Sewing advice

I found this quote while perusing the blog of my Sassy Apron Swap partner a few weeks ago.

This is an actual quote from the Singer Sewing Guild: A Complete Reference Guild to Sewing first published in 1949)

"When you sew, make yourself as attractive as possible. Go through a beauty ritual of orderliness. Have on a clean dress. Be sure your hands are clean, fingernails smooth --a nail file and pumice will help. Always avoid hangnails. Keep a little bag full of French chalk near your sewing machine where you can pick it up and dust your fingers at intervals. This not only absorbs the moisture on your fingers, but helps to keep your work clean. Have your hair in order, powder and lipstick put on with care. Looking attractive is a very important part of sewing, because if you are making something for yourself, you will try it on at intervals in front of your mirror, and you can hope for better results when you look your best.

Again, sewing must be approached with the idea that you are going to enjoy it, and if you are constantly fearful that a visitor will drop in or your husband come home and you will not look neatly put together, you will not enjoy your sewing as you should. Therefore, “spruce up” at the beginning so that you are free to enjoy every part of any sewing you do. "

I think it's great advice. It fits perfectly into my daily schedule: wake up early so that I can make myself presentable before my husband wakes up; prepare my husband a breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast and orange juice; clean the house and bake a cake; sew a new dress for myself so I'll look pretty when my husband returns from work; prepare dinner; greet my husband at the door with a kiss; enjoy a quiet dinner together while discussing the day's events; watch the news; then turn in early so I can get up the next day and do it all over again.