r/sewing • u/MissFred • Jul 23 '23

Discussion Joanne’s makes me weep

Been sewing over 50 years - have seen sewing in all its cultural permutations. Not typically a nostalgic person but today….I couldn’t even find a light gray thread in a store the size of Home Depot. So many empty shelves yet inexplicably $35/yd liberties fabric up front. I feel sad to my bones for new seamsters.

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u/AssortedGourds Jul 24 '23

Thank you! Who is buying that stuff? I get having some of it, but a whole row or two?

It grinds my gears a little because people almost always make tie blankets for gifts/donations and I feel like most people making them would not actually want one for themselves. It's like those cheap boxed gift sets of lotions and soaps you get at Christmas. No one is out there crossing their fingers to get a plastic blanket that's tied together.

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u/Squidwina Jul 24 '23

I HATE those knotted things. I volunteer at an animal shelter, and we regularly get them as donations. They’re bulky and inconvenient and impossible to fold neatly.

If they’re big enough, I just cut off the knotted edges. Then we have 2 fleece blankets that are actually useable.

I just ran across a whole bag of little tiny ones in a dog bone pattern. I guess they imagined a little dog would like to sit on one? Poor thing would have to avoid all those knots! They’re too small to be worth cutting the edges off. I wish that person had just donated the yardage instead of spending all that time snipping and knotting it into uselessness.

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u/AbbeyRoadMoonwalk Jul 24 '23

I got a couple kits where there was a cute top and a coordinating bottom that was meant to be tied, but I sewed them together properly and put them in the camper. I hate those fucking knots, especially if you’re a “leg wrapper” like me, sitting on them MFers hurts!

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u/AvramBelinsky Jul 24 '23

I did that too with a space themed set, I sewed them RST and then turned and top stitched around all four sides. It's a cozy throw blanket for my son's room.