What did your mother make for you?

thorsoak

I sewed! My friend and I had a little home sweat-shop going ....called ourselves Tweetogs - and we made ickle trousers for the baby boys - these were the days when all you could get most of the time were big baggy grey pants and we all wanted the cool tiny little short shorts in bright colours. Local market used to sell offcuts of crimplene - about 12" wide by about 45" - we could make two or three pairs of shorts for 2-3 year olds for about 2s 6p (121/2 p) which we would sell for about 7s 6p per pair - in bright colours - reds, turquoise, royal blue - we'd make baby girl's angel tops from crimplene (or from mens' floral shirts) - we made a bomb from making baby sun bonnets (cutting round plate, trimming the edge with broderie anglais, then adding some elastic). Then there were nighties and pyjamas made from bri-nylon (from the place that sold those dreadful nylon sheets - anyone have nightmares about those)?? One of us would go to the market, see what we could buy, then come back, cut out, sew up like mad - and the next day - or the day after - have a little coffee morning and all the neighbours would come and buy!!

I made all sorts - including dolly dresses to match little girls dresses!

Then they got to the stage they wanted teeshirts with Paddington Bear on .....couldn't make those ....sigh!

aliasojo

elsien wrote: »

However if it were today, I'd be on to childline re abuse having seen photos of some of the appalling crotcheted hats she saw fit to encumber me with.

So that's why mutt 'suffers' as a Xmas pudding or whatever it was then? :rotfl:

You're just passing it on.

elsien

Oh my god I'm turning into my mother.
The horror......the horror.

TarantulaLady

My mom was always knitting and sewing when I was growing up and I recall her making me lots of 'gypsy' skirts when they were all the rage! I didn't mind my mom making me clothes but my younger sister didn't like it and thought it meant we were poor!!

PasturesNew

My mum couldn't sew - but I had a lot of knitted dresses.... well, probably one a year. And cardigans, probably 1 new one a year.

faerie~spangles

Nothing but her mum, my Nana knitted our school cardigans.

She did scar me for life for making me wear a little cotton dress with houses on it. Hated patterned fabric ever since

Having said that the cardi's so traumatised me that I didn't make any clothing for my kids.

thebillet

My mother knitted bits and pieces but back in the 60s she was busy knitting a balaclava for my brother, he was constantly asking if it was finished, exasperated at his impatience I snapped back "No it isn't she's got to knit the hole yet" Oh how we laughed or at least my sisters did, so much so they sent my little bon mots into the Beano as a funny story hoping it would b published, it wasn't but here now 50 years later it is sort of being published - but no prize in this instance.

Seanymph

I am here to testify that if you knit a bikini and force your adolescent grandaughter to swim in the sea in it when she comes out it will have absorbed enough water to be dragging around her knees and offering no protection at all.

To add insult to the injury and emotional scarring it was in green. GREEN!

JodyBPM

My mum was a fab sewer, and made loads of our clothes. All my school gingham dresses, nighties, party dresses (remember those floor length usually brown for some reason, dresses of the 70s!), dungarees, trousers, everything!

I sew lots still now, and make loads for my children, usually from fabric I buy in charity shops. Some things just aren't worth making, though, like school gingham dress - cost less than a £5 to buy, but would probably cost me twice than on a pattern, fabric, thread and buttons.

Welshwoofs

The very worst thing I had made for me, though by my Grandmother not my Mother, was a rabbit fur wrap....made from the white rabbits she kept in her garden 'for the pot'. So there were 2 problems with this wrap; firstly I'd known the bunnies in question by name and secondly she'd not tanned the hides too well so the wrap was stiff and a bit smelly.