Länges Fadchen, faules Mädchen

I feel like I should explain my blog title... It was one of my first days on this new placement and one of the other interns: a German girl, was showing me how I should sew on care labels. There was loads of thread already on the needle she was about to use and she said her Grandma would have said 'Langes Fädchen, faules Mädchen' which she said translates to the non-rhyming version 'Long thread, lazy girl' and for some reason it stuck. I actually really like the phrase and I think it is quite representative of working in the fashion industry; you have to be patient and precise! (And obvs you should use lots of little threads instead of one big one which results in pulling your hair out/crying/bleeding fingers after 30 care labels with invisible stitching..)