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The Selfish Seamstress loves to design and sew garments, but only if she gets to keep them. I'm Elaine, known in the online sewing world as elainemay, and welcome to my selfish sewing blog.
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March 13, 2010 at 10:53 am
lorrwill
Kudos to you for the power to say no.
Well these were hard to put into any semblance of haiku form but these are the 2 reasons I tell people that I can’t/won’t sew for them:
Sew something for you?
I said I sew, but not that
I was any good.
Sew something for you?
Sewing is a hobby and
not my profession.
March 13, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Natalie B
I love your haikus… for someone who sometimes has trouble saying no (and is a teacher – so seriously how much free time do I have?), they are quite inspirational :)
March 14, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Brenda
This one is my favorite so far.
March 15, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Martina
Sew something for you?
No but I will teach you to
Sew something for you
March 21, 2010 at 7:30 am
Sewista Fashionista
I was reading aloud to my husband your very informative article about the latest sewing nemesis to threaten the self-esteem of your average home sewer as she masquerades as just one of us and then uleashes her secret seamstressing mojo on the hapless and unprepared.
I clicked onto the site and the eye of my English-schoolteacher husband was caught by your haiku.
I have to tell you-I failed miserably at fourth-grade haiku writing. The teacher read a few and the assigned each of us to write one. The other children snapped up their pencils and began scribbling furiously.
I looked around and wondered what the hell were they writing about? Who talks in numbered syllables anyway? And why were they so hunched over that I couldn’t glance at their papers?
I have never read an in-your-face haiku before and I wished I could have mustered the same pithiness and attitude as my ten-year-old self tried to wax poetic.
Alas I possess the ‘tude but not the pithiness. Kudos! Your haiku is so funny I want to post it above my sewing machine. This piece speaks for a lot of us.
March 25, 2010 at 10:35 am
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