I bought a sewing machine because my mom's machine was completely out of commission. We said had a eulogy for it and everything. I had signed up to sew ten (10) pairs of mittens for my girl scout troop. It was Thurs. The mittens needed to be finished by Sat morning. Needless to say, sewing them by hand was going very slowly. So my mom and I headed to the store. The excellent sales lady, Marilyn, suggested a great machine that was on sale. Gave us a quick run down of what it can do and rang me up.
Ok, don't tell her I told you....My mom is a lil rusty. LOL! We took 4 mins trying to figure out where the light was and the machine wasn't turned on! AND THEN...It took ten (10) mins to figure out how to thread the machine cuz Ms "I used to sew all my clothes" didn't want to look at the video that came with the machine.
The machine has a needle threader, but Lord if that thing ain't more work than it should be! And eventually she, not I, finished sewing all the mittens for the girls to give out during the community service activity.
So now its the Tues after and I get to go back to Marilyn and get my "how the machine works" lesson. She was so patient and encouraging that I wanted to start sewing right away. I was so excited to show my mom what I learned and what beautiful stitches my machine can do. I reached in my bag, without looking, and got a real good poke from my scissors. The poke was preceded by a slice I received from them while I was opening the box for the machine. So at that moment I decided to demonstrate my new skills by creating a scissor cover.
I got to use the straight stitch and one of the design stitches AND the button hole creator feature. I also tried to use the button sewing feature and because my button wasn't flat, it moved, and broke my needle. :( #fail number 1. But my project was a success. I sewed my button on by hand, and displayed the first original work of Dean Elegance. :D
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