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What single purchase has returned the most in terms of value? (lemmy.world)

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[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

HOW? I have a sewing machine I bought primarily to hem pants for my short-man legs. I've purchased the fabric to make curtains but after an hour of struggling to get it to lay straight and cooperate with me, I gave up. It's just too big to deal with 😩

[-] sat012e@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

YouTube, man. Husband booked us a trip to the Star Wars hotel at Disney, and decided he and our son needed costumes. He taught himself to use it on YouTube.

He didn't even ask me for help. "Oh, this lady on YouTube has been sewing for 30 years!" SO HAVE I!

[-] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Curtains are a lot easier, especially when you start with pre-fabricated ones that need to be sewn together for wider windows and made shorter.

Fit curtains
Get loads of needles and make the roughly to size
Cut the bottom so you have more then enough fabric to correct mistakes
Curse as you forgot that the fabric slides of the table while cutting (leaving you wiuth a few cm left in 1 corner)
Hang curtains again to see what you can salvage and correct
Decide the curtains in the kitchen won't reach the work top, just the bottom of the windows.
Sew everything together and hang the curtains
The slight tilt is 'by design' and be done with it. (They cover the windows and keep the cold out, that was the main goal)

Curtains are visible for only me and my wife, so great items to start with. (I won't touch clothing for a while, I know I'll mess it up)

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