Quick Rant
Posted by Elizabeth on 01-14-2010 at 12:14 pm
So, I have this grey, store-bought sweater with a shawl collar. When I went to put it on one day last winter, a stitch in the seam that was holding the collar to the sweater popped, so I quit wearing the sweater until I had time to repair it. Well, I would like to be able to wear the sweater again, and I have a day off work, so I thought I would pull it out of my mending basket and see what needed to be done to fix the collar.
It turns out that I have not one, not two, but three unfinished edges that were held together with one string, and they weren't sewn together, they were crocheted together. So now I have three raw edges that are trying to unravel, and no good way to keep the rest of the seam from pulling out. I have most of the live stitches on needles now, but every time I try to figure out how to put them all back together, more come loose.
Why, why, why do clothing manufacturers seem to go out of their way to make it as difficult as possible to repair this stuff? I understand the need to have people buy more clothes, but seriously. I could take two unfinished edges, but three is outside of enough. And sewn clothing isn't any better. Try altering a cheap prom dress sometime! The seams are put together in such a way that taking them in is impossible to do without opening things up along other seams that then have to be re-sewn by hand.
Grr. It would be much less frustrating to just finish the sweater I'm knitting than to keep working on this one. At least the construction there makes sense.
The grey sweater is going back into the mending basket until I decide whether it's even worth the trouble. Maybe I'll try fixing that fitted sheet with the broken elastic instead.
It turns out that I have not one, not two, but three unfinished edges that were held together with one string, and they weren't sewn together, they were crocheted together. So now I have three raw edges that are trying to unravel, and no good way to keep the rest of the seam from pulling out. I have most of the live stitches on needles now, but every time I try to figure out how to put them all back together, more come loose.
Why, why, why do clothing manufacturers seem to go out of their way to make it as difficult as possible to repair this stuff? I understand the need to have people buy more clothes, but seriously. I could take two unfinished edges, but three is outside of enough. And sewn clothing isn't any better. Try altering a cheap prom dress sometime! The seams are put together in such a way that taking them in is impossible to do without opening things up along other seams that then have to be re-sewn by hand.
Grr. It would be much less frustrating to just finish the sweater I'm knitting than to keep working on this one. At least the construction there makes sense.
The grey sweater is going back into the mending basket until I decide whether it's even worth the trouble. Maybe I'll try fixing that fitted sheet with the broken elastic instead.
Knitting, Sewing
