New project, new tool!
Oh yes, it has been a while, but rest assured that a lot has been happening. In particular new projects, and following up on old ones. Bref, good stuff. The newest and very exciting it to apply permaculture to a new tool… sounds random, so no surprise there then. I have decided that I am going to learn how to use a sewing machine. In terms of becoming for sustainable this has got to be a good’un.After a very hectic May, I decided I needed some self care. It turned out to be a ram-packed week, but with good (mostly unrelated to work) things. My parents came down and dropped off a sewing machine my great aunt gave me many years ago and only now has it made it into my home (the joys of nomadism and sewing machines haven’t really gone together). That very evening I had myself booked for a sewing lesson with the wonderful Jac. It was great to sit round with a little group as we all tried to get our heads and hands around the machine. We learnt some pretty useful stuff: forward stitch, reverse stitch, how to thread a bobbin. And we started on making a shopping bag, which felt pretty momentous. It was lovely to be part of a little group. The lovely Jody was there and we chatted about travels and sewing. I picked up some hilarious material for my shopping bag- a print of Obama and Hilary Clinton. I managed to cut out the pattern for the bag and the two handles. So good progress for one evening.I am delighted to have it as part of the family, and it sits at the dinner table with us. I sat down to it on Sunday to check out my machine, and trying to get my head around a new machine. Quite a challenge apparently. I figured how to get the bobbin out, and to unwind the thread on the bobbins (another thing I learnt from Jac was to have the same thread on both bobbins). Slow and small solutions. Maybe tonight is the night for lighting the fire and settling down to the machine again. :)