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Well-intended advice...

Well-intended advice...

Written by: 
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Circa 1949.

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She doesn't look like she's having any fun, does she?  She must know Mary Brooks Picken.

Mary's advice has been making it's way around cyberspace for a few years, you might have seen it.

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You follow this advice to the letter, right?

It's reportedly an excerpt of text from a 1949 sewing manual published by Singer Sewing Machine Co., perhaps even the manual that came with sewing machines being sold at the time.

But the folks at fact-checker Snopes attribute the passage to an edition of the Singer Sewing Book written by Mary Brooks Picken, a prolific author of books on sewing, textile arts and other forms of needlework.  The date and publisher are correct.

An excerpt of the actual text reads...

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Dress?  To sew?  If it were up to me, I'd wear jeans all the time.  Or yoga pants.  And I can say with near-absolute certainty that I have never had an "urgent housekeeping chore".  Urgent sewing to do?  Yes.  (Especially right before Quilt Market and the holidays.)

I'm sure Mary meant well but I much prefer the advice circa 2016...

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So put on something comfortable, brush your teeth, order some take-out and go sew!

Happy Friday!

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