Tablecloth
Eyes are all better now. Yeash!
Parents came back home Sunday evening and my Sis came back with them. Took a quick 2-week vacation and is now here until next week. We celebrated Mother’s Day on Tuesday the 10th and other than that it has been a pretty slow week.
I did go to downtown and bought some nice, thick fabric to make a tablecloth. My Grandmother has been lending me her over machine to get this project finished. I had never used one of those before... wow. Overs are such time savers! With my regular sewing machine I would have to fold the edges twice to prevent the edges of the material from fraying, but with the over it is a one-pass deal! It cuts and stitches. Very, very nice.
Now I need to work on beautifying the edges with some and finalize the tablecloth with some pretty fringe trim. Something in gold in the following style: http://www.mjtrim.com/catalog/family.aspx?family=07%3a07
I need around 250 inches... and at $11.98 a yard (36 inches), I think I’m gonna be broke after this.
6 Comments:
*so totally jealous* I wanna fancy machine that does the cutting tooooooooo!!!!!!!!
>_< Remember that patchwork quilt I talked to you about a while ago? I cut all the individual little squares by hand...
I'm buying a rotary cutter when I start my next project.
:D
Pretty fringes by the way!
I'm jealous because I can hardly sew on a button.
I wouldn't know the first thing to do with a regular sewing machine, let alone this over thingie.
Go for it!
I can sew a button on my cloths. I stil need to sew them onto my 1 polo shirt when i have the chance one day. Till then...
Ohh no no. 'I' dont' have one. My Grandma does, and she's letting me use it! ^_^ Heheh. All I have to do in exchange is change threads, switch needles and all that tricky, eye-squinting stuff she can't do anymore. :D
A jewelers loop does wonders for poor eyesight. ^_^
sometimes that is not enough... you still need to pass the thin loop through the needle's eye. :p And with shakey hands the task doubles in complexity.
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