Lots of blue language tumbled out of our dining room the other night, brawling and fighting with itself as it spilled into the hallway. F had set up the sewing machine and was endeavouring to sew bright yellow webbing onto a big bag made to hold all the parts of Burro. The colour of the webbing is irrelevant - I think it was the cheapest colour - but it was stout webbing and required long quilter's pins to secure it in place for the machine sewing bit.
Burro's bag is made of some layers that produced a fairly stout bag so that the combo of stout bag and stout webbing and long (stout) pins was enough to ensure that F experienced a considerable number of stabbings (hands, legs, ribs) and transferred some quantities of her blood onto said bag before it was finished. There was a stage, at which I was supervising from the doorway so as to guarantee myself a rapid disappearance should it become necessary, when I wondered if the bag would not get finished and might just end up in a heap in a corner somewhere, but I should have known F isn't that kind of human. Blood was staunched, pins removed and re-positioned, some unpicking of sewing already done was carried out, and then, in a (slightly) calmer state of mind but with great determination the last bit was wrangled through the sewing machine.
F has always hankered for an industrial sewing machine which would handle stuff like this easily, but acknowledges that we have nowhere to have such a thing set up. Her brother has such a machine in his car-restoration workshop and F is as jealous as a jealous thing. He doesn't even really know how to use it and got her to set it up last time she was in NZ. Talk about rub her nose in it.
Burro has his new bag. It kind of goes with my backpack. Now we need to give Burro a road test
Oh. Nice bag! Really nice bag. Well done, F.
ReplyDeleteShe says thank you JayCee. We used to have some blue plastic coated canvas that would have done first class service in this job - this one will get dirty - but the canvas was freecycled when we couldn't think of a use for it! (Doh!)
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ReplyDeleteOh I say - I am in awe of F's ability with potentially lethal machinery! (I never did get on with that sewing malarkey, though I can just about place a button and sew curtains... by hand.) That is one smart looking bag and I hope Burro appreciates it. Will you be the road tester, Tigger mate, or is that being left up to the wee terror? Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Curtains? By Hand? That's being a sucker for punishment Yam-Aunty. furrings and purrings Mr T
ReplyDeleteThat's a mighty fine bag. You have reminded Gail how, when she was a child, her father would wait until he mother had gone out to her French conversation class then he would get out the old Singer sewing machine and use it to try to mend the sails or the tarpaulin cover for his sailing dinghy. But he always ended up breaking the needle and thus was detected. Needless to say, when Gail's mother was at home her Dad was banned from ever going near the Singer.
ReplyDeleteYou could take a picnic to the allotment in that bag Tigger. It looks very robust and strong.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a recipe for a meltdown, yes.
ReplyDeleteA great job. Creating isn’t easy. It’s like child birth.
ReplyDeleteBut the outcomes are what’s important
Well that’s the crap I tell myself when I’m having a hard time swearing and cussing anyway lol
If shouldn’t get too grubby if it stays in the garage. Maybe the inside might get soiled if the bits and pieces aren’t hosed down but then they’d need to be dried off before storing
ReplyDeleteSomehow I can’t see you being dragged along on the seat of your tail…..you’re not one to be looking axils and hubcaps in the eye. More sitting up front with the wind in your hair and blowing your ears out of shape
a sewing machine of any kind causes the blue words and i have been know to rip what I was trying to sew in half, including the dress the zipper was in, thus getting an F on the school project. I read Yam's curtian remark and that jogged the memory of making pocket top curtains by ironing on that tape that melts. I had a melt down myself. I just buy my curtains. the bag is perfect and I can't wait for a report on the use of it and the burrow... good job F for sticking to the project until it was conquered..
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