Sewing person needed.

Gremlin

Gremlin

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I have a jacket which has no button hole in the lapel. I have asked three different dressmakers/tailors in Accrington if they could cut one in and stitch round but none could.
Do any of our members know of anybody in Hyndburn who could take on what I thought was a simple task?
I would pay of course for the service.
 
Theres a shop on Church St, just up from witherspoons have yeh asked her? shes been very good wi stuff we have taken her.
 
She is one who wouldn't do it Cashy.
Another was on Warner street and one upstairs in market.
The lady on Church street changed the brass buttons for white ones on a coat for me and is very reasonable.
 
I think there is a shop on Abbey Street(next to the Arden pub) that does alterations.
it might be that these folk who say they can't do it, think it is too piddling of a job.
I can do buttonholes, but not to the professional standard that you would want Russell.
 
Thank you Margaret.
I'll try the one on Abbey street on Thursday while I'm nearby at the Blind society unless something else crops up in the meantime.
It's a cream jacket I had bought and I want the button hole stitching round in dark red.
Why, it's just something I fancy having.
I don't like putting pins in to hold a poppy or carnation and being cream it would show after they had been removed.
 
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If you fancy something, then go for it.
I would be even more worried about me doing a button hole in red...as I say...I can do them but like them to be hidden...purely functional are my buttonholes....not to be shown off...a bit like my belly button.....it did the job, but isn't great to look at! :D:D:D
 
Well I've tried to find a shop next to or near Arden Inn which looks like it might have a sewing lady but none exist.
 
Gremlin it is clear from the replies to your apparently simple question that you have demonstrated how skills that were both common and easily accessed have now become difficult to find. Whilst I cannot point you at a particular person I do have two suggestions which might help.

1) If you have a local professional or amateur theatre group try to contact the person who looks after their costumes they may be willing and able to help, they often have to alter clothing.

2) Look around for someone who has a fairly modern sewing machine and is willing to spend a few minutes practising. When my parents were down-sizing in the 80's my mother decided to replace her old and trusty Singer sewing machine with a modern table-top one which could be packed away when not in use. I can remember some of her comments as she worked her way bemused through the half inch thick manual which described all the 'clever' things it could do., one of these was button-holes. If you can find someone with one of these machines there is a good chance they have not fully read its manual and are unaware of its full capability.
 
Thanks DtheP.
Im dropping the jacket off with him later.
I bet I will know him when I see him, I had a few suits made at McKno's years ago.
And thanks to everbody else for their suggestions.
 
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