope to achieve by doing it.
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Post by toshtego on Dec 2, 2022 17:47:44 GMT -5
Prepped a pair of woolen trousers and a cable knit wool sweater for mending. Got out the good Guttermann German Thread, now made in Greece, then realized I cannot tell the greens from the reds from the browns. Naturally, they are not labeled with a color name! So, I have to wait until I have a visitor with normal color vision so they can select the thread!
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Post by don on Dec 2, 2022 20:17:10 GMT -5
I replace buttons all the time. I sew up tears in packs and gear too. A few days ago I re-attached a button and sewed up half a dozen holes in my LL Bean ranch coat. I love that thing. The scars and wear make it even more treasured.
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 2, 2022 21:21:51 GMT -5
I replace buttons all the time. I sew up tears in packs and gear too. A few days ago I re-attached a button and sewed up half a dozen holes in my LL Bean ranch coat. I love that thing. The scars and wear make it even more treasured. Old jackets and such are the best. I'm still mourning the loss of my M51 army field jacket that my wife gave to her junkie brother who promptly lost it. It was perfectly broken in. |
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Post by Gypo on Dec 2, 2022 23:20:34 GMT -5
I do not do any sewing other than buttons and am not that great at it. I use fabric glue Tare Mender glue patches on my work pants and shirts.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Dec 2, 2022 23:40:19 GMT -5
I'm a guy who likes my old stuff, have a pair of Muck boots, that are patched with tent repair patches, I bought my wife a new pair, brought Buddy for his rabies shot and wife was appaled I wore my old boots, Oldest son for Thanksgiving made in jest , I believe it was in jest Pop with your old liberty overalls and those boots, nobody is ever gonna rob you. New 💩 doesn't feel right.
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Post by don on Dec 3, 2022 12:26:12 GMT -5
I'm a guy who likes my old stuff, have a pair of Muck boots, that are patched with tent repair patches, I bought my wife a new pair, brought Buddy for his rabies shot and wife was appaled I wore my old boots, Oldest son for Thanksgiving made in jest , I believe it was in jest Pop with your old liberty overalls and those boots, nobody is ever gonna rob you. New 💩 doesn't feel right. That is exactly how I feel, Brad. |
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Post by toshtego on Dec 3, 2022 13:37:18 GMT -5
I mend and am proud of it.
Since I am not always as thrifty as I could be, it is nice to save clothes an boots for future use.
I wish I were nimble, but I try.
Since colors are a challenge, I sometimes come up with odd thread combinations.
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Post by JimK on Dec 19, 2022 10:42:02 GMT -5
Back in my misspent youth, I got into Civil War reenacting. That's where I first learned to sew. My wife actually taught me most of what I know. Fortunately for me, when we got married she came equipped with a 1938 model Singer Featherweight sewing machine, that has sewn many a shirt, vest, and a jacket or two.
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Post by sperrytops on Dec 19, 2022 10:51:36 GMT -5
I'll sew buttons back on, but also I do mend my sweaters that develop holes in them. Probably from falling ash. I like my old sweaters. I simply use large bookbinders needles. Make mending very easy.
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Post by urbino on Dec 19, 2022 13:14:45 GMT -5
I'm a man who's owned a sewing machine for the better part of 15 years. I can't say I use it a whole lot, but I use it when I need it.
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 19, 2022 17:33:23 GMT -5
I'll sew buttons back on, but also I do mend my sweaters that develop holes in them. Probably from falling ash. I like my old sweaters. I simply use large bookbinders needles. Make mending very easy. Are the falling ashes from pipes, wildfires, or volcanoes? In your location it could be anything. |
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Post by sperrytops on Dec 19, 2022 17:36:42 GMT -5
I'll sew buttons back on, but also I do mend my sweaters that develop holes in them. Probably from falling ash. I like my old sweaters. I simply use large bookbinders needles. Make mending very easy. Are the falling ashes from pipes, wildfires, or volcanoes? In your location it could be anything. Perhaps all of the above. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 19, 2022 17:39:16 GMT -5
Are the falling ashes from pipes, wildfires, or volcanoes? In your location it could be anything. Perhaps all of the above. 😂 I hope not! |
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Post by Gandalf on Dec 19, 2022 21:38:10 GMT -5
I can sew things up enough that it'll work. Won't look very good, but ....
Usually I just replace buttons. When I'm done, they'll never come lose again.
I remember first learning to sew when I was about in kindergarden. My teddy bear and other stuffed toys were all missing their eyes, so my mom taught me to sew buttons on for eyes. I spent all day at it. I had many stuffed toys.
I still have my dad's sewing kit he was issued in WWII, in the Navy.
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My wife’s mother would look at a dress in store, would go back and sit on the floor and start cutting a pattern, her dress would be the exact image of the one in the store. She died when my wife was a small child, wife’s Aunt raised the 4 children as her own. Wife inherited her skills, she even made me a boat top for my shrimp boat. She has several old Singer Sewing machines, she must of passed that skill to my oldest son, as he is making for himself custom bags and cases for his shooting equipment. I can iron with the best, taught by our next door neighbor while growing up, she ironed for the public and taught me, came in handy in the Navy.
