I have basic sewing skills, enough to put together a basic skirt or any pattern clearly marked “*Easy!”
Last year I made a cute cotton skirt from a Simplicity Pattern (the shorter skirt of #4137, for those who care). I liked it so much I bought a more fancy fabric – two kinds actually – with the aspiration of making another in the same style.
Unfortunately, I am too busy/lazy* to get around to it. But I want my skirt damnit. Its not a fine tailoring job, just a super-basic pattern (I mean, I managed it!). For a skilled sewer, its a 1-2 hour job. For a bumbling idiot (ie, me) its an afternoon’s work. Plus I already have the fabric. How do I find someone to do this for me at a reasonable price? I’d probably pay $30, maybe $40.
Note: My local dry cleaner charged me $23 for a hem I’d already pinned**. I imagine she’s right out.
*I have the usual array of completely weak excuses: law school reading, no sewing table or any table I can walk completely around, lost my dressmaker’s chalk, bobbin wound with the wrong color, got some weird goo on my iron, blah blah blah I’m pathetic.
**Yes, I’m too lazy to even hem a pair of cotton slacks from Target. THAT lazy.
I don’t have any. That is to say, I have lots, but they’re are not the sort you’re thinking of. The fabric stores I have (copious) access to are wholesalers that serve the fashion industry and do a little retail on the side when they can be bothered. They don’t answer questions. They don’t know if its machine washable. They don’t stock notions. They don’t measure the fabric with a ruler (unless they’re new) And they sure don’t charge to the 1/4 yard. When you buy a piece it always costs whole dollar amounts.
The normal kind, ie a “Jo-ann Fabrics” or similar non-chain store, I’d have to drive out to the suburbs for. And suffice it to say, I’m too lazy for that.
why not look up “seamstress” or “alterations” on craigslist or in the yellow pages? anyone who does wedding/bridesmaid alterations would certainly do. or are they too expensive?
