Sep 05 2008
Sewing with Friends
Sewing with friends—seems like it’ll be kind of cumbersome to do, doesn’t it? I thought it would be interesting, so I gave it a shot. I sat down to sew yesterday with my friends Lauren and Alice. Unfortunately the sewing machines that were available….actually didn’t work. Two were from the 50’s, the kind that are half table, half machine, with a skull-sized motor underneath. One was an 80’s Baby Lock, but the pedal was missing! And the last…was a serger. I have never used a serger. I spent most of our time cleaning out and rethreading the machine. Alice ripped apart Lauren’s dress and re-marked the lines for the new seam locations so the front panel can be made to work right for her costume.
More than anything, we just had a FUN time. We were there for an hour and a half and it honestly felt like not even half an hour. We were joking and making fun of each other as well as using one another’s bodies for sizing, fitting, drawing on seam lines…it was really productive! If you can find a sewing buddy, it’s so fun and makes the time really go by faster. The best part about it was that we each were able to fit our garments that we were working on to ourselves, and rather than pinning and drawing on ourselves, we were able to have a friend do it for us. We’ve already made plans to do it every week (though I’m bringing my own machine) because it was so productive!
