Wednesday night was Travis’s first night back in school. And while the boy’s away, the girl will play. I had Lianne over for a first, of what I hope will be a regular crafts night. Our night was fun, but barely successful. As Lianne said “Pinterest Night #1: Not Sew Successful”. Our project for the night was simply to get my new sewing machine up and running and practice a few stitches. 2 blondes, 3 hours and 3 glasses of wine later, we had not figured out how to thread the sewing machine.
Now, I know what you are thinking, ‘how hard can it be to following the directions?’ My answer to you, is: “apparently pretty hard.” When you have two girls with the attention spans of 5 years old and no crafting background, you add the wine and chit chat (and other miscellaneous distractions), I suppose it is not all that surprising that nothing got done.
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| Note the string coming out of the glass! |
We weren’t able to follow the directions (written or via youtube) and somehow we ended up with a spool of white thread in the red wine! We decided about half way through we should have been filming it : "Setting up a sewing machine for dummies". I am glad we didnt, because nothing was accomplished. But we did have fun and look forward to chalk paint next week!!
No I did not give up on the sewing machine. I am determined to get it (or me?) operable before Li comes back next week. But I do think that maybe Li and I are safer pursuing things that don’t involve power operated needles on our wine nights J. We’ll come back to the sewing.
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