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The art of sewing

15 Tuesday Jan 2013

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daily life, everyday life, lack of skill, postaday2013, projects, repetition, sewing

I laugh at myself, fairly often I must say and I will tell you why. As I was walking Jack for the third time this afternoon; I was thinking about what to write for today’s post. My mind was going down the list of things that I had done and read about today and I was wondering how to spice up the typical day that I go through. And then it hit me; I actually did something out of the ordinary today, perfect topic to write about. The reason why I laughed at myself is because until I started rattling down the day’s timeline, I had forgotten that I had broken out the sewing box.

This morning, before the baby girl left to go back to college to start her second semester she asked me if I could sew and repair this odd rip in her favorite fitted sheet that makes up her coordinating sheet set. I said sure, why not. We said our good bye’s, hugged and kissed and she went with the baby boy, her chauffeur, off back to school.

I never learned how to sew; my mother learned at school but at my schools there weren’t any home economic courses provided at all; just reading, writing and arithmetic. Looking back I think that a cooking class, a sewing class, a home accounting class and a basic tools course would do a service to both adolescent girls and boys.

Back to the repair of the fitted sheet; the tear was an L shape and it wasn’t near any seam, so I had to piece it together with needle and thread. Funny enough, once I start sewing; I say once I got started because threading the needle is probably my biggest challenge, between the squinting and the shaking; it was a miracle that I actually got it done. As I was saying, once I start sewing, I don’t mind it too much. I tried to make the stitches as small as possible but with the challenge of joining the torn pieces, the stitches didn’t come out as pretty as they might have been. Honestly I looked like I had challenged Doctor Frankenstein in the stitching department or perhaps it was more Igor, you decide when you look at the photos.

The important thing is that I finished it. I will have to remember to wash the sheet in the delicate cycle because I don’t know if the stitches will hold up to much rough and tumble action. I even double stitched the tear but I am still not confident on the strength of my stitching.

So you see, not every one of my days is typical or dull, I have excitement here in the hills of Blandford.

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The most ambitious DYI that you have ever undertaken

29 Friday Jun 2012

Posted by laurieanichols in postaday, postaday2012

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digging, ottoman, painting, postaday2012, sewing

  • Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on.
  • June 29, 2012
  • An Ambitious Project
  • Electronic Sewing Kit

    Painting bedrooms isn’t really ambitious, steaming wallpaper off the hallway walls, not really. I have taken out a huge patch of bittersweet, that was a job and a half, but I wouldn’t call it ambitious. I know, we had a pretty ottoman covered in a burgundy soft fabric with a warm tapestry covering of the top of the ottoman. Rex ate it, the remains of the ottoman when I got home seemed beyond help. I was determined to repair that ottoman first to save Rex from getting yelled at over eating another piece of furniture, he was eating us out of house and home and second to see if I could. I don’t sew but I got out my sewing kit and got into the surgical zone and pieced the foam back together and then patiently stitched all the pieces back into place. Other than I, no one had a clue that the ottoman had been all but destroyed.

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