In learning to sew, I feel I have gained a superpower. Suddenly, I have the ability to make my clothes fit! While I haven't yet tackled making new clothes, I've altered a pair of pants and a sweater and a skirt is next on the list. I can make waists bigger, or smaller! I can shorten legs and arms! Very few people are actually a standard size, and I am no exception. Now I can remove all the safety pins that hold in my waistlines or the poor hand sewn seams that marked my previous hemming attempts. I wish had asked my mother to teach me years ago.
It turns out that my father has also taught me a superpower. Because of his engineering and general creative fix-it prowess, I am imbued with the belief that almost anything can be fixed and that I have a fairly good chance of fixing it. Last night the neighbor had his car towed home from the train station after it wouldn't accept a jump start. I brainstormed a few things we could try, including removing the battery and using my plug-in charger on it overnight. In the end, we were able to jump it using my car. Several important lessons: (1) It really is important to keep a pair of jumper cables in your car - almost no one I know does this. (2) The battery in a Chevy Cobalt is in the trunk. (What?!) and (3) When I try to fix stuff, sometimes it works.
3 comments:
I have the superpower of know that if something goes wrong there is always someone I can find or hire to fix it :)
You are one of the most amazing people I know. I totally admire your tireless acquisition of useful skills. I have to say having just birthed a child I have consciously put on hold all these sorts of activities, including sewing lessons I was keen to take but now with work being very intense and sleep being unknown, the energy and desire just isn't there right now.
But I LOVE the idea of being able to adjust my clothes.
Alexis, you are busy acquiring the useful skills of childrearing! So pat yourself on the back for that :)
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