Her blue eyes looked at me sweetly. She held two silky tank tops toward me.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Well, I got them on clearance but they are a little big and when I raise my arms you can sort of see my bra. I'll put them on if you want to see what I mean?" She slipped the peach one over her head.
"I learned how to use the sewing machine in the costume shop when I worked at the play house this summer. I could probably do it myself. I just need to sew the sides, right?" We both knew she had no intention of altering the blouses herself.
I considered the baggy armholes, pulled open my sewing desk drawer, grabbed my pin cusion, and began pinching and pinning the extra fabric on both side seams. After the peach top was marked, she lifted it carefully over her head to avoid getting poked. We repeated the process with the magenta top. I checked my drawer for coordinating thread but came up short.
"You're going to have to get me some matching thread if you want me to fix these." I looked at her hoping she would decide that shopping for thread was too much trouble. But instead she put her blouses in a plastic Kroger sack and set off for Hobby Lobby. I really didn't feel like I had time to alter two blouses that would end up in a wad on my daughter's apartment floor. But I did. She had to leave Thursday to go back to college.
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What a perfect little slice of life....
ReplyDeleteThanks Deb! I hope school is going well. I wish I could be a kid in your class. I always look forward to hearing about the kids and your lessons.
DeleteAhhhh you are the best Mom! And TRULY you are for more reasons than your sewing skills!! Oh, by the way - I have a couple of things that need "minor" fixes - what are you doing tomorrow?? hehe!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jen. And no, I will not do any altering for you. I love you but . . . uhm no. I'd get together to do blog stuff though. That would be way more fun. :)
DeleteI love the part where you knew she would not be doing the alteration on her own!
ReplyDeleteWondering too how you like using Blogsy? Ae you using an iPad?
I am loving Blogsy! And yes, I am using my iPad. But while I was learning how to use it, I went back and forth between my iPad and my laptop to make sure what I was doing looked the way I wanted. Blogsy takes some effort to learn but it really does what it says it does. Sometimes I start posts in Blogsy then finish them on my laptop. But you can't go the other way. You can't start on your laptop and finish with Blogsy on your iPad. I hear WordPress has a new mobile app but I'm not sure if it works as well as Blogsy. Also the developers respond very quickly to questions.
DeleteHi Diana, First your SOL is fabulous. I just finished altering a dress that was 2 sizes too small for my Aunt's "caregiver"...I suspect it will never be worn...but it was a bargain she said! Anyway, your undertaking of the newspaper, writing a SOL and still sending a kid to college amazes me. I'll be reading and recommending to others.
ReplyDeletehttp://drferreri.blogspot.com/2012/08/advice-when-you-are-looking-for-pln.html
Thanks Anita! The newspaper thing is actually pretty easy. I got the idea from Stacey's post about microblogging. Here is her link:
Deletehttp://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/blogs-microblogs/
The tool is called Paper.li. Here is the link:
http://paper.li/
Paper.li collects tweets from your followers on Twitter. I go through the tweets and delete as needed and I can also add things I find on the web using their bookmarklet. It is a pretty cool tool.