Mother's Day
As a mom, I think Mother’s Day is overrated. A bouquet of flowers doesn’t erase a year of dirty clothes on the floor. A box of chocolates doesn’t mend ugly, unkind words spilled in a moment of anger. A fancy brunch doesn’t mean you love your mom if you don’t talk to her on a regular basis. Keep the gifts and the frills. Sit beside your mom and tell her how your life is working out. Assure her that some of the things she taught you are actually helping you deal with many of life’s challenges. Tell her when you are faced with temptation; you hear her voice in your head encouraging you to take the right path. Tell her you forgive her for her shortcomings. Tell her she did a good job of being there for you, of guiding you in the right direction, for letting you spread your wings and fly. Tell her you are grateful for the life you are leading. Tell her your joys and your sorrows. Tell her all of it, don’t buy any gifts, just open your heart to your momma. She loves you.
Happy Mother’s Day to you – I hope you get to share it with those you have nurtured or have nurtured you!
For a chance to win, simply share your memories of when your mother taught you how to sew. Did you sew a set of linens for the home? Maybe the two of you worked together on a new dress for a special event. Or maybe, you taught your mother how to sew! Post your comment for a chance to win!
grammaheh1 said...
My first project was of a turtle stitched out on a t shirt. It stitched out beautifully, except for the colors. Being a newby, I exactly followed the colors that showed up on my D 1 screen. Unfortunately, they were not the colors of a turtle...
Gail
May 3, 2010 5:19 PM
Congratulations, Gail! Be sure to email Amanda at agriffin@dzgns.com to give us your address so we can send you your gift!
12 comments:
My first sewing project with my mom was making clothes for my Barbie and Ken dolls. Back then they had the clothing printed on fabric. All you had to do was sew on the printed lines. After that we had many happy hours sewing together in the sewing room.
Cindy, OK
My first sewing project with my mother was making doll clothes on a childs electric sewing machine when I was about 7 years old. She then showed me how to use her adult machine with supervision. From that point on I made all of my school clothes. I am now passing on my knowledge to my 9 year old granddaughter. We are making quilts and clothes for her webkinz.
Hi,
I don't recall my mom teaching me to sew, but she bought a new electric Singer sewing machine in a blonde cabinet so there would be a machine at home to help with the vest I made in school and to make a gown for the school choir. So somewhere in there there had to be instructions from her because she mended for the 7 of us. (My dad died when I was 5 and I was the 7th) First was the treadle machine then the electric one but it still was the black machine that only sewed forward and backward. Was that love, or what.
Oh wow, my first sewing lesson from my mom was sewing strips of rag fabric together, so she could make rag rugs to sell. It was a White treadle machine, that is still in the family. Later, when I didn't need as much supervision she purchased, with S&H Green Stamps an electric zigzag portable machine, so we could both sew at the same time.
My first project with my mother was a skirt sewn on a converted Singer shuttle. That was a long time ago (1956). The lesson learned was how to sew a straight line. Most recently, I made a placard for a quilt my mother and grandmother hand stitched in 1942. My siser-in-law hand quilted this in 2009 - 67 years after it was made. Making this placard was the most memorable thing I have ever done. My mother taught me how to make a straight line, and I've never forgotten.
My mom taught my 2 sisters & I how to sew without a pattern. When my daughter was young, I would make her an outfit- then run to mom's across the street to sho her . I was so proud of it. Then she would show me all the mistakes I made, undo them, then fix them or tell me how to fix them. I was really frustrated then, felt nothing I did was right. It was many years later, I realized, she was teaching me the art of custom sewing. I did custom wedding dresses for over 20 yrs. Without my mom's guidace I would never have created my own daughter wedding dress.
I miss my mom, but glad I spent all the time I did with her.
kaye in la
My first sewing project with my mom was learning how to make a doll dress on her new Singer electric sewing machine when I was in the second grade. My mom did not do much sewing, but encouraged me to learn how to sew and bought the patterns and fabric for me to sew with. Her encouragement enabled me to learn a life long hobby.
Gail
My mom taught us girls to sew-she would take a newspaper and cut out and sew coats, dresses, blouses, skirts and many other garments. Us girls were in 4-H, and every year we had to sew a garment, mom was there trying to get us to do things right. we would try and get her to fix our mistakes and she would say --you won't learn if i do that and make me and my sister do it.
Now, I chuckle because when am teaching my grandkids--I say the samething.
I realize that as I was thinking about my mom she was so creative and was passing that creative along--wow ladies as moms, we are teaching and encouraging our kids and grandkids to pass on the heritage of creativeness. Applaud yourselves.
GRACE
It's funny to think about sewing with my Mom. I learned to sew, like so many, by making doll clothes by hand using Mom's scraps.
Then I 'graduated' to patterns to make some simple clothes for myself. Mom's specialty was home dec, making curtains and covering cushions,etc, but she helped me learn all those tricky things like darts.
My favorite memory is when I had my first apartment and no money. Mom came to visit and helped me make simple curtains for all the windows. Privacy was such a gift as I lived on a busy street. We often did not agree on things, but Mom was always willing to share her talent with me.
Karen
It's been a VERY long time ago when I was little. Mom had an old Singer treadle machine but then she got a White with an electric motor. I learned to make doll clothes on the White. Barbie was not even a glint in somebody's brain but I had a doll baby that was all rubber (plastic wasn't around yet either).
Mom made all my clothes (far superior to store bought, though I didn't realize it when I was 8 yrs old!). I hated fittings -- always got stuck with pins. But when mom bought a Barbie pattern, I really got excited about selecting fabric and which version of the dress would be MINE. Mom helped me through the entire project. When we finished, it was back to the store for a pattern for a dress for me. I helped select the fabric and had lots of input AND did some of the hand-stitching. Wow! I was hooked from that point on. Today I use what mom taught me to make costumes for owners of Arabian horses. And mom (at 82) is still helping me every step of the way. Can't thank her enough.
My mom and I made ruffled-edged pillow shams together because I was newly married and couldn't afford to purchase them. Mom chose a bed sheet and suggested I cut the slip-over back pieces using the hemmed edges of the sheet. Mom also showed me how to sew two rows of basting stitches, so we could gather the ruffle easily. The shams were a huge success, thanks to my mom's seasoned sewing skills. My dear mother died 15 years ago. Whenever I use these beautiful shams we created together, I recall very fond memories of sewing with my precious mom.
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