In preparation for a December 13th Craft Show- I have been sewing lunch bags - lots and lots of lunch bags. I did really well over the summer clearing out scrap bins, repurposing other fabrics (mens shirts and cut-off's from clothing alterations), and splurging on a few bargain bin fabrics -and had lots of them cut out and ready to go......but cut out and ready to go does not cut it - they needed to be assembled - and that I kept putting off...
Crunch time now - so I kicked in to high gear on Monday and production lined 20 of them - getting the inside pockets made and attached, the linings and outer coverings stitched and box bottomed and nested, and then I ran out of steam.
Last night it was COLD in our house - so rather than sit at the sewing machine (with my back to a French door - brrr brrr...) I opted to sit in the recliner with a quilt on my lap, a lap desk on top of that, and a box of pins so that I could get the linings and coverings all straight and pinned for the final assembly.
18 covers, 2 dropped pins and one episode of Dirty Jobs later - I officially was OUT of pins! Yup - used every single one in the box!
So now I HAVE to get these sewn up - or procrastinate some more and only work on projects that don't require pins...
Nah- I am in the home stretch -
Now if only I could figure out a way to machine sew from the recliner?!?
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I would love to do craft fairs...I think. Sounds fun anyway. I hope it goes well. Can't wait to hear. I've never run out of pins before. But I've also never made a bunch of things at once;)
You could do it if you had a start/stop button but that would still be uncomfortable cuase you'd be sitting on the edge of your seat. Why not set up a little table further away from the doors for this time of year?