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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2015 23:41:58 GMT
I am a hand sewer, sewing machines kind of intimidate me a little bit. I have made a few baby quilts by hand over the years but mostly just do mending now. When I was just starting out I bought a really nice wooden sewing box, then I started going to garage and estate sales and got lots of sewing notions pretty cheap, tape measures, seam ripper, needles, thread in many different colors and a lot of it still on the wooden spools, and scissors. Its a cheap way to keep a good supply of mending stuff. For lessons you could check out youtube for some videos. But my advice to you was for your sons pants, not sure how old he is but thinking he is still in the age of wearing out the knees of pants? I have 5 boys and one trick I learned a long time ago was to get some heavy iron on patches and turn the boys pants inside out and iron the patch on the inside of the jeans at the knee. You can't see it when they are wearing it but it will take them twice as long to wear a hole through them. A seam ripper is something I should definitely get, I have been using safety pins lol. That is such a neat idea!!! Thank you! My son is 6 at the moment by the way. If you have any ideas for reinforcing the in-seam/v-section (I'm not sure how else to describe it without offending someone lol) of the pants where the legs "meet", I'm all ears for that as well. Thank you for your awesome advice though
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2015 23:42:58 GMT
It is worth spending a couple of bucks on sewing chalk if you're having trouble with a straight line. You can draw the line out on the fabric, stitch the line, and then the chalk washes out. Oh wow I didn't even know such a thing existed. That's pretty cool that it washes right out, I will have to look into this thank you!
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Post by terrilynn on Oct 11, 2015 1:00:29 GMT
I am a hand sewer, sewing machines kind of intimidate me a little bit. I have made a few baby quilts by hand over the years but mostly just do mending now. When I was just starting out I bought a really nice wooden sewing box, then I started going to garage and estate sales and got lots of sewing notions pretty cheap, tape measures, seam ripper, needles, thread in many different colors and a lot of it still on the wooden spools, and scissors. Its a cheap way to keep a good supply of mending stuff. For lessons you could check out youtube for some videos. But my advice to you was for your sons pants, not sure how old he is but thinking he is still in the age of wearing out the knees of pants? I have 5 boys and one trick I learned a long time ago was to get some heavy iron on patches and turn the boys pants inside out and iron the patch on the inside of the jeans at the knee. You can't see it when they are wearing it but it will take them twice as long to wear a hole through them. A seam ripper is something I should definitely get, I have been using safety pins lol. That is such a neat idea!!! Thank you! My son is 6 at the moment by the way. If you have any ideas for reinforcing the in-seam/v-section (I'm not sure how else to describe it without offending someone lol) of the pants where the legs "meet", I'm all ears for that as well. Thank you for your awesome advice though lol I have a cousin who had 7 boys and she had a gadget that would put a rivet in a pair of jeans. I don't know if it was a special thing for sewing or the same kind of rivet gun my husband uses out in the shop, might be worth looking into. I don't talk to my cousin that often anymore but if I do happen to hear from her I will ask her.
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