My Dad's ways of using Leftover Fabrics

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         👌 Today I am going to share the interesting ways of utilizing the leftover fabrics that my father did in my childhood. Every word comes with tears and a smile. Thank you readers for giving me this opportunity to remember his extraordinary works. Hope you will get an end number of ideas to make use of the remaining cloth bits.

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My Sewing Journey with my DAD💝 - My Dad's way of using Leftover Fabrics

         👌 Hope you enjoyed my last post with my dad. When I was in my early school days my dad stitched all our uniforms. Along with his business, he had sewing as his part-time job. As I know, he liked it the most. He asked my mom to learn from him but my mom refused it stubbornly. It was a surprise to me why she denied the offer from my father. After some years I asked her why she refused. Then she told me my father is very strict about studies. In my pre-school days, he used to shout at me and even beat me if I don't do my mathematics calculations well. 

       👌  That time my mom used to cry for me because she knew that she can't stop my dad in that particular activity. My dad strongly believed that only studies can help a person to grow in his or her life. Because of him, I was a Super student in my school & college days. I started winning sports and stage competitions in my childhood itself. But always he demanded more from me. He was never satisfied with my results. If I got 2nd rank he demanded 1st rank. If I got 1st rank he demanded more marks.

       👌   Coming back to the topic, since he was doing other dresses there would be a lot of leftover fabrics in our home. We never bought pillows from outside. All the pillows in our home are made from remaining cloth and all are pure cotton pillows. I even remember even if he goes to his hometown he used to stitch 1 or 2 and take them with him. To wonder he made a complete 5 feet sofa bed with leftover fabrics that nobody can identify. Even he brought 2  pillows to my home too. Also, he loves to make Pillow covers, sofa covers, and screens by joining the cloth bits. 

     👌  I can recall the dusters I used to take to my school made by him. The tiny Cushions he made and fixed in the cycle carriers for his grandsons. Stool Cushions for my tailors at our Boutique to reduce the heat since they sit and stitch for long hours. The raincoats he made using thick Polythene covers, a number of cloth carry bags and room curtains with multiple attachments. He used to present others with mix & match pillow covers. My close friend and mother-in-law often remember the love he had for his family and beloved people.

    👌  For most of his life, we financially struggled that he couldn't even buy us dresses to wear at home. So he developed the skill of using cloth bits and made skirts for me on the leftover fabrics from the dresses he made for others. But fortunately, I loved those skirts and fell in love with them even now my favorite outfit is the printed skirts. Mine is better when compared to my brother's. At least he used a single fabric to stitch my half skirts, for my brother he use at least 3 different fabrics to make one shirt.

      👌   Many of the shirts my brother was wearing would be like, Collar would be on one fabric, sleeves and body parts would be of another 2 different fabrics. Sometimes the back body part would be on 4th fabric. Many people made fun of him but he never cared. He too loved those shirts.  Even for his son, my dad made many 3/4 pants out of the leftover fabrics from my Kurti and bottoms. He didn't care about whether its men's or women's fabric. The only thing he bothered was, what he could make out of it. He made beautiful hats, matching the trousers he made. 

       👌   He made dozen wonderful baby nappies for my younger son with beautiful piping. He copied that from a set I bought online a month before. Baby towels, Kerchiefs, Lunch towels, Sewing Machine covers, Grinder covers, Bed covers, whatnot. Whatever he saw, his hands stitched them. Today there are a lot of DIY videos on social media but I saw those or more than that practically from my father without any advertisement.

        👌   Now I can imagine how much he loved this skill and spent most of his time executing what ran through his mind. How much money did he save for our family? He tried everything he admired. He presented to everyone something he made by himself. In the whole world, his heart-touching thing was this Sewing Skill. He expressed his love to others by this skill only.

       👌  There is a lot to share about him and my Sewing Journey with him. Maybe in upcoming Blogs, I will do, which in turn will help you people, to get some ideas and to develop love towards this skill. I believe I am not boring you.

Today's Lessons:

      1. If you are creative enough, your life will be colorful, and meaningful, and also keeps you occupied whatever your age is.

   2. Knowing sewing not only saves your tailoring bills but also makes your home beautiful and brings smiles to many faces.

       3. Sewing doesn't have any limitations that you can only do this or that.

      4. If you know sewing, and make something out by yourself and gift somebody that would be the precious gift than anything bought outside.

       5. Even your job or business may leave you helpless but not Sewing Skills.

      6. Even the left out fabric cost has also been added to the fabric price, you pay. So make use of every bit.

       7. If everybody started to use the leftover fabrics then definitely we can reduce plastic usage and avoid tons of waste being dumped into the environment.

      8. Carry bags, pouches, and many more products made out of fabrics that are reusable, washable, user friendly, and skin-friendly.

       9. Self Help groups and individuals who don't have the investment to start any business, can collect the leftover fabrics from nearby tailoring shops and can produce excellent reusable products without any cost.

       10. Because of these advantages only Sewing Skill stands before any skill in the world on self-help skills. Always teach this skill to the next generation even if they are going to be India's first Citizens.

     💖   Share your opinion in Comments Box.  See you tomorrow on "Learning a garment includes 5 steps on Do's Category." Anyone who follows those 5 steps can develop her/himself as an expert in a very short period. 

With Love & Regards,

 Karpagam Elango

Online Sewing Coach

Founder  - Online Sewing Academy