Friday, March 7, 2008

A Stitch in -- whatever


I ordered new sweatpants for G online.
They are unexpectedly long.
There must be some very tall XL guys out there.

Getting him to try them on so I could mark the hem
proved more difficult than I expected.
Whenever I was ready, he was not.
And whenever ... well, you know.
(It's not like we have such high-powered lives.)

Finally this morning, our planets aligned.



And since they aligned,
I also had him try on the sleep pants I gave him for Christmas,
which had a similar issue.
(It's March already? How the time does fly!)



And last, the repair of a well-loved sweatshirt.
It has a silkscreened painting of my parents' old summer cottage.
(My parents had one made for each family member.)
But the neck and cuffs frayed like crazy.
I've never seen a sweatshirt wear so badly.
(Note to self: Don't buy Lee brand sweatshirts.)

G was very pleased.
He'd been waiting about two years for this repair.

5 comments:

  1. I have to say that the silkscreened sweatshirt is the most lovely idea.

    Need to think about doing something similar with our house here in the mountains.

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  2. personalized sweatshirts sounds like a lovely idea!
    and it's so lovely to get that feeling of satisfaction from finishing a long awaited job! hope you have a lovely weekend. xx

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  3. Now that you have finished your mending pile do you think that you could drop by because I have just a few little projects for you...

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  4. Brave girl. I sew professionally, but I never mend...NEVER!

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  5. Funny about trying to find a time to get G to do a fitting... we have that problem here too. And we are soooo busy listening to our talking books and what not.

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Thank you!