I'm not good at arts and crafts. My glue-gun expertise is limited to clumsy Christmas-ornament repairs and attaching things to cardboard for Mr. Third Grader's Book Report in a Box,
because I don't trust that child with hot glue. (I made him do everything else himself, and he had to make a mark where he wanted me to glue each item.) As for sewing, I can attach Boy-Scout badges (crookedly) to shirts or sashes, replace missing shirt buttons, and hem pants--if you're not too fussy about the results.
Mr. Third Grader's been getting taller while I wasn't looking, and suddenly I noticed that his school-uniform pants were getting a little short. Fortunately for my clothing budget, the uniform pants come with a generous hem. This will let him grow almost another inch before I have to replace the pants--if he doesn't tear the knees out during a game of playground football before then. So I've been sitting here with that nasty little seam-ripping tool, trying not to rip anything that's not supposed to be ripped, and then re-hemming the pants.
It doesn't look great, but I got the job done. If I could only learn to use the sewing machine my mom just gave to me and my daughter, I could probably do this much more quickly and with better results. I'm just afraid that the seams wouldn't be straight, and he'd have to go to school with wavy-legged pants.
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