I would like to be proper good at sewing and dressmaking and possibly art and sculpture
so basically my grandma before the early bereavement and brain disease.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:29, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

You can only have one.
Them's the rules.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:30, Reply)

Just the dressmaking then. As sewing has to come into that.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:31, Reply)

My mother is a talented seamstress
For years she made her own clothes.

Eye sight is fucked now though, so it rarely happens these days.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:36, Reply)

I only really knew the artist grandma in the later years of her life
when she was dying. But she always used to make me nightgowns out of Liberty lawn. My dad used to make dresses for my mum when they were first dating. I can sew a little but it seems to be fading with each generation :(
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:38, Reply)

Do you have time to enrol on a course?
I know my mum is thinking of buying a new sewing machine, she has had her current one (a Singer) since the early 80's!
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:43, Reply)

I have a sewing machine I got from Gumtree
bought with said grandma's will money. Back in manchester there's a good-sounding course at one of my favourite vintage shops. I'll see if there's a good WI in London, there seems to be a resurgence of that. Or I'll just join the KCL one.

I'm reasonably nimblefingered, I just have a problem with cutting in straight lines.
edit: the last time I tried sewing things it was a tear, and I failed, but I was hammered at the time...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:47, Reply)

I remember as a kid not being allowed to have my toys out in the living room
As mother was pinning a pattern to some material.

Ahh, memories.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:58, Reply)

Same, but for mother's marking.
Bloody teachers.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:00, Reply)

Were you a pupil at the school your mother taught at?
I always felt sorry for kids who had a parent teaching at the school.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:04, Reply)

No, I went to the BETTER school about 5 mins walk away.
My mother's post there was a major choice in me not going there. And the other school was better.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:07, Reply)

You think she'd have made the shit school better with her SKILLS
And given you the chance to get the top education!

What did/does she teach?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:16, Reply)

It's not shit at all, it's an excellent school.
But ours- it's insane. My year got 97.6% A*/A grades at GCSE the year I took them, or something.

Oh, she's a history teacher.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:18, Reply)

Dressmaking skills would make my life complete

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:33, Reply)

I have so many beautiful plans but no way to execute them.
Hope everything's going ok in Rootaland and that Mr Roota is being nice to you.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:35, Reply)

Mr Roota, I likes that!
He's a good lad he is.

I only want to be able to make shift dresses y'know Lamps.
You alright?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:41, Reply)

There should be some good patterns online
If not I could photocopy one of my sewing books that have a good guide to it.

He is, and I wish you both the best of luck and happiness and all that sentimental guff but I do mean it.

I'm fine, just sleepy and not yet into the work mindframe I need, but for the moment I have Harry Potter and fags and I'll wash my hair with cinnamon shampoo and it'll ALL be dandy.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:44, Reply)

I have got a bastard few days ahead of me, but RARRRR I CAN DO THIS!
*slaps own face like 'Enry putting on aftershave*

I need to learn to follow patterns. It looks mental, but I'm slowing down and understanding instructions more as I get older.

And RARRRR YOU CAN DO THIS!
(Thanks for the soppiness. It's appreciated.)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:50, Reply)

Best of luck. Keep your shoes on.
I often get confused by written instructions, which is why I can only purl as I was shown how to, and cannot knit despite how many tutorials I read. But patterns seem ok. Cut along the lines, eh?

No problem. b3ta weddings are always cause for celebration. Unless you're Edmund.
Let's hope you can beat his record.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 23:59, Reply)

He keeps trying to kid me that he's really Edmund and that it was a revenge-proposal.
Sometimes the look in his eyes is quite convincing.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:01, Reply)

One day you'll come home, take off your hat and shoes,
and dj's skin will be hanging on the coathook, next to a TA's uniform...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:03, Reply)

I just peed the bed there
With fright.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:04, Reply)

No, that was just gush.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:08, Reply)

EEEEEEEEEE

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:10, Reply)

Sorry love.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:10, Reply)

Splash it all over Rooty.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 0:06, Reply)