What did your mother make for you?

Caroline_a

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 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...

Cloth Kits... Now that's a blast from the past!

And I've just googled them.. They're still going!! (scuttles off to look at website)

birduk

This thread is bringing back some horrible memories, but also good. My mum was a great sewer when we were little and was extremely enthusiastic. I had many a hand-knitted jumper and fancy dress costumes. The most amazing day was when she got her knitting machine (are they still around?). The patterns that came out of that thing... wow!

I remember her making the ballet costumes for my whole class. At the time it was seen as a bit cheap when she made those things for us all, but now how I eat my words! For Christmas she made me the most BEAUTIFUL hand-finished, steel-boned corset, which would probably have cost £100 to have made.

But nowadays does anyone find that the cost of the wool seems to far out-weigh the cost of just buying a cheap jumper?

rdwarr

My mother joined the RAF in 1941. She transferred to the Army after the war and only left when she fell pregnant with me in 1960. She had never had to cook a meal or do other "feminine" tasks.
So most of the time we didn't get Cordon Bleu meals or well-mended clothes but I wouldn't have swapped her for the world.

looby75

I remember a lot of summer dresses were made by my mum but the one I remember the most were when we went to burnham on sea when I was 8. She made me a skirt and and waistcoat out of a bed sheet. It was white with a lavender patten on it that my nan had give her. I LOVED it, I was so proud of it. I entered dance and singing comps just so I could wear it.

though the singing comp was probably my most embarrassing moment. The song we all had to sing was Do-Re-Mi and had never heard it before in my life

sophsnan

My poor old mum love her single mum 3 kids and nan to look after used to make some of my clothes I think the worst one being a bright orange trouser suit with braid round it. It was horrible but had to wear it eventually gave it to the scouts jumble sale and then saw another poor girl having to wear it.

Nanny knitted me my vests when I was a infants school all I ever wanted was cotton vests like the rest of the girls when we did PE in our vest and knickers

My mums sewing got a lot better over the years and she made my bridesmaids dresses which were beatiful.

My partner was telling me how he always wanted a tank top so hes nanny crotcheted one it was just a tube with holes in for the arms not quite the look hes was after in the 70s :rotfl:

aliasojo

sophsnan wrote: »

My poor old mum love her single mum 3 kids and nan to look after used to make some of my clothes I think the worst one being a bright orange trouser suit with braid round it.

Braid! I remember braid!

If it stood still in our house, Mum put braid on it.

She even put braid on the cover she made for the budgie cage. :rotfl:

(Commiserations over your orange trouser suit btw. )

jackieb

My Mum made my sister and me a pair of matching waistcoats. They were crocheted squares, sewn together. They were different shades of purple. there's a photo of us wearing them somewhere. I really liked it! She also knitted us matching turquoise cardigans. I liked them too. Not sure my sister was as keen as she was in her teens and I was 6 years younger.
She also knitted me a batwing mohair sweater. It was half black and half white, split diagonally - one sleeve in white, one in black. I loved it but it went all to pot when she washed it in the washer. It would've fitted half a dozen people at once after that.

Candy53

We lived in an old drafty house when we were little. My mum knitted us tons of jumpers and cardigans. She made us flanalette nighties, and patchwork quilts. She knitted blankets, and worse of all, she knitted our vests! Itchy or what?

We were poor, but never cold. :rotfl:

Candy

floss2

aliasojo wrote: »

Braid! I remember braid!

If it stood still in our house, Mum put braid on it...

Ric-rac braid was the best thing to cover the mark where a hem had been let down from last year....

My mum made my First Communion dress, my bridesmaids dress, school dresses and gypsy skirts. She was also a demon knitter - school jumpers & cardigans, striped tank-tops etc but the best thing was an Aran jumper she made for my biggest brother: it did him, then middle brother, then our older cousin, then me, then our younger cousin and finally came back for little brother!

DUKE

Aaaaw I used to love my crimpolene dresses

My Mom wasn't very good at sewing but she did attempt to make me a pair of fawn coloured trousers. I wore them for one day & they split underneath

An aunt used to get an elderly woman to knit me cardi's & a poncho.