For Men who Sew (and us Female-types too)

[Dixiecat]

My latest enotice from Threads magazine included a note about a sewing blog authored by a man. Since there are quite a few sewing types on here, I thought I'd post in case anyone of them was interested.

http://malepatternboldness.blogspot.com/

[Chas]

Thanks Dixiecat. I was taught to sew buttons on when I was six years of age. Twelve years later, when I joined the RAF, I was the only one who could do it out of 150 in the intake. Today we are a two sewing machine family - Margaret has hers and I have my Singer.

Regards

Chas

[cormacmacguardhe]

I was also taught to sew buttons and to darn socks at an early age. I find it difficult to locate the necessary thread to mend my socks. I do however still have my mothers old darning egg.

[EagleJCS]

My mother was a home economics teacher before she quit to be a mom full-time. She made sure both of her boys could at least sew a button, mend holes and do an emergency hem (among many other things) before we left the house. I still hand-sew all of my Scouting badges on my unform shirt and my patch blanket, and have fixed several holes over the past few years.

[theborderer]

Growing up in an environment where my Mother and her two sisters were Home economic teachers, and where my mother did a lot private jobs from our home. I certainly enjoy doing small jobs either by hand or on the sewing machine.
I am now attempting to make a Military type of Tam o' shanter to match the background colour of my kilt.

[Old Hippie]

Bookmarked. Thanks, Dixiecat -- yer a gem, ya are.

Heh. Taught to sew by my father, who believed it a useful skill for any lad whose future lay in the Army. Thought I knew a thing or so until I met a fiery little Master Sergeant who could do wonders as a tailor with only a razor blade and a needle-and-thread. He was always so smartly turned out it was painful to look at him. No parade-ground soldier, either -- he never asked us to do anything he couldn't, but he had the most amazing hang-dog look he would bend upon us poor specimens in his care.

Trying to swot up a bit of the tailor game now...

:ootd:

[Alan H]

Ummmm...... this sounds like me.

I left him the link to the forum and told him about the X Kilt.

[longhuntr74]

I learned to hand sew and use a sewing machine from my grandmother starting from about the age of 10 (she lived with us...taught me how to bake, too). Growing up, I started sewing Native American Regalia for my Boy Scout activites...then became a reenactor and started making more and more authentic historic clothing, culminating most recently in a completely hand sewn linen shirt and a hand sewn waistcoat with real metallic trim. Thanks to Barb, I'm now a novice kiltmaker...with an 8 yard tank and 4 yard box pleat under my belt.