Saturday, July 30, 2011
So I Can Sew
My mother was a seamstress. She made all of my school dresses until I was in junior high. She sewed clothes for my dolls. She made pajamas for my brothers and clothes for herself. Her sewing machine was always set up and had a project sitting on it. Seeing my mom sew was a fixture of my childhood. I had no interest in learning to sew. She would often ask me if I wanted to sew and my answer was always no. I am pretty confident that that was a disappointment to my mom. But I wanted to establish a difference between my mom and I and one way for me to do that was to refuse sewing lessions. I did take a Home Ec. class in the seventh grade. Sewing was part of the class. I made a skirt. It was hideous and I never wore it. When my husband and I were married, my mother-in-law asked if I would be interested in a sewing machine as a wedding gift. I told her that I didn't sew and wasn't planning to learn. She bought us a sewing machine for a wedding present. I was...curious. For many years, we used the machine as a door stop to keep the door leading from the house to the garage open when I was doing laundry. I loaned that machine to an acquaintance and never got it back. I was not distraught. When my mother-in-law recently passed away, my father-in-law asked if any of his daughters wanted her sewing machine. Since they all have their own, they said no. He asked me if I wanted it. My sister-in-law said that if I wanted her to, she would teach me to use it. So at 53 years of age, I am learning to sew. I hope my mom is watching.
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Will you sew me a denim jumper since I am a homeschooling mom?????
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