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I wish you would quit nagging me! I hear sewing people...
tourist   Intermediate BC CANADA Member since 7/23/07 Posts: 5417	Login to reply to this post 7 members like this. Date: 8/15/12 3:57 PM A friend recently offered to return my serger secrets book, but I declined. I said that I have 300,000 people online who can help me. But the down side of that is that I sometimes feel like they are collectively looking over my shoulder while I sew! "You know, you really should work a bit more on straightening that grain." "Pressing this will make it look much better." "If you had made yourself a serger thread catcher/pin cushion/proper pattern log this would have been a lot easier." What a bossy bunch! Honestly, it is fun to hear the various "voices" while I sew and very reassuring that help is at hand. Of course, I don't always pay attention or remember in time, but often the tip or technique pops into my head just in time. SheBear's advice about reinforcing mesh illusion edges with clear elastic was one that I missed, but it is a neckline that can easily be retrofitted, if necessary. Okay, coffee time is over. Back to work with my friends in my head. ------ http://bgballroom.wordpress.com to follow the progress on my next ballgown.
Liz92B   Advanced AB CANADA Member since 12/21/09 Posts: 157	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/15/12 4:40 PM {giggle} - you sure know how to brighten up a person's day! thank you!! ------ Liz / Calgary
Re Becca   Intermediate TX USA Member since 9/12/05 Posts: 2134	Login to reply to this post In reply to tourist << 5 members like this. Date: 8/15/12 5:07 PM Quote: tourist Honestly, it is fun to hear the various "voices" while I sew and very reassuring that help is at hand. We are so lucky to be here. If you talked like this anywhere else they would tell you to see a doctor. ------ http://beccabeckstuff.blogspot.com/ Damn the muslin, full speed ahead!
ryan's mom PA USA Member since 11/30/04 Posts: 4371	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/15/12 8:23 PM If you have been hearing voices, you haven't been listening to mine lol. As in, whatever works. I use lots of cheater methods! :) ------ Big 4 Pattern size 12, RTW bottom: 6, RTW jacket 8, RTW top (no size fits me well!) Measurements: 34 HB/36 FB (34C bra)/27.5/36 (and working hard to keep it that way.) Machines: Sewing (Janome Memory Craft 3000 and Kenmore 158 Series machine), Serger (Babylock Imagine), Embroidery (Janome 300E) If you think your sewing is better than everyone else's around here, get out of my way b****. I hate sewing snobs. My blog: www.phatchickdesigns.blogspot.com
LynnRowe   Advanced BC CANADA Member since 3/9/09 Posts: 6765	Login to reply to this post In reply to tourist << 2 members like this. Date: 8/16/12 12:14 PM I know you heard me say "Baste and press that hem first!" and "Dontcha really think it's time to change that needle?" I say that to everyone. ------ I heart Panzy, Pfaff Creative Performance, the sewing machine love of my life! And Rupert (Pfaff 2023), Baby (BL Enlighten), Victor (BLCS), Ash (Bernina 350SE), Pal (Bernina 530), Kee (Bernina 750) and the Featherteen Flock! Most of all, I heart Woo (HimmyCat). Until we meet again, my beautiful little boy. I love you.
SquishSews   Advanced Beginner Member since 1/18/09 Posts: 322	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/16/12 1:19 PM I feel the same way! But in a guiding tone definitely not a chastising one! :-)
tourist   Intermediate BC CANADA Member since 7/23/07 Posts: 5417	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/17/12 10:29 AM Well, I haven't started talking back (out loud) yet. I guess that is a good sign. And my mother's voice came through loud and clear yesterday and told me to stop sewing for half an hour and clean the *&^$ kitchen, so that is good. In the heat we are having here, it was turning into a bio hazard. I did end my sewing day with one question about pressing that I think I will post on the formal wear thread. I never know if I should press my long, bias edged crinoline pieces or not. I never have, but mostly because there are 24 seams in the basic crinolines plus 8 for each of 2 or three flounces. Ugh! ETA - short-cut people, yes, your support is also audible! Many thanks! -- Edited on 8/17/12 10:30 AM -- ------ http://bgballroom.wordpress.com to follow the progress on my next ballgown.
solveg   Beginner MN USA Member since 2/16/12 Posts: 366	Login to reply to this post 1 member likes this. Date: 8/17/12 11:59 AM Every time I step up to the ironing board I hear really loudly "pressing is not ironing" and flash back to a post about someone who pressed in their underwear a lot and was worrying about burning themselves. I'd really like to get that image out of my mind, but it's stuck.
lareine   Intermediate NEW ZEALAND Member since 11/10/06 Posts: 1043	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/19/12 7:28 AM LOL, what a funny thread! I hear those phantom voices too. Mostly they are telling me things I know I should be doing anyway, but sometimes I am reluctant to review/photograph what I did because I know it isn't quite up to scatch. My report card would read something like, "Theory: excellent, A-. Practical examples: C. Sloppy execution, could do better."
gramma b Advanced USA Member since 7/25/08 Posts: 2271	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/19/12 12:15 PM I know, "always mark the look-a-like RS/WS of a solid fabric." I skipped that step while doing an 8-gore long skirt in French Seams, dumb and dumber. I put off that Jack the Seam Ripper instrument for as long as I could... I still remember my dear late grandma, who never drove in her life, giving Orders from the back seat while I drove her and mom shopping in the relatively big city of 40,000 when I was 17. We lived in a no-stoplight town, so Mom didn't want to drive there. -- Edited on 8/20/12 7:17 AM --

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