The Sewing Bee

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[Archie_tect]

You're telling us this assuming we will understand... but we'd have to actually watch the programme CofG ...as if that's going to happen.

 

[Speicher]

This week I have made two cushion covers, and I am now making a new cover for the mattress for my sun lounger. Then I will be replacing a zip on some trousers, to be followed by turning a collar on a shirt.

 

[Speicher]

Archie_tect has the mind of a sewer.

ooopps
Sorry, wrong thread!!!!

 

[Saluki]

Sewing is something that I am trying to teach myself. I was rubbish at school but over the last year I have learned to knit and crochet. What channel is this sewing bee programme on? What time? I might just have to give it a look.

 

[Peteaud]

Hardly rock n roll is it

 

[Arch]

Sewing is something that I am trying to teach myself. I was rubbish at school but over the last year I have learned to knit and crochet. What channel is this sewing bee programme on? What time? I might just have to give it a look.

BBC something. 1 or 2. Hope that helps!

 

[Night Train]

I did dress making at school and designed and made a lot of my clothes during the early 80's.

I also mend clothes quite readily and do much of the sewing for Arch's bag products as well as my own cycling bags.
Sewing upholstery fabrics and leather is also a part of my furniture making.

 

[Archie_tect]

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We have a top of the range sewing machine...[/quote]
...sitting in a cupboard. [So do we, next to the smoothie maker.]

 

[Night Train]

I have an old industrial Singer sewing machine that is currently in the conservatory and is due to be moved into Arch's work room. It gets used a fair bit.

I also have an old, 1935, Singer hand cranked sewing machine which gets the occasional use for small stuff.

There is also a modern, plastic cased, all singing all dancing sewing machine that neither 'dances' nor 'sings' and is dumped under my desk gathering dust before it gets chucked.

 

[Brains]

Sewing is a craft that seems to have been forgotten, we were looking at doing a sewing related activity a couple of years ago with our Scouts (boys and girls), and found not only were they not interested, that none of the parents had even rudimentary sewing skills, 60 or so adults, no one possessed a sewing machine.

We have an ongoing issue of getting badges sewn on uniforms, we award them but they never get to the shirt.
(Distinctly middle class area, no deprived kids, no estates, no council housing)

 

[Arch]

Sewing is a craft that seems to have been forgotten, we were looking at doing a sewing related activity a couple of years ago with our Scouts (boys and girls), and found not only were they not interested, that none of the parents had even rudimentary sewing skills, 60 or so adults, no one possessed a sewing machine.

We have an ongoing issue of getting badges sewn on uniforms, we award them but they never get to the shirt.
(Distinctly middle class area, no deprived kids, no estates, no council housing)

Couldn't you do a compulsory badge-sewing-on evening? Teach them all how to in one fell swoop. Hand sewing is fine, no machines needed.

 

[coffeejo]

I'm scared of my sewing machine.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I'm scared of my sewing machine.

Funny I would have thought it would be the other way round

 

[coffeejo]

Funny I would have thought it would be the other way round