She Cannot Sew A Stitch!
By Angie
@andriaperry (118793)
Anniston, Alabama
May 5, 2018 12:28pm CST
Last night when I was at my sisters house I took the measurements for a small window so I can make her a new curtain, she told me nothing to wild as far as fabric pattern goes. I made the last ones, 10 years ago! and they look like hell now.
I know my little sister was only ten when our mother passed away but my mother seemed to show me how to embroidery and do hemming stitches before the age of twelve, maybe she was to stubborn to learn? .... anyways she cannot sew a stitch, well that looks nice anyways.
Once she had a guard job that was close to my house so she would stop by sometime, one day she got out of her car and all I seen was something white on her crisp, clean navy uniform. The pants had a problem and it was the zipper hiding part, she used white thread and stitches that were an inch long! I told her take those pants off! I got them hand stitched back together with navy blue thread and it looked as good as the machine job that had came apart.
The reason for all the sewing in the middle of spring cleaning and garden planting is that Tony had 3 pair of shorts that had the seams coming undone, two in the crotch area and one pair on the inner thigh part. It did not take me 15 minutes to hand stitch those places back together.
Why not use a machine? I do not have one but I learned how to hand sew many things, one was cutting and hemming my own pants, since I am only 5' tall.
But my sister? Can`t sew a stitch that would stay.
How about you? Can you sew by hand?
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21 responses
@Kandae11 (57233)
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5 May 18
I would be quite lost without my sewing machine - and I can stitch by hand too but that would take up too much of my time.
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
5 May 18
I want one but I just have never bought one, maybe I should buy one of the small ones to start with.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
5 May 18
I used to do many things. I sewed in my machine and by hand, I knitted and you name it! But now both my hands and eyes are a mess so I don´t do much. I even bought those needles made for blind people.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
5 May 18
How do they work, for blind people?
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
5 May 18
@andriaperry You don´t put the thread through a hole, but they have an open hole and you push the thread to the wider part of it.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
5 May 18
Its good to know how, so many women cannot sew nowadays.
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@Courage7 (19626)
• United States
5 May 18
@andriaperry I sometimes wish I had a sewing machine too.
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
5 May 18
I am not good in sewing.. hehehe
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
5 May 18
You should learn in case of an emergency.
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
6 May 18
@andriaperry hehehe yes, I also want to learn
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@Peach10 (1920)
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6 May 18
I remember I sewed a dress for a project in school the most horrible thing that I did. It was a mess the moment I tried it on it burst out from my body. However, now that I am a mom I can sew rip shorts, pants maybe even rip eyebrows (joke)
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
6 May 18
LOL, my first project was a quilt top but I did good!
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@Peach10 (1920)
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6 May 18
@andriaperry good for you. You have a talent for it me my children has to accept how. I do it but I think I am getting the hang of it
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
6 May 18
I am really out of practice and my hands often shake, so it would take some doing.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
6 May 18
I did not know you had shaky hands. May I ask why you have shaky hands?
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
10 May 18
I am thinking about one of the little beginner ones at walmart for $69 or maybe $99
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@Ithink (10106)
• United States
11 May 18
@andriaperry That is what I want, just something simple like we used when I was in school.
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
6 May 18
I sew by hand as well, I have a machine but it is just too much work to take it out and change the bobbin color etc, I would rather sew by hand.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
5 May 18
I prefer to use a sewing machine. And even then I dont always get a nice straight line.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
6 May 18
@andriaperry I just keep a simple one. I would not have any idea how to run some of them.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
6 May 18
I have used other peoples machines but I dont really know how to run one.
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
5 May 18
I can't even sew a button on, even bought one of those gadgets that is supposed to make it easy, still no way. Anne started sewing when she was four years old, taught by her great grandmother. She has four machines with all that art quilting she does.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
6 May 18
I think you showed us some of her wonderful work.
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@JudyEv (381739)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 May 18
@andriaperry Putting up hems and sewing on buttons is about the limit of my hand-sewing these days.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
6 May 18
@JudyEv me too but when I get older and slower I want to go back to quilting, So I can have something fun to do and I can sell them.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
6 May 18
Me either unless I hem a new pair of pants, but I have not bought any in a while.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
6 May 18
@LovingMyBabies
Jennifer, I cannot sew worth a darn. I am not good at sewing.
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
5 May 18
IF I had to I could, but it is not a preferred activity. I haven't had a needle and thread in my hands for years.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
5 May 18
Actually its been a whole for me too.
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
6 May 18
yes and never learned to use a machine. been known in my day to make a lot of clothes and alter ones to fit
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
6 May 18
I do not know how to use a machine either.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
6 May 18
Its actually been a very long time for me.
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@Marilynda1225 (91013)
• United States
5 May 18
I learned to sew and do embroidery at a young age also. My mother loved to sew and taught me for which I'm very grateful. My mother's sister never learned to sew and couldn't mend even the easiest task.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
5 May 18
YAY! I think every man and woman should know how to sew a little by hand.
