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, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

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)