How Not to Sew

Sewing offers worlds of new opportunities to make mistakes.  Take this morning for example. 

I am still working on the sweater set.  It is not that it requires inordinate amounts of time, but just that I have had difficulty devoting time to sewing.  There are too many obligations and temptations in life.

I was, however, determined to finish up this morning.  Only the hem remained on the top, and the cardigan needed only sleeve hems, buttons, and buttonholes.  Easy job, right?

Well, I didn’t sleep very well last night.  I had a tremendous headache that would not go away and which kept waking me up during the night.  Actually, I am not sure if I my head woke me or my back since my back absolutely refused to be in any form of reclining position pain free. I tried various positions:  pillows under legs, back or elsewhere had no effect.  I was awake every hour contemplating my misery before shifting, drifting off, and waking again.

Still, I thought I was pretty with-it this morning.  That is, until I noticed that I did my double needle hem inside out.  The nice double needle work was on the inside and the fuzzy nylon from the bobbin was on the outside.  I temporarily thought of leaving it that way, and, of course, I could have ripped the hem out and did it the right way but that seemed to difficult to my sleep deprived brain.  I just decided to reverse the procedure and double-stitch the hem, this time the right way, encasing the fuzzy nylon in a row of twin needle topstitching.  It turned out pretty nicely.

Here it is in progress:

As you can see, I stopped in the middle of the row.  The thread kept breaking.  Apparently I misthreaded the machine.  It occurred to me that perhaps I should not be sewing.  I finished the hems and decided to stop before attempting buttonholes.  It appears that I don’t tolerate interruptions to my normal 6 hours of sleep well.