Post toasties...

Calling All Sewers!!!

I want to start sewing--mainly clothes and home decor stuff. I would love recommendations for a good book for a beginning sewer. I had Home Ec in middle school, but not so much since then. I understand the very basics of patterns, and I can do some mean hand-sewing (hems, buttons), but that's about it.

Any suggestions??

Calling All Sewers!!!

Okay, I read that as the thing that treats and transports waste water, so it took me aback a bit...

Oh, Amy, that sounds just lovely. Gonna bask in that thought for a moment.

I'm selfishly wishing my Emily was here. (She's got "book club" tonight.) It's ok. She'll be home later, and I can torture her with my Tim McGraw tv special.

Okay, I read that as the thing that treats and transports waste water, so it took me aback a bit...

Hee! I did too.

ChiKat, I wish you were here. There's a great little shop in Somerville that offers beginnging sewing lessons. I have no ideas about books...my mom taught me when I was like six. There were no books involved.

I want a sewing machine so much, ChiKat, and I would love to learn to sew. The kids' Halloween costumes are always an agony of hand-sewing, hot glue, and safety pins, which is less than optimal.

::smooches vw on the sly::

ChiKat, ok, I know it's not a book, but I believe that a lot of crafts are better off learned hands-on.

This looks like a pretty cool place: [link]

And, if you want something even cheaper, the Chicago Park District offers lessons: [link]

Someone tell me that the pain I'm currently experiencing in my legs is from walking two miles today when I've barely been out of the house in two months, not the steroid myopathy coming back.

I'ma gonna take a painkiller anyway.

Yet another reason to love the hivemind!

(plus I wanted to show off my shiny new tag)

vw - walking when you haven't will do that.