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ceridwen
True Blue Farmgirl

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Carole
New York
USA
899 Posts

Posted - Feb 09 2017 :  08:15:33 AM  Show Profile
Jana, good of you to sew at a young age. Do you still make your some of your clothes?

I only quilt. I'm a straight line kind of gal, although I am thinking of taking up sewing. I don't know what it is about sewing, it really doesn't bring out the best in me. I just get frustrated because I don't understand what the pattern instructions are asking me to do. When it came to Halloween costumes for my Pumpkin, I would start out with a pattern and then just wing it!

Carole
Farmgirl Sister 3610 - Nov 7/2011
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Marilyn Hartman Sullivan
True Blue Farmgirl

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Marilyn
Oxford PA
USA
1138 Posts

Posted - Feb 10 2017 :  06:37:10 AM  Show Profile
I used to make all my own clothes (I thought that's how you GOT them!) and never thought anything of it. Even when I was working in Corporate America -- I still sewed my own clothes. At some point, my body changed and I started having trouble finding a size pattern that worked for the whole me. The shoulders were okay, but the bust was too small, or the bust fit but the shoulders would have fit Ricky Ricardo. And I absolutely hate doing alterations, so that's when I started buying and I have never looked back. I enjoy quilting much more. Things still have to fit, but only to one another, and not to a moving, living, breathing, expanding PERSON! ha ha

In the early 70s, one of the "things" that we did was make shirts for our boyfriends. Oh they were lovely, too. Floral prints and body-hugging seams. Even the western style with the embroidered roses on the yokes. Ahhhh...memories. After my boyfriend became my husband, I sewed suits for him. The horrible double-knit leisure suits were easy, because the construction was pretty straight-forward, as long as you didn't mind a lot of topstitching and felled seams. But the regular constructed suits were always such an accomplishment! I learned a lot about tailoring in those days. There was so much hand-stitching in those "real" suits to get the lapel to roll right. Our little gospel singing group had outfits for performing. The girls all made their own dresses, or had their mother do it, and I made jackets or shirts for the guys. One time we had little Eisenhower-style jackets for the guys. They were rust colored and styled kind of like a jean jacket. This has been a fun memory! Thanks for starting the thread.

Farmgirl #6318
"Where there's a will -- there's probably a family fight."
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl

16962 Posts

Grace
WACAL Gal WashCalif.
USA
16962 Posts

Posted - Feb 11 2017 :  6:32:48 PM  Show Profile
ok, I was 'trolling' around on 'pinterest' when I came across this 'Mother~Daughter outfit... lol!

I am betting this is from the early 1950's....

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Audra Rose
True Blue Farmgirl

2196 Posts

Vanessa
Brooksville KY
USA
2196 Posts

Posted - Feb 14 2017 :  06:53:35 AM  Show Profile
My grandma crocheted vests and ponchos for Churunga and me. The ponchos were different colors and didn't keep you warm at all. She also made us different colored quilts.

Farmgirl Sister #6754
Doxie Mom - Everyone loves a Weiner!

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl

16962 Posts

Grace
WACAL Gal WashCalif.
USA
16962 Posts

Posted - Feb 14 2017 :  3:08:18 PM  Show Profile
I think that is so awesome.... my American granny couldn't sew or crochet as she had had a stroke in herlate 40's and her left side was for the most part paralized(sp)...
My German Oma could sew and knit but due to mental health issues she only took joy in gardening.
oh how I wish I could have sat by her side, and her teach me....
Cherrish the moments and memories....

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Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!

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ceridwen
True Blue Farmgirl

899 Posts

Carole
New York
USA
899 Posts

Posted - Feb 16 2017 :  07:14:00 AM  Show Profile
I think that little boy's shorts should have had an orange stripe on it!

Carole
Farmgirl Sister 3610 - Nov 7/2011
http://www.carolesquiltingetc.com
http://www.fibrejunction.com
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl

16962 Posts

Grace
WACAL Gal WashCalif.
USA
16962 Posts

Posted - Feb 16 2017 :  3:15:22 PM  Show Profile
Carol,, I know...Right?!...
I wonder if the mom got lucky and found matching striped fabric but in different widths or if the mom actually sewed on different color fabric to make the stripes and after making the daughter's ... the mother said... "oh! To heck with that!...he gets plain white shorts and I get another glass of Wine!!!".... lololol!


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Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!

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Edited by - katmom on Feb 16 2017 3:16:16 PM
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