Sewing is an ancient craft involving the stitching of cloth, animal skins, furs, or other materials, using needle and thread. Its use is nearly universal among human populations and dates back to Paleolithic times (30,000 BC). Sewing predates the weaving of cloth.
Sewing is used primarily to produce clothing and household furnishings as curtains, bedclothes, upholstery, and table linens. It is also used for sails, bellows, skin boats, and other items shaped out of flexible materials such as canvas and leather.
Most sewing in the industrial world is done by machines. Pieces of a garment or the edge of a cloth are firstly tacked together. Some people sew clothes for themselves and their families. More often home sewers sew to repair clothes, such as mending a torn seam or replacing a loose button. A person who sews for a living is known as a seamstress, dressmaker, tailor, or garment worker.
"Plain" sewing is done for functional reasons: making or mending clothing or household linens. "Fancy" sewing is primarily decorative, including techniques such as shirring, embroidery, or quilting.
If you are planning on putting a sewingmachine on your list, but you don't know which one to get, let me help guide you with some pointers on sewingmachine buying in the next Sew and Tell issue.
What better way to be ready for a party than to have a gorgeous home sewn bag to throw a bottle of sparkling cider or wine into for the hostess of the next Christmas or New Year's party that you're going to.
The placemats that I made in the October issue of Sew 'n Tell were of a Fall print and the colors were in burnt oranges, and browns.
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