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What's your least favourite sewing task?

(57 Posts)
Trisha57 Fri 06-May-22 19:47:01

For me it's hemming, not by hand (I avoid that like the plague) but on the sewing machine. I love putting together a pattern and learning new techniques and skills. But at the end of all that work, hemming is so boring and I just want to get it over with and have the finished garment. What about you?

Callistemon21 Fri 06-May-22 19:54:44

Sewing up knitting.

At least I completed a task last evening that I had delayed doing.

Nannagarra Fri 06-May-22 19:55:57

Sewing on buttons!

Pantglas2 Fri 06-May-22 20:53:02

New zip...especially jeans?

AGAA4 Fri 06-May-22 20:55:53

I don't have a machine so have to hem by hand and I don't enjoy it. I don't really like sewing at all but enjoy embroidery.

Auntieflo Fri 06-May-22 20:58:16

Oh yes Sewing up knitting.

CanadianGran Fri 06-May-22 21:07:16

I agree with Callistemon21; sewing up knitting projects. I wish I could hand it over to someone else.

I'm not a sewer, I've just done mending. Getting through some heavy work jeans or jackets can be a pain (literally).

ayse Fri 06-May-22 21:10:28

Taking up DH’s trousers as he has very short legs.

Grannynannywanny Fri 06-May-22 21:27:07

Wundaweb is my friend ?

Nannarose Fri 06-May-22 22:02:30

I'm afraid that my least favourite tasks all relate to fitting. The person I sew for bulges in all the wrong places, is fussy about details, and has a persistently strange idea that totally unsuitable things would look good on her (yes it's me!)

Grammaretto Fri 06-May-22 22:11:38

Nannarose grin
All of it really. I buy a pattern and material and all the gubbins. So far so good. Get it home and begin to lay it out, pin and and cut the cloth.
At present I am stumped by some wording on the pattern.

My DD never uses a pattern. She does it all by eye. I wish I could show you the sundresses she has made for her girls. Beautiful, simple and quick.
I should stick to things I can do,

BlueBelle Fri 06-May-22 22:18:54

Easy peasy I don’t sew
Used to love darning in the days when we darned

JaneJudge Fri 06-May-22 22:18:59

leather
vinyl
zips
circles

Cabbie21 Fri 06-May-22 23:12:26

Once upon a time I used to make my own clothes and I hated putting zips in. Nowadays my sewing is restricted to mending, hemming and sewing on buttons. I put off these jobs but once I get the sewing kit out, I don’t mind it.

merlotgran Fri 06-May-22 23:21:46

Another one for sewing up knitting.

Grannmarie Fri 06-May-22 23:24:09

Sewing up knitting, definitely!
Even though I've watched YouTube tutorials on different techniques.

grannyactivist Fri 06-May-22 23:34:04

I avoid sewing.
So how come I absolutely love watching the Sewing Bee? ?‍♀️

Hetty58 Fri 06-May-22 23:59:17

I hate joining knitting - I use the three needle bind off or kitchener stitch whenever I can.

Hithere Sat 07-May-22 00:18:02

Turning the piece inside out

tanith Sat 07-May-22 07:30:28

Sewing up knitting definitely, I used to sew lots for me and the children, I made lots of curtains even did something hand smocking. Nowadays it’s hems and buttons. Shame is none of my family sew.

Nandalot Sat 07-May-22 08:14:05

Two of my GC are very slim so I have to sew elastic inside the waistband of school trousers etc. I have to pull the elastic taut as I stitch. It is painful on the fingers. I hate it!

GagaJo Sat 07-May-22 08:24:15

Anything on the machine. I don't actually mind doing it, but the fag of getting it out, set up, put away etc.

I love any hand sewing. Find it really therapeutic and calming.

CoffeeFirst Sat 07-May-22 08:27:12

Buttons usually!

Petera Sat 07-May-22 08:28:31

CanadianGran

I agree with Callistemon21; sewing up knitting projects. I wish I could hand it over to someone else.

I'm not a sewer, I've just done mending. Getting through some heavy work jeans or jackets can be a pain (literally).

Do a bit of googling - there are actually people who offer this service (if you hate it so much you'd pay someone else)

LadyGracie Sat 07-May-22 09:22:31

I don’t enjoy any type of sewing. I’m an avid knitter so when it comes to sewing up I do take my time and do it well, you can spoil a well knitted garment by poor sewing up.