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2012-12-28 8:16 PM
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I've made a Halloween costume (including a tutu and cape- Wonder Woman) and curtains and a few other things sewing by hand.  I do still bring pants out to be hemmed- I'm just worried about ruining the pants and for $10 my seamstress makes them look perfect.  I could do it if I had to.  I cannot operate a machine.  I just make massive knot balls and wreck whatever I'm working on.  I have no idea why.  DH says I have a bad machine- but he can make it work.

I can cook okay.  I made an awesome turkey for Christmas when I tried filling it with oranges as I read somewhere.  It was by far the most moist turkey I have ever had- the steam from the oranges must help.

Tonight I made these http://www.instructables.com/id/Perfect-Oven-Sweet-Potato-Fries/#st... are by far the best sweet potato fries I have ever made and very easy.  (We also had chicken sausages, steamed asparagus and carrots.)  I don't cook fancy food- but we don't eat fancy.



2012-12-29 6:33 AM
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I love to cook and do so often.  Right now I'm trying to perfect my omelet skilz.

 

I also sew.  As a Boy Scout, I sewed my own patches.  I still do that for myself and my son.    I am in charge of sewing machine maintenance here.  My wife got a Bernina 430 for her quilting last year.  That thing is AWESOME.  I have yet to use the free-motion foot for sewing patches... I think it will make it MUCH easier.

2012-12-29 7:16 AM
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Moonrocket - 2012-12-28 9:16 PM

I've made a Halloween costume (including a tutu and cape- Wonder Woman) and curtains and a few other things sewing by hand.  I do still bring pants out to be hemmed- I'm just worried about ruining the pants and for $10 my seamstress makes them look perfect.  I could do it if I had to.  I cannot operate a machine.  I just make massive knot balls and wreck whatever I'm working on.  I have no idea why.  DH says I have a bad machine- but he can make it work.

I can cook okay.  I made an awesome turkey for Christmas when I tried filling it with oranges as I read somewhere.  It was by far the most moist turkey I have ever had- the steam from the oranges must help.

Tonight I made these http://www.instructables.com/id/Perfect-Oven-Sweet-Potato-Fries/#st... are by far the best sweet potato fries I have ever made and very easy.  (We also had chicken sausages, steamed asparagus and carrots.)  I don't cook fancy food- but we don't eat fancy.

You might have to adjust the tension differently on the thread - I have a machine that worked great, then got out of adjustment and made knots and tangles, until I adjusted the tension again (after months of frustration not realizing what had happened).

2012-12-29 7:52 AM
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Yep - I count myself as skilled in these basic life skills. Dinner for 2 or 20? No worries. I don't sew as I used to - we are down to repairs and curtains and such
. But back in my 20s I was quite the seamstress: Quilts, clothes, costumes. We are talking cocktail dresses with boning! Now, when I pull out the plastic totes of supplies, it is like looking at evidence of a past life
2012-12-29 8:48 AM
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I can cook and do the majority of the cooking at the house. I don't bake though...the wife is good with baking. I learned to sew when I was a kid but other thAn sewing on a button...the skills have not been used in years. My 13 year old like to sew. We have sent her to sewing lessons and she has entered and won several competitions. A few days before my mom passed this past year, my mom asked her to make her a vest for the funeral. She did a great job with it!
2012-12-29 1:32 PM
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I knew how to heat stuff when I was growing up- I only took one semester of home-ec because I didn't have enough room in the schedule to do it beyond that.

But my mom has been a quilter/needle person for as long as I've been alive. I can knit a mean scarf, mittens, potholders, and a passable sweater. I do really neat felted handbags/dittybags for scout gifts too (regular knitting, then you wash them and it turns to felt- looks neat and is ridiculously easy).

When I moved to Ireland and had to really cook for myself for the first time, that was when my cooking really took off. I learned to make a wider variety of dishes and to shop for fresher ingredients (cultural norms around shopping changed too- more frequent (daily) shopping rather than my mom's one massive shopping at the weekend, and shopping at a green grocer rather than a supermarket).

I can also change your oil, instal your art, build you a crate to international standards, do your customs brokerage, change your turn signal bulbs, shovel snow, balance a checkbook, write invoices, blah blah blah.

I'm also not going to bemoan the loss of "life skills" or the presence/absence of home ec...people will get there eventually. It's all about experience, and some people have that experience much later in life.


2012-12-29 1:48 PM
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yes. I cook (vastly improved over the past 5 years) and I sew (that I can make costumes, simple dresses, occasionally something more intricate).

recently remarked with a woman in the fabric store how sad it was that sewing is now a hobby rather than a necessity (therefore the prices for supplies are much higher).

2012-12-29 2:04 PM
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I absolutely love to cook and bake - specialize in gluten free, vegetarian and vegan dishes.

This year I made an entire pre-Thanksgiving dinner for me and my boyfriend (complete with raw vegan cheesecake with cranberry topping) - and had so much fun. I was dismayed to find out my family Thanksgiving was coming directly from a grocery store (pre-packaged potatoes from a bag and all) but I had no control over it. I just made a vegan potato soup that absolutely hit the spot on this blustery cold day. Yum.

As for sewing - I can sew on a button or hem a pant in an utter emergency (would rather use fabric tape for a hem but I could do it with a needle/thread if I had to), but that's about as far as I go. My great grandmother taught me to crochet as a child but I've since lost that skill.



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2012-12-29 2:39 PM
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Cool story about your daughter and the taters.

I cook, love to cook actually and am pretty good at it. Sewing,,,,,, I don't think you could call what I've done with a needle and thread actually sewing.

One thing that I just can't believe they actually sell are potatoes that are pre shredded for hash browns. Just take a cheese grader and a potato, get fancy and shred a little onion in with them.

2012-12-29 4:13 PM
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I can cook and my wife can sew and cook.

I am also one heck of a cabinet maker. I build 3-4 rocking horse each year for various charities to auction or raffle off. I have also made about 2/3 of the furniture in our apartment, and as soon as wek bite the bullet I will be making ALL the furniture for the house.

2012-12-29 5:20 PM
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I can cook and it's good!  I can sew and did some mending today.  Uncle Sam taught me that trick.  I can not sing, at all, it's bad, real bad.


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