[speaker002:] why don't you go ahead and start
[speaker001:] okay my hobby is uh sewing I I've just uh started learning how to sew and uh I've taken some classes and I've made a few few garments do you sew at all
[speaker002:] I used to uh I I sewed you know in high school and when I went to college I think everything in my closet I had made but I haven't sewed since then and that's been fifteen years
[speaker001:] did you
[speaker002:] so uh you know I didn't have access to a machine the whole time I was in college
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and uh my sister sewed and she needed the money so I would pay her and she'd make my clothes
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and uh and then just in the last you know ten or twenty I just haven't sewn anything I would love to I would like to get back to it
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh uh clothes are getting so expensive now in in the stores and the the quality is is sometimes so poor that uh it it really is worth while to sew
[speaker002:] yeah it is you know an even back then I remember you could make something for you know half what it cost to buy and of course the quality was just exceptional
[speaker001:] right an
[speaker002:] uh now it's a little more expensive to make it because you you know you start paying the price for the patterns and the material but it's still such better quality that I think it's worth it
[speaker001:] yeah it certainly is and the patterns have gone up tremendously too the prices for them you used to could get you know a pattern for two or three dollars now they're like you know five six seven eight
[speaker002:] you're kidding me
[speaker001:] oh no I'm not
[speaker002:] see I can remember paying seventy five cents for a pattern
[speaker001:] huh-uh no the the cheapest ones now are like maybe four uh four or five five dollars
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] six seven and then you get into the vogues they get up to into twelve and fifteen and on like that
[speaker002:] good night well do you have kids and a husband are you sewing for a whole family or
[speaker001:] uh right now I'm just sewing for myself I I do have two daughters that you know out they're they're grown now though I wish that I had started sewing you know when they were younger
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh it would have helped me out tremendously but um oh I guess I I just you know I always I have always tried to sew and uh I didn't like the way it looked so I'd never wear anything but now I I really have bought some uh new sewing equipment I bought the Serger machine
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh it really makes it look professional and I've taken some classes here in in uh Dallas
[speaker002:] well and that always is helpful for starters you know you have to have something that kind of gets you on the right track of where you're going
[speaker001:] yeah right I know a lot of people where I work make their clothes it's just there's just so many people sewing now days
[speaker002:] that's true well do you do anything else do you knit or crochet like for sweaters or anything like that
[speaker001:] uh-huh huh-uh no I'm not that talented
[speaker002:] no see I'm not I've not ever been a real craft type person I have a sister-in-law that I mean if it can be done with your hands she does it she makes things for the kids for Christmas and nephews and nieces and I look at them and I think God you know I I should be able to do things like this
[speaker001:] right I have a sister that can can uh crochet real well or or knit I I guess I mean knit and she knits things like hats and uh sweaters an you know
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well when my sister oh when my sister had her first uh child my niece and this is we're talking fifteen years ago I was it was my last year of college
[speaker001:] bed throws uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I asked my roommate if she would teach me how to crochet granny squares so she did and I crocheted a blanket for my sister's baby
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and I started crocheting a king size bedspread for a guy that I was dating at the time
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and when we broke things off actually we were supposed to get married when I got out of college so when we broke things off I quit crocheting it and I've never picked up a needle since then in fact I think it's still sitting in the top of the closet
[speaker001:] oh my goodness
[speaker002:] one of these days I keep thinking I'm going to finish it because it would make a really pretty bedspread
[speaker001:] but yeah now now they have the uh knitting machines that will do it for you
[speaker002:] fast
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] my problem I guess is time you know I I talk to my husband we kind of planning for the time eventually when you know maybe I can quit work while my kids because I my kids are young I have a three and a half and a two year old
[speaker001:] uh-huh um
[speaker002:] and he says but Bev I think you'll be so bored because you know all you've ever done is work and I said but there's so many things I want to do I'd like to start sewing again I'd like to learn how to do this cross stitch and these you know knit these things and I think that would be fascinating he kind of laughs
[speaker001:] yeah  are you familiar with what a Serger is uh the Serger sewing machine
[speaker002:] I don't think so
[speaker001:] well you know in when we used to sew we'd sew the seam and then we'd finish the edges and we we would uh trim the seams and finish the edges
[speaker002:] sure uh-huh
[speaker001:] well this machine does it all in one step it's
[speaker002:] you're kidding so like as you're sewing the seam it's finishing off the inside edge
[speaker001:] right and it's cutting off the uh the there there are two knives and it cuts off the uh you know excess seam allowance
[speaker002:] well that takes all the work out of it
[speaker001:] right and uh it it really makes it look professional
[speaker002:] well how neat
[speaker001:] especially on you know I mean from the inside you know how you look under under something that you've made and it doesn't really
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but uh the Serger really makes it look professional
[speaker002:] well that's neat
[speaker001:] they're pretty expensive I like I paid like about eight hundred dollars for mine
[speaker002:] for the machine yeah
[speaker001:] uh-huh so since I bought it and paid that much for it I guess I'd better might as well get some use out of it yes I'm going to have to do it
[speaker002:] you have to learn how to do it that's right otherwise they hold it over your head forever right
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] now I bought you that machine well that sounds really good
[speaker001:] ah yeah
[speaker002:] do you paint or anything like that
[speaker001:] no no I I play the piano
[speaker002:] never oh so do I
[speaker001:] oh you do
[speaker002:] except well I have one here it's the one that I grew up with and my folks gave it to me and uh a couple years ago when they uh they sail and so they sold their home and they they've been sailing and uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] so it's here but I haven't touched one like since college so I kind of am picking it all out again and trying to remember how to do it again and of course my kids jump in the middle of it and want to pound on it and I'd love to teach them to play too
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] so I'm not great but I remember it
[speaker001:] uh-huh well I'm not that great either I used to be a lot better than I am now I I have played for uh the church choir and uh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I played for the choral club in high school and but I you know I don't practice a lot anymore and uh you know you get rusty
[speaker002:] you do
[speaker001:] you really
[speaker002:] you do
[speaker001:] I never thought I would get rusty but I'm rusty now
[speaker002:] well I I figure it takes practice and I I don't I say I don't have the time that's not true by the time I put my kids in bed at night I don't want to do anything
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] I you know I've worked all day and I come home and I do that I and you know even hobbies and crafts and sewing things like that I I think gee I could do this or that I have an hour here I don't want to do them sometimes I'm too tired
[speaker001:] right uh-huh yeah right
[speaker002:] so I try to save that for the weekend I need to get better at it though
[speaker001:] uh-huh well sewing does take up take an awful lot of time takes an awful lot of time
[speaker002:] now the part about sewing that I never liked was laying out the material and the pattern and cutting it out if if somebody would lay it out for me then I didn't mind cutting it out and sewing it I could do that all day long and I I can remember once in high school I wanted some extra money
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and my mom wanted some pants so she laid out the material and I cut it and sewed it and she paid me I think like two dollars a pair to make her some pants
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but I I hate laying out material and trying to get the most out of the material and make sure it's on the right lines and not on the bias and
[speaker001:] yeah on the on the right on the straight grain and all that stuff uh-huh
[speaker002:] yes on the grain of the fabric it drives me crazy
[speaker001:] yeah that that's that's the part that I don't like too
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] yeah I I like sewing sewing up the garment itself I really like to do that but the the cutting and the all the even the cutting I don't like
[speaker002:] well what are some of the other features on this machine it sounds wonderful
[speaker001:] well that's about it really it's it has four uh four threads instead of the the regular basic two threads
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] and uh it's
[speaker002:] is that for designs or is that for the regular seam in the fabric or
[speaker001:] no you you can either use three or four of the threads
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] uh it's kind of it the stitch is kind of like a knitting machine like the they're loopers under the bottom and then the there's a seam stitch and it's the loopers that form the the edge you know that edge finish
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh that's what really makes it look professional you can do a lot with the Serger though you can make uh piping and cording and uh you can use all kinds of different uh textures of thread
[speaker002:] so it has the ability to do just about any type of sewing you want to do
[speaker001:] and well yes but you you have to use it in combination with a sewing machine you can't throw your sewing machine away you you you need it to do things like button holes and uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] seams that need to be really strong need to be done on the sewing machine
[speaker002:] so the Serger is not a sewing machine itself it's something that goes with it
[speaker001:] it's uh
[speaker002:] like an attachment or
[speaker001:] no it's it's a it's a it's a machine it's not exactly a sewing machine but it does it does sew the seam and trim the edges and all that stuff but there are other are other things that a regular sewing machine does that it doesn't do like you can't top stitch with it
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] you know you can't do top stitching or um  there's there's a few few things that you just can't do with it it will also do a rolled edge um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] gee it's just so versatile like I remember
[speaker002:] well I'm going to have to go check it out that's just something I hadn't heard of but it