Adventures In Sewing

by Jen @ RamblingRenovators - Sunday, August 28, 2011

So I spent the weekend getting reacquainted with my sewing machine. Okay its really Mama HandyMan's old sewing machine (as in 1975 old!) so it was more like meeting a complete stranger. I tried looking on You Tube for videos to help me get started, like how to wind a bobbin and how to thread a sewing machine (can we say newbie?) - but I guess sewing machines from 1975 are a rarity because the models in the videos were nothing like mine! Good thing I managed to dig up the manual and other sewing supplies from our storage or I would have chucked that machine back into the closet.

If you follow me on Facebook you would have seen I had some issues figuring out the tension on the machine but Barbara and some other kind readers were encouraging so I kept plugging away at it. So what did I make?

I've had this box of cute fabric waiting to be sewed up for the last year. I thought making a tea towel for Chloe's play kitchen would be an easy project. I picked one fabric for the main part, hemmed it on three sides, added an accent fabric on the bottom and covered up the seam with some pom-pom fringe.