My new adventures in sewing

Santa brought me a sewing machine for Christmas this year. Me!  The girl who can barely thread a needle.  Struggles with sewing on a button.  And has always paid other people to hem her pants for her....Now has a sewing machine.  Needless to say this was a surprise, but ironically I've started looking for projects to sew.  So I'm either going to make some cute things or I'm going to sew my sleeve to my project and end up stuck there.  But regardless it will make for some interesting blog posts.

I took my sewing machine out of the box, read through the instruction manual and began to set it up.  First up I figured out how to get string on my bobbin.  Then I had to get the bobbin installed and that took some time to figure out.  Probably about 20 minutes.  The instructions weren't very clear and I'm not very mechanical with trying to get the wheels underneath there all lined up, but finally it all clicked into place.  I felt a huge sense of accomplishment only to realize.... I still had to set up the string on top and thread the needle. But luckily the instructions on that were a little clearer and it went much quicker.  35 minutes in I was finally ready to start sewing.

I practiced on some paper first to get a feel for the pull and the stitch sizes and lengths.  Then I was ready to start my first project....socks.  Laugh if you must but prior to this sewing machine these socks would have been thrown out or used as dust rags.  Now they will live to see some more wear and tear.

Next up I repaired a tear in a pair of pajama bottoms.

And lastly I hemmed a pair of jeans.  I figured I saved myself around $10 by hemming them myself and a couple days of time and a gallon of gas since I used to have to take them some place and pick them up later.  Three projects done and more on the horizon.  So stick around, there are sure to be more adventures in sewing ahead.