Makaleka

My grandmother taught me how to sew when I was in 4-H ... one of my first projects that I made entirely by myself was a shirtwaist dress with short sleeves. I tried to set the sleeves in and not realizing I had to "ease" the sleeves in, I just set them in and cut off the excess fabrice ... we all know what happens then - they were so tight I couldn't get my arm in ... what to do? what to do? ... I solved the problem by making the dress sleeveless ... hard lesson learned but never forgotten.

My second "memorable" moment was making a cordoroy skirt that was four panels (2 front, 2 back) ... who would even think the nap would change by cutting two pieces at one time ... certainly not a youngster learning how to work with napped fabric ... After sewing the front and back pieces together, I held them up to look at them and yep, the nap one way was light and the nap the wrong way was dark (or vice versa) - anyway it looked like two colors ... I believe that one went to the trash ... another hard lesson learned and never forgotten.

I enjoyed the comments posted ... thank you.