But - Martha is perfection. Look at this photo from her Organizing Tip of the Day:

Wouldn't you want to have this?
My mother is an excellent sewer. She made virtually all of our clothes when we were children. I don't really even remember having store bought clothes - my mother made us dresses, winter coats, shorts, pants and even bathing suits. As I grew up I also became a sewer. In highschool my next door neighbour Cheri and I would often make a ourselves new dresses if we were going out to a party on the weekend. As you can imagine, my finishing skills were never very good - so I almost always needed help to put in a zipper properly or finish button holes - my mother was flawless at those things. My mother made me my highschool formal dresses, my graduation dresses - and she would have made me a wedding dress if I had wanted one. When my children were little she made them all kinds of things - costumes, dresses, shorts, pyjamas...wow....the list of things she made them is exhausting. She made them Christmas pyjamas almost every year until they were in their teens. Heck, one Christmas when my brother and his wife came out for the Christmas Holidays, she made us all red and white striped Christmas pyjamas and nightgowns so we all matched on Christmas morning.
When we were growing up, my mother had the sewing machine and a large table set up permanently in our basement. It was easy to think of sewing - everything was available and convenient. I have never had a dedicated space just for sewing - I do have an old sewing machine and I often haul it out if I need new drapes or duvet covers or even school costumes. But it is a pain in the neck to do so and it disrupts our lives to have sewing on the dining room or kitchen table.
Not many people sew anymore - even friends who used to make their own clothes don't seem to sew as much. I don't think having Martha's perfect sewing setup would inspire me to sew more, but it is heavenly to look at. Oh - and I'm going to go for another Month of Martha - who knows what I will learn.......
1 comment:
Krista,
I have a few friends who are amazing sewers. They have surgers and sewing machines and free-style (can I call it that?) their own designs. It is amazing.
The art of sewing is not dead...Maybe just not as prevalent.
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