We were all on a mission. We were all doing our part to get the ‘shop’ up and running with the least amount of money spent. I had purchased some fabric for two dollars at one of the many garage sales I went to trying to get stuff for cheap. The fabric was nice. It had southwest Mexican colors. It was my plan to make the fabric into a sink curtain to hide the pipes at the shop.
I had taken my measuring tape along so that I could match the fabric dimensions with the sink dimensions. I was in luck I had enough fabric. The previous person had made it easier for me because three sides were already folded over and pressed. I just needed to measure the fourth side. The previous person had left their pins in which was also very helpful. I was wondering what this person was going to use this fabric for, a window curtain, a closet cover?
It was with some trepidation that I went to the spare room for the sewing machine. Lifting it was work. The sales case it was in was very heavy. I carried the case to the living room and opened it up. I lifted the machine out of the case. I had packed the machine nicely and the spare parts container had not opened up too much, most of the contents were still inside. I looked at the bobbins because I wanted to know what major project had I completed last. Hmmmm I had sewn outfits to wear after I graduated from the community college.
I was afraid of the condition of the machine itself. Was the tension screwed up? Was the bobbin tension screwed up? Was I going to have to dink around until the tensions were right? Did I give up and just pack it away because I couldn’t get the tension right enough to sew correctly? Was I going to be able to thread the machine without looking at the manual? Well I did have to look at the manual to thread the machine correctly. Then I practiced a seam on left over fabric. It sewed a prefect seam!!! No tension problems on top or on the bottom. So then I just started sewing. The first three seams were done quickly. I just had to measure the fourth seam and then sew it.
While I was sewing everything came back to me. How to do a reverse seam. How to turn on the sewing light and so on and so forth. It was like getting back on a bike. Soon I was just humming along making almost perfect seams. Before you knew it I was done. All that I had remaining was threading the elastic to go through the top seam to hug the sink. And after that attaching the curtain to the sink.
I used sticky sided Velcro to attach the curtain to the sink. Aside from what I had purchased I had to use some that I found at the shop and finally the curtain was attached to the sink.
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