Thou shalt remember that each item sewn is stitched with love and care. Thou shalt praise God often for all creative talents. Could NOT download the words. Thou shalt leave no bolt unturned. Thou shalt not rip - only un-sew! Thou shalt not envy they neighbours stitches. Thou shalt never pass a quilt shop. Thou shalt cook and clean but once a week.
Never quilt tomorrow what you can quilt today. Thou shalt not covet they neighbors stash. Thou shalt not reveal funds spent on quilting supplies. Thou shalt provide students with clearly written and illustrated handouts. Thou shalt be able to explain a construction step with more than one method written, verbal, visual.
Thou shalt provide value for their money; at least one other variation of the quilt in addition to the standard design. Thou shalt be on time, start on time and provide time for questions. Thou shalt circulate amongst the students, checking progress, even if thy feet dost hurt.
When a student makes a good suggestion, thou will announce it to the class and give credit where due. Thou shalt allow some time after class to help anyone who sews at a more leisurely pace. Thou shalt show numerous samples; and if thou dost not have numerous samples done, make suggestions for other applications of the pattern. She surely must have been around us. Things really do get better, and that dance outfit really does look nice. No one really sees those mistakes unless you tell them.
If you drop something out of your sewing basket, it will be your box of pins with the cover off. Fusible interfacings always fuse to the iron. The fabric you forgot to pre-shrink will always shrink the most. The pattern you wanted to make again will have one key piece missing. Whenever the construction process is going well, the bobbin thread runs out. The magnitude of the goof is in direct proportion to the cost of the fabric. Facings tend to be sewn to the wrong side.
Opposite sides attract. The iron never scorches the garment until its final pressing. The steam iron only burps rusty water on light, silky fabrics. Gathering threads always break in the middle. If you need 6 buttons, you will find 5 in your button box. When you are in a hurry, the needle eye is always too small. Your lost needle will be found by your son, husband, or brother-in-law…. The sewing machine light usually burns out on Sunday.
Pinking shears get dull just by looking at them. The scissors always cut easiest past the buttonholes. Martin Greenfield. And when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and other local notables known for their sartorial flair need a new addition to their wardrobe, whom do they call?
You guessed it. Greenfield, 82, is still old-school in his devotion to the labor-intensive, exacting and vanishing art of making tailored garments by hand. Greenfield said the other day, standing on a weathered sheet of plywood that long ago replaced the worn planking on the second floor of the factory in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he and his two sons oversee workers.
Hunched over tables spread across the vast loft-style space, workers methodically stitched sleeves, pockets, buttonholes and collars into jacket bodices. Dressed in a natty three-piece suit embellished with a pair of striking cufflinks — a tiny measuring tape and shears presented by a satisfied customer — Mr.
Greenfield paused to sort through a rack of finished jackets destined for Brooks Brothers and two fashion-forward labels: Freemans Sporting Club and Band of Outsiders. Greenfield explained, takes about six weeks and the handiwork of 80 to 85 tailors to make.
Bloomberg, who credits Mr. Greenfield with making all his suits. Greenfield first grasped the importance of appearances while trying to survive the Holocaust. When he was 14, he and his father, mother, two sisters and a brother were taken from their home in Pavlova, in what was then Czechoslovakia, and later delivered to Auschwitz. The officer threw the shirt at Mr. Greenfield, who mended it and started wearing it instead of the uniforms the other prisoners wore.
From then on, he said, the guards and prisoners began treating him with respect. The rest of Mr. Greenfield traveled to New York, where he was met by an aunt, who relied on a photograph to recognize him. His first assignment was to move batches of unfinished garments from one sewer to another. He advanced to blind stitcher, fitter, supervisor and so on, until he was able to buy the business in the s, starting from scratch with six employees.
He did not have it easy after he took over. Greenfield, who founded a business development corporation and served on a local preservation board to help revitalize the now-gentrifying neighborhood. Painstakingly measuring Mr. Clinton, Mr. Clinton, he recalled, simply laughed.
Later, Mr. Greenfield got a photo of Mr. Clinton wearing the tailcoat. As comfortable as he is dressing the president, Mr. Greenfield is also versatile enough to work with Mr. Wainwright and Mr. Greenfield visited the set of the show in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Steve Buscemi, the actor who plays one of the leading roles, walked up to him and gave him a hug.
Greenfield said. Monday, September 6, Welcome to Fall !!!! I have a fun packed semester planned for everyone! You will be learning a lot of interesting things. I add as much as I can to the links on the right side of the blog, but find I do not write to the blog regularly. Yet, I will be in touch with all of you on a weekly basis. I will keep you informed as to what is happening in the classroom. The following are just some of the links I have collected this summer. Start there.
See where you can go on the net to learn interesting and fun sewing techniques. Save them all!!!! Also, become familiar with the Class Etiquette Guildlines written below the blog. This is part of our fandango field trip on October 9. Endless possibilities We're probably preaching to the choir here, but geometric patterns make any surface look great! I love creating different layouts in seconds.
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