I discovered early on in our marriage that my sweet and beautiful bride has some kind of terrible sewing antipathy. No mending trousers, no sewing on buttons, nothing. But, like the good wife she is, she instructed me how to thread the machine and taught me the basics. Last year, for my first big project, I made a hang glider
for the kids from a broken tent. We tried tying it to the back of the wagon and running
down the road but none of the kids ever got very far off the ground. We think it just wasn't
windy enough that day, and nobody was willing to tie on to the back of the car and let me drive down the road. My second big project involved sewing together a small windsurfing sail for the kids to use. Unfortunately Lake Michigan proved too treacherous for sail board school. We are on the lookout for a calmer lake for next year.
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You're becoming quite the seamstress
Oh yeah and my wife is the same way, I thought, all right! now maybe someone can fix the holes in my clothes etc but nope, I've had to hand sew them myself. So do you have to have a beefy machine to sew thicker material like canvas?
All we have is a simple plasticky sewing machine. Maryann was getting worried that it would break when she saw me sewing through the webbing on that windsurf sail. I broke a few heavy duty needles but the machine held up. When it finally bites the dust I'll have to invest in a sewing MANchine, grunt, grunt, grunt.
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