We had to make an apron in the first year of secondary school, with two embroidered panels down the front. My mum made most of mine and was somewhat miffed to only get a B for it.
We had to make an apron in the first year of secondary school, with two embroidered panels down the front. My mum made most of mine and was somewhat miffed to only get a B for it.
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We had a full kitchen lounge bathroom and bedroom in our junior school
We were taught how to do washing in a twin tub
Starch and iron
Make a bed with hospital corners
Clean the bathroom
How to budget for bills
Make weekly meal charts
We did needle work
And as our teacher was a bit women’s lib
How to change a bulb and wire a plug
She got a telling off saying women can live without men if they chose to
My school was at the bottom of the road so at 11 years old I would come home lunch times snd prep the evening meal
I was taught to hand sew by a lady who looked after me when my mum had cancer and then went to a convalescent home for 4 months
I could hand sew a hem with out stitches showing through by 9 years old
Came in handy in years to come for my needlework exam
My dad taught me decorating and basic wood work
So I am little Jan of all trades lol
I tried to teach my daughter to sew without much luck
I still get a weekly sewing job
Best was a pair of son in laws expensive jeans with a rip so bad there was not a thread I could catch to sew
Then a jacket that he had ripped the zip clean away
It was one of those double zip jackets that you attach a fleece to
It could not go through the machine due to the lack of fabric left to work with
So I did it by hand with a needle with a block on the end to push needle into the fabric and removed to pull it through the other side
It was a long laborious job but I was determined to fix it
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I think we were only taught cross stitch and knitting at primary school. The first two years of secondary school we did needle work and cookery - we had to make our PE bags and cookery aprons in needlework. The PE bag was a big one with four pockets and a flap with your name embroidered on it. It hung up with coat hanger. The apron was red and white gingham with pockets and a bib.
We had to make a choice at the end of the second year whether to go into the academic, commercial or domestic classes in the fifth year you could go into nursing.
I love flowers
I don't remember doing any stitching at primary school, probably because my mum taught me to sew, knit and embroider.
At secondary school we had to make a PE bag onto which we had to embroider our names (Still have mine and use it regularly to keep pegs in). Then we had to do a cookery apron which was then used for cookery classes and finally we had to make a white wraparound tennis skirt, flat across the front with pleats across the back, and had to stitch our names across the front hem. The skirt then was worn for tennis lessons (PE in summer term)
It seems a lot of schools did a similar thing.
Actually its quite clever as you were making items which form part of the school uniform, which would normally have to be purchased and at the same time you were taught a skill.
I quite enjoyed the cookery lessons too.
I enjoyed cookery lessons after a bad start
We had a very strict very old ,(well she seem it to us )cookery teacher
She would give out a menu each week for things to bring in to cook
She obviously had never had to budget
Most of the parents refused to buy the ingredients as they were not basic store cupboard items
On cooking day when no one has brought anything in she went mad
She forced as all to make semolina pudding with just water no sugar and dye it green
It looked like green wallpaper paste
One girl poured it down the sink so was forced to eat someone else’s
The result was the girl throwing up over teachers highly polished brogues lol
Never saw the teacher again
New teacher was Brillant she could make great meals with basic ingredients
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