Why I should buy a sewing machine.
8 May, 2008I have a new pair of pants.
They are size 14, and the biggest pants I have ever tried to keep on my hips, and it’s not working particularly well. I shouldn’t be wearing them at all, but I stayed last night at Ben’s and I pretty much didn’t try them on before I decided they’d be perfect for work today.
The crotch is hanging down at mid-thigh, and I had to shorten the pants by a good 10 cm. With staples. Don’t tell my mother.
I am the most gangster person in the office today, which is something. Even the delivery guy has less baggy, saggy pants than I do. I’m resisting the urge to put my trainers back on, along with a pair of sunglasses, and a gang colour bandanna.
(I say resisting, but it’s really not that much of a struggle - the Security Guards would probably shoot me on sight if I wandered around wearing gang paraphernalia.)
(Whoa. Tangent..)
As a result this morning I’ve been holding my pants up with one hand, while browsing on TradeMe with the other, looking for a sewing machine…
I’m pretty sure that I’d be awesome at sewing if I had my own machine - despite the fact that I have broken every machine I have ever used. I’m going to blame those spectacular failures at choosing to do Wearable Arts with Cassandra two years in a row, and ‘extreme sewing.’ If it wasn’t for Caz my record would be fine, probably.
If I had my own sewing machine I could make a pair of soft PJ’s. And lots of skirts (because how much easier can you get than a simple skirt - it’s pretty much sewing one seam down the side, right?!). Also pretty dresses that make me look like a lean and mean size 10. And simple shirts.
Then, once I’m awesome at sewing (because that would only take a week or two right? I pick new things up quite quickly), I could learn to screen print. And then people would come up to me and ask where I got all my clothes, and I’d tell them I made them myself. Then they’ll give me many hundreds of dollars.
And you know what that would mean? That would mean I no longer have to wait to win Lotto in order to retire, and own a house on a beach, with a horse, and a puppy. I could buy it all myself. All because I brought a sewing machine off TradeMe today. I’m going to do it.
Do it! Do it! Buy a machine… make it happen… if you catch the fever, you’ll be unstoppable.
love the post — love the goblin uptop. He needs a hug
Ah! I did it! I brought a sewing machine! It’s only a $70 second hand one… but that being said I don’t REALLY have $70 to be thowing around… oh well… I’ll consider it an investment…
woo hoo go you! I have a sewing machine but not a lot of cotton etc for when I want to mend things. Usually just drive to Tony’s Mums cos her machine is set up. even though itd be faster to set my own up than drive there and back. any who…
yay! one you figure stuff out… want to make me some shirts?
YAY!!! you brought a sewing machine.
Some important things I have learned with sewing.
1. If you make a mistake while over-locking you are quite litterally screwd.
2. It’s real important to sew in a straight line
3. Threading a needle is a bitch
4. It really hurts when you try to sew your finger
You really wouldnt think my mum was a sewer when you see what I try to sew. I missed that gene. I can handsew like no tomorrow but not machine sew.
Also why were you wearing size14 pants? They’d be waaaaaaaaaaaay to big for you.
Stace, they are WAYYY too big, but when i get on trademe and start looking at clothes I get all worried that I’ve gone up a size, and so i never just look in my own size range. Which is stupid.
This is why I should stop playing on trademe.
Way to go. Mum will be soooo happy that you are breaking your own stuff now lol… Yes we still remember the Wearable Arts times.
Go Crazy.
you buy clothes off trademe? like used ones?
YOU? didnt u refuse to wear a scarf that your mum brought used?
OMG GUESS WHAT!! i found my perfect breakfast cereal! special K advantage (appsrntly it curbs the craving for carbs) with a mix of special K forest berry! its real yum except for the fiber bits that look like maggots… mmmm
Dad, Yeah.. I don’t think we were allowed to use cassandras place because her mum was scared we’d kill her machine. And blow up her microwave. And kill a hot glue gun on her carpet.
Stace, No I asked her to buy that scarf, and then I felt stupid wearing it. I got over that pretty quickly in Wellington.
I’ve always liked Special K… I’ve got berry muesli at the mo, but I’m getting bored of it. I should move on to Special K… after I finish the box of weetbix, and the box of coco pops, and the box of muesli, and the crunchy nut cornflakes.
Cereal gets boring…
Ohh… well thats ok then..
Can I tell you a secret???
*whispers*
I buy some of my clothes off trademe.. shhh…
Yes sometimes cereal does get boring thats why I like to mix it up.