Need sewing help...

[jay]

Three duffel bags shipped today to Resolute, containing my tent, camping gear, geology kit bag, a package for dangerpudding, my winter and technical clothes... and my portable plastic urinal, which is my birthday present given last night by patgreene. (grin)

However, I couldn't pack two of my silk long johns because of ripped seams. I need sewing help, else I'll need to order new ones ASAP. These have weight and texture in-between tights and women's hose, and the repairs don't have to be pretty (no one except me will see them :).

Comments

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

why don't you let me take a look at them?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

context? (grin)

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that she might want you to model them, depending on where the rips are....

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was wondering about that.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

two of the rips were in the seams of the crotch gusset. I didn't mind fondling the region and embedding it with thoughts of my caresses.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

I have decent hand-sewing skills, thankyouverymuch.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

You've done cross-stitching, true... I just couldn't imagine you sewing *clothes*...

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Not being able to mend a seam ranks up there with not being able to change a tire, IMO.

Mission Accomplished.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I was sure that you had the capacity -- cross-stitch is harder -- but it seemed too... femme? to be something you'd practice. Thanks!

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think my aran is a lot harder than any of the completed cross-stitch items of mine you've seen. But, granted, not femmey.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

While I am willing to help out with the sewing, it looks like tenacious_snail has all ready offered, and I am definitely not on the more talented end of our community's sewing pool.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

She actually hasn't offered to *sew*, merely to look at the damage... at this point, if I can't hand-mend them, I may just put in a rush order with WinterSilks.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Her offer was actually "If I can take a look at them, I can tell you whether or not I *can* sew them"

[yami-mcmoots.livejournal.com]

Do you have a sewing machine? If it can't be fixed with a stretch stitch, it's not worth fixing, IMO.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Well... I think that there is a machine in the house somewhere... but Pat doubts her capabilities with it, and I've never used one.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

one of them was easy enough to fix. Split seams. The other had runs in them, and tears that would, if repaired, no longer fit a man.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I am *so* glad to hear about the portable urinal!

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(wry grin) hopefully no kidney stones a month later, this year...