This morning at the gym I discovered that sewing is "in vogue" now.
Which is funny because Bill and I were just discussing the very sad passing of a 112-year-old local sewing icon, Blank's Fabrics. We concluded that sewing, unlike knitting, is so very NOT in vogue. It's difficult to find hip, pretty, and mod fabrics at JoAnn's (which, sadly, are the only fabric stores left in these here parts). I have looked far and wide online to find the specific patterns I want. Nada.
And then NBC does a human interest story with college-aged girls in Montana. Texas. And Ohio. All of whom are, like, sewing things that they, like, would really wear, you know, out to dinner and things?
My heart alternately leapt and then sank. Not because I don't want them to find happiness in sewing—I hope that I myself can find happiness in sewing. It's that I hope that all of the "like", "you know", and "whatever" that is apparently flushing the sewing scene doesn't make it cosmically unbearable for me to find my own sewing groove.
Don't ruin it for me, Paris! I don't want sewing to be, like, so hot.
My wife, an avid knitter and aspiring sewer, just got herself a copy of the book SEW U, which looks like a great and inspiring book. It's sort of the STITCH N BITCH of sewing.... Maybe check this out?
Posted by: mcMüller | January 24, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Hmmm...I will have to see the book. I have to admit that the other night I was doing some research for a client at Borders and there was a rather rowdy stitch n bitch going on...and I found the idea a good one, but the group annoyed the hell out of me.
Am I the only woman in the world who cannot abide screaming, guffawing women? This is probably reason number one why I don't go to strip clubs. That and the possibility of some strange gay man flinging his schlong in my eye is just too much for me.
But I digress.
Posted by: tbtine | January 26, 2007 at 11:28 AM
I hear you. I'm no fan of groups of screaming women, but these books are pretty OK, and SEW U honestly looks like a really good one. It caught me blind-sided and has made me want to learn to sew.
Posted by: mcMüller | January 26, 2007 at 03:21 PM
I should also say that I'm not affiliated with those books in any way! I'm a guy whose wife owns them both, is all. Now I'm worried that maybe you think I'm a publicity person or something. (I'm not!)
Posted by: mcMüller | January 26, 2007 at 03:22 PM
Nono--I skimmed your site, and while I looked longingly for an about page that worked (not that mine actually tells you what I'm about either), I got the idea that likely you weren't shilling for the book.
Although with that section about the pay-an-advertising-firm-to-let-you-work-there-gig, maybe you ARE a publicity person...
Posted by: tbtine | January 26, 2007 at 05:58 PM