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Sewing was a skill I picked up in a Home Economics course I filled an empty middle school schedule slot with. Next to programming, it's probably one of the mos
by musingsole 4y ago
Sewing was a skill I picked up in a Home Economics course I filled an empty middle school schedule slot with.
Next to programming, it's probably one of the most helpful things I learned in school.
- nonrandomstring 4y agoEdit: I just remembered something more HN relevant. At one of the London hackspaces there was a machine, maybe a Roland IIRC, that you could program to do really intricate embroidery. TBH it looked like a real hassle to set the thing up with different bobbins of thread and whatnot. "Home Economics", was a thing at my school too, then we did sewing again in scouts and cadets, as the GP says make-and-mend is considered an essential survival skill. Thing is, I'm rubbish at it and usually stab my finger with a needle, but to this day I still pack a mini sew-kit wherever I travel.
- ghaff 4y ago>I'm rubbish at it and usually stab my finger with a needle, but to this day I still pack a mini sew-kit wherever I travel Even if I'm rubbish at it and take forever to thread a needle, I've still made field repairs to gear while traveling that were a lot better than having no repair at all.
- dividedbyzero 4y agoIf you add a length of thin wire from a crafts store, the kind that feels like a stiff thread, and a slightly bigger needle, you can even temporarily reattach backpack straps and securely mend rips in suitcase fabric for the flight home.
- nicbou 4y agoIt was unfortunately way too early for us. We were 11. I forgot everything long before the necessity of it became obvious.
- dylan604 4y agoI filled that hole in my schedule with a typing class. My mom taught me the stuff kids were learning in HomeEc classes.
- earleybird 4y agoThanks for the reminder. I remember my mum saying "if you're going to program you better learn to type" - that was when I was going into gr 10. I didn't always follow her advice but I did take the typing class.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI learned how to type by playing online multiplayer games in before teamspeak or whatever they use now became a thing. Although it was still quicker to type to communicate even after teamspeak.
- dylan604 4y agoMavis Beacon FTW!!! They typing class I took was a proper typing class though, so much more learning than just where the keys are located. Old Skool stuff too like double spaces at the end of sentence puntucation. How to set up tabs. How to format letters. Just to completely date myself, I was taught PASCAL!
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