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Posted by BEI Design on June 30, 2006, 6:22 pm
Yesterday, I attended my granddaughter's Highland dance
class, at the invitation of the teacher, who wanted to meet
me to discuss a potential job. DD and DGD had told her of
my sewing skills, and she needs some costumes made. I came
home with a commission for three "Nationals" skirts (fairly
simple dirndl-type skirts, not kilts, those might come later) and
matching scarves.
Last night I trued the fabric for two scarves (simple 36"
squares), and sewed a narrow zig-zag stay-stitch an inch in
from all the edges. It took me all of about five minutes
for that. BUT! Sitting watching TV, it took almost two
hours to pull the threads for the one-inch-all-around
fringed edges.
Now my question: Since I'm doing this gratis (bartering at
my sewing price for dance lessons for DGD), would it be
ethical to have my granddaughter do the actual fringing, and
include the time on my invoice? It just seems to me that
this type of unskilled work is not the best use of*my* time,
but I don't think DGD's time should be free to the teacher,
either.
I'd love everyone's input on this, please.
Beverly Ickes
BEI Design
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Posted by Pogonip on June 30, 2006, 7:57 pm
BEI Design wrote:
> Yesterday, I attended my granddaughter's Highland dance
> class, at the invitation of the teacher, who wanted to meet
> me to discuss a potential job. DD and DGD had told her of
> my sewing skills, and she needs some costumes made. I came
> home with a commission for three "Nationals" skirts (fairly
> simple dirndl-type skirts, not kilts, those might come later) and
> matching scarves.
>
> Last night I trued the fabric for two scarves (simple 36"
> squares), and sewed a narrow zig-zag stay-stitch an inch in
> from all the edges. It took me all of about five minutes
> for that. BUT! Sitting watching TV, it took almost two
> hours to pull the threads for the one-inch-all-around
> fringed edges.
>
> Now my question: Since I'm doing this gratis (bartering at
> my sewing price for dance lessons for DGD), would it be
> ethical to have my granddaughter do the actual fringing, and
> include the time on my invoice? It just seems to me that
> this type of unskilled work is not the best use of*my* time,
> but I don't think DGD's time should be free to the teacher,
> either.
>
> I'd love everyone's input on this, please.
>
> Beverly Ickes
> BEI Design
>
>
Yes, of course it would be ethical. She will work under your
supervision, and she will benefit from the work since the lessons are
for her. So she will be making a contribution toward her classes, plus
she will be helping you and learning in the process. You have the
ultimate responsibility to see that the work is done correctly.
My grandmother was a seamstress. She once had a job for a tablecloth
and napkins to be hemstitched. She taught me how to do it, and I did
some for her. Unfortunately, she took out a lot of my work and redid
it. She was really much more skilled than I. But I did relieve her of
some of the work, and I learned a new skill. Well, partly learned. I
think I could still do it, but probably not to her standards even now.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.alternate-universe
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by BEI Design on June 30, 2006, 10:33 pm
> Yes, of course it would be ethical. She will work under your
> supervision, and she will benefit from the work since the lessons
> are > for her. So she will be making a contribution toward her
> classes, plus she will be helping you and learning in the process.
> You have the ultimate responsibility to see that the work is done
> correctly.
Thanks, that reinforces what my thinking is.
> My grandmother was a seamstress. She once had a job for a
> tablecloth and napkins to be hemstitched. She taught me how to do
> it, and I did some for her. Unfortunately, she took out a lot of my
> work and redid > it. She was really much more skilled than I.
Fortunately, this is really a "no skill" job, and DGD is quite
meticulous anyway, so I'm sure she will do an excellent job. I'll
give her that squares already zigzagged so all she has to do is pull
the threads.
Beverly
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Posted by on July 1, 2006, 4:03 am
As much as I hate "me too" posts, I have to say.....
Me too.. I agree totally with everything that pogonip stated on this..
The post echoes my sentiments completely.
me
wrote:
>Yes, of course it would be ethical. She will work under your
>supervision, and she will benefit from the work since the lessons are
>for her. So she will be making a contribution toward her classes, plus
>she will be helping you and learning in the process. You have the
>ultimate responsibility to see that the work is done correctly.
>
>My grandmother was a seamstress. She once had a job for a tablecloth
>and napkins to be hemstitched. She taught me how to do it, and I did
>some for her. Unfortunately, she took out a lot of my work and redid
>it. She was really much more skilled than I. But I did relieve her of
>some of the work, and I learned a new skill. Well, partly learned. I
>think I could still do it, but probably not to her standards even now.
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Posted by Ron Anderson on June 30, 2006, 8:00 pm
There is nothing at all unethical about delegating labor.
--
Ron Anderson A1 Sewing Machine
PO Box 60, Sand Lake, NY 12153
518-469-5133
http://www.singera1sewing.com
http://www.a1sewingmachine.com
> Yesterday, I attended my granddaughter's Highland dance
> class, at the invitation of the teacher, who wanted to meet
> me to discuss a potential job. DD and DGD had told her of
> my sewing skills, and she needs some costumes made. I came
> home with a commission for three "Nationals" skirts (fairly
> simple dirndl-type skirts, not kilts, those might come later) and matching
> scarves.
>
> Last night I trued the fabric for two scarves (simple 36"
> squares), and sewed a narrow zig-zag stay-stitch an inch in
> from all the edges. It took me all of about five minutes
> for that. BUT! Sitting watching TV, it took almost two
> hours to pull the threads for the one-inch-all-around
> fringed edges.
>
> Now my question: Since I'm doing this gratis (bartering at
> my sewing price for dance lessons for DGD), would it be
> ethical to have my granddaughter do the actual fringing, and
> include the time on my invoice? It just seems to me that
> this type of unskilled work is not the best use of*my* time,
> but I don't think DGD's time should be free to the teacher,
> either.
>
> I'd love everyone's input on this, please.
>
> Beverly Ickes
> BEI Design
>
>
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