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Check-In Post - March 3rd 2025
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This Week's Question: Do you remember the first thing you made in school?
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I remember making a whole bunch of things when I was at school over the years - one of the first was a gingham table mat decorated with different stitches, I followed it up at home with a gingham apron for my gran. As mentioned above there was a pot much like an ashtray - I think that came shortly after the gingham apron. My first efforts at school with a sewing machine was supposed to be a simple cotton top - the teacher kept making me adjust it so it was smaller - when I finished it ... it fitted my younger sister (she is almost 7 years younger than me!), after that I made a skirt, then a dress and then some nightshirts - they were the biggest success and I made a bunch more of them at home out of brushed cotton - they were lovely for winter!
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Those sound like fun projects :)
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Sounds pretty!
Your teacher sounds like an idiot if she couldn't tell the top would be too small for you.
The first thing I had to make at school with the sewing machines was an apron (more of a tabard) for cookery classes. It was well beyond halfway through the year before I has a wearable apron, because every time I touched a sewing machine, it stopped working. They hated me. I think I was the last to finish my apron, in fact I think mum finished it for me at home. She was great at sewing, used to make me nighties out of brushed nylon, very cosy, and full of static electricity in bed. Fun, lol!
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I spoke to my mum about the clay pot for my uncle and she said I made that at home and it was a plant pot - we even got a plant to go in it! It’s funny because you got me thinking about school projects and I was pondering what the children I used to teach would remember out of the projects we did - my mum listed off a load of things that I did with my niece and nephew when they were younger and it surprised me just how many different things we’d done over the years (most of them as Christmas presents for other people in the family).
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I hope your plant pot proved successful for your plant!
So cool that you did so much crafting with your niece and nephew. I'm sure they must have had fun.
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We made pillow cases at school, and aprons and nightshirts, too, actually. There were two different sorts of craft lessons: one for girly stuff like sewing and knitting and stitching, and then the other one where we made the dratted ashtray, the cast iron candlestick (which I managed to break in two while working on it) and other such things that I hated.