What did your mother make for you?

cazziebo

Seanymph wrote: »

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!

Hence the name?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Amanda65

My Mum was in enthusiastic (read - we were poor), yet sadly incompetant seamstress. I was fat so struggled for shop bought clothes and ended up in homemade 'jeans' with a zip up the side as Mum couldn't work out how it fitted in the front :eek::eek:

Scarred

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for life

Oog

Had to post...my mum once made my sister and I a matching set of Tshirt and skirt out of striped dusters. I really liked mine! It was yellow and sky blue.
I didn't have anything truly horrible, and some of the cloth kits clothes were my favourites (including the dolls Kitty and Polly) so I was very lucky really.
There was a navy school pinafore though...but that was more to do with the fact that everyone else had a skirt or trousers...

Amanda65

Oog wrote: »

Had to post...my mum once made my sister and I a matching set of Tshirt and skirt out of striped dusters.

I didn't have anything truly horrible

All I can say is maybe your taste in clothes wasn't quite Vogue - or you must have REALLY loved your Mum :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

System

I remember a red and white gingham dress when i was about 5 or 6. I dont think it went too well because Mom stuck to nightwear from then on.... Sort of sack type efforts that no one saw me in. Still, when needs must.

joannasmum

My mum was a fantastic seamstress but sadly her taste (and budget) for fabric was lacking. The worst was an A-line skirt with a horrible blue and red square pattern on it. I hated it on sight and to make matters worse the next time we went in Kwik-Save the assistants over-alls were made from the same fabric :eek:.

adea

My mum made me some gingham dresses when I was little, I think she also knitted some of my baby clothes, I know she did crochet bonnets for me.
Before my daughters were born, she crotcheted a plain white shawl for my 1st dd and then made a white, green and lemon blanket for my 2nd dd.
My m-i-l knitted some jumpers, cardies,booties and mittens for dd1.

nuttywoman

My mum was a great sewer and knitter, i was one of 9 kids so she was always busy. One thing she did knit us girls 5 of us, was a chunky zip up cardy each with a poodle on each side at the front and a big one on the back.I actually managed to get hold of a copy of the pattern a while ago lol

Oog

Amanda65 wrote: »

All I can say is maybe your taste in clothes wasn't quite Vogue - or you must have REALLY loved your Mum :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Quite true!

Still do love her very much; she has just made me a baby swaddling thing which is very thoughtful but I wil need some practice with a teddy bear or something!

Callie22

My mum never made me anything, but bizarrely my grandad considers himself to be a dab-hand on the sewing machine so he did make me some clothes. The worst was a red and white stripy skirt that made me look awful, and split from hem to waistband the first time I wore it out. Unfortunately I was at school at the time ... the shame.