[Sidney Lanier]

Can anyone with a sewing machine do a small favor for us? We need a hem run across the bottom of a pair of curtain panels, probably less than a five minute project. Please send us a PM if you can help us out. Much appreciated--many thanks!

[Barefoot]

I've been looking for a dry cleaning store or somewhere that does small alterations, hems, etc. If anyone knows of such a place, or a seamstress, could you please post it?
Thanks much.

[samhass]

I have a sewing machine. Have HB contact me.

Originally Posted by Sidney Lanier

Can anyone with a sewing machine do a small favor for us? We need a hem run across the bottom of a pair of curtain panels, probably less than a five minute project. Please send us a PM if you can help us out. Much appreciated--many thanks!

[Just Susan]

Sidney,
You have already been offered the services of a seamstress and her machine, so you are set.
But for anyone else who doesn't sew and needs a hem or two...there is a product called "Stitch Witchery". It is a fusible webbing that comes in rolls 1/4" to 1" wide.
To use it , you fold your hem, lay the webbing between the fabric and iron. That's it.
No sew, no seam showing, washable, holds well...purchase in almost any craft or fabric store.

[Sidney Lanier]

Thanks, Samhass! Will ask Hyacinth to be in touch as soon as she's finished rearranging her cups with the blue, handpainted periwinkles....

Thanks too, Susan&Tom, for the reminder! We actually have this stuff at our home up north, and I'd completely forgotten about it.

One way or another, we'll get these curtains done!

[marianne237]

The new dry cleaners in Colony Plaza advertises alterations and repairs. Don't know from personal experience.

[chuckinca]

One of the jokes around our house is that we would shop of clothes and my wife would pick out a pair of slacks for me that were too long and say that she would shorten them. I would place them in her sewing room on a hanger and about two years later she would give them back to me and say that the waist is now to tight for you to wear these so its a waste of time to shorten them now.

[Sidney Lanier]

Our household is set up so that SHE COOKS and I SEW. If we even attempted to reverse these roles, buttons would be falling off, seams would be opening, and everyone eating here would be poisoned (or would have just tasted, appropriately rejected, and thus NOT be poisoned)! However, I wouldn't even think of going there--"the waist is too tight so it's a waste of time to shorten [or lengthen] your garment...." '-)

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by marianne237

The new dry cleaners in Colony Plaza advertises alterations and repairs. Don't know from personal experience.

Marianne, where is Colony Plaza? I am near Buffalo Ridge and Southern Trace -- has anyone seen any alteration places in this area of TV?

[marianne237]

Dear Barefoot: Colony Plaza is the new shopping area on 466A. We're half way between this shopping area and Southern Trace; sometimes it does get frustrating as to which shopping area you want to go to.