Relive Your Home Economics Class and Learn the "Simplicity System of Sewing"

This vintage video will have you reliving your Home Ec days as it walks you through the "Simplicity System of Sewing" while making a jumper from start to finish. You'll learn how to add a facing, put in a zipper, and why you should "hang" your fabric overnight before sewing. The dresses are super cute, wish we still wore them...

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#8 Sabel 2016-07-10 20:59

I absolutely despised my Home Ec classes but they were required for girls in 7th & 8th grades.
My best friend in college was the son of a professional seamstress. He taught me how to make sense of commercial patterns. Now, I quilt wearable art.
My old HomeEc teachers would be horrified if they ever saw all the rules I break. They taught us to insert pins across the seam lines and to sew over them. Finally, I got tired of replacing needles in my machines so now, I usually pull them out.

#7 Karen 2016-07-10 14:32

Oh, how I hated the wrist pincushion! The styles in the 50's were figure flattering, unlike many of today's styles. I loved home economics, but really wanted to take wood shop.( I could learn to cook and sew at home.) Back then only girls could take home economics and only boys could take shop classes. Now I love quilting and also a bit of wood work.

#6 LFGreen 2016-07-10 11:28

This was so much fun to watch! Great for a beginner or novice sewer!

#5 Patty 2016-07-10 07:18

I loved Home economics half of a year with Mrs. McGrath baking and cooking the other half sewing with Mrs. McLure.
I thank them both for that start in life.

#4 Annette 2016-07-10 06:06

I was a Home Economics teacher too!
Watching this video still inspires me! Love love sewing!
Thanks for the memories!

#3 D 2016-07-08 13:24

Brought back memories of 7th grade Sewing class. lol
Although they insisted we baste then sew the zipper, which I never did, And even though I got an A for the completed projects, I got a C in the class because I didn't baste. lol
I always sewed across the pins back then too! (still do sometimes,, very very slowly, ... shhh,, don't tell the sewing police! :) )

#2 Rosemary 2016-07-08 11:08

25 cent patterns! She sewed over pins rather than take them out! I was taught to press darts over a tailor's ham for proper shape. No interfacing on the neckline? I was taught to finish your seams as you worked, either using pinking shears, turn & stitch or zigzag.Also to prevent stretching at the waistline, adding a non-stretch tape over the seam. My first experience in sewing was a course at a Singer Store for a Girl Scout badge. I went on to take Clothing/Textil es in high school and junior college. It wasn't until I went away to a state college that I took Foods/Nutrition classes before graduating with my degree in Home Economics and after a year preparing me for the classroom I taught home economics on and off for the next 35 years.

#1 Dotti jones 2016-07-08 09:55

I remember seeing this in my Home economics class at Katy high school. Learning to see was my inspiration to become a Home Economics teacher for 40+years.

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