It always happens. I start KCW with energy to spare. I’m going to be fast and efficient! I will not fall down during the weekend! And I get tired and fall down during the weekend.
My excuses this time are souricette 2 having a day off from school on Friday and going to the DMV (surprisingly quick). So I only traced and cut the pattern for a T-shirt for souricette 1. 15 minutes maybe? Maybe a bit more.
And then Saturday was the day of parties. I thought I’d have plenty of time and… I cut out the fabric for the T-shirt. 10 minutes? Couldn’t have been more than that.
Now Sunday, I did get my hour in but not the tee. I decided it was high time to do some mending. I spent over an hour mending a hole in a cute cardigan (underside of the sleeve at least). Looked like a bug had a wool snack. At least three strands of the wool were broken. I did what I could, trying to duplicate stitch the hole, but it doesn’t look so good. Well, it’s the underside at least…
If you can’t see how screwy it looks, you need glasses. And I have to stop looking or I’ll rip it out and spend days getting it perfect.
I fixed the appliqué on a dress (never trust double sided adhesive to last forever) and I redid the seams on a tee that souricette 2 wears a lot. Side note: that fabric is cotton/lycra jersey and it’s looking worn.
See? It’s a little pilly! Yes, it gets washed a lot but the ones I’ve gotten at Baby Gap have lasted so much longer. Quality knits are hard to source! And expensive…
Finally, I had three leggings with holes. They’ve been hanging around waiting to be mended for months. Months. One of them was already too small for souricette 2 so I got rid of it. The other two belonged to souricette 1 but will be handed down to her sister. I whipstitched the holes closed and covered them with iron on patches.
I had a thought for my mom as I did that. She used to mend our clothes that way. Patches weren’t as cute back then. I remember wearing some tights with a hammer patch on them! True story that I was told: as a child, I was so used to patches on clothes that, seeing a dress with an apple appliqué in a store, I informed my mother that there was a hole in the dress behind the apple…
And now, I will get back to my own sewing. I have a quick skirt that’s on its third week on the sewing table…
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