Memorygirls - The Matrix Reloaded

Firewalker

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Right - but if he grows up loving show tunes I'm blaming his aunty TMIF :rotfl:

MG

Not fair - I suspect you, just like any parent, have already generated many years worth of councelling. TMIF is innocent in comparison.

FW

Memory_Girl

Firewalker wrote: »

Not fair - I suspect you, just like any parent, have already generated many years worth of councelling. TMIF is innocent in comparison.

FW

Oh!!! You know I have :rotfl:



Which raises a deeper point - am I being the very best role model I can be for my boys?

An Ok one - probably - but the very best, well that needs to be a work in progress.

Memorygirl

clairewop

Good morning.

Sorry I was Awol yesterday, Mum decided she wanted to go to B&Q for paint as well as asda and home bargains, Well I don't know about her, but after all that walking I was in agony , then I had to walk back into town to sort out ds2's phone and the xbox, my wasn't I sore when I went to bed!! thank goodness for pain killers.

Not doing anything today having a rest as I'm still sore, so no cleaning I will put washing on the line once I have checked the weather, plus I'm up the market for a few hours, but I sit down up there anyway.

Tescodealqueen

Morning all.

MG re talk of overlockers I thught they were a test on the Krypton Factor or at least an instrument of torture.

I have just become reaquainted (spelling) with my sewing machine and dad wants me to make a button hole on his trouser pockets:eek:

Straight sewing was bad enough. Still it will be good practice.

Have a good day everyone

Memory_Girl

Just got in from taking the boys for their "spring shearing" - with DS2 lookingj ust the cutest.

Was sitting waiting for them when I totaled up that if I was paying the Big Horse Debt off against my mortgage instead - I would have paid off 6% of my mortgage :eek:

Thats 6% in a year - a year that I spent half on benefits and half not earning very much.............

.............Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! Time to get my vavavooooom back in gear and get rid of this millstone.

MG

PS Overlocker is working a treat - thinking of offering sewing sessions at my house during Playgroup hours - maybe three ladies at a time learning how to do simple stuff for kids. PJ's, trackie bottoms, t-shirt tops, cutie pie dresses etc.

crickett1234

MG great idea!

I would love to be given a "how to" lesson in following commerical patterns and how to fit things properly to either a tailors dummy or a person. In fact, I would be happy to pay for that. It would need to be in really simple terms, because the commercial patterns can be really confusing. I like your idea of the simple stuff for kids too... but seeing as I don't have kids, I would like to be able to make clothes for me and hubby (at a push! )

Do you think this is something you could do electronically for those of us lots and lots of miles away? Like some kind of how to guide/video or something? I know of at least 10 people who would like to be involved with that kind of thing.

Just ideas... no pressure.

Bitsy_Beans

Thankfully my mum is my sewing expert. She's going to teach me to knit. Again. I was significantly younger (and being a lefty taught by a righty) I couldn't get to grips with it. However what concerns me is my mum isn't going to be here forever and these skills she has will be lost unless she passes them on to me. If I don't learn who's going to shorten trousers etc!! I also want to learn to crochet......never too late in life to learn a new skill.

I need to practise more with my mums old sewing machine. Need to try and build up my confidence but don't want to waste fabric on practice runs. I must go and see what stuff they have in local CS that I can play around with. <sigh> something else to add to my list

My TADA so far:

Cleaned kitchen
Put vac round downstairs
One load of washing hung, another in WM
Made orange breakfast muffins (which haven't risen!!!!)
Chopped and diced peppers I bought yesterday for freezing

Now need to do some searching on ebay for items me andmy mum need for our updated wardrobes

robsmum_2

At last I've made it back!:j Real life, de-cluttering (again), Spring cleaning got it the way again. Got a bit over -whelmed with the debt busting, had one of those spells of feeling I wasn't making much progress.:(

Good to see everyone is catching Spring fever, crafting and gardening fever. Have got chillis,tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, peppers,sprouts,leeks,basil, sunflowers and cosmos germinated and pricked out so far. Got lettuce, corriander, peas, mang tout and sweetpeas in propagtor.

Have also got creative and so far made 2 of 4 cushions all from a remnant that cost me £7.50, I appliqued a panel on the front and feel quite pleased with myself that I have designer cushions for a fraction of what I'd have had. Also made lavender bags that cost me nothing:money:lavender dried from my garden last year and fabric was scaps I have had years.

Glad to hear MG is on the mend and that everyone else is ok.
Love to all.

Memory_Girl

crickett1234 wrote: »

MG great idea!

I would love to be given a "how to" lesson in following commerical patterns and how to fit things properly to either a tailors dummy or a person. In fact, I would be happy to pay for that. It would need to be in really simple terms, because the commercial patterns can be really confusing. I like your idea of the simple stuff for kids too... but seeing as I don't have kids, I would like to be able to make clothes for me and hubby (at a push! )

Do you think this is something you could do electronically for those of us lots and lots of miles away? Like some kind of how to guide/video or something? I know of at least 10 people who would like to be involved with that kind of thing.

Just ideas... no pressure.

So hands up if you are a perfect 10 or 12 or 14????? None of us are a "standard" size - thats kind of the reason why commercial patterns don't fit so good.

I got taught how to make patterns from a very old lady who used to supervise the building of boilers for the railways in Crewe. She noticed that the boiler makers didn't make a piece of sheet metal plate and then hold it up next to the boiler and say "well it'll fit better if I cut a bit off here and add a bit on the length here!!!"

They measured, they chalked, they cut ........... and it fit.

When she had to take over the family habedashery shop (remember those) she noticed that the ladies who bought commercial patterns had no end of problems with "fit" and often gave up making clothes because it was too frustrating.

So she came up with a way of making master patterns for each person in a way that is much more "technical drawing" than "home economics" - and I loved her no faff, common or garden approach..... of course when I admitted that I wanted to be able to make patterns for drag-queens her blue rinse did shake with laughter a little.

Everything I make for myself fits perfectly - because the master pattern fits perfectly. My waist is in the right place, my bust sits at the right height (even my "cherries" are in the right place), trousers fit neatly at the crotch (no camel toes here )............ and because I dn't have to make "adjustments" and have endless "trying ons" it is really quick to rustle up something. Of course we all know that perfectly fitted clothes make you look a size smaller.

In fact the last time I went to Henley Regatta, I shopped for the fabric at ten am - got my hair done at 4 and had made and ice-blue evening gown in between.

You have given me an idea though crickett - I wonder how many people would be interested in learning how to create their own master pattern and learn how manipulate the pattern to make perfectly fitted clothes?

............... and could I do it online, from home, here with the boys??? I wonder what would be an attractive price???

Time to get my bahookie over to the other place and have a looooonggg think perhaps

MG

crickett1234

Woo hoo! My house is offically on the market. I have seen the estate agents details, and they are on line. I am sending requests to the Universe for someone to fall in love with it and by it for cash, immediately! Am very excited now!!

Trying to summon the energy to go swimming on the way home from work. I know I will feel better for the exercise. Yes, I will go. I hope my swim suit fits!! :eek:

Glad I gave you an idea MG. Will look at the other place for a discussion.