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Lacey all my pants need to be hemmed do you think he would mind doing it for me? I used to sew but everytime I did I broke my sewing machine and I finally gave up.
I would love to buy a sewing machine and learn to sew....I am 67.....is there any help? Where?
Sewing isn't difficult, Elston, even I can do it. My Depression-era mother was determined to teach me frugality, which by her definition meant sewing one's own clothes as much as possible, and I had no choice but to pick up the basics. I never learned to love sewing as she did, but I can do it. And it's a great skill to have, whether you're mending a seam in a pair of pants or making yourself a shirt that actually fits. Or a Hallowe'en costume, which is how my sewing skills have mostly been used over the past couple of decades.
I'd suggest looking for a sewing class at a local community college, or in the schools-in-community outreach of your local school district. You could learn the basics that way, and see if it's something that you enjoy enough to invest in the equipment (which isn't cheap, by the way).
I am clueless Elston... more like afraid... I seriously have a fear of sewing my fingernail with those things... I have images of pushing the fabric along and then zzzzzzzzzzzzip... I have a seam going right through my fingernail... not pretty...
I can understand why you'd be nervous about that, SKBS - my mom, who was a good enough seamstress that she had her own custom sewing business for a number of years, did exactly that one time, and had a much greater respect for her Singer Featherweight machine in consequence! She still sewed at a phenomenal speed, but was a lot more cautious about pulling her fingers out of the way of the needle.
She told me a story once about sewing a dress for a client out of a gorgeous silk brocade fabric that her client had purchased in Hong Kong on a trip and brought home. She had bought the yardage that Mom told her to, but because the fabric was not as wide as domestic fabrics, it took some extremely creative cutting to get the pattern pieces out.
Well, she was working on setting the zipper, and she pricked her finger on a pin and got a blood stain on the fabric. She couldn't wash it, because it was silk. She couldn't cut a replacement piece, because there was not so much as a square inch of extra fabric to spare. So she went on a hunt for silk thread in the exact shade of the patch with the bloodstain on it, and when she found it, she hand-wove a patch over the stain. And her client never knew that she had truly left a bit of herself in the dress.
I can understand why you'd be nervous about that, SKBS - my mom, who was a good enough seamstress that she had her own custom sewing business for a number of years, did exactly that one time, and had a much greater respect for her Singer Featherweight machine in consequence! She still sewed at a phenomenal speed, but was a lot more cautious about pulling her fingers out of the way of the needle.
She told me a story once about sewing a dress for a client out of a gorgeous silk brocade fabric that her client had purchased in Hong Kong on a trip and brought home. She had bought the yardage that Mom told her to, but because the fabric was not as wide as domestic fabrics, it took some extremely creative cutting to get the pattern pieces out.
Well, she was working on setting the zipper, and she pricked her finger on a pin and got a blood stain on the fabric. She couldn't wash it, because it was silk. She couldn't cut a replacement piece, because there was not so much as a square inch of extra fabric to spare. So she went on a hunt for silk thread in the exact shade of the patch with the bloodstain on it, and when she found it, she hand-wove a patch over the stain. And her client never knew that she had truly left a bit of herself in the dress.
wow wow wowza! better the tailor than the butcher!
A Pit Ham is boneless, most of the fat has been trimmed and it is in the shape of a teardrop. These hams are also tied with twine.
That's bout all I know about them. I guess I've been around them since childhood and never really thought about 'what' they were.
They are tender and juicy and the smoky taste is awesome. I cook mine on my oven's lowest heat all night long, wrapped in two to three layers of foil. Learned how to cook it from my mom.
Alright all.... I am off to very happily stuff my face with freshly popped kettle corn and get cozied up on the sofa to watch Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters... it is a MUST DO on Sunday night! Enjoy your evening!!!!! Cya all back here tomorrow!
A Pit Ham is boneless, most of the fat has been trimmed and it is in the shape of a teardrop. These hams are also tied with twine.
That's bout all I know about them. I guess I've been around them since childhood and never really thought about 'what' they were.
They are tender and juicy and the smoky taste is awesome. I cook mine on my oven's lowest heat all night long, wrapped in two to three layers of foil. Learned how to cook it from my mom.
Years ago we had a cook book with instructions on how to pit cook BBQ. You literally dug a pit and built a huge fire that burned down to coals until you had a fire bed so thick. Then you covered it with soil and then a sheet of tin. The meats were place on the the tin and covered with another sheet of tin and then more soil to trap the heat. A day or so later it would be uncovered. This is something I've always wanted to do and if I can find the old cookbook I may just yet. I suspect that Pit Cooked Hams got their name from this technique. The smokey taste probable is near what the original pit cooked hams were. This is just a guess. I have not researched it but do remember buying one and reading some on the label some years back. If I find one It may be for thanksgiving this year.
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