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July 12, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Stacy Marie
I’m hopping on the selfish seamstress boat, if you’ll have me…I offered to make 8 hand embroidered jewlery rolls for my friend’s wedding to help her out, and now she wants me to produce 8 freaking matching make up bags. And I’m getting married in 12 days. Ugh.
July 12, 2010 at 12:50 pm
selfishseamstress
OMG. I think you are absolutely beyond reproach if you say you can’t. That’s craziness- you’ve gone well above and beyond friend duty!
July 13, 2010 at 11:52 am
Stacy Marie
I had a bit of a marathon last night and now I’m almost done with these dumb make up bags. And while cursing how a bag was lining up, I had an epiphany: No one, and I mean NO ONE, not even my almost husband, is getting jack sh*t made for them until I get to attempt a quilt.
I should have taken a page out of your book a long time ago and then I wouldn’t be in this mess!
How’s your wedding planning going, if you don’t mind me asking?
July 12, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Amy
Love it!
July 12, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Nikole
See now, we know you sew for Dan so this should be a problem for him but then again those sock monkey print pajamas were left un-hemmed when last we saw them…
July 12, 2010 at 12:58 pm
selfishseamstress
And they still are. Hahaha.
July 12, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Nikole
that should have been shouldn’t*
July 12, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Jan
Been there, done that. My husband does his own pants repairs! And by hand, so no messing up the nice settings on my sewing machine :-)
July 12, 2010 at 12:57 pm
PemiRobin
Once upon a time my husband asked if I could mend his “favorite jacket … sometime … before I die.” He then shook his head and said “Never mind” and threw it out. Yup, he’s trained.
July 12, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Amy
Absolutely the funniest thing I’ve read all day!
July 12, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Tanit-Isis
Haha! I read somewhere that “asking a seamstress to do your mending is like asking a high-end chef to make you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”
I hate mending—mostly the only thing I’ll mend is my jeans. Now that I have conquered the Jalie Jean and can have inexpensive, well-fitting jeans at will (theoretically), I may not even bother with that anymore!
July 12, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Ruth
We have an equitable arrangement going on – he allows me to cover half of the living room with sewing stuff (and the other half as well when it’s cutting time!) in addition to the drawers of fabric in the office, and in return I occasionally mend his pants. When I get to it. If it’s easy.
July 12, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Tasia
Love it!
July 12, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Ellyjobell
Oh wow, thats well timed. My husband just gave me a pile of pants to convert into shorts and patch :P
July 12, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Emily
I wish I had thought of this three weeks ago. Husband buys pants, they are too short. I let them out, hem them to be longer. Husband likes so much, he returns three days later with three additional pairs of pants he purchased, now that he knows I can re-hem. Ridiculous!
July 12, 2010 at 7:04 pm
MarieSews
and socks, and shirts, and replace your own buttons, and patch your own jeans, and cook your own meals, and do your own laundry, and fetch me a cup of tea while your up!
July 12, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Shannon
Too funny!
July 13, 2010 at 4:09 am
Emmy
I’m intrigued – where does the philosophy of selfish seamstressing stand on offering to sew for a man as a means to, ahem, an end? I assume it’s OK, since you got a marriage proposal for a pair of jammie bottoms. If I sew shirts for someone for the chance to get up close and personal with him for measurements and fittings and, well, seeing what comes of that closeness, is that acceptable?
July 13, 2010 at 6:34 am
San Antonio Sue
My hubby does the cooking, shopping; takes care of the cars, and loves me dearly. Mending his pants is the least I can do for him. The other day, I handed him a pattern piece for a pocket and he cut me a hard pattern from bookboard that I can wrap fabric around and press to get a perfectly shaped pocket. He made two of them, not realizing I can flip it over for the other side. :) Not to mention lugging sewing machines up and down the stairs and blowing them out with his compressor. Today he is pre-washing all the fabric I just received from Fabric Mart. How could I refuse to mend his pants, or even make him a shirt ow and then?
July 13, 2010 at 6:43 am
Kate
I’m with Sue. A sewing supportive hubby is a real gem and should be treated as such. :-)
July 13, 2010 at 8:19 am
selfishseamstress
Well, not everyone is a selfish seamstress ;)
July 13, 2010 at 7:45 am
trudy callan
Love it. I actually have a pile of mending my husband asked me to do for him. I had good intentions, but haven’t gotten to it yet. I feel so guilty. Why is so much easier just to start a whole new project than sew on a button even?
Trudy
http://www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com
July 13, 2010 at 4:31 pm
D.B. Greeby
Totally heart your blog, SS. Long-time reader, first time commenter.
That’s a funny haiku! I’ve got another good one:
Bus to fourteenth street
Get on train heading northwest
Walk to fabric store!
July 16, 2010 at 2:13 pm
amber
Yup! That is why God invented tailors. :)