See, with knitting or crochet it doesn’t matter if you do something wrong. Most mistakes aren’t even noticeable and those that are can generally be rectified; even if you can’t fix something you can just rip back what you’ve done and start again. But sewing involves cutting. And once you’ve cut something you can’t just go back and do it again. I’m also a worried about sewing in a straight line. Really, how do you do that?
I know I should just get an old pillowcase and sit down one evening and practise - cut some fabric, sew some (not-so) straight lines. Which brings me to my other issue with my sewing machine. It involves so much work. With knitting, I just pick up whatever I want to work on, turn on the TV or stereo and curl up on the sofa. Simple. Chuck in a glass of wine (oh, OK, two. All right, the bottle) and you’ve got a perfect evening. With the sewing machine, I need find space for it on the kitchen table, get it out of its cover, plug it in, work out how to get needle and thread in it - it’s all too much. So it just remains in its cover, forlorn and unused.
But this is fast becoming Not Good Enough. I’ve been designing knitted and crocheted iPhone and Kindle covers and I want to line them, maybe making little interior pockets to keep money or cash cards in. I need to learn how to use my sewing machine. And due to the great customer service at Elna I no longer even have the excuse that I can’t find the user manual, because I emailed them and got a PDF version back the very next day.
*to move to Switzerland
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| It doesn't look that terrifying does it? But it is. Photo by Idoru Knits. |
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