Shirt Buttons!

Isn’t it funny that over the years I’ve laughed at friends when they’ve complained about leaky loos and having a plumber for a husband or a decorator who never gets round to hanging that wallpaper at home.

These poor men have been the butt of our jokes for years and the reason for many a girlie chat over coffee.  But AARRGGH I seem to have become one of them!!!!!

If you ask my children and  family about my creations  and  sewing abilities  they will become sales reps  immediately raving  about them and  urging anyone and everyone to buy them . Does that make me proud? You bet it does!

But...........

Ask them about general repairs ie holes, tears, frayed cuffs, missing buttons etc and the story changes.

I become the most useless person ever and always forget the simplest of repairs.  A simple shirt button takes 5 minutes to replace.   A dress takes 3 days to cut, pin etc  

It has been known for me to take 3 weeks to replace a button!!!!

My son’s school trousers ripped and it took him a week of asking me to repair them and him eventually plonking them on my lap for them to be repaired.

Is it just me or are there others who overlook basic repairs because being creative is more interesting?

Right enough said I really must find those shirt buttons………………………………………………………………………..ooooh that’s  nice  wonder what I can make  from that?

Mrs Knitwit