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March 20, 2008

It’s Nice to Share

Yep, that’s what my momma always taught me but dang it .. sharing my sewing space might not be something I can do.

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Last night Chad found a piece of plaid fabric.  Back when I used to smock, some 20 years ago, this fabric was the perfect fabric for knickers that went with a little boy’s outfit with Santa and a sleigh smocked on the shirt.  I loved that little outfit and made a whole bunch of them and had a good bit of this black/aqua/white/red fabric left over.  Out of the clear blue, Chad announced that he wanted to make himself a shirt out of that fabric.

I hate to discourage his creativity but starting out making a man’s shirt, when he’s never sat down at a sewing machine is not something I felt he should do.  But, in true Chad “I can do anything!” fashion, he went to Wal-Mart, bought himself a pattern and was all fired up about getting this shirt done.

There’s a quilt on the longarm that I would like to finish tonight but I can already see that’s not going to happen.  I stopped and did a quick cleanup of the cutting table, found some pins he can use, gave him a pair of scissors, explained about matching plaids, lining up the arrow with the grain of the fabric — let me check before you cut anything!

I’ll set up a Singer 301 for him to use and we’ll see where this takes us.  The selfish part of me hopes that he gives up quickly!

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