Frustration

Well it is a cold, rainy gross day outside. I’d like to snuggle up with my laptop and play the Sims with a cup of tea. But instead I’ll dig out a room heater from the overloaded storage room and trek up to the dining room to start my project.

Nevermind. No space heater is to be found. Microwaved bean bag it is.

Lo and behold, I found a bobbin with exactly the yellow that I want! I wasn’t expecting that. I figured I would have to do the complicated process on the machine where you unwind thread from the regular thread thingy (there must be a name for it but I’m pretty happy I remembered ‘bobbin’ so for now it’s the ‘thread thingy’) onto the bobbin. Much frustration and googling avoided. For now.

I have decided to get rid of the Scary Monster and use my mom’s old sewing machine, the one that I learned on. I know they can’t be all that different but since I’m so new to this I’m going to stick to what I know when I can. Also to note, Professor Pincushion youtube videos have saved my life. Huge thanks to them for their videos on how to cut out sewing patterns and how to lay them out on the fabric. I also managed to lose my instructions and spent a half hour in a cursing rage searching the house for it. I did find it in the end. It had slipped off my bed, where I was reading it last, and onto the floor at the head of the bed where it could not be seen. 

All of the pattern cut-outs

This is a tricky business

Today I have succeeded in cutting out the pattern, pinning it to the fabric in (almost) the way the instructions told me and cutting out the fabric. It took me hours and hours just to do that. You have to pay attention to grain lines and folds in the fabric and the little triangles. Not to mention marking all of the important symbols on the fabric itself with the fabric pencil and/or marker. The woman at Fabricland gave me a healthy bit of extra fabric which came in handy when one pattern piece didn’t fit on the fabric in the way instructions said. I probably could have fit it on if I’d wanted to unpin everything else I’d already done and redo it. But who wants to do that? So I used some of my extra. Now I have my pattern pieces all ready for sewing!

Phew! Got them all cut out