15 Ways You Know You Were Raised By Crafters

Store-bought costumes? Paper bag lunches? Anthropologie quilts for $300? Girl, please.

1. Your parents viewed catalogs as pattern suggestions.

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AKA: "It's not a knockoff, it's designer-inspired."

2. Every quilt or pillow you've ever owned had your name appliqued somewhere on it.

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Quilts. Pillows. Towels. Socks. Bags. Pencil cases. Skirts. Headbands.

3. You asked for a new laptop for graduation. You got a memory quilt.

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....So close, Mom. So close.

4. Your Halloween costumes were always homemade...

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...and the quality directly correlated with how busy your mom happened to be that year.

5. Speaking of Halloween costumes, family costumes were a thing.

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If you wanted to be a Disney princess, that was fine, but you'd better be prepared to walk around with your dad, the talking candelabra, and your mom, a jolly tea kettle who insists on calling your baby sibling "Chip."

6. Your mom nearly lost you a date to prom after she spent four hours quizzing him about the fabric and cut of his tux.

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"No, but is it Burlington 2 ply? High Twist Australian? Micro Fiber? Are we talking a Center Vent Single or a Side Vent? Double besom? Hacking? A convertible flap? Are you wearing a cummerbund? Full dress tails? Notch lapel, peak lapel, shawl collar? Come on, son. You have to give me something."

7. You've stopped being surprised about the places you find fabric scraps.

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The bathroom? The fridge? The little brown bag labeled "DO NOT EAT"?

8. Your shirt/dress/pants have a hole?

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It's not a hand-me-down. It's thrifty refashioning.

9. You don't understand why all your friends stress out about Christmas and birthday gifts.

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Fabric store gift cards. Gift cards for DAYS.

10. Bobbins, a summary:

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"WHERE IS IT? WHERE DID IT GO? WHY DO THEY ALWAYS RUN OUT FIVE STITCHES FROM THE END OF THE RUFFLE?"

11. You compulsively buy supplies for everything, "just in case you need it later."

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You know what they say: the day you throw out your Lava Attack toy is the day you need it.

12. You could name all the best sewing machines before you could name all 50 states.

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And you spent a great deal of kindergarten thinking that your friends had older or younger sewing machines.

13. "Wow, I'd never guess that was ~homemade~."

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Get out of here with that tone. It's not homemade, it's handmade.

14. The scariest thing that has ever happened to you was when you accidentally walked in on your mom and her crafting group throwing down about which sewing machine was best.

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I knew how this would be settled in the animal world.

But this was Stitch & Bitch.

15. You have more handmade items than anyone you know--and every one of them is attached to a memory that you wouldn't trade for all the designer clothes in the world.

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Laptops are for a couple of years. That graduation quilt is forever.

Thanks, Mom.