Catching Up

I’m a little behind on my assignments for SEWN due to a family emergency that had me out the better part of a week.

My fingers were itching to cut up and sew the papers I’d made last week, but I was not at home and nowhere near a sewing machine. Today I cut up the papers and scrounged through my stash of non-painted papers to see if I could add to the colors I had.

I found it easier to sort the papers into piles to be sewn by doing it while talking to my daughter on the phone. That took my mind off trying to go crazy in coordinating everything perfectly. I loosened up and just tossed things into piles and when all was said and done I had 12 groups of about 15-20 strips.

Then I followed instructions and sewed the strips together. I decided to use a straight stitch to conserve a bit on thread because my sense was the bobbin had just enough to make it through this piece.

Sure enough, about 6 inches from the end of the last two strips being sewn in, the bobbin ran out! How does it know…….?

I have eleven more piles to finish after this one. I can’t wait because the sewing definitely made these into nice pieces.