Fixies.

I'm not friends with my sewing machine.

The reverse is broken which means I have to tie my seams by hand. That wouldn't be so bad if I didn't always seem to run out of bobbin thread in the middle of a complicated manoeuvre. The tension seizes regularily. And let's not forget the many, many times the thread pulls out of the needle just as I prepare to position it over the fabric.

I knew my relationship with the sewing machine would be less than cordial that day in Home Ec class, oh, it would have been Grade Seven or so, yes, the day I put the sewing machine right through the tip of my index finger (nail and all). It wasn't a freak accident either. I managed to do it again, many years later, as an adult.

Anyway, in an effort to be frugal, I have at last tackled the pile of clothing I sorted from the basement as "worth saving."

Mended (ie, seams that were ripped are now sewn):

one pair of hubby's PJ pants.

two pairs of children's shorts (left over from the days when my son wore them, they are now almost too small for my daughter).

one pair of shorts for me (I had thought to pack them and take them, but they have a small hole in the front. So, technically, I now have zero pairs of shorts that pass the "Grandmother test".)

one pair of kid's flannel PJ pants.

a pair of kid's stretch pants.

Patched:

one pair of work jeans for my husband.

one pair of jeans for my daughter.

no, I didn't patch my own jeans, yet. I want to do something "funky" with them, so they can wait 'til we get back.

Awaiting decisions and folks to try them on:

two pairs of kid's pants that if they fit should be made into shorts

another pair of kid's pants which need re-hemming

Gave up on:

a pair of kid's shorts.

a pair of kid's PJ bottoms.

a pair of kid's PJ's (both top and bottom need work).

Oh--and just in case you don't believe my sewing is cursed--remember the curtain panels I hemmed in the Fall Cure for the bedroom? One of them turned out to be about 1 1/2" too long. So, last Saturday, I took them down and washed them. The dust didn't come off too well, so I spent a lot of time and used up a lot of tape taking it all off. I re-hemmed the panel that was too long and hung them back up yesterday. (Yes, it took a week.)

I hemmed the wrong panel.