Ripping out the stitches

Jan 19, 2010 13:31


My mother taught me how to sew. We huddled over her 1960s Kenmore sewing machine, up in finished part of the attic, and I learned about bobbins, backstitching, and quarter-inch seams. I picked out patterns and learned how to trace the outlines of those tissue pattern pieces onto fabric. Like magic, I transformed something flat-fabric, rolled off ( Read more... )

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dreamerwrites January 20 2010, 00:26:42 UTC
You are so brave :)

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