A neighbour asked me if she could borrow my sewing machine a couple of weeks ago. Well, as any crafter knows a person’s ‘tools of the trade’ are very personal and the answer was a ‘no’. I did enquire why she wanted to borrow it and then found myself offering to do the sewing for her.
This is one of two sun lounger ‘pads’ she’d bought to put on her chairs and they came with elastic to hook over the chairs to keep them in place. She’d got some pretty old curtains which she wanted to cover the plain ‘pads’ with so it didn’t seem too big a task.
Well it took longer than I thought it would - about five hours. First the elastic had to come off and then careful measurements and ‘guesstimates’ made of how wide to make the curtain covers as I had to allow for the ‘dip in the middle’. Not easy ‘wrestling’ the pads into the covers but the job got done with the elastic in place on the outside too!!!
4 comments:
Looks great!! :)
A very neighbourly Labour of ……well, of hard work! I don think that I would like my sewing machine to leave home either, it’s over fifty years old and I understand every one of it’s foibles.
Mmm, those sort of jobs always take longer than I expect! You're right, rather do the job than lend your sewing machine.
Well done! I would never lend out my sewing machine either.
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