When’s the last time you mended a garment? I don’t mean a simple button replacement; I mean adding a knee patch, darning a sock. For me, the answer is never. Mending is a lost art. It’s much easier to drive a mile down the road and grab a dozen socks for $10 than repair the one with the hole in the heel. That sock was weak and deserves the trash.
I wonder if some readers have never seen a plastic wicker sewing backet.
I own my great-grandmother’s sewing basket, similar to this one, but I confess I’ve never used anything inside. Sentiment over function. At this point, it’s more art than utility. Do you remember one from your childhood?
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Love the sewing basket. I inherited my great grandmothers sewing box. I suspect someone in the family made it for her. And mine is also decorative.
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I knew I liked you, Fannie.
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The picture reminds me of one of my father’s favorite songs, “Barefoot Days.”
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That’s a beaut. My Mom’s basket was more utilitarian than that and I have no idea what happened to it. It was a plain brown wicker. I used to rumage through it for buttons.
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I do mending and sew as well. I make quilts, flannel pj pants, napkins. I worked at Jo-ann for over a year and found there are still a surprising number of women (okay, mostly at or above middle-age) who still sew, too.
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Oh, yes–there were several women at my last job who were quilters. That was getting quite a revitalizing. And one knitted me a scarf. I’m glad to hear that you have the skills to sew!
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I absolutely suck at sewing but I do undertake repairs because I am thrifty. Beyond the buttons and taking up hems, I also repair loose seams and small tears. I have not, however, darned a sock in very many years now. As you note, the price of socks and such like have come down so much as a proportion of our expenditure that my time has more value than the price of the socks.
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That makes sense. I have my husband fix my unraveling seems, and I guess you could take that both literally and figuratively. 🙂
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Ha! I do all of the literal sewing but I think my husband does the metaphorical bit too.
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Ha ha!
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Mine is round and made from wicker, not plastic. I use to use iron on patches for my jeans (Wait! Is ‘use to use’ proper English?) But then the hippie days happened and it was cool to sew on patches!
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I do this quite often, just stubborn and thrifty I guess! My DIL is making diaper pants, since cloth is the way to go! She finished a darling hoodie for Hendrix last weekend,. . . I feel sales on clothes make me wish to throw out and start again but socks and hemming I do take my sewing box out. Yours is beautiful, Kerbey!
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