I find collage soothing and inspiring at the same time. This tag almost did me in. Story below |
Went into the spare bedroom to see what they were barking at. Look at that beautiful light |
Meranda? |
Gracie: crap, faked me out again. Jake: I love you, Mom. |
A recent addition to all of this madness is sewing, and since I changed the studio up last month and the machine is just to my left, I am sewing far more. Here is the thing: I am challenged every single time I have to reload a bobbin. Thank God for YouTube. Because I have returned to the free videos on how to load and use the bobbin at least 5 times in the past year. All of this is background for what happened with this tag.
I started with beige thread, but the bobbin ran out, so I decided to switch back to black for The 100 Day Project. I like black thread on the tags. Installed the bobbin, threaded the machine, and after 3 stitches, no bobbin thread. Huh. Reloaded the bobbin. Same thing. Tried again. Same thing. Came out to the Mac, went to YouTube, watched the video, and knew I had loaded the bobbin correctly. Tried sewing on a spare piece of fabric instead of paper. Same thing. Time to reboot. Took the thread out of the machine completely, rethreaded the spool. Took the bobbin out, reloaded it. Bingo. I had threaded the machine wrong. Don't know how, but Hello? This is not brain surgery.
The above tag took me over an hour. There were mutterings and a period of walking away, letting the dogs out, letting them in and sitting down to pet them, thinking.
So this tag has a ton of sewing machine needle holes without thread. Adds texture. That is my story and I'm sticking to it!
Linda
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